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  • A Spectator’s Guide To Red Bull Rampage
  • cyclesouthwest
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    Ponzi scheme

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    just leaving this here:
    https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Custom-titanium-full-suspension-bicycle-frame_60750072359.html

    I wonder if it’d be quicker to order from alibaba

    would it be unethical to buy a load and start trading as SICK bicycles, what with the lack of protection on the name…

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    Fantastic – Love their stuff!

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    can I identify as post-retirement age and start collecting pension?

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    do you have a personal axe to grind with Starling? It’s just that you come across as a total t**t that is going out of your way to rubbish their work. You quickly back-pedalled on your statement when challenged, why is that? Are you a rival frame builder and if so you ought to come clean about your biased opinions.

    This is the first time I have mentioned Starling frames online. I moderated my statement based on “Void” being a technical term that is incorrect here and also to add the point that structurally it will be perfectly sound. My point was not to insult and re-reading it I have made my initial comment too flippantly and too strongly.

    I do make frames, not commercially. My opinion, though poorly and flippantly expressed earlier is unchanged. If I were building a bike for publicity and leaving it raw and exposed like this I would be all-out to make it faultless, especially given the others in this industry – Shand, Coconino, Curtis, etc.

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    @thisisnotaspoon – now that is good work!

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    It’s the top quarter of the downtube to headtube junction with the distinct lack of filler rod. Not structurally unsound or a void exactly, just not an even braze of the kind that I would choose to clearcoat for publicity were I in your place.

    Good luck with it all though.

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    If I were making bikes I’d be ashamed to let one go out with the gaping voids in the braze that are clear in the headtube here:

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    Breadsticks

    Islay single malt

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    Another fork:

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    Burnt too many times with appalling customer service, wrong items shipped and non-existent product support. I will not buy from them again unless there is a very significant change.

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    Just Google East Dartmoor killer loop

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    I really like my carradice Nelson longflap

    cyclesouthwest
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    The extra mass alone would affect velocity on any gradient, including downhills.

    Nope. Classic misconception.

    The drag is the vastly dominant factor. Mass only becomes important on the climbs or when changing speeds. Heavier will be slower to accelerate and harder to pedal uphill.

    Trying to pin it down to a number with an accurate formula is essentially a waste of time – though it might make an interesting project – because of all the other variables like tyre pressure, temperature, terrain etc.

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    interesting that the swear-filter doesn’t apply to thread titles: https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ann-****-widdecombe-on-the-bbc/

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    Ace. Thanks buddy! Those chainstays took a long time

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    I made one of these today:

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    look to the unicycle world:

    http://krisholm.com/en/edb

    you’ll have to use a splined bb

    cyclesouthwest
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    Drac and Hexten brought me here about a million years ago. I’ve never left.

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    tw metals will sell you T45, which would do the trick.

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    where are you based?

    Dartmoor is awesome but dartmoor miles count twice

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    gove

    cyclesouthwest
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    15 miles and circa 2000 feet of climbing each way.

    Carry as little as possible.

    Always take spare food.

    Rest when you need to

    cyclesouthwest
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    nope – but I know who that is! They’re superb bikes

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    @PJay

    Might have been us. ours is black and sports orange panniers on tour.

    cyclesouthwest
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    Shand with a rohloff.

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    An ex marine I used to ride with occasionally was devistatingly quick. he had a below the knee on right leg and below elbow on right arm.

    A chap I see running over dartmoor has two carbon blades…

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    Shand stooshie?

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    Every time I smash one.

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    Excellent – I’m glad it’s working out.

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    tyre pressure does this on my fatbike

    cyclesouthwest
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    I’ve run clement tyres on grail rims tubeless with no issue for the last two seasons.

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    Spa cycles usually have quality spokes at low price.

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