TriRig wrote:
Tsunami wrote:
Aaaaargh - just last night I ordered additional parts to work around the "no way the 5-port goes in" position my mechanic and I had come to. Waahhhhh. But thank you for the photographic evidence. It should be quite helpful to others.
We have had similar "photographic evidence" on the Alpha One FAQ page for over a year: https://www.tririg.com/...lphaone&page=faq (bottom of page)
Yes, you do. And I saw that. But I didn't understand what I was seeing. I thought it was like an instructional diagram, showing where the item is placed and I took it to mean the 5-port would lie within that cavity. I didn't understand that the extra "headspace" provided by the aero covering was how the 5-port was actually accommodated, until this morning.
My mechanic initially said the rear brake cable couldn’t be run through the handle bars, because the aero stem cap wouldn’t go on with the brake line in there. He hadn’t seen the alpha 1 before and I was sending him screen shots of brake lines coming out the back gap, and relayed that others had filed the 5-port to get it to fit. In the end he removed the barrel adjuster (!) and routed a new brake line through the bars, but neither of us understood there was enough room under the curve of the TR cap to let the 5-port fit. He gave me the bike with the 5-port attached by velcro on top of the installed cap.
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