I see; thanks for the clarification, I'm wiser now!

Thanks both!

thanks. Contact was:

perry@icancycling.com

I'll try 'service' as you suggest and see if Sherry is still around. Also, thanks for noting the whatsapp, somehow I failed to spot that.

Hey all, hope all is good with you. I have an odd situation, wondered if anyone has a suggestion for moving forward.

A local bike shop started building their own brand 3 or so years ago. To do this, they bought Ican Aero road frames with their own logos added, and added group sets and wheels from the likes of Shimano. All very nice bikes with quality frames and good customisation, and also helping the LBS etc. Win/win.

My partner bought one when they launched; I bought one last year. Both were built on versions of Ican's aero road frames. No problems with either so far.

But the complication I've encountered is: the bike shop ceased trading in autumn last year due to cash flow problems, and I'd now like to buy a spacer set for my A22-based bike- just to raise the bars a shade, nothing dramatic. I can add these myself- if I can get them.

And it turns out that I can't, because each time I approach Ican, they want my order number. Which I dont have- the bike shop were their customer, not I. Whenever I try and get them to understand this, via web chat or email, we get so far and then comms on the Ican side just....dries up. This is now at about the 6 month point.

I've now got a bit worried about this; what if I need a new seat post, bars, seat clamp, etc? They're all custom. I can't get Ican to understand this somehow.

Does anyone have any ideas of how I can approach this differently to get access to parts if I need them?

many thanks

cestmoi

Nice one. I'm getting on fine with mine, so far. As you say, a little heavier than 105 but in my book not that far out. Best of luck!

This is the way. To corroborate, I was struggling with MTB style brakes for quite some time. Started with super budget Tektros, then to TRP Slate and finally to Shimano XT. After bleeding each of these for may be 6-7 times back to back, I couldn’t get the bite that I wanted. Just mushy mess. And then finally this tutorial helped - a technique called bubble bleed:

https://m.pinkbike.com/news/tech-spotlight-5-minute-bubble-bleed-2014.html

5 minutes and voila, my brakes feel so good. Don’t forget to take the lever off of handlebar and tap them with a rubber mallet. And of course the bleed port at the highest position possible. Then rotate the lever without spilling the oil (if there is oil in the cup). This was the only way I could get that last holdout air from the reservoir. When it worked I almost felt silly.

My usual go-to, but for me anyway this worked ok on the front but no joy on the rear.

Has anyone any idea what the 'air' port is used for as yet?

I'd use the hose type 1st ment for the caliper.  So if the calipers were designed for bh90 first try those. If you don't like how they feel or the calipers don't move correctly install bh59 hoses.

They're the same as 105. I know this as I swapped the 105 shifters and brakes for the L-Twoo models, and keep the 105 hoses, barbs and olives.