cinnamon_girl What’s wrong with supporting your local trader who will fit them for you as well? That’s what I’ve always done.

No need to question my choice of supplier just because you may not be capable of fitting some blinds 😉

The Sram .pdf would have been helpful last night! Glad you’ve posted it though – I was wondering whether the fixed cam was actually fixed or whether there was some way of getting it out.

I’m now wondering whether the fixed cam on the calliper body will be different between the two models as well as the rotating cam. If it is there won’t be any point in swapping the rotating cams around.

In fact it might just be easier to paint the road callipers now I know how to take them apart!

There are grooves which vary in depth on both the cam and the body. The bearings sit in these groves and determine the travel of the cam when it rotates.

I’m thinking the groove depth will be different on the road version, but there’s only one way to find out!

Well, the MTB calliper came apart without too many issues. I think the cam must be the silver bit with the ball bearings on it. Only when I get the road version apart will I be sure.

It’s a job I’m going to leave until the weekend as it’s on my commuter and the road callipers are on it.

Thanks for the tip on the exploded diagrams from fisher. All I need to do now is work out which bits need swapping over!

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Definitely the same length arms using those images:

Web searches have conflicting answers to the above. I can’t be bothered to get the tape measure out just yet, but going from the two images below I’d say that the arms are the same length, but have different resting positions.

No idea here either, and I don’t even know anyone who does!

Thanks for all the replies and debate. I’ve only had the road bike a week and I’m still getting used to it. I use it for commuting and have been doing 100 miles a week for the last 18 months so my fitness isn’t too bad.

I hadn’t considered the effect of building the muscles with the bigger ring, nor the consequences of riding in a group. I’m trying to use the drops as often as possible, but hand ache is making change position frequently.

Will give it a couple of months as see how the speeds go.

I’m just looking for a few extra mph. See people talking of 17mph + average speeds and I’m only looking at 15 or so.

Only just started using a drop bar bike instead of a mtb for the road and wondering why it’s not a night and day difference in terms of speed.

If you search for vintage cycle helmet on ebay a few of the old school roadie sausage helmets come up.

I actually turned the shower temperature down a bit this morning as it was a little hot to start with, but it was just warm after I adjusted it.

I did drink a bit of alcohol over the weekend which I rarely do these days – maybe my body was having a purge?

I never usually eat before riding in, I just can’t face food at 5am. I usually eat when I get to work. Energy wise I would say I feel better than average and pretty darn good to be honest!

We’re moving house next Monday, but I’m not particularly worried about it and the office is full of men in the morning so no one to impress!

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sounds like you have a broken seal that needs replacing. This lets pressure out of the air spring and pressurises your lowers which will pop the rubber seal out.

An air spring service should fix the problem.

Just in case it helps anyone else, jairaj was quite correct. All fine now.

Schwalbe also do a full slick which is light called Kojak, not sure what sizes in fully but think theres a 38c

I use these in 26″ for commuting. Very light, very fast and good puncture resistance.

Geometry is identical for both bikes according to their website, so I assume that drop bars would still be ok providing that information is correct.

Good point. I need to do some checking – many thanks for pointing that out, much appreciated.

They don’t do disks on the CX bikes.

Top tube should be fine, they use the same frame on their CX bikes with drops.

Struggling to find a road orientated carbon framed CX bike with disks and drops – this is as close as I’ve found.

I do indeed. Thanks for the correction.

Thank you kind sir. Your wisdom is much appreciated 😀

Could be. What phone is it? Might be worth checking for known issues.

it might also just not like getting shaken about on a ride (loose wire?)

It’s a Sony Xperia Active – so supposedly quite rugged. I’ve looked on the web on a few occassions for any known issues, but not come up with much.

I’m swinging between 2 inch kojaks and 2.35 supermotos- I’ve had big apples before and liked them but they were pretty heavy, hence supermotos. Can’t decide which to go for now… Anyone tried both?

I think the kojaks are the right choice probably but I just like the fat tyres

Not quite the same, but I was on Maxxis Holy Rollers before the Kojaks. At 750ish grams a tyre it was instantly noticeable moving over to the fly weight Kojaks. The speed difference was not only noticeable, but impressive.

That said, I much preferred the look of the Holyrollers.

Why is your phone “cutting out”?

Do you mean running out of battery, or just randomly crashing?

I use Endomondo all the time (on iPhone 4) – out of the 230 odd Cycling workouts I’ve tracked I’ve only had maybe 3 crashes and one of them was the entire phone so prob not Endos fault.

It’s not the battery, it just randomly crashes. Only time this ever happens to it is when I’m tracking a ride. And this is true of either Strava or Endomondo. Therefore I believe the phone is unreliable when GPS is active.

If you were running Endomondo then switching of lower power mode and auto stop will help stop your phone cutting out, or it did for me.

Thanks, will try turning off auto stop in the interim period (been running in the higher power mode anyway), but I think it’s the phone to be honest. The cutting out was even worse when using strava instead of Endomondo.

Even deleted every non essential app last night in case any of them were causing issues and still had the problem this morning!

The fastest I’ve run are Schwalbe Kojaks – easy to get on and off the rim, protection strip, very light and comfortable in the 2″ version. Not too expensive either. I like them lots.

If I wanted something a bit more off road capable I’d be looking at kenda small black 8’s – I’ve not double checked, but I hear they are recommended up to 80psi.

Edit – The only other thing I’d mention is that running tubeless may not allow you to run the higher pressures you’d want for the road. For example if you were running Stan’s rims that only allow up to certain pressures when run tubeless.

One of these?

http://www.cratoni.de/en/bike-helmets/1291794700_mr/c-maniac.html

What front guard is that?

I found that GT85 cleaned up the wife’s white saddle very nicely.

Done.

Anyone actually managed to buy one yet? Or a hoax? Not listed on the McVitie’s website…

http://www.mcvities.co.uk/product_range/108/jaffa-cakes

I bought the front one from CRC.

Hmmm, so are any of the android phones ultimately reliable, or is that some are better than others?

I must admit that I went of Sony some years ago, but was tempted back by the small size and rugged credentials. Mostly happy with it, but want reliablity!

Maybe it would be better to ask what phones you have and how they perform with regards to reliabily when tracking rides with Strava or Endomondo.

My bad, ’tis only one – just checked mine.

There might be a little allen bolt in the lever.. Tighten it a bit, did this with my Maxle and it stopped coming undone.

This. There’s two I think, one for the lever cam tension and one for some other tension.

Given the majority of the population lives in urban areas, and has to get to work… I’d suggest it’s probably more mainstream than you think. Not that I’m planning on buying it, though.

I bought issue 1 and was hoping it was commuter mainstream with a touch of cool. Unfotrunately it was…

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Get whatever helmet you like and stick large pads in it? I ended up buying a pad kit for a Bell Faction from CRC for a few quid and used it in my ‘The Industries F14’.

The red pads are the originals, the black pads are from the Faction. They are huge, very absorbent and easy to cut to size.

350 mostly wet miles on mine so far with no problems yet.

I’m currently using Maxxis Holy Rollers 2.2 and I like them a lot! Very gripy on tarmac and good for dry off road too, weigh in at 735g a tyre though and take 65psi max.

As for the Hookworms, they look nice, but are one of the heaviest balloon tyres around – 1250g each! Way too heavy for my liking.

Next tyres I’ll be buying for the commute will be Kenda Small Block 8’s – nice and light (2.1 is 520g) and should roll well whilst being good for trail centres, dry trails (I keep dreaming) and having fun in urban areas.