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matthewn5 wrote:
Take with a grain of salt, it appears to come from an outfit (‘Friction Facts’) pushing ceramic bearings.😀 You might want to look-up the history of Friction Facts….
700c wrote:
At the moment campag seems the most likely candidate for a 12x road groupset, not ShimanoThat would indeed seem logical as they have already released one.
..you can buy a Rival 1x
..you can buy a Rival 1x hydraulic build kit with basically everything bar the frame – groupset, Kinesis Crosslight wheelset, Challenge Grifos, saddle, bar, stem, seat-post blah blah – for about the same as a Rohloff 14-speed hub. I’d love one mind (several in fact, for the rest of the family) but beyond my budget.
Last figures I saw had
Last figures I saw had average corruption allegations at around 33/1000 personnel – not nothing, but no-one has claimed otherwise – but not what i’d recognise as “institutionally corrupt” and that’s raw allegations. Oh and please don’t wave the ‘son’ flag at me either, apart from anything else I strongly doubt it’s temporally possible.
Indeed, the police is institutionally corrupt, and must be disbanded and reformed.Couple of quick points
(a) “the police are” not “the police is” – one of those collective nouns, like “people”, that go with plural verbs.
(b) Bollocks – don’t be so naïve.
All pricings were ascertained from The Cycle Clinic:Those tyre prices are very high, i’m guessing partly due to their choice of tubeless tyres and the fact you’re not really getting any of the usual discount on tyres you’d expect for exactly the same things – or equivalent – from an online store. You honestly don’t need a worm applicator, internal patch will generally sort you out if the sealant doesn’t in those cases. Decent tubeless tyre-set £ 70-80, valves a tenner or so, sealant £10+ dependant on how much you want to buy and what type. The valves are a one-time cost and the sealant is your choice for quantity and hence refresh rate.
I could also price up some clinchers, tubes and replacement rim tape that would also make your eyes water but when it comes down to it there’s not much difference in the price of the clinchers i’d buy and the price of tubeless tyres i’d get – bit more for sealant in the latter case, bit more for tubes in the former. I use ParkTool stick on patches for both. It’s more a question of whether you want to do it or not IMO – if you have compatible wheels, why not – if you don’t you’d have to think about it.
Not masses in it, for me the
Not masses in it, for me the Trek has the nod on the frame and the rest of the spec though, decent wheelset too. I have the ISOspeed (rear) version of the frame (old Domane 2.0), very nicely put together – the fork is pretty good too, rides well. That’s where my money would go anyway.
Just been playing with Excel (because I’m also looking at lowering my gearing) and these are the gear ranges with various combo’s – cassettes are 11 speed:34 ring, Shimano 11-28: 89.6 – 35.2
34 ring, Miche Light 12-30: 82.2 – 32.9
33 ring, Shimano 11-28: 87.0 – 34.2
32 ring, Shimano 11-28: 84.4 – 33.1
​So it looks like replacing your 34 tooth ring with a 32 tooth ring would give you a similar effect to replacing your 11-28 cassette with a Miche Light 12-30 and save a chunk of weight (and cost!) at the same time.
Unless you buy a different chainset altogether you can’t get a 32 on a standard compact, or do Shimano and other 4 bolt compact allow that?
AFAIK you’re right, it won’t fit on a the standard Shimano 4/5 compact, but the Cannondale Si/Sl chainset (if the OP has one fitted) might – they have a direct mount attached spider which you can get chainrings for. The only ones i’ve seen myself have been narrow/wide ones, but i’ve not looked for dual chainrings; might be worth a look…
Edit : forgot, AbsoluteBlack do 110BCD oval sub-compact sets – 48/32 and 46/30 – loved to have used them but the price was a bit too steep for me at the time. No idea what they are now.
davel wrote:
I’m a big fan of speedplay zeros, but the cleats are horrible to walk in. I had SLs for a while, years ago… Barely remember them. But compared to the riding buddies who’ve been using them when I’m on zeros, I’d say my duckwalk seems to have been the worst. You can get cleat covers for walking in, though – supposed to be good.Aye, bare Speedplay cleats would be a nightmare to go around in, apart from also trashing the screw heads. I’ve found the Keep On Kovers are pretty decent to walk in – low-ish, reasonably grippy – and actually make clipping in even easier (they slant in towards the cleat centre and effectively make it a slightly wider bowel). Quite cheap, i’ve had this last set for about 3 years and there’s bags of wear in them (obviously depends on how much walking you do though) – thoroughly recommended if you have Speedplays.
They also do a 13-30 with a
They also do a 13-30 with a 16T… (Primato Light)
13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-25-27-30
Noddy hats – come on
Noddy hats – come on seriously, we’re not kids – and it would be easy to consider whether that had any bearing on your perception. For what it’s worth, i’m thinking not but it would not be a stretch to imagine that. Anyway, that’s not really the point – it’s that you have an opinion, I do, Leviathan does – that’s all it is. You ask for acceptance of yours, fair play but you probably need to do the same in return. I don’t recognise the behaviour of the group you described being the worst there is, nor remotely that some group like that causes most of the cycling incidents – your experience is way different to mine – so i’ll accept your opinion but disagree with it and the continual mentions of helmets as though somehow being a prime motivator in bad behaviour. It ain’t. Sorry you live somewhere with a bunch of cocks like that, but it’s not the same everywhere.
…a half decent bike, noddy hat and matching kit…[snip]
IME the groups that act the worst, are selfish and their behaviour causes the most incidents within cycling circles are those as I’ve described. Clearly you can’t accept my opinion
I can accept your opinion, it’s only an opinion after all, but it just bears no relation to the reality I experience – then again we’ve probably lived in different places. IME that description is very far away from a group that act the ‘worst’ and cause ‘the most incidents within cycling circles’. Interesting that it contains at least one group you seem to have a pretty vocal hatred of, but hey..
This is all getting jolly sensible and grown-up now – huzzah – so can we also then stop the “motorists do X”, “motons hate Y” stuff as well ?With you on the ‘drivers/motorists’ generalisations.
I thought moton was already shorthand for a lazy/shit/distracted flavour of driver, though – sort of auto/moton? At least that’s what I mean when I use it…
Yep, you’re right – I intended it to mean “don’t use that word as a generalisation” as well, as some on here do, but it didn’t come across.
This is all getting jolly
This is all getting jolly sensible and grown-up now – huzzah – so can we also then stop the “motorists do X”, “motons hate Y” stuff as well ?
fukawitribe – my generalisations were in response to guinom8’s generalisations about ‘respect’ that I don’t think are true. I certainly don’t believe that all motorists have respect for any particular group as, like you say, they are artificial groupings that don’t have a singular mindset.Fair enough – I think – but sounded like you believed it to me, hence the reply.
And yes, I will take you up on that bet about motorists frothing at the mouth. 50p too rich for you?Go on then, you only live once – i’ll DM you my PayPal details… 🙂