I Restored and Modernized an Old Carbon Road Bike

I bought this bike a little while ago because it was a cheap carbon bike. The old shimano 105 9 speed components were a little worn and not shifting as well as I would like so I wanted to upgrade them. The ISIS drive bottom bracket was also starting to creak a bit and wanted to see if I could replace it with hollowtech II. I also wanted to get some new compact drop bars and the wheels were out of true. The wait-time on buying a new bike right now is about 6 months and buying a new carbon bike is prohibitively expensive so that was out of the question. I decided to install a brand new Tiagra 10 speed groupset and restore the rest of the bike. 11 speed would have been nice, but I would’ve had to buy new wheelsets. There was also a small chip in the carbon fork from a certain *ahem* accident I had on the bike last year that I wanted to fix with some basic carbon bike frame repair. The carbon damage was mostly cosmetic. If the carbon fork was cracked I wouldn’t have tried any carbon repair and p
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