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If you can get them with a
If you can get them with a combination of efficient bearings (as efficient as your 11-tooth pulley wheel) and can ensure low-tension, amazingly they’re worth around an extra 1% power.
But, shifting may be more sluggish and, for sure, you’ll void your derailleur warranty.
Still, would be good to see these become standard on the big brand’s chainsets. Or at least an option to the standard.
“pls. excuse for any mistake
“pls. excuse for any mistake in the English grammar”
Don’t worry. You’ll fit in well here.
A sloping top tube delivers a tighter main triangle which should be marginally stiffer with all other things being equal. Also, because there’s a longer seat-post exposed, it’s possible to ‘tune’ the ride to a greater extent by selecting alternate seat post materials. With slightly less material used, there’s a small weight saving.
Largely though, perhaps, it’s about aesthetics.
Oh, and they’re (currently) what the pros ride.
I think we need a downvote/dislike button as well as a like/upvote.Use the ‘quote’ button to reply and engage by explaining what it is you don’t like about a comment or post. Better than hiding behind the anonymity of a thumbs-down.
simonmb… clearly you like a bit of guitar music, so I can highly recommend Joe Bonamassa- new album Redemption will have an hour of turbo time flying by!Thanks @PRSboy. I’ll check them out!
On a serious note – what does everyone do about headphone cables?I’ve snagged the cable on numerous occasions now, one of these days I’ll send my phone flying. What does everyone else do?
When I’m on the turbo I’m in a cycling jersey… so the iPod goes in one of the back pockets. Cables run up the inside, buds in ear. It’s not actually an iPod, it’s an iPhone, but you get my drift.
Do you even maths bro? For 12 miles to take over an hour would require an average speed of below… wait for it… 12 miles per hour.For 12mi to take over an hour would require an average speed of below 10mphThis comment is wonderful!
But… Crippledbiker is technically correct, the best kind of correct. An average speed of below 10mph would indeed lead to 12 miles taking over an hour.
@vonhelmet gives the only correct answer with ‘below 12mph’.
@crippledbiker’s answer isn’t even techically correct. He / she has ignored the infinite possibilities of velocity that exist between 10mph and 12mph.
mrtickleron wrote:
My bomb-proof commuter. Light Blue Darwin frame Shimano S106 inc. hydro discs Amazingly comfortable Schwalbe 38c G-One Tubeless tyres Cracking Fabric saddle with titanium railsAppropriate post from the southern hemisphere.
Cracking bike though. Must be like riding on air.
Santana(!?)Into the Night – good for intervals!
I saw that article last night and chalked it up to the BBC pushing the “dangerous” cycling agendaI really don’t see you can judge the BBC website on one article any more than you could road.cc if you read only ‘Near Miss of the Day’.
It appears the BBC have a number of stories here, a dedicated cycling section – for sports at least, and ‘BeSpoke’ – a cycling podcast (I haven’t listened to it).
I don’t turn to the BBC for cycling coverage, but they seem to be giving it a fair crack.
Do you mean “overweight” in the medically defined sense, or “overweight” by comparison to professional cyclists? One is not entirely fair…To me, ‘overweight’ in an ‘amateur cycling sense’ means: doesn’t look good in Lycra. Although in a medical sense I’m within healthy limits and look ‘healthier’ than most of my non-cyling and non-active friends, I currently class myself, sadly, as cycling-overweight. Working on it though.
Mine is a token chain catcher, I know there are others so not sure which style yours is.Same. It’s a simple piece and easy to fit. My advice is to fit the ‘business end’ of the chain catcher as close to the chain (when it’s on the inner ring) as possible. Virtually touching. Any gap… and it just won’t work.
You had a pop at me for no reason whatsoever, fuck off troll.Troll? I’ve been on here since 2008 trying to add thoughtful comment to debates through my 600 posts rather than preaching self-absorbed gospel through more than 2,000 posts.
I’m just saying, give the kid his moment rather than hijacking it.
…falls on idiots like you.Knob off loser.
Oh, you were being so eloquent and then you had to ruin it all.
mine goes wherever I feel like leaving it though I have a spare bedroom (okay two) for most of my bikes and spare wheels/other larger components/frames, did I mention wheels! Have a large shelving system in the utility room for spares/maintenance/cleaning stuff and the spare tool box (for tools not used much) plus a big 4 drawer chest full of components and various cycle related crap, oh and the old metal filing cabinet for smaller stuff (in the downstairs loo, doesn’t everyone!) Main toolbox sits in the dining room usually open on top of a chest with various bits strewn everywhere.Clothing simply goes into the walk in wardrobe and shoes tend to stay in the cupboard by the hallway along with gloves and waterproof spare pannier bags.
If I have a quick tidy you’d hardly notice I was addicted to bikes/cycling
The kid asked for a bit of help with a school / uni project, and you managed to make it all about yourself. Why?
Start your own thread “Where I Store My Bike Equipment”.
OP – I completed the questionnaire. Good luck. Not everyone around here is a self-obsessed tosser.
Actually, seriously, as the
Actually, seriously, as the OP, I’d like to draw a line under this in much the same way Bryan Adams withdrew his single ‘Everything I Do’ from sale after 16 weeks at the top of the charts. Let’s give it a break and start again on helmets another time.
Haven’t Rapha launched something everyone can bitch on about for being grossly overvalued or something like that?
There might even be a footingball game on to watch tonight.
