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- Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pump recommendations please
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11960
Re: Pump recommendations please
I've had one of the lezyne 'mini track pumps' pretty much since they came out, which must be about, ooh, 2009 or so. Had a brief period of pressure loss due to dry o ring after a few years, now I take it apart, clean and regrease once every year or two and it's perfect. Still on the original o ring ...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Angle Adjusting Headsets
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4883
Re: Angle Adjusting Headsets
I put a -2° set in my mk1 Solaris a little while back. I was curious as it brings it fairly close to the newer models (but not the newest). Emailed cotic beforehand and the response was more or less 'thats what we did when we were designing the next one, you might like it. It's not night and day dif...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 622937
Re: Todays ride
Today I did my first 'proper' road ride of the year, a fun run down to the south coast and back. Incredibly hazy, then mist blending into low cloud in the south downs- you couldn't really see the downs themselves even in the middle of them. Visibility on the beach at seaford was troubling double fig...
- Tue May 22, 2018 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which lightweight "gravel" wheels?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4737
Re: Which lightweight "gravel" wheels?
I should add crests are also fine but a bit (and by a bit i mean unusably- I thought I was going to have to cut a nano off an American classic, which is the same bsd) tight on some tyres.
- Tue May 22, 2018 12:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which lightweight "gravel" wheels?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4737
Re: Which lightweight "gravel" wheels?
Wtb kom on your hub of choice is what I've gone for. Narrow on the cross bike, wider on the MTB. I think they hit a nice sweet spot of weight/width/light/not fragile and at a generally sensible price. They also come up very cheap on CRC from time to time. They are I think nominally UST bead spec, wh...
- Wed May 16, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dynamo output figures
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1771
Re: Dynamo output figures
Smaller wheels have to spin faster
- Sat May 12, 2018 4:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Simple drop bar conversion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2543
Re: Simple drop bar conversion
An 11speed Shimano road shifter + an 11s wolftooth tanpan will shift a 10s Shimano MTB mech ok. Setup is a finnicky but it will work and has let me run out a 10s drivetrain. I also have a complete 10s road shifter - 10s tanpan- 10s MTB mech which is firmly in the 'set and forget' camp.
- Thu May 03, 2018 1:01 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Routes for skinnier tyres. Or not.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6049
Re: Routes for skinnier tyres. Or not.
I took the cross bike along the South Downs, mostly on the SDW, from Eastbourne back to Hassocks at the end of that really hot week. Aside from getting rather rattled if you try and go too fast on some of the downs it's fine. Death by sliding in the wet though. Make sure you've got some decently low...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Hubs, Free Hub, Spyre Update Price Drop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1410
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:06 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Hubs, Free Hub, Spyre Update Price Drop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1410
Re: Hubs, End Caps, Brake and Rotor ‘Free’ Stuff + P&P
If you get an ask for the 350 but with the Shimano freehub (or you'd be willing to swap them over) I would very gladly take the XD freehub!
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hope hubs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1038
Re: Hope hubs
If the locking comes off separately it's not an XD cassette is it? I wasn't aware sunrace made them to be honest, I thought they only did normal/Shimano driver cassettes
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Sussex bivi a month 2018
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14433
Re: Sussex bivi a month 2018
I'm freeing up at work and feeling the need to get out but April already seems to be disappearing! Friday is the OHs birthday, next weekend I'm at a wedding- where does the time go?
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dhb or fat
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2321
Re: Dhb or fat
I tend to take a medium in shorts. DHB, morvelo and decathlon are all medium I think. I have some sportful winter tights that are wearable but rather snug in medium, so DHB certainly aren't the smallest for the size.
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Braunton 150
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2152
Re: Braunton 150
This could be good for me. I wanted to make it this year, but work racking up and a load of prep for having holes knocked in our house meant I didn't want to commit and then bail. If it's delayed I may be able to do it. So, bad news I guess, but potentially good news for me
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:13 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Sram force 1 x 10 for force 22
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1111
Re: Sram force 1 x 10 for force 22
Hmm. Tried PMing you last night, appears to be stuck in my outbox. He's interested though.
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:22 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Sram force 1 x 10 for force 22
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1111
Re: Sram force 1 x 10 for force 22
Oooh. Friend of mine might be interested. I'll pass it over to him
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1212047
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Apparently it's the same frame, the QC rejected ones - for what reason they were rejected I don't know. Interesting. I had to get mine second hand as I missed the last (only?) batch. I say missed, I talked myself out of it as I'd not had my pro6 more than a couple of years. I'm amazed they're not m...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1212047
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1212047
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Also, that's a bargain. Where on earth have they got it from?
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1212047
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Assuming it is the same as the foots Cray, and it looks identical, mine will get knards in there comfortably. The front will probably take a skinny MTB tyre but I haven't tried it yet. You're going to like it. It's astonishingly 'grrr' for a cross bike. Compared to my old pro 6 (with the same kit) i...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gloves
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3990
Re: Gloves
I seem to feel the cold in my hands a lot more than I used to and cold wet hands when riding is something that makes me really grumpy, so I'm a bit of a glove collector these days. 100% brisker is a cracking glove but it's not one I find enough for 'proper' cold. I'd not considered them for years be...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: More 'soft' stickers on the way.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3322
Re: More 'soft' stickers on the way.
Ouch. I must admit I'd had 15 in mind, 20 at absolute the outside (I thought the picture design would be more expensive, but not that much more).
Is it the shading on the bear that needs the colour?
Is it the shading on the bear that needs the colour?
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: More 'soft' stickers on the way.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3322
Re: More 'soft' stickers on the way.
There is something nice about a message on your top cap to keep you going- mine was a present from my other half and says 'hey Mat, shall we cycle up a massive hill today?'. That was the morning refrain each day on the first big mountain biking trip we did together. Mine came from kapz I think. I wo...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:55 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Sussex bivi a month 2018
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14433
Re: Sussex bivi a month 2018
Registering general interest! I'm up near Redhill and would be interested.
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT - Scary? Unappealing?
- Replies: 125
- Views: 18442
Re: WRT - Scary? Unappealing?
I've thought about it the last few years, and to be honest what's probably meant I've not got round to it is the time of year. It's been around the sort of time of a couple of other events I quite like. That and a regular club trip to North Wales late April all take up weekend days/weekends. It also...