Nice work! Looks clean.
Want to throw something out to you since you are considering the Torhans bento. No functional issues with mine after a few rides and eyeball aero has it just fine as well but it is not very aesthetically pleasing to the eye having a round top tube mated with a rigid flat bottom bento. I will probably move back to the canvas style bento just so it sits flush all around the top tube.
I say this because if you have the same eye I do for these things then be sure where you drill the bosses you still have room to put on a different bento and not have issues of it being to far forward on the top tube and the cables getting in the way.
I will say I had 3x gu and 6x Shot Blocks in the Torhans on a recent ride and no issues getting them out.
Once again nice mod on your bike!
knighty76 wrote:
BMANX wrote:
Post your finished product.
Not quite finished product because I still want to install the bosses for a Torhans. I used a modified version of the Cody Beals method. I started with those Jagwire 5mm end stops and took the nose out of a Jagwire 4mm nosed ferrule.
So where Cody had to machine down the OD of the nosed ferrule to fit it inside the end stop, I just pushed the nose through the hole in the bottom and it holds in place nicely. I tried drilling out the ID of one of the stops but it was a disaster! I then cut maybe a 120mm length of 2mm ID PTFE tubing, just enough to clear the bend. I pushed this over the nose and superglued it into place. I'm not totally sure how good that bond is, I'll check it from time to time.
So my shifter cables don't fit nicely into the cable stop as it would do with Cody's method using the 4mm ferrules, but I put a cap on the end and it seems absolutely fine. It doesn't budge under shifting.
And then cabled it up. As ever, hardest bit is getting the bloody inner cables out of the frame at the other end.
As you can see, not much for the wind to be interested in..!
Cheers, Rich.
Formerly TriBrad02