I reckon it will fit ok to be honest. Your best bet is to try it and see, that way you can worry about it later.

You’re asking on the wrong site I’m afraid, the luddites of the cycling world hang out here and don’t understand carbon.

I don’t have carbon rims, most of my rims have little dings in the rim where the soft aluminium has bent. This is a bit piss-poor considering I’m not Steve Peat, I weigh **** all and it’s 2011 already!

A carbon rim won’t bend. So make it strong enough that it won’t shatter on me and it’s a winner. From a technical point of view at least, I can’t afford them, but would want some if I could.

Make them look good though yeah.

A bit more flex?

Yeah, nice one! Cheers

Similarly, anyone know somewhere that sells the Edge 705 mounts for cheaps? They’re a tiny piece of moulded plastic with holes for zip-ties, yet I’ve not seen one for less than £30. I need two, but not at that price!

WOW! They’re charging £220 for an 11 year old fork!

Maguras are a lot better than v brakes, though they aren’t as good as discs, especially in the wet. I happily ran Magura brakes on the rear of a non-disc frame for years, but would always want a disc up front.

Main draw-back with maguras is that if you ride in the wet then you’ll have to adjust the brakes every ride and they can be a bit of a faf sometimes. Make sure if you go down that route that you get quick release ones that have the pad wear adjusters built in.

Personally, I’d replace forks, discs and wheel, second hand if on a budget. There are a few forks out there that can be lowered with internal spacers down to 100mm, eg RS Rebas, SIDs. Fox do a few 100mm forks too I think. Some RS U-Turn forks can be wound down to 95mm eg Pike Coils, or Sektors. So I think you have a few options for forks.

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Works really well, I’ve got it syncing 3 PCs, one Windows Phone 7 thing and an iPad exactly as you’ve asked for. In addition to mail, you get Calendar, Tasks, Contacts all synced all over the place.

310 miles for me, pretty much bang on target.

What’s the perception of cyclists got to do with the TV thing under discussion? Surely when a car hit’s a bike it’s an accident and the driver’s opinion of the cyclist he didn’t see is irrelevant? Unless you think some of these accidents are premeditated and, therefore, attempted murder?

I bought a pair of Continental Ultra Sports for £14.99 a pop in Halford at the weekend.

What gear is he pullling?

The screw is sheared off.

That sounds, good, I’ll have a look and see if that’s how mine are too. I’m not sure which model they are exactly.

We found the best bit on Roych Clough completely blocked on Sunday; 2 landrovers blocking the road at the start of the section, 2 **** about trying to drive down it and 2 more at the bottom blocking it. If you don’t know the trail, getting past them involved scrambling up a 4 foot bank and then dropping back down.

No apology, no attempt to unobstruct the right of way. It’s a BOAT innit, we can drive it, so we’re also allowed to block it seemed to be the attitude.

I would love it if you could email me your route to paulrockliffe @ mail 2 web . com

Planning to do it next year.

Thanks

Yeah, no worries and thanks. I’ll apply my ‘I’m busy right now’ strategy to the situation. That is, I’ll hope it’s ok and swear a bit if it’s not. At the end of the day, I don’t use the front mech much anyway, so little that I can change gear and adjust the indexing each time to get it right, while I’m finding a new mech.

Thats Dura-Ace though innit, praying they didn’t filter the tech down to Ultegra, the swines!

Where’s a good roadie forum? Is there such a thing? I imagine it’s full of wierdos that know the answer to this….

Merlin have the 105 groupset for £350, which is a very good price, but it’s going to work out cheaper to go with those Ultegra shifters I think, I can get a suitable cassette for £30, chain for £20, then the front rings will either be fine or I’ll get a second hand 10 speed chainset from somewhere. The front rings have to be pretty battered not to work. That’s the good thing about road bikes, they don’t break as much!

