percussive realignment

Percussion wrench

Music to my ears

why not buy a new frame and swap the bits over?

Not sure whose bike it is, but GCN just posed a pic of this option:

I imagine you could get a fair old lick on with that. I do wonder if a deep dish would be better that a disc but they’d know best I spose

I would assume that the top 10 are not browsing stw… But most of them will probably have ridden this climb on both bikes

Yeah, agreed, wrong bike would be a bit school boy ‘ish. The wheels could be more interesting though; TT bike with deep dish rear v disc

EDIT, Adam Yates has a big few days ahead

eClass Estate

My eyes are drawn toward the stand, I dont think you should use a wooden stand. How about adding Doris Day in the bottom right then doing an auto stand and have a T5 too

Otherwise, really cool and very talenbted, good luck and I hope you sell loads of them 🙂

Good servicing video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w0X0-AOhRA

Id say Kona too but they deffo had brakes! The forks would have been P1s and those aren’t, nice bike though!

New wheels, drive train,bar tape, tyres etc. To be honest, if you stick at it then treat yourself a few ,000km down the road. If you stop again you then have 2 £1200 alloy bikes you dont use

Buckster I’m glad your coming round on this as you’ve confused me. If the marginds are low that means more money for the frame, not less

When Halfords sell a Carrera zealous for £250 the amount left over for a frame must be less than the London frame. But some how the seat post goes in the correct size hole

Nope, Halfords have far higher volumes of sale and better purchasing power and support ‘lines’ i.e. hundreds of shops, I understand the comparison but it doesnt work.

I have a Reverb, its has worked well so far. My Sunday ride it started to creak in the seat tube. Yesterday I bled it, refitted it in the seat tube using some Park ‘blue gooey assembly goo’ and it is bang on.

Twisty are you an MP?

right so I have changed the pedals for a third pair, & greased the seatpost. I also gave the chainring bolt opposite the pedal a wee tighten. This causes the bolt to sheer with very little force applied so I suspect it may have already been craked.

quick spin up & down the street and creak seems to have gone – This calls for a victory beer!

Cheers all

I was going to say that, its always the chainrings, honest

it make my 1988 dawes ascent mtb feel like a lump of scrap.

My first MTB, genuinely the worst MTB Ive ever owned, mainly because no-one truly new what an MTB was then.

I serviced my seat post in the garden

Out of interest, how do Xizang owners pronounce ‘xizang’?

jtszsheee jtszianger

duh, pfft

Red do-hickey flamajama. Yes it will make you faster. Take two, twice a day with beer.

Exactly what I thought

OP, why not ask Commencal on their webchat thingamyjig? I imagine they are adding stuff like this to their 2017 bikes as we waffle

It’s much lighter than it looks Daffy, I can vouch for that.

That’s because of all of the air in the big tyres

It’s much lighter than it looks Daffy, I can vouch for that.

That’s because of all of the air in the big tyres

6079smithw: ah white Michelin tyres, had them on my Endorphin, stylin! Does the fat front tyre provide suspension or bounce?

I think that in making steel lighter, strength has to come from the tube profile. This in turn stiffens the tubes and makes the ride characteristics different. For the sake of a pound, which makes no real world difference, is it even worth bothering?

you need to read this

link

I think Singletrack did one, 2 bikes painted the same. Can’t remember the issue

Many thanks. Interesting and bears out much of what I have experienced. I think this sentence is key…

so the more observant ones would notice speed differences. In the end, we sort of determined that when riders didn’t know what they ‘should’ feel, they really struggled to find differences in stiffness, compliance and weight between frames or wheels.

I think we have all had guys turn up to club rides on knackers yard bikes and smoke the lot of us. Its essentially the same thing at one extreme and at the other, pros are quick on any bike. Its the same with weight, within reason i.e. a few pounds, you will perform the same on a bike weighing 15lbs as on weighing 20lbs IF the geometry is the same. As well as size etc referenced in the article, humans seem to be trained to think lighterweight = better performance, and this is not necessarily true.

I argue (badly) that if you learnt to ride fast on a rigid mtb, you will have far more subtle and quicker reactions to terrain than if you learned to ride fast on a full susser. In the former, I reckon you can feel frame types as you naturally look for the traits of the frame to get you along the trail. A full susser has far greater error tolerances and so you subconsciously learn to be crashier in your style. Once you are, riding any rigid bike will feel the same.

