I have had light bicycle rims on my Nicolai for 6 years or so with no problems so it was an easy decision last year to import their road rims for one of my bikes. I have the 46mm deep ones built onto some Novatec hubs. They have been brilliant. I paid a bit more for shipping to have the rims come in via Europe so I did not have UK customs charges – this is an option they offer if you ask. The whole process was easy.

My race bike has Reynolds wheels on it and the Light Bicycle are just as lovely quite frankly and they have been great over the last year.

Hope that helps.

How can the experiences be so very radically different?!?! 1 company seems to polarise; I wonder if the troubles relate to specific models?

Thanks DJ. Its a real frustration as the sofa would have been perfect!

You’ve subluxed (partially dislocated) or dislocated the articular disc in the right side Temporomandibular joint. Disc lies between the head of the mandibular condyle and your temporal bone. It may well pop back in but that’s why your jaw is now mal-aligned. IF no improvement see GP for referral to maxillofacial team at hospital- they will be able to actually examine you (not guess online like me!) and pop it back in place.

HTH. I’m a head and neck radiologist and look at loads of TMJ MRI scans so not google doctoring you (though online can be a bit of a guess!!)

I’ve surfed Costa Rica. Amazing. North West coast at the Nicoya peninsula is fabulous. Look up Zopilote surf camp- if it’s still running, it was a great location.
Bali is nice too, I preferred C-R though, more laid back.

Rob at Autobahn in Halesowen. It’s 45 mins maybe from you but he and his team are great and fairly priced. They did the air suspension on my e61 a couple of years ago and do the annual service etc. No hesitation in recommending them

I agree with the mesh advice.

I did what you’re doing for a while. 2 networks with the same name and password. It sort of works but the devices on the networks don’t really know when and how to hand off onto the stronger signal so you can find it on the weak signal despite being in range of the stronger one. So it can get irritating.

Look at the ubiquiti unifi kit. I use the acpro now and it’s much much better. There are some comprehensive reviews online.

Exactly what corroded says. The back route through Campanet up Col Sa Batalla to the petrol station near the Lluc turnoff and then back down Col Sa Femina fast running back into Pollensa is magic!
Otherwise a round trip to the Formentor lighthouse is quick and a great morning ride that’ll not take too long but is a worthy ride!

I’ve been using road tubeless for quite a while now and wrote a post on my experiences with it and various wheels and tyres:

here

Re: Schwalbes – I’ve not found them to be particularly fragile. In fact the only tyres I have found to be relatively fragile/quick wearing are the Vittoria Open Corsa and the Vredestein Fortezza Senso All Weather but they are not tubeless!!!

That’s sort of what we are trying to achieve Perchy – the living room is cut into a bank so is dark and the idea is the orangery style will let light in and let us see our garden so we are having a predominantly solid roof with a small lantern for light and the windows are on dwarf walls not floor to ceiling. I just want to maximise the thermal efficiency of what we are doing and was unsure if triple glazing and/or a suspended floor would make much difference in that respect.

This was my first season racing crits. I was very nervous about crashing and took loads of advice beforehand (I have a surgical plate in my wrist from snowboarding). Advice basically was – try to stay in front third of the pack, get used to riding with your elbows out a bit and don’t panic if you are bumped and be careful in cat 4 as new riders can get nervous. I was racing the Army leagues so the points and categories are slightly different – there is Cat A, B and C; you start in C and need 12 to promote to B.

I did what I was told and in my first race tried to stay at the front as much as possible. Its incredible how fast you go for less effort than normal when you’re in a peloton and also how quickly time passes! No crashing and I won my first race. Second race I arrived as the brief was being given due to traffic. I was in a pretty angry mood so decided to just try to sit on the front the whole race; it was harder work than sharing the effort over the 45 mins of racing but I manged to win and went up to B. In all the races I’ve done, I’ve had my computer up showing my power output so I can judge effort to my FTP.

The lessons I have learned – listen to those who’ve done it before. Power has been super useful. Its great fun and highly addictive!!

I’m pretty sure spokes in Bagshot has one on display. At least they did 2 weeks ago.

