Ip256sl building in progress

[blueducati]

Looks great!!

[Sjon7283]

I'm looking fot the best way to close the FD cable tube and the right upper cable hole to prevent getting doet in the frame. What solutions work best in your oppinion?

[carbonazza]

I removed the whole plastic pipe and cable guide.
And for now a duct tape plugs the hole.

But someone used black silicone to plug all unused holes.
Once the duct tape will become loose, I'll see if I put another one, or use silicone.

[Reggie n SF]

The ride, hows the ride?

[Sjon7283]

Review ride after a 600km..

The frame
The frame is realy amazing. It's stiff and comfortable. Due to the xx1 setup, and no cable stack it's also verry quiet! The 17,5 turns out te be perfect to me. The overall weight of the bike, 8,8kg, makes it a perfect climbing machine, althougt a real climbe test is yet to be sceduelled for 30-05-'15 (limburgsmooiste)

The XX1 group
In short, its the best group i have ever ridden. Its light, quiet and works perfectly!

The XTR brakes
Like the xx1 group, its also perfect. its light, Nice eyecatcher, easy to bleed and perfectly adjustable. I ride the brakes with 160 rotors, but in the mountains i will mount a 180 rotor in front. For xco in holland the 160 rotors are fine.
Wheels
The ztr crest combined with the dtswiss 240s hubs they're light, stiff an just beatyfull! At the moment i ride with RaRa 2.1 with are fine when its not to slippery.
The Reba fork
Don't know what to think about the fork so far. Didn't have the opportunity to realy test the fork in rocky areas, but so fas its doing its job.

Future adjustments
Switch the prologo saddle with a selle italia SLR carbon to lose another 125 gramms.
Rigid front fork (vpace 590grams full carbon) to save another 1000gr!

Alternative for the neco headset, also to save some weight. Suggestions are welcome!

[Sjon7283]

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i'm riding the bike for 3000km's now and its time for an update. The only upgrade i gave the bike sinds the building is the slr saddle. Also weighted the bike: 8,876kg with the new saddle!!

 I've had no issues at al and except for some creaking from the rear. I first suspected the xx1 cassette, but sinds i recently replaced my old cassette for a new one the creaking is stil there. I think its the drop-outs in the frame like others experience, but i'm not sure yet.

I planned a rigid fork, but after Reading about the dt swiss opm odl 100 carbon fork with its insane weight (1470gr incl. axle)

The ip-256sl is still a very nice bike. The only thing i'm not so happy about is the limited chainring size for the xx1 chainring. I would like to mount a 36t chainring, but it doesn't fit the frame.

[Izzy]

Thanks for the update, and thorough thread. Love the black and red builds. I'm still waiting for someone to buy some carbon chiner rims and have them painted - Matte red rims would look pretty awesome on your bike imo.

I planned a rigid fork, but after Reading about the dt swiss opm odl 100 carbon fork with its insane weight (1470gr incl. axle)

Yes, this fork has me excited too. There's really no reason not to go ahead and get a few inches of suspension up front now, imo. Other than budget constraints, of course.

[Sjon7283]

Yes, i was planning to buy some carbon rims at the start of the build, but ran into a nice set of ztr crest wheels with the dt swiss rims. Maybe in the future i'll go for a Nice carbon set. Are there riders with painted chinese carbon rims?

[Izzy]

Are there riders with painted chinese carbon rims?

Not that I know of, really. I got the idea from this thread: http://chinertown.com/index.php/topic,253.0.html

And I totally forgot about this pic in that thread that shows the exact rim color I was thinking of for your bike, except maybe a little darker red tone:

[cassandracomplx]

I would like to mount a 36t chainring, but it doesn't fit the frame.

Are you sure ? I've got the same frame with a X01 Crankset and a 36T Chainring. Q-Factor is 168
Perhaps you have the XX1 crankset with Q-Factor 156? Switch to 168 and it works...

[Jerryno]

Perhaps you have the XX1 crankset with Q-Factor 156? Switch to 168 and it works...

Should be same with Q-Factor of 156 or 168. With both the chainring is 49mm from centerline (XX1 and X01): https://sram-cdn-pull-zone-gsdesign.netdna-ssl.com/cdn/farfuture/Dqt1Vf8U0BgaNattQmWXU8Ds9UAYUH4k9ycYMlEmEJg/mtime:1433863515/sites/default/files/techdocs/gen.0000000004911_rev_b_2016_mtb_drivetrain_ffs.pdf (page 32 and 35).

For me what I would like is 38T though (I did this research because of it), so I need the Boost 148 compatible frame with 52mm distance between chainring and centerline..

[cassandracomplx]

For me what I would like is 38T though (I did this research because of it), so I need the Boost 148 compatible frame with 52mm distance between chainring and centerline..

take a look at my picture, it's a 36T and I would say, there is another 4mm space for the 38T...
It's a standard IP256SL frame with PF92 bottom bracket option.

[Sjon7283]

Thanks, that looks hopefull! I always thougt it would not fit. My bb is a gxp, so i don't know if the chainline is the same. Does anyone know howmany mm the 36t takes compared to the 34t?

[Jerryno]

Does anyone know howmany mm the 36t takes compared to the 34t?

The radius is 4mm bigger. Every 2T add 4mm on SRAM chainrings.

[Sjon7283]

Small update: leaving the 34t chainring on because i think the 36t won't fit. Changed the er xmiplay axle for a dtswiss RWE axle. No creaking ever since....

The dt swiss OPM ODL race wil be available in september this year dt swiss promissed. Hoping to loose some weight. (REBA 1645gr, dt swiss 1485gr inl. thru axle)

Also orders some schwalbe thunder burts lite skins. Some friends have good experiences with the tire and at a weight of 435gr very attractive.

After the changes i hope to hit the sub 8,5kg. (8,8 kg at the moment)

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