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Unfortunately I'm in the sorry to miss it, hope to make it down there again some time soon camp.

Ok, you've got my attention. I'll have to track this down.

I was joking or failing at humor or something like that. You do not have man hands, small or otherwise. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned that's DIY enough to qualify for kudos. I recognized the drivers, having broken at least two pairs of KSC75s and remembered Ari's suggestion. Now just build yourself a 1/8" extension cable and the bug will take hold and soon you will be building massively expensive, horribly inefficient headphone amplifiers!

What, you don't have man hands?

Wuhoo! Way to go on the DIY, Shelly.

812? srlsy? Who numbers these things? That said, the one picture certainly looks a bit K340ish, no?

Glad to hear that you found a solution, Jeffy.

Agnes Obel - Aventine I really like both of her albums and with Frankenstein warmed up the LCD-2s sound pretty fantastic.

Yup. I mounted the headlight and taillight last night. It felt good. Slow, but good.

Chris, holy poo that may end up being a long two weeks. In the brief stints I've done as a single dad I find the key is just resigning yourself to the idea that the only time that will be yours is after bedtime and even then you will more than likely find that most of that time is spent prepping stuff for the following day. I don't know how truly single parents do it.

So I decided to ignore the thermometer this morning and ride to work. I got up at 5:30, had a quick banana and watched the tempterature drop as I got ready to go, WTF? Anyway, it was 20.1F when I left the house and I had a slight headwind the whole way so this afternoon's ride should be a good 25 degrees warmer and holds the promise of a slight tail wind.

Not to worry, Shelly. My team is doing everything within their power to make sure you win.

This. That X-ray looks...uncomfortable.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! Sorry Justin, how broken?

Shit Justin, sorry. I got a nice 7 mi MTB ride in this afternoon on some much less technical but still local trails. It was nice to not be constantly in fear of an epic crash.

I consider a single 15mm spacer sufficiently slammed.

No stopping, they use a dropper.

I went a bit crazy this afternoon and swapped the wheels and cassette and put my 25mm GP 4 seasons on there for the rest of the year. I this bike.

I suppose I deserve that. Silly me for taking the owner at his word or maybe he and I both managed to confuse each other at some point in Q/A part of the process. Regardless I'm psyched to have one less thing to be pondering upgrading - 10spd Dura Ace will do just fine, thanks. The only thing that I probably will look into is the max gearing that I can run with this derailleur as I'm thinking this setup won't be great for big hills. Ultimately that'll have to wait for a little experimentation next year but I'll probably troll the used market over the winter to see what's out there. Thanks Gene (and everyone else). I can't imagine where I'd go from here for a road bike which is a nice position to be in. I looked at my existing Ksyriums and the tires on them are shagged (showing cord) and I'm too lazy to change the tires and cassette this weekend just to ride the Calfee in my aesthetically preferred setup. I did toss the front wheel on just to get to get the flavor of it and I like it, a lot.

Hmmmm, further investigation first muddied the waters and then cleared them immensely. 1. From what I can tell there's no such thing as a 9spd 7800 shifter. I have confirmed from the manuals included with the Calfee that it's got full 7800 on it and that the shifters are made for a 20spd group. 2. The cable routing on the rear derailleur does not appear to be setup for 9spd. So then it occurred to me that this guy never road the bike and I counted the sprockets... :palm: Uh, yeah, so it's got a 10spd cassette on it and I'm a fool.

I'm going to leave it as a 9spd for now for sure. I am interested in the cost of the changeover and that was why I mentioned investigating the price of the shifter. And it's a DA cassette so no worries there .

We're both wrong, just confirmed via multiple sources that the RD will work fine but the brifter, cable, chain and cassette have to change. I'll probably see how much the right brifter would set me back...

That would require a new brifter, rear derailleur, and cassette - way more than I want to get into now.

Stupid effing Verizon won't support it.

You're both not wrong. But going from no drop to ~4" of drop is a pretty drastic change and I think I can get about half that back between the spacer (already done) and the stem flip. It was definitely a semi-surprise that the ride is as compliant as it is. I was expecting something on the order of bone-jarring and it's a far cry from that. And yes Juan, it's DA 7800. The guys and the shop said that it should be a very reliable group and the shifting action is light and predictable. It should get even better with a little use. And the Ksyriums are great in my book, I just wish they were the version with black spokes. I know, I know... seriously weak reasoning. I may see if the hub on my other black set is compatible with the 9spd cassette and if so, switch them over. We'll see and like I said, there's no good reason to do anything with the bike other than ride it.