{"id":977,"date":"2017-11-17T19:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2018-03-18T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T21:36:39","slug":"new-bike-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"New bike project and hiccup #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least a new frame.\u00a0 I picked up an Eddy Merckx LXM carbon fiber frame a couple of years ago, and now i&#8217;m finally getting around to doing something with it.\u00a0 My plan is to swap the entire Campagnolo group from the CAAD8 frame to the Merckx frame, and along the way to replace the cables\/housings, clean up everything, and replace the bar tape as well.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t need many parts for this, mostly consumables like cables and cable guide, plus bar tape.\u00a0 The existing stem may or may not work with this frame, that will have to wait until it&#8217;s actually rideable to make that determination.<\/p>\n<p>Hiccup #1: The bottom bracket shell was English thread, but it appears to have been sleeved to that thread size since all information I could find indicated that it was originally Italian threading.\u00a0 Also, the shell width was too wide at 70.5mm.\u00a0 That <em>has<\/em> to be fixed, since the crankset requires a 68mm shell width.\u00a0 I wound up at <a href=\"http:\/\/halcyonbike.com\/\">Halcyon Bikes<\/a> in Nashville, TN, and they took care of facing the shell down to 68mm, and while they had the frame they installed the BB cups and the carbon compact crankset (50\/34).\u00a0 Now that this issue is handled, the rest should go fairly quickly as I have the other bits I need for the swap.<\/p>\n<p>First is to move the brake calipers from the CAAD8 to the Merckx.\u00a0 next will be the front and rear derailleurs, but I need to take a photo of the cable routing so that I can properly set them up.\u00a0 next will be the handlebars\/stem and I&#8217;ll probably leave the brifters mounted exactly where they are.\u00a0 Wheels are easy enough, and the cables\/housings are next.\u00a0 Finally the seatpost and saddle, and it will be rideable.\u00a0 I will wait to wrap the bars until I have a few miles, to be sure that shifting and braking are correct before covering up the cables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selection_476.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selection_476.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selection_476.png 780w, https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selection_476-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selection_476-768x613.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first carbon bike &#8211; I&#8217;m really interested to see what differences I notice between the stiff alloy CAAD8 and the carbon Merckx.\u00a0 Time and some miles will tell the tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least a new frame.\u00a0 I picked up an Eddy Merckx LXM carbon fiber frame a couple of years ago, and now i&#8217;m finally getting around to doing something with it.\u00a0 My plan is to swap the entire Campagnolo group from the CAAD8 frame to the Merckx frame, and along the way to replace &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New bike project and hiccup #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-eddy-merckx-lxm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}