The "New" Bike...

....is not so new at all.  The 2019 Trek Emonda ALR Disc frameset was purchased from one of the online retailers on eBay, one of those shops that sells boxed factory bikes after the warranty department isn't offering replacements anymore... or in this case, it was hanging in the shop to be sold as a "race" bike but never made it.  It came with most of the trinkets to put it together but I still had to order a number of pieces.

I bought the frameset for two reasons - I wanted a cheap(ish) frame to build up as a Zwift bike... with the right geometry (so, yea... price & fit).  I pulled a number of pieces out of bins but a handful of parts were purchased new:

  • GRX shifters
  • 105 rear derailleur
  • 105 front derailleur
The "ZwiftMonda" had been on a trainer for the last 18 months or so.  Sittin' in the garage I rode 861 miles before it was pulled off last week.  My original plan was to swap all the 11-speed Shimano Di2 parts from the Canyon to the Emonda... but after some studying it was clear that the Emonda was not designed to work with Di2 so easily.  Leaving the 105 & GRX parts on the bike, the rest of the parts were swapped from the Canyon... or the bins:
  • Ultegra Stages power meter crankset
  • Ultegra pedals
  • Ultegra calipers
  • Thomson stem (100mm)
  • Zipp carbon bars
  • new bar tape
  • Specialized seatpost (originally from the DiiVerge)
  • Power saddle (that had been there already)
Everything is STILL coming together though:
  • the 105 derailleur shifts okay... but I am swapping to a direct-mount hanger to make it a bit stiffer 
  • the brakes are typical Shimano road... as in bleed em', let the bike sit until the air bubble creep out, bleed em' again... for the third time
  • the fit hasn't been dialed in
One quick pedal in the 'hood... and I began to realize how much the Canyon had become a slug.  It was never a QUICK bike even compared to the Cervelo R3.  However, one hard mash of the pedals once they were linked to the Emonda and it felt like a race bike.


So.... what about the Canyon?  It was rebuilt with the Di2 components, a spare Ultegra crankset, some old bars and new bar tape.  I have already ridden it once... and it is close to being dialed in.  The fit was already there... so now it's mostly dialing in the bars, levers & shifting.

Later.

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