rOcKeTdOg – Member
promax-awful
trp spyres-fantastic
trp hy/rd-ok but no better than spyres and you’ll need to bleed them which is fiddly

Why would he need to bleed the TRP hydros?

Black Friday appeared to be mostly the big guys shifting unsold crap, with the occasional little guy giving a discount on something they rely on to keep them going.

Haven’t heard of Promax before but if it’s only actuating one pad it will most likely be shite.

The TRP spyre is great for a mechanical disc, I have them on my CX but they are still a big step below hydraulic, cable actuated hydraulic may be better and self adjusting. Think the name of the eastway would be enough to put me off even if it’s a good bike.

If it helps we got exactly the same feedback for our six year old boy.

six year old kids are easily distracted, if he’s anything like his dad he’ll be

hey, a plane!!

a) CX racing is quick, you’ll be home more
2) you can use it for gravel racing, you’ll be away more
iii) perfect winter commuter, you might not make it home at all.

It would never had occurred to me that a delivery driver needed tipping. What do Amazon drivers do to warrant it, apart from being pretty badly treated by their employer already it seems.

I ran Schwalbe G-Ones when training for the dirty reiver, used them on road, tracks, gravel fire roads and even single track. Kept them on throughout the summer for mixed use including lots of dry off road tracks in France.

Lots of tyres designed around what you want to do now.

EDIT: dunno what bike/rims you have so these may be too narrow.

Going tubeless? some people complain about leaks at the joint.

I assume its a passive RFID tag, needs to pass close to a scanner to work, nothing scary in it.

You can print them out in many forms.

superstar components 30% off everything until 27/11

code BF16

One of the guys in my office is a newish triathlete, he looked at one of their TT bikes v. recently but…

a) had no **** clue if it was VFM or not, or what the price would be in 5mins/tomorrow/ever

b) Has been put off buying by all the talk of planet X being on its last legs.

Now, if more and more people do b) then perception will soon become reality.

it’s great. Some retailers, give you extended o% credit terms on it.

I bought oakleys for me and an apple watch for her last Xmas and paying them both over 12 months at 0%

make sure you set up your DD.

damnit, convinced myself it was underpowered yesterday. Cracked and bought one today along with a head band so I can also use it for adventure racing.

Most of the stuff discounted is stuff that I’ve little interest in. Where are the deals on stuff I actually want – find me a set of Hope race brakes for £100 an end for example.

quite, I want castelli bid shorts for £20. b7stards

I don’t think a lot of black Friday deals are that great, I’m actually convinced that some online retailers see it as a way showing the illusion of discount.

what I’ve seen on a lot of sites is less popular stuff they discount anyway at various times of the year with average discounts applied,

I was searching on CR for exposure lights and the only stuff they had discounted was pre black Friday and wasn’t even in stock… however Evans were cheaper all week and still cheaper than anyones ‘black friday’ deals.

Done a few 10hr+ rides and never got a relive email. Wondering if it has an upper and lower cut off?

That works brilliantly if there’s already a cable in there. If you’re building a new frame, not so much. On my road bike, I ended up using a strong magnet to chase the cable through the frame, and made a hook out of a zip tie to pull it out of the hole.

yep, built up a cube carbon hard tail and it came with the tubing already fitted. would have been a right PITA otherwise

I suppose most CX bikes have been tamed down to make them more all rounders now anyway

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I think it’s a lot of that, HA might be slightly slacker, maybe longer chainstays and a shorter top tube, but again there are limits as to what can be done and most modern CX frames weren’t exactly skittish beasts in the first place.

Personally I would look for a more relaxed ride position, bigger tyre clearance, wider range gearing, maybe even gravel orientated contact points as my priorities on a gravel bike.

The BB height makes quite a big difference, and over a day (remember its not gravel unless its in km ) a more relaxed bike is less tiring. How much, probably minimal, just like difference between £40 tyres and £60 tyres or £500 suspension and £800 suspension everyone buys.

Difference between my CX & a salsa warbird is 5mm on the BB & 1 deg on the HA, Prob makes a difference at some level but as the CX coped with the DR200 pretty well I decided to get some flared drops instead of a entire new bike for next year.

depends how CX you want it.

CX geo is shorter, steeper, higher BB and thus more twitchy on faster stuff than the ‘gravel’ geometries coming out now.

some of the differences are miniscule though, not convinced that a lot of what is written about gravel bikes isn’t marketing BS to create N+1

Yes it will be more stable on rough descents etc. but how more stable? 0.5%, 8%, 72%

I still need a dedicated gravel bike though, obvs ;)

https://www.paulscycles.co.uk/m7b0s194p6881/GIANT-REVOLT-1-2016

A bit more expensive but you get 10 speed tiagra and trp spyre brakes, plus a big range on the cassette.

Very torn on the joystick, got as far as the checkout then bottled it.

Not convinced it will sit well with the sixpack, if I want a decent run time I’m guessing that it will have to be fairly dim.

Bumped MBUK & MBR a good few years ago, they became too repetitive and the advertising bias became laughable.

Subscribe to grit.cx and just added singletrack because the quality of the writing seems higher and also they seem like good people.

matlockmeat – Member
How/why are evans doing them so cheap when the next cheapest is £80 more for the six pack?
Evans £280
Crc £360.
Are these evans ones legit as in the new model? They are claiming it is a clearance model but the six pack 2017 is a brand new model. Bonkers

Completely legit. Mine is a mk 7.

Used my six pack for the first time tonight, chose it over the maxxD simply because I thought the extra lumens on a longer run time was worth the extra as I do endurance events.

This is the description of the six cell pack I got from Torchy on ebay

Fluxient 6600mAh 7.4v battery with pouch compatible with Magicshine, Solar Storm

Paid £29.99 for it, not currently available but I assume it will be back on at some point.

I ran one as a head torch with the torchy pack (in my back pack) at relentless 24, ran for at least 6 hours on low.. was too knackered to see how many lights were left on when I took it of tho’

Picked up my sixpack from the couriers this morning, ridiculously bright. Fairly hefty too but to be expected. Hoping I can get it on near the stem without hitting the garmin mount.

See Sense Icon here. Cracking light and full of geek tech features too like accident notification and theft alarm

Our doblo rocks, bought an old 7 seater 1.3 diesel as a second car 4 years ago when sprog number three came along….it’s racked up 80k since then with no problems and averaged 60mpg. Plus you can fit almost anything in it.

Just fitted a raceface to my trance, the reason I chose it was because the majority of reviews are for that type, and they all say that it simply works.

Owwwww

‘We see the angst coming out if him’

A 29er would have nailed it.

It’s like crashing on chocolate cake, honest.

Ballsy recovery there

WTF does amplitude mean in this context?

That said, some sick looking lines there, and crashes!

You might want to check with giant or your LBS as anything over 140mm may well invalidate your warranty.