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Re: Official Giant Trinity Advanced Owners Thread [dfroelich]
dfroelich wrote:
With a proper machine shop, you can do whatever you want!

If it were me, I'd find a set of bars that are already bent so that the hand grips are where you want them. Then, I would add shims under the elbow pads to make a comfortable angle.


That's what I was thinking of doing before; I can do that as-is without different bars, as the 110's bring the hands up well already. Easier to do a shim than to make new spacers, simpler shapes and no locator pins and holes, too. I found some overseas a few months ago, but they wanted an arm and a leg for them. In a lot of situations, I'm more apt to think, "screw it, I'll do it myself." :)

Kind of fun solving problems, then riding the solution. And hopefully not finding out you've royally botched it all up! :D

Just re-config'd the cockpit today, took 20mm out of the spacer stack (back is flexible, can always put 10mm back in if this ends up being too much), narrowed elbow pads by one hole in and moved them forward by one hole, plus angled them inward slightly. Then moved the saddle mount to the front hole on the seatpost perch (it was in the middle position, and pushed max forward on the rails), then backed the saddle rail position back half a centimeter after setting the new mount point, so the net should be approx 1cm forward from the previous position. Overall, slightly narrower, slightly lower, and slightly more forward. Will take a test flight tomorrow or Sunday to see if the farther forward elbow move was enough to give me a little stretch to offset the drop and still allows easy breathing similar to where I was. Will tweak saddle height on the test ride a couple times to dial in hip angle. Been tweaking the bike once a month for the first four months, had it pretty dialed in terms of comfort and decent aero last time, now just getting more aggressive and will try to achieve "reasonable" comfort. Trying to take another minute off my 20K next race (shaved 73 secs last race from previous). Fun stuff!
Last edited by: Super D: Apr 27, 18 14:23

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  • Post edited by Super D (Cloudburst Summit) on Apr 27, 18 14:23