In Japan, picked up DI2, and the loaner bike
05-20-13, 07:10 AM
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In Japan, picked up DI2, and the loaner bike
I'm fairly new to road bikes and don't have that much to compare to, but I'll share my little story.
C/N if you don't feel like reading:
1) Di2, bought cheaply, installed free
2) Get a nice Felt F1 Loaner.
3) Install completed in less than 24hrs, fall on butt.
4) It was a nice time
I'm here living in Nagoya, Japan for a few months, and brought my Trek Madone to commute and ride around the neighboring cities a bit. A lot different from Seattle.
A friend told me that his local shop will give me a great deal on a Ultegra 6770 groupset, with brakes and crank. Couldn't pass that up, with free installation and exchange rate is pretty good now.
I go on Saturday from Nagoya to just north of Suzuka (speedway) not a crazy distance, but some parts of ride is horrible, no shoulder, there is a bike/ped lane, but its littered with rocks, gravel and glass, but some parts of the ride is awesome. Over a few mile long bridges, through rice patty fields, it was nice to take in the country side.
Then I drop the bike off, pick up my loaner for what I think was a month:
A Felt F1, equipped with DA Di2. I'm loving the DA version! And freakin fast. (again disclaimer, I don't have that many bikes to compare it to)
I come home thinking wow, I have this bike for a month! Woohoo! Then I get an email early in the morning, around 3am, saying come back! Bike is now complete!
I leave on Sunday morning again to pick my bike, weather is even nicer, a little overcast and cooler that day.
Here's the final product:
Love the Di2 Ultegra version also!
I start to head back, but get some sushi before my trek back, and as we were finishing, it starts to pour! Yikes, and I knew at some point I would get flat, and yep I do. I have to pull over to a Circle K to swap out my tube, no problem. But when I was pulling out, I cant see the grates because the water level was high, the bike comes from under me! Doh, but the first thing I do was check the groupo, lol....all is fine
All in a all, it was an adventurous weekend.
C/N if you don't feel like reading:
1) Di2, bought cheaply, installed free
2) Get a nice Felt F1 Loaner.
3) Install completed in less than 24hrs, fall on butt.
4) It was a nice time
I'm here living in Nagoya, Japan for a few months, and brought my Trek Madone to commute and ride around the neighboring cities a bit. A lot different from Seattle.
A friend told me that his local shop will give me a great deal on a Ultegra 6770 groupset, with brakes and crank. Couldn't pass that up, with free installation and exchange rate is pretty good now.
I go on Saturday from Nagoya to just north of Suzuka (speedway) not a crazy distance, but some parts of ride is horrible, no shoulder, there is a bike/ped lane, but its littered with rocks, gravel and glass, but some parts of the ride is awesome. Over a few mile long bridges, through rice patty fields, it was nice to take in the country side.
Then I drop the bike off, pick up my loaner for what I think was a month:
A Felt F1, equipped with DA Di2. I'm loving the DA version! And freakin fast. (again disclaimer, I don't have that many bikes to compare it to)
I come home thinking wow, I have this bike for a month! Woohoo! Then I get an email early in the morning, around 3am, saying come back! Bike is now complete!
I leave on Sunday morning again to pick my bike, weather is even nicer, a little overcast and cooler that day.
Here's the final product:
Love the Di2 Ultegra version also!
I start to head back, but get some sushi before my trek back, and as we were finishing, it starts to pour! Yikes, and I knew at some point I would get flat, and yep I do. I have to pull over to a Circle K to swap out my tube, no problem. But when I was pulling out, I cant see the grates because the water level was high, the bike comes from under me! Doh, but the first thing I do was check the groupo, lol....all is fine
All in a all, it was an adventurous weekend.
05-20-13, 04:17 PM
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i wonder, if shimano is japanese why cant we get cheap shimano groups directly from online shops from Japan?
I see Germany and UK offering great prices, but nothing from Japan.
I see Germany and UK offering great prices, but nothing from Japan.
05-20-13, 04:22 PM
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"1) Di2, bought cheaply, installed free"
You mean "bought cheap". If you bought it cheaply, you would have been cheap about the process of buying it.
Sorry that I'm a grammar Nazi....
You mean "bought cheap". If you bought it cheaply, you would have been cheap about the process of buying it.
Sorry that I'm a grammar Nazi....
05-20-13, 04:55 PM
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05-20-13, 07:23 PM
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Amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Also, that's one of the cleanest external routing jobs I've seen.
Also, that's one of the cleanest external routing jobs I've seen.
