Pinarello FP2 Bike Build

Weeman1973

I have recently acquired a Pinarello FP2 Frameset from a member of this very parish and looking to use the groupset from my Planet X Nanolight to complete the build. Frame has forks, bars, stem & seatpost already and I am looking to use the following:

Shifters: Sram Rival
Front Mech: Sram Red
Rear Mech: Sram Rival
Cassette: Sram 10spd
Wheelset: Mavic Ksyrium Equipe
Brakes: FSA SL-K
Chainset: Sram Apex GXP (50/34)
Chain: Sram

I will have to get a new BB as the Pinarello is Italian thread whilst my Planet X is English. Apart from that does anybody know what else I may require and what difficulties I might encounter? I plan to get my LBS to do the cabling & adjusting. Any guidance or recommendation as this will be my first bike build so to speak and I plan to remove one part at a time from the donor bike and fix it to the new one so hopefully can't go that wrong (famous last words!). Any specific order I should look to start or finish with (ie chainset first or last etc.)

Weeman1973

Shameless bump! Nobody can offer me any advice at all on a first bike build...............

rolf_f

OK. TBH, I'd say get the BB installed by the LBS and the crankset as well if you are nervous (but if it is similar to my old GXP mtb crankset then there really isn't much to it.

Get some decent cable cutters and sort the cabling out yourself. You'll probably need new cables but that means that if the original ones are in good condition you'll be able to use at least some of the outers. This will mean that you won't eed to worry too much about using up all your new outers by over - cropping them. You may as well try the outers from the levers to the stops as they are - if they are a little too short, you can use them to help cut new outers.

Do look up how to vids on Youtube and do have a go with setting the gears up yourself. My recent MTB build delivered me perfectly indexed rears with barely any adjusting required. The front was a bit trickier but if you don't try, you'll never learn and trying doesn't mean you can't ask the LBS later. Do also ask questions here if you get stuck and give yourself plenty of time to do it. Ideally over at least a couple of weekends.

I started with the cables and fitted the mechs once I'd got the outers all the right length. Everything else doesn't tend to get each others way so I doubt it matters much otherwise what order you do things.

When it's done, you can ask the LBS to check it over if you aren't confident. A torque wrench is good for your own confidence.

Best of luck!

Yossie

What are you doing with the P/X frameset out of interest.

Weeman1973

Cheers Rolf - Really not sure about the cabling though - think I may ask LBS to do that as well as BB & chainset!

Yossie - Planet X will be up for sale once I have got off what I need. Will be selling Frameset incl. forks, headset, stem, bars, seatpost & saddle. It's the Nanolight in Team Guru colours like this:

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/news/pr ... am-edition

Can't remember the size but I am sure it's a Medium as it's a bit on the big size for me hence the frame swap!

rolf_f

Weeman1973 wrote:

Cheers Rolf - Really not sure about the cabling though - think I may ask LBS to do that as well as BB & chainset!

Be strong! If you copy the Planet X you can't go far wrong. You can leave the cable itself uncut whilst you fiddle around with the outers so the only risk is to the outers and you should have loads of spare for that if you aren't doing a fully enclosed setup anyway. Besides, the LBS won't necessarily get the lengths perfect themselves. It's theoretically possible that you'd hardly need to alter the original outers anyway though that's maybe a bit optimisitic. If you err on the side of overlong you can always shorten later.

Besides, if the shop does the BB, Crankset and cables, then all you are doing is bolting on the brakes and the mechs which hardly constitutes a bike build!

Yossie

Many thanks for the email - if its a medium then its too small for me (thank you anyway!) - it's freakin' cool so you'll sell it on no problem at all.

Now if it was a large we'd be talking .....

Kr

ellj22

Got any friends/acquaintances who have built their own bikes? If so ask them for some help as nothing is more reassuring than someone in the know guiding you through it step by step. Firstly though invest in some good quality workshop tools i.e. cable cutters, torque wrench or key and a quality set of allen keys. Make sure you have a decent grease and carbon assembly paste.

The only other expense then is a pack of beer as payment for their help.

Normally I'd go seatpost, bars and stem fitted
wheels assembled with tyres and cassette and fitted into frame
bb and chainset (checking chainline)
front and rear mechs and cables (taping cables to bar with strips of electrical tape)
chain
pedals
set up gears (prestrectch cables)
fit and set up brakes and cables (prestretch cables)
tape handlebars
straighten stem and setup bar position (making sure to preload headset)
fit saddle and adjust seatpost height and saddle angle
check set up in stand
take bike for a short ride
tweak
ride a few times then double check torque settings

I'm not saying this is the way it has to be done and the exact way I always do things but this seems to be a fairly logical process in my mind.

smidsy

No real correct sequence. I prefer to work from the bottom up.

Obviously you need to install the headset before the forks and the forks before the wheels etc. but beyond that anything goes.

So for me once the forks are on I then start from the BB and mechs and then work up from that with cables virtually last and then bar tape once I am happy that everything works.