I’ve been running tubeless for a while so I tend not to notice punctures much (unless its front wheel and large enough to spaff sealant over me while sealing). I look to see if the tyre has squared off then think I ought to replace it. Get cheap and wait a bit till I get too nervous about a proper puncture I can’t fix on the road!

(that said the last set went probably 800 miles after I had anchovy plugged the rear tyre!!)

Give Rob at Autobahn Halesowen a call. He’s a total dude and completely honest

Dirkpitt ~ I’m sure now it willl. I’m away with work but looking at the specs of the headset it is 44mm so I’m gonna risk it!

my wife said “you’re basically changing the whole bike!” Me “No. Improving…” !

The headset is a semi-integrated which I think means the inner head tube diameter is 44mm, so I ‘think’ a Hope type H bottom headset cup would allow me to run a tapered fork. I have tried contacting Whyte but if I am honest they are not being entirely helpful. I asked the dealer and they said ‘dunno’ so I contacted Whyte through their website who said ‘ask a dealer’!!

Oscar Peterson and Benny Goodman are worth a try too.

Thanks for the reassurance team!

New used pair of lovely American Classics arrived today. Tubeless taped and tubeless tyres also arrived. That’s 1kg or so off.

I’m on the lookout for forks. Current ones are straight steerer but I’m wondering if I can go tapered if I change the headset….

WHAT THE JEEBUS HAPPENED THERE??!! that smiley?????

Upgrade it obviously!…but will await posts about how suspension is wasted on kids and how it would be better putting your daughter on a diet rather than the bike

I did think that the suspension was overkill which is why we looked at the Roscoe but as both my bikes are 26 I decided it was better to have another as they then had common parts (..for upgrading obvs!!)

I sacked off the router that came with the fibre modem and replaced it with a ubiquiti unification ac pro. The review here (and all his subsequent follow ons) are super clear as to what it can do.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/review-ubiquiti-unifi-made-me-realize-how-terrible-consumer-wi-fi-gear-is/

I bought it to improve wifi around the house which it has but there is a whole level of functionality with creating user accounts etc which are possible but which I have not explored.

I like Creed Aventus. My wife says it smells like ‘rich old man’.

Others I currently have –

YSL M7, the original version. Hard to find and quite different from modern acqua scents.

Tom Ford Costa Azurra – more modern and acqua-ish. I also like his Oud Wood, sort of deeply manly man musky.

The new Cervelo geo makes the 5 series more like you describe with short head tubes, so the r5 or the brand new s5 would possibly suit. The latter has a stupid stem though…

A mate had/has a 456 summer season which I coveted. He has the frame in his shed for his son. Like I have my old small dialled alpine frame in my shed for my daughter.

Pillastro primitivo or Cabalie Grenache blend. Both from laithwaites.

I will. I know I ought to!! I’m running 25c on the Cervelo with Reynolds Assaults and 28c on a Trek Domane SLR with the light bicycle rims. As I said I’m being irrational!!!

Kits I’ve liked:

Woodfordes Bure Gold

Festival summer glory

Ultimate brewery classics surfers reward

St Peter’s Ruby Red

Festival Weissbier (was a special edition and very lively on the bucket- blew the lid off!!)

I started Cwtch on the weekend, it’s been a slow starter to ferment but is going well now. Doing the hop tea thing at the start before adding wort was new to me. It’s smelling good!!

I started with bottles then went to pressure barrels but have now gone to corny kegs which are super easy!

I put on over a stone drinking White Russians having been inspired by The Dude.

So, a trick I’ve learned with road tubeless is that if you have trouble getting the tyre to inflate a la mcnultycop- ie when replacing tyre or re-doing the set up, the reason I have failed to get the tyre to reinflate is because the tubless tape has recessed into the spoke holes and allows enough air escape that the tyre won’t go up. I now have a big roll of Tesa tape from eBay and put fresh tape wraps when I change a tyre etc. Helps hugely.

As an additional comment the anchovy fillet repair kits work really well but you need to make sure you have clearance for the protruding tail of fillet repair. It’s fine on my disc Trek (repaired tyre has done at least 500 miles) but when I repaired the rear on my Cervelo S3, the tight frame clearance meant the repair rubbed as the wheel span.

