Bar controlled travel adjust/lockout – like Scotts actually but easier to control or even automatic. I used to have a FS which had dual poploc lockout and loved it – smooth climb, lock the fork and shock and it climbed like a rocket (well, when I was fit, it did :) )

– Gets TV coverage
– Gets their name out there. In last night’s instance it also nicely showed off the French national champion’s kit.
– If there’s a big crash in the peloton or if teams refuse to work/work together, sometimes they stay away

What do you want to know? It’s an MC098 from Miracle/Ican via aliexpress. Most of it has been posted here already – do a search on “MC098” via the advanced search (or you’ll only get a month’s posts) up there—>

I should add that I’d have gone for the 60cm one if I was going to use it exclusively on the road.

6’5″, 35″ inside leg.

60cm Bianchi, 58.5cm top tube (14cm stem, mind)

58cm CX frame which I also use on road, 57.5cm top tube

My point being that you shouldn’t get fixated on the idea of needing a huge frame. Try and see what works for you.

Is this the one?

Where’s the crack?

Now I see it, if the crack is on the part directly above the XT logo on the cranks then I can see that there may not be clearance to make a proper repair.

I’d be surprised if you couldn’t fix it – the carbon company understandably probably don’t want to do it as it’ll look messy and be heavy.

Pics?

As to the warranty, I reckon you’d be outside any statutory SOGA type warranty period so a ‘lifetime’ warranty would have been something in addition and if that company is no longer in business then you won’t have much luck.

Yes, it’s at the side of the house between the house and the next house (so one wall is my house, the other wall is the neighbours’ house – link detached basically.

I agree, it’ll need regs approval but I don’t believe it’d need planning.

Floor level is a good point but I think from memory, it is lower already.

It’s a block construction with a fairly standard/basic looking flat roof – perfectly adequate looking as is and ideally, just looking to extend rather than rebuild it entirely.

Another bump in case all the garage/building experts were on holiday yesterday ;)

So If you are not privately educated we are on the outside ? Mmmmmm

That was from the pov of people who think that there is some big old boys network/conspiracy, not mine. Some of my best friends were state educated :)

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No, not in an overt, ‘he’s one of our chaps’ kind of way but association and meeting the right people and your social circle does make a significant difference to your chances.

As I said, maybe in some industries and maybe more so in London but I’ve spoken with plenty of mates about this and essentially we feel a bit hard done by as we don’t seem to have benefited from it other than the direct benefit of the education itself. I don’t believe for a moment that it doesn’t happen – just look at the top people in politics for proof – but it doesn’t happen across the board and not to the extent that people who are ‘outside’ think it does.

Private schooling offers more than just good grades or access to some mythical old boys network.

Regardless of whether it’s true, people think it means that their kids will stay out of trouble, some see it as a status thing and others believe that it’ll give them confidence in themselves and a work ethic to succeed. It also offers opportunities (sports, trips, etc) that kids might not get otherwise.

Maybe a discussion for a different thread though given that I still think he’s a muppet paying for it when IMO he can’t really afford it.

What exactly do you think the ‘old boys’ network will actually do?

IME, unless maybe you’re an Etonian or from one of the other prestige private schools (which is a very different thing from the best academic ones) then it’ll do sweet FA for them beyond the education and learning they get at the school. Even then I’d suggest that in a lot of industries, Etonians and the like wouldn’t get any benefit.

It sounded like he’s got a £350k mortgage on interest only (given that he mentioned he needed to start paying it back at some point).

Decision to have kids, fine. Decision to send them to private school that he can’t really afford – stupid.

so if a household in the top few % of incomes can’t afford the comfortable life they want

I think that the ‘they want’ bit is key here… We’d all like a more comfortable life no matter what we earn.

FWIW, the £120k guy is an idiot if he is really claiming he’s squeezed other than through choice (though, it’s quite likely that’s just how the article is written given that it makes some other pretty stupid points about trickle down)

£45k was for Wandsworth something school – wherever Johnny Wilco went.

Some people just cant help spending money

Well, most of them can but choose not to. There’s a big difference between being poor and choosing not to have much disposable income.

Shouldn’t laugh but… Hope you were ok…

95kg oven? Two or three strongish blokes shouldn’t have a problem with that unless it’s particularly narrow or tight.

Adapter to fit a disc to a fixie/SS two sided screw on rear hub.

No garage experts in today? :)

They happen very regularly

Not as much as you might think. Teams have got through Grand Tours without a single puncture. Besides, it’s a choice to some extent – you can make puncture-proof (or just more resistant) tyres but they’re heavier and roll less well. Given that the vast majority of punctures are fixed with no fuss or issue and you never hear about them, you just have a skewed view of it. No doubt a fumbled change or puncture with no support nearby can have a big effect but it’s pretty uncommon in reality.

Sometimes makes for the best racing though…

Makes a change from red/white/blue and green/white/orange :)

thats down to the nut holding the bars to the seat though.

That’s a constant though :) Make it easier to brake without locking up and fewer people will. There will always be some the just grab handfuls regardless of course :)

Not that possible actually. Turns out that most rims are roughly the right dimensions for the structural job they need to do regardless of braking. There is some potential for weight saving but not as much as people seem to think. As has been posted above though, it does make carbon rims much more practical given how crap they can be in the wet with calipers and how expensive wearing them out is.

This forum still lacks a like button.

Feel free:

or

Maybe it’ll improve them as they (should) be less likely to do what they do now and just lock up as calipers are more on/off compared to discs.

OR just put the caliper in a better location

Yeah but that looks a bit shit so it’ll never catch on :)

As to most of the points above, it won’t happen until everyone makes the switch. How long that takes or organise is anyone’s guess. 2 years I reckon but it could just as well be 5.

And yet again, to anyone posting about discs and power, you’re missing the point. It’s about control. Even in the dry. I was sceptical until I made the switch on one of my bikes (since it also does CX and I’m fed up wearing out rims). I now notice the limitations of calipers on the other road bikes where I never did before.

It adds flavour to events like the Tour/Giro and helps spread the word further than just the fairly well saturated local audience.

From what I hear from people over there, NI is turning pink in preparation and people seem to be getting on board with it.

Cav to win a few sprints.

Er… I’d put money on him not winning a single sprint at the Giro this year…

I reckon Dan Martin might do a Heysedal. Would be great. So long as he can stay upright :?

That’s fighting talk :lol:

They’ll have QR ones for those racing for exactly those reasons. Let’s face it, the vast majority of road bike users don’t need ultra fast wheel changes during a ride or sportive and the additional 10-30 seconds that through axles will add really won’t matter. And it keeps the lawyers happy.

Starts in two days in Dublin.

No it doesn’t. Well I hope not as I’ll be in Belfast to watch the start :)

PP gift I expect…