A long time back, ‘scandium’ was the allow of choice for lightweight race bikes. I ordered one from Italy and it tok an age to arrive, so much that the only bike I had to race with was an old Delgado period Pinarello, it weighed loads by even then standards. I raced it for a few months, I got the same average results (top 10), the only issue I had was down tube shifters on descents/getting caught on turns/ascents etc. Some riders are clumsy, some are subtle, some are grinders, some spin, each will look or not giver a damn about their frame type/weight.

I would like to denounce all thread hijackers, especially those who dont read all of the OP and just start ranting E.g.
OP

I want everbody to come forward and denounce something before the world falls apart

…pretty straight forward request

next post clearly missed this simple desire…

One of trumps many first thing I’ll do when elected is tear up the Iran peace/nuclear deal. So probably a good precursor to tell everyone Iran sponsored the terrorist man like.

You are faster/slicker/gnarlier when nobody is watching/there

Singletrack did a blind test. I think ‘not much’ was the conclusion but can’t find the review in the archive (probably my search fu.

Ill have a look for that, Id like to read it. It is true that modern alloy tubesets are way better than 20 years back. At that time aluminium tube sets made some seriously harsh rides, these days things like triple butted yah yahs make a huge difference to comfort and handling flex. Ditto steel tube sets are light to the point of weight not mattering etc.

Cotton wool in ears

Hanging bikes vertically from the roof will buy you more space then you think

And brackets on the walls to dangle them too, or just lie it on top of all the other crap

Pity GT were too busy forging ahead with aluminum to takes steps to prevent them cracking!
Meanwhile my backwards and cumbersome steel Kona is still in weekly use on the same trails as I use my Stumpjumper on, 20 years after I bought it…

Aha, well wrote, tis true, at the time an awful lot of manufacturers were trying to match the Kona such as Lava Dome, Cindercone, Explosifs et al for handling and speed/fun per £. GT didnt make it IMHO/memory, the Zaskar was good but not great and did break. Spesh did too with the stumpjumper (first S-Works?). GT were still pioneering fancy farmyard gates when the buzz was sloping TT. And that Kona style is still very much evident on most if not all HTs today

Im surprised people feel there will be/is no difference. Its clear if the geo is similar there must be a difference. I can feel it on MTBs and so does every mag review, not once have I seen a ‘steel, Alu, Ti, its all the same’ expose.

The domestiques also have contracts committing them to ride for the nominated leader too, its not all love for the fast guy. And they share higher levels of the stage €€€€€€€’s too. Does the SKY budget include other cycling or just the road squad?

OP’s post is a joke right?

No, it looks like some kind of dropper.

A gravity dropper to be precise, one of the more recent additions to the bike.
Another of the more recent additions is the tubeless wheels which I built up and put on the bike, nice big 2.2″ tyres @ 30psi almost makes up for the minimal suspension.

Priceless

…they need to sell there souls to RedBull. Fair comment about the organisers though

It should be fun watching the sprint teams trying to catch a break (if it has a 5 minute or so plus gap) after the descent about 135km in, that could be quite an ask

As you spend more time sat down on a road bike, make sure you’re comfy, otherwise dont worry about life and enjoy riding your bike

OP’s post is a joke right?

If you can afford it, look closely at Ti, for me personally, Ti has a fantastic feel to it with a hardtail. Ive ridden steel, alu and Ti. Assuming same geo etc, it will ride differently and I personally love the feel!

Advances in tube set design has meant that the old adage of harsh aluminium v more feel steel v Ti is diluted somewhat greatly these days but Ti is still a magical HT frame material

Alpine looks like a nice bike, not aesthetically pleasing on the eye’. Whats boost?

What he said plus bleed it with the speed adjuster wound one way and then the other, look for any kinks in the hose in the tube

This is fascinating actually as I can see my story in these posts. Mid’ish 90s I was racing National Sport cc, to get better/fitter/stronger, I started to train on a road bike and never rode my MTB again. Then I raced road and track until family pressures meant even that was not possible (weekend travel plu 15hrs plus training plus career etc).

Now Im back on an MTB because the kids have grown and love the dirt jumps and its just a giggle, bike parks are a laugh and the trails such as they are my way are quiet as everyone’s out riding the roads in their Team SKY kit on carbon speed weapons 🙄