Do they require specific tools to fit them?

I have Elixir’s which stop me with no problems and rarely squeal but when applied lightly it does feel like the ABS has kicked in as they pulse. they’ve done this from new so I think contamination of the pads or warping of the rotor is unlikely and they don’t feel spongy so I’m not sure why they do it. it’s the first time I’ve had hydraulic discs so I’ve nothing to compare them with.

I think you should do it at work and save even more than him.

is bearing life not affected by the drag due to the tension?

Rohloff have approved the Gates system so they must be happy that it doesn’t cause accelerated wear.

Automotive cambelt tensioners have plenty of beef if reqr’d.

I’m sure you can make one that works but how heavy would it be?

Salad and oatcakes

I run a 32 front with 11-32 rear on a 9 speed currently and I reckon I’ll go to a 34 when I eventually replace it all with 10 speed and a 11-36 at the back. You could always buy a 32 and a 36 and change them depending on where your riding, it’s a pretty quick job and as you can buy unramped chainrings you should be able to do it pretty cheaply.

If I suffer from ED only the wife will laugh at me if I use one of them it’ll be the whole world.

I’ve got one on one set of forks and they are fine, it’s never come loose. I do have to loosen it to remove the crown race though as it does expand the steerer tube.

Thanks Iain, standover may be an issue as it seems a lot of manufacturers just use road bike frame sizes rather than dropping the sizes for the cx bikes. I think the last road bike I had was 52cm so I’ll be looking at around a 48 which limits choice a little.

Nuun Kona Cola tastes lovely to me Just electrolytes though

Isn’t that the one with added caffeine as well? I like that and the orange and ginger.

not what the OP asked for

This is STW – it’s not here so you can get advice it’s here for those who have a pathological need to give it. 🙂

I quite like the taste of the Nuun tablets but yes they are gassy, but rather than burp this can be redirected to give extra thrust.

Airlifted out of the Pentlands with a broken collar bone.

Wiggins just gets chucked in the back of a car!

Thanks, so basically the same overall reach from the saddle to the hoods as from the saddle to the bars on the mtb. That’s what I was assuming would be about right.

I’ve got it into my head that I want a cx bike now but the sizing thing is also something I need to consider. I haven’t ridden a road bike in over 20 years so I’m looking at it in comparison to a mountain bike. I’m 5’5″ and ride a 16″ frame with a 560mm virtual top tube and a 90mm stem. I’ve a layback post with the saddle fully forward. So I’m thinking along the lines of a 48-50cm frame c-t with a virtual top tube around 520mm.
So does that sound about right?

no more lube for me

its been a bit of a gamble as it ain’t cheap

Don’t worry it’ll pay for itself within 100 years or so. 🙂

If you want cheap I’d look at square taper. Shimano UN54 bottom brackets are cheap and last.

I weigh 11 stone, but for simplicity vanity’s sake say I weigh 10 stone

FTFY

all i need to do now is learn how to ride up all these bloody hills !

Remember if you need to stop halfway up it’s fine you just need to fiddle around at the back end looking quizzical as if something has gone wrong, anybody rides past you just mutter “bloody Halfords mechanics” they give you an understanding nod and you’ve got away with it.

Oh and Winchester to Eastbourne maxs your chances of a tailwind.

Yes it does but I did over 80 miles of it recently from Above Kingston to Winchester and I’m convinced I went down more than I went up! The reality is that from where I started off road just 200m from home I climbed more than I descended but I’m sure the hills are easier going to Winchester, longer but less steep and I also think the statue of Alfred the Great is a much better finishing point. I just waited for a day with little wind. The other advantage ids that after Buster Hill the final 15 odd miles seem a lot easier than the thought of the climbs out of Southease, Alfriston and Jevington. The Harveys map is useful to have with you and the signposts are pretty good, I only went wrong once when I headed for the trig point at the top of Buster Hill when I should have been heading slightly to the south. I really enjoyed the day and I’ll have a go at the full 100 miles next summer. I cycled a total of 91 miles in the day and still felt good so I’m pretty confident I can do it. I’ll be starting in Eastbourne again as it’s only 30 minutes drive away for an early start and again I’ll just keep an eye on the weather and wait for the right conditions.

I will have much less time on here

looking after old men

Out of the frying pan

Thanks njee – 60kg coward here so no need for anything stronger.

The A2Z/Podium wheels I replaced them with are lighter (by a fair margin), stiffer, have lasted better already and are still cheaper than £324.

Where fron njee? I meant to ask the other day when you posted on another thread about them.

