I've had my Roadini for a little over 18 months. Other than the stem, it's got the original parts I had 'initially' planned for the build. I have some upgrades (many, aesthetic) planned and I'm going to slowly be adding these.
Any upgrades on your mind? When I bought this bike it was to be my 'fast' road bike, plus my all-road bike; with separate wheels. I wasn't sure if I would be a lot slower than my previous road bike, so I didn't splurge on new parts or investigate that too much, instead, I took a whole bunch of things I had and brought them to C&L Cycle with me for the build. It instantly replaced my light, skinny-tire road bike (it's home is now the indoor trainer). It is a bit slower uphill and on the flats, faster down, and I can keep up with my faster friend on weekly road rides. I'm now thinking of what I eventually want to replace, and when. I don't want to simply replace something that is working perfectly purely for aesthetic reasons, but some of these parts would be on there for a really long time if I didn't upgrade them. I can keep/sell anything that is in good shape though, so not all bad. Here are the upgrades on my mind (no particular order): - *Saddle bag:* would like one in olive green, though I have a Garmin Varia light and it needs a home on the bag so it would have to have the right size loop to attach this light (I've tried a custom bag builder close to home, they don't make them) - *Crankset: *silver in colour, 165mm from 172.5mm for some functional issues I have with my body, but not sure this would improve things; either way, silver would look nice) - *Bottom bracket* (taking this together with the crankset, I can go to square taper and use the BB that came with the bike, then get a Riv Silver crankset or something else; or keep my Ultegra one I have on there, and get a crank that fits, like a Sugino one in 46/30 that I found from their site and Alex cycles). This is the expensive upgrade so I continue to sit on this decision - *Brake pads*: I have a lot of good recs from another post on here (something with a bit more stopping power in wet/cold) - *Housing*: I want some coloured ones, maybe clear/silver, maybe green or red, perhaps gold? Just for the brakes though as there isn't a lot of housing with DT shifters - *Bar tape*: might try merlot red or something that looks nice and doesn't blend in to much with the brake levers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b2ccf9cf-4b9b-4e7f-a453-0cee6643386bn%40googlegroups.com.
