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Tjuice wrote:I bought a
I bought a second hand San Marco Mantra on ebay so that I could try it out without the massive cash outlay. And the second one I then safely bought new.Advantage of above approach is that you can usually re-sell for approx the same purchase cost if it doesn’t suit.
The Saddle Swap over on BikeRadar is also worth a look (both sales and swaps) for the same reason.
Tjuice wrote:You’re right –
You’re right – very personal. Can’t provide better advice, but I can throw another possibility or two into the ring:1) Might be worth you looking at the Selle San Marco Mantra.
2) Have you considered the Adamo saddles?..also might be worth considering some of the mid- to high-end SMP saddles – very good on perineal relief, slimmer noses on some models (whether they’d be slim enough i’m not sure). Definitely worth a try, especially if you liked the shape of the Aliante. More general info on them from fit guru Steve Hogg here…
AJ101 wrote:tl;dr; – for the
tl;dr; – for the duration of the final alpine climb of the day…then 6.5W/kg is probably pushing it to say the least, suspicious coming back from illness or not if over 30 mins
Chasseur Patate wrote:stumps
The Aru weight loss is not a big thing, you just have to look at Cav with his regular weight loss.
In 9 days i lost 7kg after coming back from Kenya with a stomach bug so why cant someone else lose a similar amount of weight.And still put out 6.5 w/kg?
Ok.
For how long ? Even I can put out 6.5W/kg for a time – it’s just that that time is rather short…
AJ101 wrote:stumps wrote:The
The Aru weight loss is not a big thing, you just have to look at Cav with his regular weight loss.
In 9 days i lost 7kg after coming back from Kenya with a stomach bug so why cant someone else lose a similar amount of weight.They can, but they wouldn’t retain power.
Indeed, and that’s what happens when riders drop weight for, e.g. climbing in the grand tours. It’s a balance between the absolute power you lose and the power-to-weight you gain – and they’re never going to match a stand-alone TT performance
with one during the Giro for example. Riders know that, acknowledge that but it’s often not what will win the tour.
Colin Peyresourde
I agree with Chasseur Patate: I believe doping is part of every sport, I don’t believe a team is cleaner than anotherI think you’d find most people agreeing that there is doping going in pretty much every sport at some level – but that last bit just doesn’t make sense to me… you seem to be saying that all teams are doping and doing so at the same level. Do you see no possible issue with that sort of judgement – even ignoring evidence (or the lack of) and logic, does it not seem odd to you from a statistical point of view ?
Nope. I’m not saying that they are doping equally efficiently.
Indeed i’m not assuming the same efficiency but it would seem to involve a such a huge difference in it that the odds of it being a viable hypothesis are dropping markedly.
I’m saying that they are all in an arms race and that they all pick up the weapons of war. If you read my comment again. You’ll see I then talk about the role of money.Of course they’re in an arms race, and there is a huge amount of money in many sports (not much, all things considered, in pro-cycling at the team level) – but without any realistic evidence for the effects of all this cash it makes you wonder whether there is something more nuanced going one… and this is also disregarding the fact that, even considering that pharmaceutical application will always lead detection, the physical performance of the riders doesn’t seem to track the budgets. I’m sure there is a significant amount of doping still going on in the pro-peloton but I don’t have the absolute conviction that every team is knowingly and systemically doing it that you have – and you don’t seem to have any compelling evidence to suggest you’re correct.
I could qualify things further. But this is a comments page. Not an essay page.I’m all ears…
AJ101 wrote:So how long until
So how long until we get a load of unusually spaced cassettes on the classifieds with everyone’s left over sprockets?! ;-)😀 Good point – we’ll just have to flog them on the MTB classifieds, they’ll seem quite normal there….
Colin Peyresourde wrote:I
I agree with Chasseur Patate: I believe doping is part of every sport, I don’t believe a team is cleaner than anotherI think you’d find most people agreeing that there is doping going in pretty much every sport at some level – but that last bit just doesn’t make sense to me… you seem to be saying that all teams are doping and doing so at the same level. Do you see no possible issue with that sort of judgement – even ignoring evidence (or the lack of) and logic, does it not seem odd to you from a statistical point of view ?
Guernsey Donkey
Nice ! I’m still hankering after a 12/13-30 for my 6800, with closer ratios at the hilly end of the block, but can’t do a DIY job… might try something more like this for a bit. How are you finding it ?You can do a 12-32 biased to climbing with the 32-25 block from the 6800 11-32 and the rest from the Dura Ace 12-28 minus the 16T.
This gives you 12/13/14/15/17/19/21/23/25/28/32 which is six cogs at 19T or bigger as against five with the 11-32 on its own.
Aye, and I have the mid-range cogs from the 11-25 or 11-28 I could cannibalise, but it’s the 3-3-4 jumps at the end of the 11-32 that I tend to find just that little bit wrong although I appreciate that little something a bit over the 28. Something like
13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-25-27-30
would be interesting to try, although Miche do an off-the-shelf 12-30 which is tempting.
Nice ! I’m still hankering
Nice ! I’m still hankering after a 12/13-30 for my 6800, with closer ratios at the hilly end of the block, but can’t do a DIY job… might try something more like this for a bit. How are you finding it ?
AJ101 wrote:dazwan
Decathlon are advertising a set of Mavic aksiums for £150 if you are near one of their stores.Good call on the Aksiums – Its looking like we’ve found them from £127.99 if you haven’t got a Decathlon near you and don’t mind mail order rather than a quick store pickup.
Cracking price – that said i’d prefer to spend the 150 or a tad more and get something half a pound plus lighter going over Hardknott like the Ceros or the Superstars (and not so narrow rims..)
Ceros are in stock by the look of them (i’ve just added one to the cart anyway).
Superstar still have 20% off
Superstar still have 20% off pre-built wheels until the end of April too – under 150 quid for a sub-1500g wheelset sounds quite appealing (if the hubs hold out)..
Dead Womans Bottom is still
Dead Womans Bottom is still one of my favourites, all sorts of gags available…Edit: Oh fuck me this is one of the zombie threads from the site ructions…
Dead Womans Bottom is still
Dead Womans Bottom is still one of my favourites, all sorts of gags available…
Dave Atkinson wrote:yup
Tah –yup
Tah – just realised this is what started the thread, that’ll teach me for only looking at the bottom couple of posts (iamidiot)