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[Phillippe Coetzee]

New wheels so excited to try the bike out. 
 

[ChunkyMonkey]

ARRIVED AT LAST!! 🤘🤪👍

[Spinnekop]

23 hours ago, ChunkyMonkey said:

ARRIVED AT LAST!! 🤘🤪👍

And?

[ChunkyMonkey]

The new GX Dub crank is a bit disappointing… BB already going SQUEAKY…

brakes are better than expected.. Not spongy like the old ones..

[MORNE]

8 hours ago, BaGearA said:

What BB shell is it ? 

On that frame, likely the “P” word? 

The wheels-MFG BSA bb on one of my bikes is going on 5y old now. Never been opened. Smooth as a salamander dipped in KY. Remove chain and watch crank spin for days. I have them on all my bikes, including a back up one in my parts bin i found lying on the sales table at CWC one day for half price - like nobody knew what it was. Never grabbed sonething so fast🤣

Edited April 23, 2024 by MORNE

[Spinnekop]

9 hours ago, BaGearA said:

What BB shell is it ? 

 

Your old brakes might just have need a good flush.

SRAM DUB (BSA).  Cannondale moved away from the PF30 stuff with this model.

[Spinnekop]

10 minutes ago, BaGearA said:

Then a crunchy BB is very surprising, got little over a year now on the same BB and mine has been flawless  

Have to agree yes.
Cannondale has done BSA on the new road bikes also and It has been a year now without one little squeeck. 

[MORNE]

12 minutes ago, BaGearA said:

Then a crunchy BB is very surprising, got little over a year now on the same BB and mine has been flawless  

Perhaps then a pre-load issue? Or even some grit between external spacers. If im not mistaken, those transmissions are Dub-wide 55mm chainline, so takes a few external spindle spacers on both the drive side and non drive side. I know my xx1 dubs do. (4.5mm drive side) for 52mm. I ‘stick’ mine together with waterproof grease.

Edited April 23, 2024 by MORNE

[mecheng89]

On 4/19/2024 at 12:50 PM, NicholasT said:

I was always under the impression that these would just be “nice to haves”, but when Zwift announced that they’d be integrating virtual shifting, I just had to get them. 
 

Absolutely loving them. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the virtual shifting is only applicable to the Cog that retrofits to the KICKR?

[thebob]

Virtual shifting can work with a standard cassette. Just shift to the 14t cog and go

[NicholasT]

43 minutes ago, mecheng89 said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the virtual shifting is only applicable to the Cog that retrofits to the KICKR?

I’m about to correct you because you’re WRONG!!!!!!🤣😁 Hehe. As was mentioned in the last post, you can use it on your stock cassette. That’s what I’m doing. 
 

@thebob It doesn’t necessarily have to be your 14t cog. Zwift and Wahoo do their witchcraft and calibrate it to wherever you’ve decided to leave it. I went up and down all my gears front and back until I found the quietest combination (I really need to highlight just how much quieter Zwifting is now!!!) and that’s  where I left it ( I just checked it and my current ratio is 36-21) The calibration then did the rest of the work. 
 

 

Edited April 23, 2024 by NicholasT

[BuffsVintageBikes]

So you could put a Fixie on your Zwift trainer?

[NicholasT]

Just now, BuffsVintageBikes said:

So you could put a Fixie on your Zwift trainer?

Assuming you have a compatible trainer, absolutely. 

[BuffsVintageBikes]

I've got an Elite Suito so it should work.

An old steel bike fixie rigged up with a cheap 16 cog & bomb proof BMX chain makes a lot more sense than my gravel bike with a 11 speed cassette that's taking a beating 🤙

Edited April 23, 2024 by BuffsVintageBikes

[NicholasT]

1 minute ago, BuffsVintageBikes said:

I've got an Elite Studio so it should work.

An old steel bike fixie rigged up with a cheap 16 cog & bomb proof BMX chain makes a lot more sense than my gravel bike with a 11 speed cassette that's taking a beating 🤙

It’s my understanding that for now at least it’s only certain Wahoo trainers that work. 

[Mongoose!]

On 4/19/2024 at 12:50 PM, NicholasT said:

I was always under the impression that these would just be “nice to haves”, but when Zwift announced that they’d be integrating virtual shifting, I just had to get them. 
 

Absolutely loving them. 

Have mine for quite a while now. Steering is nice. Specially in Zwift races and team time trails (if the rest of the team (who do not have steering) allow me to use it...)🙃.

Now waiting for the firmware update on the Kickr 5 to enable virtual shifting...😐 

But kickr 5 was also last in line for the firmware update for "Race mode" when using the 'Direct connect"

Virtual shifting currently only available for the Core and Kickr 6 as far as I understand.