You’ll need to check everything is tight and you may have to align the gears properly. I bought a Boardman mail order from them and the front mech needed adjusting but apart from that everything was pretty good.

Oh and don’t forget to check the forks are facing the right way!

Yes. The pad on a bigger rotor covers more distance on each wheel rotation, so for a given force it produces more heat, meaning you must have slowed down more

But if you have stopped in a shorter distance with the bigger rotor then does that not negate the difference in distance travelled by the rotor?

You don’t like to ride in a Chelsea shirt by any chance? 😉

I keep Mud X on my rigid bike all year round as it’s the one I use whenever it’s wet at any time of the year.

32 x 11-32

Will probably go to 34 when I eventually change to 10 speed with a 11-36 cassette.

I bet he feels pretty good about himself today

He may not feel to good tomorrow though. Years ago on some daft raft race I ended up spending quite a lot of time in the Kennet and Avon and I felt thoroughly crap for a couple of weeks. God knows what was in the ooze at the bottom.

One of these 2, I think I’m middle aged enough to get away with it. I’d need to get a pair of crocheted leather mitts as well and a nice Carradice saddlebag.

The Garmin *logo* (as I called it in the thread title) is a *logo*. It is only *part* of the brand. It is nothing but a * component* part of the brand (just like a wheel is not a bike, it is a component on a bike). The fonts, colours etc all help form the overall visual appeal of the *logo* and they will have been chosen to help develop the *brand* positioning (I would suggest modern, words like contemporary, clean, uncluttered and simple would have been used somewhere down the lines in developing the brand). But you don’t *need* to understand all that in order to see the (albeit very subtle) arrow pointing north over the letterform ‘N’ (which stands for North).

Anyone else reminded of the explanations of “One song to the Tune of another”

**** I phone

Is that a new app!

I’m sure i used these things called ‘v-brakes’ and also some ‘magura’s’ and before all of that i used ‘cantilevers’

No you couldn’t have done – you wouldn’t have stopped by now.

I’ve not actually bought anything but whenever I’ve seen something that might interest me I look at the sellers forum history immediately. I’d happily buy if they were regular posters but I would never consider buying from someone who used the site primarily to sell stuff.

I can easily see how when something seems like a bargain it’s hard to resist. I keep looking at the carbon Focus Cayo with 105 groupset for £880 on Wiggle and it’s hard to resist even though It really isn’t what I need!

So if you were clever enough to invent a system that used the rim as the braking surface then you’d have a brilliant brake.

gazc, you’ll need to give Rohloff the exact model number for them to give you a price. I contacted them a while ago about it and they asked for that in order to give a price. I didn’t follow it up as the cost of doing it getting my frame modified and buying another disc brake didn’t seem to make sense just to get a disc brake on the rear, I put the money towards a second bike instead.

Adrian Moorhouse, one of the best swimmers of his generation and an Olympic gold medallist, had a coach who couldn’t swim.

Presumably Moorhouse just ignored him as he clearly didn’t have a valid opinion.

I believe he and his coach looked at his time for the 100m Breaststroke when he was quite young and then predicted the time that would be required to win gold in 1988 given current trends. They then worked out how much he needed to cut his time by each week to achieve that.I don’t think that came out of any coaching manual.

45 and mountain biking for 25 years in September and I’ve done my 3 longest off road rides in the last 3 months, 40, 44 and 84 miles so it must be doing something good. I haven’t got any faster or braver or more skilled in all those years but if I can still do 84 miles of the South Downs Way in 9 hours 59 minutes, get the train back to Brighton, ride a further 7 miles home, have a shower then go out for the night without falling asleep in my dinner then I reckon It’s keeping me pretty fit. I put it down to riding everyday to work off road for the last 3 years and extended the ride whenever it’s nice weather.

why are people prepared to pay £thousands and not clean their bike?

Why are people prepared to pay thousands on a mountain bike that needs cleaning?

To answer your question for many the only point of a bike is to ride it. They have no interest in cleaning it unless it effects the performance or how it looks and what anyone might think about the way it looks. I can choose to clean my bike can you choose not to clean yours? Or is there a little voice that won’t let that happen. 🙂

I have one that I clean although it doesn’t get much mud on it as I don’t generally use it if it’s muddy. I also have a rigid hub geared bike which I clean when the wheels will no longer go round. It only ever gets the chain wiped and a squirt of gt85. I do have to clean the rear hub once a year so I can find the drain plug to change the oil though. All a bit onerous really I think the future may be a belt drive.