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Are you talking of swartberg 100 ?

Think he had a bad day ? Looked like Grotts was congratulating him on the finish line?

I don't know, feels every year there's a lot of that no ? I mean, even at the Giro you miss half of the action some days, so I don't find it so surprising that we miss a bit of the racing in the "untamed africa". Would really like to have some sort of live gaps somwhere on the stream though, but I mean, I'm not even watching, just have the stream in the background so maybe there are but I just miss them everytime.

exactly, fillers.

every year hey, last year it started from the prologue, damn choppers were blowing dust on the riders, what a shame !! 😜

Hey, I'm going to sun city next week, I was hoping to be able to ride the end of Race to the sea but from what I read here, riding outside of the resort isn't a safe option ? I see the segments inside, anyone's been there recently ? Should I take the MTB or is the gravel bike enough ? cheers.

Grotts looks like he’s hanging on for dear life. Might well finish today with a new power PB 🙈🙈 when you see Matt cranking it with his derailleur cage completely flat, sho 😳 it’s bad news for anyone behind

Gee, I’m glad I’m not his teammate 🤣

Wow, i only know her now because her name keeps being thrown in the bonk bros podcast as the one who wins all the races in the US, I never noticed her before at Epic. Let’s see how it goes, hopefully 4 teams battling it out, but yeah, from the prologue’s results looks more like 3 at best like you said. Would’ve been nice to see Pauline come again, with a worthy teammate 😕

Is it common to have so many national jerseys on the line ? Isn’t it the first time Sofia is here ? edit: mmm okay, seing the classification now I might have gotten carried away when I saw a few team in a row starting with beautiful national kits 😎

What a quality field for the ladies! Great news for the sport!

Csa membership isn’t a racing licence, you buy the racing license on top of the membership (for some reason)

He meant it wasn’t hard enough to make it a climbers race, which is true since a sprinter won the race. Blows my mind that a couple of sprinters survived the 3 climbs the pace looked (and was) hot 🥵

It works ! No more delays getting on the 10T cog, thanks okes!

mmmh indeed, one of the bottom ones has a wider hole, I swapped that one with the inner on my original upper jockey wheel and it sits nicely in the garbaruk cage, let's see. What's weird is that the garbaruk wheels have the same thing (wider hole on the lower/bigger jockey wheel), but those bearing covers can't be removed (not great for servicing), or at least I couldn't take them off. So right now I'm using a sram upper wheel and a garbaruk lower wheel, let's see if it works better. Thanks for the tip, I guess you learn every day 🤣

mmmh only the upper pulleys

The caps that cover the bearings on the pulley wheels are all the same, both on the garbaruk and on the gx axs stock cage, maybe on the older mechanical derailleurs there was one a bit deeper, but not on mine

Nope, initially I bought them with the 11spd hub, then I moved my AXS and ordered the XDR hub. I only remembered when you mentionned it that that spacer was needed for the eagle cassette

If there's even a small doubt, I'd never postpone a test as you wouldn't want to wait till it's too late. Hope it's nothing mate 💪

no, it's brand new and was working fine with the old chain. So the spacing is built-in the inner cage, and the sram pulley, just like the garbaruk one is the same on both side around the bearings, no matter which way I put the pulley in it’s not flush against the inside of the cage. I'm starting to think screw the garbaruk I'll put the original 2kg cage that at least works 🤣 Before I do that I'll investigate if it's possible to get the derailleur to learn to use it's full range, right now it's not going all the way to the limit screw that is already quite a bit in, that doesn't seem normal, if it was resting further out it would probably solve my problem

mmmh okay I think I understand now, found the manual you've extracted the pic from, looks like my cage is using the sram pulleys and not the garbaruk ones (because the garbaruk are exactly the same on both sides). I'll try changing the upper pulley for the sram one see what happens, thanks

XDR, okay so that's why the spacer was there and why the is still there even without it, will put it back on, I didn't notice an improvement after taking it off anyways. Thanks man

One thing though, without the spacer it still looks like there's a gap behind the cassette, about a mil or half a mil, I checked the grooves in the cassette, it doesn't look like you're supposed to fit it in a specific way like the shimano cassettes that have a specific pattern so that you can only fit the cassette in one specific position... right ? Must I just tighten it harder ?

I realise I've been counting wrong this whole time 🤣 For me before .5 is .75 new (half full, half empty glass 🤣) Here's the old chain : Here you can see the upper pulley is spaced towards the outside (sorry about the mess, the new chain was freshly waxed waiting for it's day) Where the cage is pressed against that platform/seal that keeps the spring tight and clean. At first I thought that little thingy that you put in to prevent the cage from spinning a 360 the second you take the chain off was a bit too big for where it bolts into the cage (you can see it's in contact with the derailleur), but I took it off and it doesn't make a difference in shifting