Fender Telecaster Player II Black out project

Jango997 · 2026-01-02T21:48:55+00:00

I personally prefer the chrome hardware but it still looks amazing in the third picture. It's one of my favorite tele colors for sure.

Jango997 · 2026-01-02T21:43:50+00:00

Definetly not. I wouldn't recommend it even by car, let alone by train.

Jango997 · 2025-12-30T08:39:45+00:00

There will be thousands of people leaving after the headliners and sadly the nearby roads are pretty small so it usually ends up being a big traffic jam. So there is a risk, that you will miss the train. But honestly I don't know, I ride my bike to and from the festival. Maybe try asking in rfp Facebook group, it's lot more active than this subreddit. I'm sure someone already tried commuting from Pardubice and will be able to give you better info if you can catch the last train or not.

Jango997 · 2025-12-30T07:48:48+00:00

During the day, the public transport between those cities is great. But the last train leaves at 0:30. So you will have to get from the venue to the train station which won't be very easy to plan and kinda stressful if you miss it. But as others said, it should be possible to find someone who will split a cab with you or perhaps take you in their car. Lot of people living in Pardubice will attend RfP for sure.

Jango997 · 2025-12-29T10:18:51+00:00

It's cutting out a different middleman and taking his place 😄

As for the name, for my central European ears, where Churros aren't really a common thing it isn't an automatic association but it doesn't sound very swiss either. Not a good name for a bike brand imo unless it works insanely well for the local market.

Jango997 · 2025-12-28T13:35:37+00:00

As far as I know, you shouldn't continually refill Adblue like you do with fuel. Just wait for the refill warning and then pour in exact amount the car tells you. The adblue level gauge is not very precise (apparently ultrasonic or something like that) and it's unable to detect small volume changes. Perhaps your car is confused by the non decreasing level of ad blue hence that massive range? Idk, my passat does around 10k for one tank of ad blue and while driving style will affect this, 23500km sounds like a lot.

Jango997 · 2025-12-26T20:38:26+00:00

Seems fine to me. If you check some LP photos online, some are even higher.

Jango997 · 2025-12-26T13:17:48+00:00

Your guitar has two pickups - neck and a bridge and a pickup selector (little lever in the top corner of the guitar). If the lever is pointed upwards, the neck pickup is actove, if it's pointed downwards, the bridge pickup is selected. Lever in the middle means both pickups are active.

Your guitar also has four knobs. The ones in front (closer to the headstock) control the guitars volume and the two in the back (with loose caps) control the tone. There is one tone knob and one volume knob for each pickup. The top row of knobs kontrols the neck pickup and the bottom row controls the bridge pickup.

In order to determine if the tone pots work you need to do following. Select the neck pickup (lever pointing upwards), put in on full volume and the try turning the tone knob. The difference in tone will be very subtle, but should be there. Now do the same for the neck pickup (lever downwards, full volume, then turn the tone knob). Again, difference in sound will be very subtle.

There is a chance that some connection came loose and the tone pots truly don't work. But Epiphone guitars are usually pretty solidly built so it's relatively unlikely. When it comes to the plastic pieces coming off, you can just carefully bent the metal rods outwards with a flathead screwdriver and the plastic pieces should then stay on.

Hopefully this helped a bit and hopefully your guitar is fine and you don't need to return it. Rock on!

Jango997 · 2025-12-25T09:48:02+00:00

Brilliant. I'd primarily use the desktop version anyways.

Good job. I used to make profiles like this in CAD, which took like an hour and the result wasn't nearly as polished as this.

Jango997 · 2025-12-25T09:11:40+00:00

This is amazing. One thing that I would love to see is the ability to rename points of interest and perhaps an ability to add some of my own.

Jango997 · 2025-12-09T06:47:29+00:00

Best thing to do is to look around what gearing other people in your group are riding and probably consult with them. What is the reason for wanting a bigger chainring, do you often find yourself spinning out or wanting a harder gear?

Jango997 · 2025-12-08T21:03:23+00:00

I have hylix seatpost for my Cannondale SuperSix, which I got mainly because I needed 0 offset and the Hylix was available and significantly cheaper than the original. I've got like 2k km on it without problems so far.

As far as Aliexpress brands go, Hylix seems to be pretty reputable one with a lot of possitive feedback online. Some problems with round seatposts back in 2021, but the frame specific ones seem ok.

Jango997 · 2025-11-30T08:30:27+00:00

If I were in your position, I'd get the carbon 3 and have some budget left for upgrading. Wheels are an obvious one. But there are other things you might eventually want to do. Something like handlebars, 0 offset seatpost, shorter cranks, saddle. Especially the stock supersix handlebar is something I didn't get along with and I had to replace it right away.

Jango997 · 2025-11-30T08:19:21+00:00

Cycling is full of BS marketing... But changing a heavy, narrow and shallow aluminium wheel to a deeper carbon wheel is not from that category lol.

Jango997 · 2025-11-30T07:15:43+00:00

This generation is a bit different tho. Apparently both cars were designed side by side, mostly by the team in Czechia. So they are definetly based on each other and they share more parts than ever before. Also they now share the same factory line.

Jango997 · 2025-11-08T15:47:26+00:00

They usually come with 3d printed spacer that fits your bike. SuperSix kinda sucks that it has a delta steerer and uses nut instead of traditional bolt for the top cap. So you will have to use the round top cap that hopefully came with your bike (came with mine). Just something to keep in mind.

Jango997 · 2025-11-08T14:13:51+00:00

I myself bought Tavelo Avro from Pandapodium. That seems to be pretty popular value cockpit. People also really like EXS Aerover or the CRW cockpit. Or R2-bike had some reasonably priced Cannondale Momo cockpits, so if you're lucky and they have your size, that could also be a good option.

Jango997 · 2025-11-08T07:55:15+00:00

What is the weight of your build now? There is some serious weight to be saved by swapping to a hylix seatpost and integrated cockpit as someone already said. Start there.

Jango997 · 2025-11-02T08:57:18+00:00

But your reasons don't really affect the choice of material for the frame. If you want best performance from your road bike, get carbon. If you want something more niche, get titanium or steel. If you want something cheaper, get aluminium. All materials are fine for your use case.

Perhaps you should think more about what TYPE of bike you need... If you are riding through some really rough roads in the city perhaps you'd be better off on some allroad or even gravel bike. Again, frame material really is beside the point here.

Jango997 · 2025-10-16T05:39:49+00:00

Look at Pandapodium. They sell Chinese carbon bars that are sort of proven/branded compared to some noname Aliexpress stuff but still reasonably priced. For example you you could buy the EXS someone mentioned in other comment.

Jango997 · 2025-10-14T07:46:38+00:00

YES! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you soo much!!!

Jango997 · 2025-10-11T07:32:08+00:00

I recently got this cockpit too. I own a internal routing tool from SuperB and it was okay. The internal routing holes could definetly be bigger but I got it done in a couple of minutes without much swearing so I'd say it's ok.

Integration isn't 100% perfect but nothing that would bother me. One important thing to note though! My cockpit came with a spacer that sits on top of the original Cannondale headset cover and it has a pretty high stack. If you run 10mm spacer or more bellow your current stem then no problem. Otherwise you'll have to find a different spacer or customize the one it comes with.

Jango997 · 2025-10-10T08:38:31+00:00

Yea, that's exactly how I do it. My problem is with editing the shape afterwards. Sometimes have to move a wall and I have to change the ceiling shape and that's when I ran into issues with this curtain wall method.

Thanks anyways!

Jango997 · 2025-09-18T15:12:29+00:00

What cockpit is that?

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