Last Sunday, my old Stratus was sold. A bit of a emotional moment, because it was the bike I put the most miles on (17.190 to be exact). Well, at least it's sold to a friend of mine, so it'll be in good hands.
A little over 800 miles on the XP so far. Last weekend I ordered a set of 155mm cranks from Mark Stonich, they should be in the mail by now. I chose the Shimano M-440's, they look nice and will defenitely improve my cycling on the XP. I can't remember that crank length was such an issue on my old Stratus (which had 170mm cranks), but by then I did not have my velomobile yet, which has 150mm cranks. When I switch from my velomobile to the XP and vica versa, I feel the difference mostly in my knees. Now that summer finally has arrived, I'm looking forward to make more miles on the XP.
Only yesterday I discovered that the seat of the XP has bottle cage braze-ons. I was looking for a good place to mount some bottle cages on, when I suddenly discovered the braze-ons. Only thing is that you have pinch holes through the mesh of the seat, which I'm not that comfortable with. I'm afraid that the mesh will start to tear up once you pinch through it. I sent Rans a mail for advice on this topic yesterday.
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What about the reach for the bottles, can you grab the bottles easily or not ? I have installed one bottle cage holder on one of the sprint braces of the seat, which very easy to reach. Still might consider to use the braze ons on the seat though ....
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