[Closed] my new road race weapon

Nice.
Here's mine. had it weeks now and still not even been around the block on it. First race is May 8th.
I've gone tubeless, the Giants are proper tubeless ready.
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Old frame brand new kit.

Minging tyres don't help, but overall tidy. Nowt wrong with alu, enjoy it!

Edit - been using some Hutchison atoms on some ultegra wheels tubeless on the winter bike, trouble free but I can say I can tell the difference to running the same wheels with tubes.

Now all you need is a new camera 😉

oldgit - please post up with yr thoughts on roadie tubeless when you've done some riding on em

I am a tubeless convert, as comfy as tubs without the puncture hassle.

Alphas are light too.

good effort Mr Disco, needs one of these to finish it

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not light, but good lord they add some power

WTF's going on there Tazzles ? - that looks ded weird

scrub that, found it

looks ded weird

[url= http://www.rotorbikeusa.com/products/RS4x_cranks.html ]all about silly cranks [/url]

These replacing or replaced by oval rings, then ?

Maybe I'll try both and achieve over 10mph average

oval rings are the more primative version to achieve the same sort of thing. Lots of TT chaps I know swear by the cranks. I love the rings, have rotor Q and goldtec ellipticals on all my bikes

A bit more here Tazzo X
[url= http://www.flammerouge.je/content/3_factsheets/biketest/rotor.htm ]More oval insanity[/url]

cheers swedey.xx

Maybe I'll try both and achieve over 10mph average

Add some of these, and you should be unbeatable

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IanM - I'm sure the UCI banned them because they actually caused lift-off in some circumstances

(then again, maybe you're right - I still [i]can[/i] be a contender)

... and, back to the OP - "looks" (yeh, I know) stiff allright, I reckon it'd prob kill me

tazzy> A triple? on a road bike Are you mad! 🙂

tyres are green as they came off the planet x where i had a green theme going on.

Cannot believe how stiff and light it is.

Stiff and light maybe but come on, sort those weeds out FFS. 🙄

Add some of these, and you should be unbeatable

tazzy> A triple? on a road bike Are you mad!

yeh, sorry about that tricky, I could only find a piccy of the mtb version not the road one 😀

the new Q rings look natty too

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Ilton was lovely yesterday wasn't it? Bike looks nice, love the tyres.

Ilton was lovely yesterday wasn't it? Bike looks nice, love the tyres.

i thought i recognised your crew! Very windy towards the end! i did far too much work on the front and chasing down breaks. VC got 1st in the 4ths, 4th in the 3/4 and 4th in the e/1/2

Those L shaped cranks appear to use two sides of a triangle to place the pedal in exactly the same position as it would be if at the end of the hypotenuse. Does the long part of the L pushing on the short part claim an element of leverage advantage? Seems weird as the force still starts at the pedal and ends up at the BB spindle.

Anyone got a link explaining why L shaped cranks work?

[url= http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/PMP_crk_ad.htm ]Not convinced[/url]

Anyone got a link explaining why L shaped cranks work?

Didn't think so, just seems to add weight.

Nice Tricky!

What bars are those? They seem a very shallow drop.

[url= http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HBPX6061SD/planet_x_road_bar_strada_shallow_drop ]planet x strada[/url]

Am getting a deda 0 rise stem this week and cutting that fork steerer down

Tricky how can a bike be to small for you? was it a childs frame?

This I think is too small

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Huge amount of seatpost showing.. cockpit felt cramped and i always felt like i was on top of the bike.

non colour coded pedals tut tut

So for a 6.3ft fat bloke is a 58cm going to be big enough?

it's all changed since then. Pic was taken when I 1st bought it.. pedals were cheapy I had because i had delta cleats for the velodrome

if you want colour-coding, here is my current road weapon of choice.

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"Weapon"- 😯 really ?

trickydisco - what frame is that (the white one, not the planet x) ?????

cheers

hows it differ from the SL Pro? (I'm currently thinking Cervelo S1 (ali frame)

differs loads (to me) to the sl pro. Not sure if most of this is due to fit but in comparison the sl pro is flexy. I always thought it was my wheels that were the fault. When I used to get out of the saddle to sprint i could feel the whole front end flexing around. When I put the wheels on this frame the front end is extremely stiff.

I'd say the sl pro would be more comfortable over longer distances.

@jonjonjon3. I think it's a brand x alloy frame with 12k weave. I'm so surprised how light and balanced it feels. Had it on scales at just under 18lbs

My "weapon(s)"?!

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Budget did not stretch to a black groupset...

I guess any weapon stands a good chance of injuring the person who owns it!

Here's mine from the Endura Lionheart on Sunday, was gutted to miss Ilton (was there on the first SRC run tho a few weeks back, and should be on the 22nd)
How much fun is circuit racing? First race the other week and it was brilliant!!

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I find some crits a bit boring to be honest. I use them for training a lot of the time. The one's i've done tend to be less about tactics and you don't get as much bunch organisation as you do in a road race.

Plus ilton is very wide so less accelerations out of corners

david walliams!

Finally succumbed to my first road ride a couple of weeks back.. and now I seem to have bought this:

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Was so comfortable on my 60 mile test ride it seemed rude not to!

😀

Looks good TD - is it wrong that I kinda like the green tyres on it?