It’s just a generic hardtail, hardly reminiscent of the world cup winning times of Nicolas Vouilloz & Anne-Caroline Chausson.

But very reminiscent of the winning times of Christophe Dupouey and Miguel Martinez.

Are some front rings better than others?

cheers.

It was insanely hot, something like 24deg

Hang on 24 and it was hot… WTF that’s winter temperature. Summer is more like 30-35°C

Get the DT swiss one.

If you can find one, production has been stopped.

pitchak indeed

It does depends were you live. Trans-provence territory here, and although on the hardtail I don’t use the granny I find that sometimes you realy need it. That’s if you don’t want to push.

yeah yeah cranck as in cranckset.

velovert.com is worth a try too.

Winston, what do you mean by a “barely connected Feeling”?
Cheers.

how good is your french?
will you be able to drive?

well to be honest, the mud isn’t going to be an issue here (south of France rider)

More interested in the weight to price ratio of the candy. In blue…

Just bought them on hibike cheers anyone. Once again STW came to the rescue…

Ashy UK will be fine, I am pretty sure one of my friends from the UK will post them to me :D
As for waiting we could always wait, however it means we might have to buy one in urgency.
The SO says thanks for the replies

Well my commute is better and warmer than yours Dezb, and I am planning to get 1499€ wheelset…
For free :p

(although so far this plan did not work well).

never though edukator was a fervent partisan of la flamme.

tut tut it’s mère with the accent, I am ok, still not rich, but then I choose the bike industry.

Of course he can say that. I, along with almost any other sane person, think he’s wrong, but he can say it.

Who the hell is he anyway. And you’re far from being a sane person, you riding a fraking specialized

@ninfan, yes indeed, very scary times. France has the largest Muslim population in Europe. Things are going to be very very tense.

I stopped reading the post after that. So sorry if it has already been answered, but the situation isn’t going to change. This isn’t the first time France as been targeted by acts of terrorism (the latest in mind is the killing in the Jewish school) and it won’t change anything as usual. Obvioulsy some fools are going to vote LePen, but I am pretty damn sure that this shooting will do less for the FN than the success less politics of both the latest UMP and PS government.

Problem is Tired there is no hills where i live, only mountains ;)

yeah i know about a NW 39 chain ring :(
It always seems to fall of on the higest gear and always on the outer side of the ring

I’ll keep an eye open for e 40th with a 125 bca.

hey sorry Funkydunc only saw your answer right now, no I haven’t bought one yet
to be fair and tarty I was waiting to know the new colour of my frame ;)

well after almost one year on commuting doing the odd rod ride (abliet less than 80 kms each time) here is my take on my set up :
Sram X7 39 T front ring with sram X0 shifters and X9 rear mech, sram 12-34 0 speed K7.
Well it’s kinda spot on, obviously I do miss the 50 during the 3minutes descent from work but only when i want to crank it down. As for the gearing i don’t find it too spread out sure something a bit close will be nice but I can easily cope with what i have at the moment.
The only down side is the fact that the front ring drops on a not so occasional basis. Waiting for a narrow wide 39 front ring in 125 BCA to fix that.

Mike for your info TF TUNED is the service center of DT SWISS in the UK.
What do you want/ need to know about this shock ?

Don’t think shimano would ever run out of mechs of one type or another.

Hummm ever tried to get your hand on a rapid rise 10 or 9 speed rear mech?

Many shops and distributors see bearings as ‘consumables’

And as a matter of fact they are. A bearing don’t fail after a couple of rides. It is bugger up from the factory or one way or the other you’ve fouck it up.
For example DT SWISS warranty on bearing after 3 month is none, it’s a part that is subject to wear and therefore non subject to warranty.

instead i would take 1 month of work and ride the shit out of my bike, on plenty of different places
Practice makes perfect

Careful with Nice, you may ride with short sleeves, or wishing you brought your skis rather than your bike.
If you end up in Nice give me a shout I’ll try to give you some pointers.

CFH you owe me a new keyboard.. but it so true…

I have a 39/1& and although it is sometime a bit of a short ratio, on the massive downhill from work, I can outride very fast people on a 52/12 by never braking (who then overtake me again on the flat bit). So far to be honest I never use the smallest gear, so for me a 11/32 with a 39 front makes a lot of sense**

** I am not a roadie, therefore barely ride more tha 80-90 kms in one go.

I am running a 1×9 with e MTB casstte on the commuter.

I am very impressed by the number of french cars on this topic.

cheers crofts

Gilles, to answer your question yes.
SC are imported in France via race company. Owing the size and versatility of their catalogue it should be dead easy to have a LBS near you who has a open working account with them.

No way I’ll drop the granny, not in the south of France, as I use on an almost regular basis the 22/32 on my 26″ HT.

Is a clutch mech really that good???

9spd Shimano MTB mechs will work with 10spd Shimano road shifters iirc.

Now that is a very good news indeed .

well there is two EWS rounds in the UK next year, may be worth a try.

I’d love to buy one, however, I think I’ll struggle to find one in LBS.