the 'there's no such thing as a stupid question' bike maintenance thread

Nah, they'd be a few years old & im not the first owner! Have it almost a year myself.

When these come to be changed I'll look into those, thank you

Not exactly a maintenance question but should I swap the cages around ? Or go with 2 the same. Cannot decide which is more aesthetically pleasing. I have 2 celeste vico carbons and 1 black/celeste vico carbon.

Currently

Originally

It's not normally the sort of thing that would bother me either way, but I'd agree, matching looks best

Replace the guide under the bottom bracket with a wider one, which will move the cable out further. In fact the screw holding it on there doesn't look original and it might be possible that some one replaced the original with one that was too narrow.

Here you go. I still cannot decide. Most I have asked have said Pic 1 looks best. I am tied between 1. and 2. LOL.

Tomorrow I get the first 2 spacers removed and the steerer cut. Seat post can't go higher as only 29 inch inseam and 55 (medium) seems to be the right frame size for me.

Yeah, I'd love one. Next year hopefully :) I could only afford the ultegra di2 at the time after buying a pair of 353 NSW's which are now in shortage again. Max PSI is 73 on those yokes!!

I was also waiting months for the bike to be done in the color scheme I chose, no frames available. Then Bianchi ran out of parts. The metron 5d acr bar is from their 2022 stock and has repartocorse logos instead of the usual metron logos. The aero post is not logo'd at all, also from 2022 stock apparently. The d-fly bluetooth unit which is normally stock in all xr4's and under the top cap, they ran out of, and bike was delivered with gears not even working.

LBS had to source the d-fly and they told me today that is the only XR4 in that specific colour scheme in the country. Kinda surprised. Apparently each colour scheme generates a unique id that can be searched for using a dealer app. It's not even custom as you are limited in the colours you can pick. I wanted a black downtube with logo inverted and a celeste instead of stock black seat tube. That was a bit of a risk as the paint on the edge of the seat tube where you insert the post is the thinnest on the XR4's and gloss celeste starting chipping slightly by just adjusting the post once. Not noticeable on the stock black ones. Had to order celeste paint, touch it up and luckily a seat tube protector/ring from a Giant TCR Advanced II 2012 covered the area perfectly.

4 DuraAce Di2 12 speed XR4's coming into stock in LBS in a few days and I'm trying to convince the lad buying one of them, an 11 speed will do him and he'd make a huge saving.

:) There is a reason for that. I tracked down the last black cage in existence. Elite only made a limited number of Bianchi logo Vico Carbon Cages and they stopped production earlier this year. I was lucky to get the 2 celeste ones from Italy and the black one was from an Ebay UK dealer and was stuck in An Post re-sorting hell for last 6 weeks. It only showed up 2 days ago. Dealers that claim to have stock on their sites, usually don't.