Thanks, what if I want 180mm?

Ordered them.

Can anyone help me out with where to buy a 650b 170mm air shaft?

I can find pike ones but not Lyrik

No idea, they are a used set advertised in the classifieds.

Do Strava know my address to send it to then?

Do you get an actual badge?

Super helpful, thanks folks!

Thanks for that. Would prefer it to be 1mm single but if I can’t get one then those links are very helpful.

Cheers.

Anyone find a 1mm one? Or even 0.5mm?

Put a layback post on in reverse. Be a trend setter, you know you want to!

All the long low slack brigade will follow suit and you can rest assured you were the genius that solved the trendy geometry issue!

P.S.

Or was it me?

Isn’t it to do with exercise raising your temperature slightly? Means the daily fluctuation in your body temperature is greater (only a degree or 2) than a sedate person and it makes it hard for viral infections and bacteria to thrive in their incubation stage?

I may have just made this up, but seem to remember reading it somewhere!

Just for balance I had a 2005 535d. Nearly bankrupted me with constant 4 figure repair bills after 100k!

Lots of computers kept going wrong and then they would be £600 plus need programming in.

Haven’t bothered reading the whole thread but…

I’ve had a lot of success sticking with Shimano, using a Shimano screw in funnel at the lever and a vacuum car clutch bleeder at the caliper end. Just pull a lot of fluid through under a heavy vacuum and knock it off when the bubbles stop.

Takes seconds and gives a flawless bleed… and it’s completely mess free!

I might make my first YouTube video showing this method as I can and I’m sure a lot of other people can empathise with your original post.

My frame is English thread. It’s a mash up bike to sit on the turbo trainer full time.

The used grouoset came with a campag bb but its italian thread and 68mm so no use

Thanks for all the info everyone.

Few things… yes it’s on the turbo, I don’t use the inner ring on the turbo as I use trainer road and the power is set according to the plan, I can spin a big gear and the turbo will adjust resistance to make sure wattage is correct.

So I’m thinking given the info from you helpful bunch of people..

I could go for a Shimano one with say a 113mm axle so that when it sits slightly wide it’s not too bad.

Im going to fit an mtb mech and set the stop screws just so it’s a chain guide for the top ring (prevent chain falling off under heavy loads or bounce).

Any thoughts on this as a plan?

Well it’s the difference between blagging one and buying one. For the turbo frankenbike…

What does happen if you mix them?

So 5 hours after posting this Ive bodged most of a turbo bike together.

An old dialled bikes Prince Albert frame, with a layback Thomson the wrong way round to get the saddle to bb setback near on identical to my road bike.

Fizik “test” saddle that I should have taken back 2 years ago… bit late now!

Old pair of sids, locked out with some jubilee clips. 9 speed campag groupset on some unbranded 700c wheels.

I’ve even found some bar tape and a pair of brand new keo pedals to use yay!

Just need a 1 1/8 headset, some 25.4 drop bars and a square taper bb in 73mm and I’m away.

Awesome

I find if your going to have a direct drive…it’s best to have a dedicated set up…

Can you elaborate on this please with some reasons?

Thanks fossy, do you find you have to re-index your gears when you swap wheels?

It’s happened in the last year. A levels all moving back to a linear course with no AS halfway through (you can study an AS as a stand alone qualification bit it doesn’t carry through into year 13 like before).

There is additional rigour and content in a lot of the new syllabuses and the general consensus is 4 is too much now.

We are allowing all of our students to do 3 with the possibility of doing further maths as a 4th but as an enrichment course with only 3 hours of timetables study.

Because students have typically gone for 4 at AS and dropped their weakest one at the end of year 12 we are used to students doing 4. However if you think back to 18 years ago before AS was introduced then people mostly only took 3 A levels…the universities will probably only look at their best 3 in 2 years time anyway.

My advice as an experienced teacher would be to take 3 and really focus her time on them rather than spreading it across 4. But I don’t know her and she could be very academic and hard working in which case 4 could be ok.

