[Gkam84]

SammyG wrote:Gkam84 wrote:I

SammyG wrote:

Gkam84 wrote:

I will tell you now. YOU DO NOT want to be doing 100 mile TT on a full TT bike, it might sound like the perfect bike, but you have two positions on a TT, up or down.

Where as, fitting TT bars to a road bike, you have hoods, top bar, drops and down on the TT bars, plus some others, but 100m on a TT bike with destroy you…..

Triathletes would disagree ;x

Yeah, Ironman’s are 112 miles on the bike, most would do it on a TT bike, but there are not your Joe Average.

I think Wiggo would be in pain after a 100 miles on his TT bike…

[Gkam84]

F*******************
Sagan,
F*******************

Sagan, J-Rod and Nibali off for the win, Sanchez and Contador chasing.

So the top 5, I dropped 2 thinking it was a flat stage X( X( X( X( X( X( X( X( X(

[Gkam84]

This is how bad my team looks
This is how bad my team looks because I was not paying ANY attention to the race and trusted the stage profile here…

Peter Sagan
Mark Cavendish (Joaquin Rodriguez)
Andre Greipel (Bauke Mollema)
Arnaud Demare (Taylor Phinney)
Gerald Ciolek (Samuel Sanchez)
Andy Schleck
David De La Cruz
Jay Robert Thomson
Mauro Finetto

[Gkam84]

Crosshouses wrote:Looking

Crosshouses wrote:

Looking ahead, will Sky let JTL defend his Tour of Britain title?

I would hope so, to be honest, its just a “turn up and keep sponsors happy” race for sky, go along, do the corporate thing, get in a break, win a stage here and there and get other British teams some race coverage 😉

[Gkam84]

Yeah I checked on Sky’s site,
Yeah I checked on Sky’s site, nothing listed for next month, just till the end of March

[Gkam84]

I’m pissed off now, all my
I’m pissed off now, all my picks have been jumping off, not so much at the mistake with the profile. I thought it might come to a sprint.

But the weather is bloody awful :”(

[Gkam84]

Don’t worry to much, as long
Don’t worry to much, as long as it comes back together and my 5 sprinters come home 1-5 with my 4 others all picking up points in the break away….

There are meant to be 3 parts where it hits 27%, so Cav said on twitter. But I think the run in to the line is fairly flat 😕

[Gkam84]

I just went to look up see if
I just went to look up see if he was racing Amstel, don’t know yet.

Little things amused little minds though….go here

http://www.amstel.nl/evenementen/amstelgoldrace/wedstrijd/teams

Then scroll down, look at the teams….score back and switch to the other language version….look at the teams again 👿

[Gkam84]

I will tell you now. YOU DO
I will tell you now. YOU DO NOT want to be doing 100 mile TT on a full TT bike, it might sound like the perfect bike, but you have two positions on a TT, up or down.

Where as, fitting TT bars to a road bike, you have hoods, top bar, drops and down on the TT bars, plus some others, but 100m on a TT bike with destroy you…..

[Gkam84]

OH OH OH OH OH OH…….I
OH OH OH OH OH OH…….I totally forgot, till I went searching…..

http://road.cc/content/news/75271-video-kinesis-tripster-atr-ti-prototype

That might be EXACTLY what you need, bar fitting a Rohloff yourself….

[Gkam84]

Simon E wrote:I would spend

Simon E wrote:

I would spend the money on wheels, a skinsuit and an aero helmet.

£1200 isn’t going to buy you anything special. An inferior (heavier?) bike with budget wheels won’t make you faster. And how often will you race it? Just my tuppence…

I quite agree, BUT, I have given up trying to explain this to people who come here asking like they have their mind made up.

If it was me.

I’d take the road bike you have, get a decent set of TT bars, a aero helmet and aero wheels

[Gkam84]

You may also be interest in
You may also be interest in Dave’s review of the Alfine hub
http://road.cc/content/review/27971-shimano-alfine-11-hub-and-shifter

[Gkam84]

I don’t see a weight for the
I don’t see a weight for the Croix De Fer, but looking at the pictures, it is disc brake compatible.

I was about to suggest the same thing as Simon, The Day One 11 looks like your perfect bike apart from it being Alfine and not Rohloff.

So going on that, the RRP is £1750. Lets just say you bought it and didn’t like the Alfine, its made for hub gearing, switching to Rohloff wouldn’t be a big change. The Alfine hub is around £400 just now. So if you were to sell it, laced into a wheel ready to go, you’d likely get £300+ back for it towards a Rohloff set up.

Coming in under £3k I would guess.

But as for £6k custom Ti bike, you can pick up something in your spec, pre build for under £4k

I shall do some more searching, I gave Rob Penn a tweet as I know he’s been on the forum before, he may drop by with some advice…. 😀

[Gkam84]

When you talk about an On One
When you talk about an On One 11, do you mean Day One 11??

http://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bikes/cross/day-one/day-one-alfine-11

The other thing you COULD think out, is a custom built steel frame….Have you read Rob Penn’s – It’s All About the Bike (The Pursuit of Happiness On Two Wheels)??

NO…..Get it and read a bit before you go looking further…then ask him some questions. A very approachable guy.

Finally, here are another few to look at under the touring section http://www.enigmabikes.com/bike-list.html

If you want much lighter under 12kg, you are going to have to go for a Titanium bike I think 😉

[Gkam84]

Right, this is the kind of
Right, this is the kind of challenge I enjoy lots.

So you WANT….

Steel
Light
Disc Brakes (mechanical or hydraulic)??
Decent width tyres (35c as an example or around that)??
Mounts for mud guard and panniers
Rohloff gearing.

That it??

I’m guessing this will be for touring, do you want drop bars, flat bars….etc?

I’m sure there would be a bike out there with all that, but as you say, its going to cost a bomb.

Why not start with something like this and build your way up??

http://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bikes/frames/croix-de-fer/croix-de-fer

[Author]

Replies