Looks nice, 100mm XC or more 120 trail?

Plenty of guys and gals use MTB’s at our CX training sessions. Normal sessions will be about handling skills, and a bike is a bike to a certain degree. You’ll notice a slowness due to angles and tyres, but nothing that will hinder you significantly, and most likely it will force you ride harder.

You’ll get a good workout when it comes to carrying it over barriers and up steps though.

Have fun.

Nice city, very attractive to walk around, loads of cultural things to do.

Caters for stag bashes very well, and if you want to tick off the “classic” to-do things then it’s very good.

Some places are rough, some places will rip you off, however by sticking to the main joints you should be OK

Damn cold in winter!

18th day 1, 17th day 2. Now placed 13th overall in the Swedish series.

Two completely different courses, one long and fast the other tight and twisty. Even found some snow to use insteasd of a sand pit!

And a nice little film from Saturday. Yes they are two huge ski jumping towers in the background

By all accounts the 2012 Trek’s will be very well priced, I think there was a Madone frame with 105 for 1500, as well as an Ali with Ultegra in the same range.

Personally I’d go for the Ultimate CF Canyon 7.0 with Campag, in team white:
http://www.canyon.com/_uk/roadbikes/bike.html?b=2112

This weekend is the first two rounds of the Swedish National Series, 1000km round trip, but well worth it.

I’m as excited as my two sons at Christmas!

Liking the “Fully re-greased with professional bike oil.” In true Steve Peat fashion no doubt 😯

If your Granny doesn’t/wouldn’t recognize it, then its not food.

Cube x-races are nice bikes, very good value, frame angles suitable for racing. I train with a guy who uses on one, (as well as a Cube mountain bike in summer), they both seem perfectly OK to me and certainly do not hold him back in anyway.

I use BBB holders with either their own CrossStop pads or green SwissTop pads for racing and normal BBB pads for training.

The normal BBB’s are way softer but are also cheaper.

These work well with either TRP Euro’s or my Spooky canti’s.

Lots of people are using the Avids and really liking them.

That would make more sense, nice looking those Freezer’s. Although fair point about the motor.

Looks like it would do the job of winter commuting very well indeed!

What do you want it for?

That picture makes the head angle look quite slack, so most likely not a “race bred” CX bike

The newer models have slightly better/less shouting graphics than the earlier ones. They are however not on the subtle side

XC running N Nics and R Ralphs, both 2.1

Been running AC wheels this race season, a great wheelset IMO. Light, strong, no issues what so ever. Fantastic freehub as well.

Why the PowerLinks, can you not just break and atatch the chain with a normal tool? Confused.

I raced on TRP’s last year and thought they worked well. A change of bike means I’m using carbon Spooky’s this year, which are the pinnacle of normative determinism. Damn light though.

more specifically the bundle I was looking at, which was a nice surprise.

It seems to be included in a few of their bundles, even better!

Arhh thanks, so its an extra. Excellent to know.

@ speaker2animals – almost certainly, and I suspect that they only ate the middle bits out of their bread rolls as well

Last years course in Australia had one nasty hill repeated a fair few times. Thor won it, and given his performance in the hills at this years Tour is fair to say climber rider won.

However the likelihood of see the pack climb a “real” col is quite small I’d say, especially as they are lap based courses, not point to point, (excluding Aus last year)

Doing intervals on a turbo in winter is much better than doing nothing at all, however creating a “base” they do not make.

I spent most of last winter on them after 3 months of snow over here.

This year I plan to use rollers for technique/base and the turbo for intervals when the snow hits.

I left the UK for Sweden 8 years ago and have no intention to head back anytime soon. However this is more to do with changes in personal/family situation than any deep hatred for the UK.

I miss the South Downs, my memories are exactly the same as those depicted so brilliantly in the Mint Source cartoons.

I miss the idea of having a local pub, despite the fact I would hardly ever use one, however the thought of having a local is nice.

Taxi driver who know where they are and where you want to go, and how to get there.

The earning potential.

Club cyclocloss training tonight. Currently raining cats’n dogs in Gothenburg so looks like its going to be a wet 90 minutes.

I had one of those on a Gary Fisher A1 from about 1989.

Great idea, unless it was pooring with rain when you flatted as your seat tube would fill up with water.

I raced Mud 2’s in Sweden most of last season, including snow and ice and they worked as well as a clincher can in those conditions.

Power to weight ratio in watts/kg
Lung capacity
V02 Max/threshold
Ability to conform The Rule for Pro-ness 🙂

thanks

I assume you need to run a SRAM rear mech to use XO twisters or similar?

So true djglover, so true. Just look at marathon times, there used to be tons of UK men around 2:20 at London when Speding and Jones were racing, now that time would get you top 3 Brit!

But at least there is plenty of used quality bikes that have had very little use available now. Thanks of course to the “chattering classes” upgrading yearly.

These things go in cycles, (no pun), 25 years ago we had no sprinters and world class middle distance athletes, 10 years ago we couldn’t move for guys getting to the 100, 200,and 400 final.

With XC, well 20 years ago with Baker, Gould etc, there was only XC to speak of so all the talent went there. Now we XC, marathon, 4X, downhill, and most likely around the same size pool to recruit from.

Genesis Day One Alfine, job done. Next thread, nothing more to see here 🙂

Interesting, a lot of people seem to be saying that cable disks are a pain to set up/maintain.

How about getting a cotic X, either with cantis or disks? Nice future proof frame for when proper disks and STI integration comes about.

Thanks

How often do you change rings LS, 38/44 is really tight?

42 – 12-27.

Two third places so far this season, so working out well

If you’re over 6 foot then this seems a very good deal!

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