Yeah, everything on ebay keeps going for mega money. Going to order the 10speed Ultegras on CRC I think as it’s worth the extra for new shinyness and warranty. My whole drivetrain has never been touched (cleaned, serviced, replaced) in 6 years, I think I’ve oiled the chain twice. It’s all shot, so I’m going replace the cassette, chain, chain rings when I get paid.

I’ve got tri bars and shifters on, which I need to take off, hence the need for shifters, but it makes sense to combine with an overhaul. Once I’ve got that done and the extra gear that will satisfy my upgrade/new bike cravings for at least this year, so I can carry on with my off-road collection expansion.

Shit me, chainrings are expensive! Looking at almost £100 for a set of three! I can get a Sora Triple chainset inc rings for £40. What’s the world coming to?

Rear mech will work won’t it as the indexing is in the shifter? Or is it a different actuation ratio too?

Front chainrings? Will they not work? Could do with being able to order some bits now and the rest at the end of the month!

Cheers

Actually CRC have some Ultegra 10 x 3s for £140 down from £300, might give those a pop.

Could do with knowing how well they will work with my current 3 x 9 setup though? Also noticed that I’m two gogs behind when it comes to road! How has that happened?!?

If I want to go 3 x 10, do I need anymore than a new cassette and chain?

Cheers

It’s not a minimum price of 50p a unit!

The only effect I can see from that it prevents big supermarkets applying discounts that their smaller competitors can’t match through lack of sales volume and stock diversity. If anything it’s a good thing for the high street, but I can’t see it having any meaning full effect on anything. Seems like a sop to someone, though I’m not sure who.

The prices will only go up if the product is being sold at less than Duty+VAT, but given that break even would be Stock Cost + Duty + VAT, it’s unlikely to affect people significantly. That’s ignoring overheads, staff costs and profit. It does seem like a pointless exercise though.

I can’t help thinking that the amount of flex in the frame is inconsequential compared with the amount of flex in the tyres?

I’ve got a 456 Carbon and a TransAM. 456 with gears and TransAM is SS and will be Alfine for next winter. I got the TransAM because I didn’t want two bikes the same. Not ridden the TransAM yet, but it looks fantastic, better than a Sovereign and the others mentioned above, which is an important factor.

I’d try and make sure the wheel is as close to perfect as you can get it, otherwise you’re probably going to get the back brake squealing and generally kicking up a fuss. If the back-pedalling is notchy, that’s the bearings you can feel, you can feel whether the bearings are aligned with a bearing or a gap inline with the chain. Too much tension and your bearings won’t last long.

The axle is held in place by the locknuts, it can’t move relative to the hub. The bearings don’t even sit against the axle flanges, when you remove the locknuts there’s about 2mm of sideways movement then available to the axle.

I’ve got a chaintug, but there are no QR sized ones that fit the frame, so I need a 10mm axle. I also don’t want to load a 6mm QR like that as I don’t think it would be strong enough.

Simon1975, there are pairs of locknuts on either end of the axle that tighten up against the cartridge bearings and hold the axle in the correct position in the hub.

You’re right, there isn’t any axle sticking out, which is why I’m looking for a longer one to replace this one with.

Axle migration under side-loading? So going round corners you mean?

Surely the axle is fixed in position by the two nuts on each side? Once it’s installed and bolted up, I can’t see how it could possibly move at all?

Thanks.

No one can answer this?

Still waiting for a chainring that was dispatched on the 31st of December. Two weeks, it must be lost by now right?

CRC sent out a chainring a week ago now, still no sign of it.

Raceface do do one, I have one upstairs. It’s about £50, but I don’t know where it came from.

Is the flange just there so I can drift the bearings out easily? I reckon so. Anyone else got an opinion?

They’re all a comparative measure, similarly the measure of calorie in a food isn’t necessarily the same as the number of calories you’d extract from that food, so it would be daft to count calories with either set of data.

Is said, “the absolute bollocks”, not “absolute bollocks”. For clarity, they are awesome. HTH.

Do the flanges actually do anything? The bearings seat in the hub rather than against the flanges I think. Can I just get a flange-less 10mm axle?