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[Closed] Blimey, and I thought an XTR chainset was expensive

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[url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Zipp_Vuma_Chrono_Carbon_Chainset/5360041812/ ]Zipp Chainset[/url]

You could get a car for that 🙂


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 6:37 pm
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9 seconds faster over 40km, how did they get that figure, surely way too many variables even if using the same rider and bike in a velodrome!


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 7:41 pm
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the point is that, if all other variables are the same, then changing to this chainset you will be 9 seconds faster.


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 7:47 pm
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niiiice.... 9 seconds is a fair amount of distance over 40km, around a 110m in fact if you average 45km/hr...


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 8:37 pm
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*sellotapes paper plate to chainset*


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 8:42 pm
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Piffle you can spend [url= http://www.poshbikes.com/product.php?id=333 ]£3825[/url] if you really want fancy cranks


 
Posted : 04/04/2009 9:36 pm
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Damn. Just checked Wiggle and their out of stock.


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:16 pm
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*sellotapes paper plate to chainset*

*Copies cynic'al's idea; sprays whole thing black. Is suddenly 9 seconds faster*


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:28 pm
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I bought one of [url= http://www.dotbike.com/ProductsP7334.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=FGL ]these[/url] and took the inner and outer rings off to run it as a SS 😳


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:31 pm
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9 seconds faster over 40km compared to the next fastest TT crankset. Supplied without a Bottom Bracket.

That's about the same as taking 12 spokes out of your front wheel (which we do not recommend).

so removing a spoke is good for 0.75 seconds over 40km ?? How much for shaving all your hair off ?

This reminds of the puff for carbon fibre speaker cables - never mind 'why', it's [b]carbon [/b]FFS!


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:31 pm
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I bought one of these and took the inner and outer rings off to run it as a SS

FYI it's a 2 ring setup...


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:33 pm
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860g! at £1100 for two rings
£150-209 for XT doesn't seem so bad against that


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 3:54 pm
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Doesn't look much like a two ring setup to me, but I'll accept your apology 😛
[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 4:02 pm
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how much time is saved by having a lighter bike?

just wondering, if you could save half a lb of weight off that (easily done), how hily would the course need to be to pull level (in an ideal world).


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 4:14 pm
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ive one of those on the sus dibbs and its suprisingly took some right bashes looks ****ed now tho lol stainburn rocks saw to that 😉


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 4:15 pm
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ive one of those on the sus

Do you have the BB30 version? if so how are the bearings lasting? I've only done a couple of hundred miles on mine so far so its too early for me to tell.


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 5:00 pm
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Doesn't look much like a two ring setup to me

uh, following the link above took me to:
[img] [/img]
so I apologise for looking at something completely different...

[edit] oh, I see, you had linked to something else 🙂


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 5:13 pm
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ah no mr.dibbs its the standard bb version im afraid. and as it happens thats shot lol im awaiting delivery of a new bb as i type 😉


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 5:23 pm
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What use is that crank?

" 9 seconds faster over 40km compared to the next fastest TT crankset Supplied without a Bottom Bracket."

I'd expect it to be a damn site more than 9 seconds faster than a crank supplied without a BB, how hard to turn would that be?


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 6:44 pm
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[center]"sq225917

taking pedantism to a whole new level sinnce 2009. "[/center]


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 6:54 pm
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so removing a spoke is good for 0.75 seconds over 40km ?? How much for shaving all your hair off ?

Well, if it was you, ChimpBoyBarnes, it'd be a fair few seconds, I'd wager! 😉


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 7:17 pm
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LOL! Several minutes, more like!

(Heats up wax...)


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 10:50 pm
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"sq225917

taking pedantism to a whole new level sinnce 2009. "

Actually, that's pedantry 😀


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 10:54 pm
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^^^ Beat me to it.


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 11:12 pm
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Oh... only do a 55 ring, wanted something a little bigger hahahaha (not)


 
Posted : 06/04/2009 11:17 pm