We only have one student in our lower sixth doing 4 this year.

Hope that helps

I saw a big fat guy trounce myself and a lot of other guys on the tail end of a 190 mile road ride at 19mph average. He was pulling along like a freight train after 8 hours in the saddle, 4 or 5 of us kept dropping off the back.

I’ve never seen anything like it.. this is a true story, I’m not just taking the mick!

Save another £500 and buy a wattbike atom. Much easier, no faff and takes seconds to swap between your set up and hers

I nearly dropped 3.5k on a new air 9 rdo last week. Think I’ll hang fire on that, warranty may be a big issue in the next year!

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So you did, apologies. It got lost in the 30mph response you followed it up with.

In all seriousness in conditions like that I will often be doing less than 40, but if you slow down too much you’ve got cars cutting you up etc

I could have written these responses. Johndoh, I nearly wrote your exact response in a “please don’ t all just say”

Thanks for the advice, wasn’t what I asked about though.

Anyone know for definite which plate they snap?

Thanks Poopscoop- exactly

Errr they might be Truvelo or specs, sorry I thought specs was all of the ones that time between two points

Chilled76 is Action Man and I claim my £5.

That coat was my brothers, but I’ll take that as a compliment anyway:-) I was borrowing it when visiting (photoshoped him out of the selfie as I’m sure he’ll appreciate me not posting photos of him on websites).

No idea what the £5 thing is about?

I like to think I’m improving with age. Personally I find depending how lean I am really affects face shape. Too lean and I go gaunt, too many chips and I get an extra chin.

Current state of chins shown below…

Don’t particularly like my body these days, but that’s because I’m focused on cycling where as I was into bodybuilding all through my 20s.

Tacx Vortex here, wprls great on ant+ connections. Bit glitchy on standard bluetooth. Great with trainer road.

Ride there, do 2 laps and ride bike. Great long day out!

Managed 285 watts that’s adjusted using the 5% rule from holding 300 for 20 mins with lots of anaerobic bursts before the 20 min block. Think it might be a touch higher though as I was able to hold 400 for the last 2 mins maxing my hr out and I think I should have been hanging not fresh enough to do that.

Actually think the -1 really helped as keeping cool wasnt difficult.

Thats at 83kg. Need a 3kg drop and 15 watt gain by the time I break for Crimbo, shouldn’t be too difficult coming off the back of essentialy 10 weeks off. Watch this space!

Sorry to hear about the redundancy Terry. Saw a load of the photo’s from your trip… looked amazing!

Im just off out to do my ftp test for my 4 week build block planned.

Its -1 degree in the garage, best find the long bibs!

Well I’m sad to say I think I’m back to square 1. Broke my elbow a few months back and the inactivity and difficulties I’ve had meaning I couldnt spend much time on a turbo means I’m feeling a lot less fit and I’m back up to 83kg.

Not going to let this stop me though new routine starts today.

Plan to be back to 300ftp and 80kg by Christmas day.

How’s everyone else getting on progress wise?

What pressure is everyone running on a 25c tubeless? Im 80kg normally (bit heavier as I broke my elbiw 3 months ago and have only just got back on the bike).

Amy extra grip will be awesome as my gatorskins despite NEVER getting punctures are just lethal in the wet!

https://www.mantel.com/uk/schwalbe-pro-one-tubeless-set-doc-blue

Obligitary “buy exposure they are much better” response

I’m not convinced by the return to 27.2 seatpost and 1 1/8 headset!

Thanks folks.

Thanks. I was planning on using schwalbe tyres.

I’m struggling to work out which rim strips I need, any chance you could link me the right ones please for their road rims?

Fit a semi slick large volume gravel type tyre to the solaris and see how it rides. Just becsuse it has space for big tyres doesnt mean you have to have them.

Are you getting Sycamore paperwork?

Sell them on here as a bulk job lot collection only.

Im calling dibs