The only alternative I've found is the Keela made army issue smock, which may well be the one you've tried. Other than that I've looked everywhere for an alternative and found nothing affordable .

I'm currently looking to buy spokes for my new wheel build, but they are generally about 2mm diameter and the spoke hole diameter of my hubs is 2.5mm, does this matter?
Also, any ideas about the best place to buy spokes?
Many thanks
Ben.

Mike and Kristof are clearly off the front now, Kristof is definitely riding faster but Mike seems to be sleeping less, which strategy will win out? Must be bizarre to be 100km behind someone on what seems like a perfectly straight, slightly downhill road. Does anyone here have any experience of tha...

HaYWiRe wrote:Suddenly i feel like the baby of the group!

Nice try old man
Ben, 19.

Quite sad to have just jumped up to a more popular age bracket

Is that not an inside out short ride?

http://bikes.merlincycles.com/search?w= ... =social-10
Cheap Stans rims on Merlin.

http://www.salomon.com/uk/product/s-lab ... cle=391216
These or
http://www.salomon.com/uk/product/s-lab ... cle=393410
These depending on how light/stiff you want. Haven't ridden with them, but they will fit like a mavic which I love riding in.

This wound me up to a ridiculous degree when it happened, not helped by my reading the comments on Roadcc etc. I've seen more than 1 test involving a shoe and a rotor now and none of them have come even close to cutting a shoe like in the picture and yet the idiocy persists

Some superstar wheels to replace my crashed front one (can't have a mismatched set), they're a bit heavy and very blue

My new Cube has Manitou Minute forks and first couple of rides feel good, smooth, relatively light (1.7kg for 120mm 15mm bolt through) and pretty basic (just like me!), they even stood up well to hitting a car which pulled out on me

I do maths
I find it quite enjoyable to do rough distance unit conversions in my head (if the GPS is in miles convert various relevant distances to Km or vice versa) or work out what fraction/percentage through the route I am etc etc etc, I imagine this is not for everyone, though .

Surly karate monkey?

Is anyone using the above? what do you think, is it ok not having a zip? is it long enough in the body for cycling?
Thanks in advance
Ben

Pair of superstar hubs for my new wheel build, just need to measure up for spokes and then get building

Some halo vapour 35 rims for my surly. Tired of tires that are just too small

The cleat on the sole of my shoe, either with it on my foot, or if it's really hard ground then take it off and use it as a hammer.

The only thing I can comfortably wear under my helmet is a headband (i have an Aldi merino one) as I find even a buff makes my helmet feel too high up on my head. The headband keeps my ears and forehead warm and I find that my helmet and hair is insulating enough on the top of my head.

Ian's right, the new tiagra 10 speed (with the shift cables under the bar tape) shifters and mechs are the same cable pull as Shimano 11 speed road stuff, not the old 10-speed road stuff, because why make things easy?

Titanium and ceramic?
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobi ... lsrc=aw.ds

PJG wrote:

does a 650b+ rear wheel and 29+ rear wheel sound reasonable? Overkill? Underkill?

Are these 2 rear wheels mounted side by side ?
Or one behind the other ?

Either way, I'm no expert - but it does sound like overkill to me

C**p

As I know very little about the terrain, does a 650b+ rear wheel and 29+ front wheel sound reasonable? Overkill? Underkill?

This will be the first of several questions I imagine

I'm in, oh sugar.

jam bo wrote:

Ben98 wrote:Do you know if adapters are available to make them QR? If so then I'll probably take them.

Alpkit website says there are but I can't see a link for buying them.

I've emailed them, will let you know once I know if I'll take them.

Do you know if adapters are available to make them QR? If so then I'll probably take them.