Ahead spacers above the stem?
Say it ain’t so Ernesto, say it ain’t so.
I’m not angry, just disappointed.
Just. Get. It. Right. #2
Tue, Mar 02, 2010 11:11
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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mdavidford 2 minutes ago
The pros and cons come from the reviewer, not the manufacturer. And they do explain in the review why they think the lack of MIPS could be viewed as either/both a positive or a negative. Less so with the shape, but it's easy to see how that could be considered a good or a bad thing, depending on whether it suits your head shape. If anything, it's a deficiency of the review template - that it doesn't have a section for something like 'other considerations' that aren't pros or cons.
mdavidford 9 minutes ago
Could always reduce the size of Pogačar - shrink him down by about half - that might level things up a bit.
Smoggysteve 2 hours ago
Why is the Cube Litening Aero, The Specialized Tarmac and the Van Rysel RCR-PRo marked with a (TBC) pricetag but the Canyon Aeroad isnt considering the teams will no doubt ALL be riding the new as of yet unreleased CFR? The price of a currently superceded (as far as the pro peloton are concerned) looks cheap but its a 2 year old model. The new one is as unreleased as the other 3 bikes.
Smoggysteve 2 hours ago
Wow, if anything shows the utter contempt for customers is this shower. A Gravel specific helmet. Really? Does it only work on gravel or do I need to consider swapping on those occasions I'm on tarmac? Gravel bike? ok Gravel tyres? Sure Gravel Helmet? You're taking the pi$$ now. But were that not ludicrous enough, I love the pros and cons: Oval head fit Not a mushroom No extra Mips weight Integrated and removable rear light Easily removable pads Oval head fit No Mips Buy it cos its oval but don't cos its oval, and the has and hasn't got MIPS is a +/- point. When will they introduce gravel specific bib shorts for reviewers who like to sit on the fence?
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Bruyneel calls for UCI to stick to doing dubious deals - like the good old days, eh Johan?
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
Smaller teams in order to rein in the winning capacity of the only rider capable of making and sticking solo attacks from 80 km plus, not sure we've thought this one through, have we sir? The only way at the moment the team size could affect Pogacar is if you reduce the size of his team and let everyone else keep the status quo.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Maybe so, but I'm not clear how that leads to being a superhuman being part of the 'spirit of the ride'.
wtjs 4 hours ago
@mdavidford You don’t have to be a superhuman to ride it Riding up there, where there's generally only one road, as a tourist is going to be a massive-campervan-horrorshow since the whole route has been TikTok-ed. Unless you go in January.
wtjs 4 hours ago
This sort of box is not for the people who want to go touring (I used to take a bag and bury it as near as possible to the airport), but if I were to require this type this is the one I would get. My daughter's experience when cycling the Lofotens last year is that UK baggage handlers (in Manchester at least) are likely to be of the fashionable Mail/ Telegraph/ Clarkson/ Reform cyclist-hating persuasion and will destroy a bike if at all possible. Don't they just see this type of box as a challenge and simply put it at the bottom and hurl everything else on top of it? The comments of actual users above suggest that this is not always the case!
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@mdavidford Whereas Kittelgrams are measured in retired German sprinters.
11 thoughts on “Just. Get. It. Right. #2”
Haven’t you ever heard of an
Haven’t you ever heard of an Islamic stitch?
fourstringsisplenty
No.
ah yes, but God is in the
ah yes, but God is in the details 😀
A quick couple of minutes
A quick couple of minutes with an allen key and it’ll be reet. Might even fit me then, too. Wrap it up…
it’s what you get when you’re
it’s what you get when you’re late for prayers and have to run to the Mosque
this has got me all of a
this has got me all of a fluster;
http://www.lacoste.com/
bad foot positions really annoy me, and the girl on the back is about to get her toes nicely mangled if thats a fixie!
Ooh yes, and if that girl on
Ooh yes, and if that girl on the front has her foot on a quick release there are going to be problems…
not to mention the rear two
not to mention the rear two bikes have their chainsets on the wrong side, although i think they run them on the left side on the continent, to fall in line with the driving
yes it did make me wonder …
yes it did make me wonder … wiki says left sided chainsets exist but its the first time i’ve seen one … either its some vintage french cycle or a bad bit of photoshopping?!
Photos reversed – if you go
Photos reversed – if you go into the Lacoste site and look at sportswear pages, they all seem to be right way round.
The giveaway on homepage is buttons being on the wrong side on the guy’s cardigan :B
Lacoste – an example of the
Lacoste – an example of the real world being ignored/twisted in the quest for ‘cool’, just to sell overpriced clothes. Some things never change….
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