Thanks tinybits – I have sent you a pm..

Thanks team. The mansard design is the green oak team. The air dried guys proposed a traditional pitch roof with a shallow pitch and fully glazed end wall. Costs are not dissimilar, I think because the mansard roof with lantern is more expensive and offsets the green oak v. Air dried cost.

Oak because other bits of the house are already oak. And we want it to tie in.

Current conservatory has a glass roof and we were thinking a solid roof or maybe an orangery style one to mitigate heat loss, that plus better glazing. Its not going to be big though . 3.8 x 3.4 meters and I wonder if an orangery style mansard roof with lantern may look silly with such a small footprint too.

slackalice – does the small footprint change your view at all on green v. Air dried?

thanks all – grateful for this!

I went through this last year.

Get a good bike fit. I went to a university which does them as I felt they had no other skin in the game ‘re selling me kit. Fixed everything. And it’s cheaper than going thru saddles at the rate of knots

Edit : and let’s be honest, if Froome was Italian or Spanish then this thread would read very differently

No. It’s not a nationalistic thing its the rules. AAF is not a ban. We don’t know who else has one at the moment – TD may have one himself, you never know – because there are confidential. Until leaked by hackers.

But again and it’s been said this before, there is no evidence for any physiological benefit to high doses of salbutamol. Any potential Beta agonist effect (and that would be potential) would be completely compromised by the adverse overdose effects – cardiac arrhythmia with potential cardiac arrest. So its a totally pointless drug to abuse in this way.

This is making a great Giro even better.

Just an observation for the AAF ‘ban him’ crowd:

1. Its an AAF and the public only know about it as it was a leaked hack.

2. We therefore have no idea who else in the peloton has a current or recent AAF.

3. There is no reliable evidence that Salbutamol is actually anabolic or beneficial in recovery from extreme physical effort.

4. There is a huge amount of evidence to show that too much Salbutamol has significant adverse cardiac effects which would reduce exercise ability (heres just one study  – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4910012/)

5. In all honesty I am pretty sure that drugs cheating is rife in professional sports – where there is financial incentive there there is incentive to cheat. Djokovic suddenly becoming an immense athlete because a family friend decided he had coeliac disease? Nadals bulk and acne issues? Why exactly was Fuentes’ freezer destroyed after Armstrong? Perhaps because Real Madrid / Barca etc had bags and bags of blood in it? After all the financial rewards in cycling are pathetic compared to football and s(he) who gets around the pitch more and faster can earn more……

just my 2p

If you keep the Alphas they are tubeless compatible so you could run Schwalbe Pro Ones tubeless which are great. Otherwise Continental GP4000 s are pretty great.

Personally I’d go for the Hopes and Stans combo. They are slightly heavier (Hopes/Stans 1828g plays Fulcrums 1725g) and the Fulcrums are a smidge wider so numbers says go Fulcrums but I have a thing for Hopes (and they are convertible in terms of axle diameter and width) and I’ve never had a problem with Stans rims. Both the Durano and Blizzard tyres are heavy but Duranos are pretty indestructible and the extra volume will be more comfortable.

Try both – ride each for a couple of weeks and see which feels better. You’ll have to tweak the brake callipers as each wheel set has slightly different rim widths but thats easy.

The ultegra callipers millwork just fine with the Apex brifters.

NB – have Alpha 400s on one bike with novatec hubs (not as nice as hopes) and had Mavic Cosmics on the other bike (not too dissimilar to the Fulcrums) – both were fine so I don’t think there is a wrong answer here! Only reason I don’t have the Mavics anymore is because I’m a tart and went carbon on that bike.

Oh oh and I’m also into cats – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10

Tears for fears –

zoing the seeds of love. Classic.

There is plenty to do but the harbour at Diocletians palace is a frequent calling stop for huge cruise ships and there are intermittent floods of passengers running ashore briefly. Just a short ferry ride is the island of Brac which is lovely – hire a car and spend a week exploring its coast and interior. Not gonna blow your socks off in terms of activities, more a quiet week really. Further along from Brac is the island of Hvar which is a euro playground – lots of cash and private yachts.