Pedal Power Thread

give 'em a call on monday, have a chat - the website is occasionally a little - what's the word - crap.
 
POAH said:
so is their customer service according to the internet lol
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Not my experience TBH - bought a old Inbred frame second hand, asked on the on-one forum if they had any recommended shade of touch-up paint, or if they had replacement decals available after a respray... 10 minutes later I got an email from Brant with his phone number, gave him a ring, and he said "i've got a few pots of paint here, you're on the way from the warehouse to my home, will there be someone in if I drop one off for you this evening?"

Okay, it's a few years ago, but that pretty much predisposed me to buy the next couple of frames I purchased from them...
 
Hi all, so the Genesis zero and the Ridley Fenix were blown out the water because of availability and lack of being able to try one out.

BUT this morning I was able to order a Wilier GTS Disc.

should pick it up next week.

will post some photos once I have the chance.
 
Aaaahh its the small things in life -
Like putting a new chain on your bike and enjoying the silence once again!!!!
 
mr.si said:
Hi all, so the Genesis zero and the Ridley Fenix were blown out the water because of availability and lack of being able to try one out.

BUT this morning I was able to order a Wilier GTS Disc.

should pick it up next week.

will post some photos once I have the chance.
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Looking forward to some pictures, a quick google shows that its a great looking bike!
 
stupar said:
Aaaahh its the small things in life -
Like putting a new chain on your bike and enjoying the silence once again!!!!
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I'm looking forward to that feeling soon! A parcel arrived yesterday from bikediscount.de with a pair of spiked tyres (to replace my worn Marathon Winters) and a new chain and cassette. I've also got new cable and rear disc brake caliper to fit - it'll be like a new bike if I don't screw up the fitting!
 
TopBanana said:
I'm looking forward to that feeling soon! A parcel arrived yesterday from bikediscount.de with a pair of spiked tyres (to replace my worn Marathon Winters) and a new chain and cassette. I've also got new cable and rear disc brake caliper to fit - it'll be like a new bike if I don't screw up the fitting!
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Sounds good!
Yeah i almost made a dogs dinner of the new chain but got there in the end.
Bargain it was too - KMC 9 speed for £6.79

Are bike discount.de any good?
I used ridewill.it recently for my Schwalbe big bens - fraction of the price inc delivery compared to here.
 
stupar said:
Sounds good!
Yeah i almost made a dogs dinner of the new chain but got there in the end.
Bargain it was too - KMC 9 speed for £6.79

Are bike discount.de any good?
I used ridewill.it recently for my Schwalbe big bens - fraction of the price inc delivery compared to here.
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Well I ordered on Thursday and the parcel arrived yesterday, so not too shabby delivery time. The tyres I ordered don't really seem available in the UK and the only places that did were more than twice the price (even with postage included), I only got the extra bits from them as it made me feel like I was spreading the delivery cost across more items, lol.
I'll check out ridewill as I've not heard of them before.
 
TopBanana said:
Well I ordered on Thursday and the parcel arrived yesterday, so not too shabby delivery time. The tyres I ordered don't really seem available in the UK and the only places that did were more than twice the price (even with postage included), I only got the extra bits from them as it made me feel like I was spreading the delivery cost across more items, lol.
I'll check out ridewill as I've not heard of them before.
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Same tyre issue as me. Difficult to get road tyres for 650b still. The Big Bens i found in the uk were £24.99 per tyre. I paid €9.99 per tyre from ridewill.it and even with postage the total cost was a mere £27 they took a week to arrive which included a small stint in customs.

I will have a look at the site you mentioned - thanks
 
mr.si said:
@TopBanana

The bike shop are sending it back as there were huge scratches, nay, CHUNKS out of the frame! (They showed me some photos) - I'm glad I bought it through a bike shop, they're treating me well.
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Oh dear! At least the shop are sorting it for you, any idea when the new one will arrive?
 
Took delivery of new blingy carbon bike this morning from Aprire. Its lovely and weighs slightly less than a nats fart.
 
I'm off for a fitting tomorrow night, the initial thoughts of willier gtr and then planet x custom build went out of the window in favour of a trek domane 5.2, the willier was a gorgeous bike but a little too aggressive for an old duffer like me with a back issue. The planet x was a bargain on the face of it but they never answered the phone to discuss things :(
 
Ok folks looking for opinions.
The Boardman comp MTB will be paid off very soon and I will be looking to renew my cycle to work scheme.
I'm thinking of going down the CX route and will have up to £1000 to play with.
Any recommendation s from fellow CX'rs?
 
Last time I rode a road bike the gears weren't indexed and the shifters were on the down tube, now with a return to road cycling looming, what's the thoughts on bike computers and gps.

I'm not looking for anything too techno, ability to display speed, cadence and distance is ok and if its waterproof and able to transfer the ride to strava etc it's even better. Maybe even the ability to send data to apples health kit

Not really fussed on heart rate as a Fitbit charge can do that without the need for a chest strap.

Thoughts....
 
digitalfailure said:
Last time I rode a road bike the gears weren't indexed and the shifters were on the down tube, now with a return to road cycling looming, what's the thoughts on bike computers and gps.

I'm not looking for anything too techno, ability to display speed, cadence and distance is ok and if its waterproof and able to transfer the ride to strava etc it's even better. Maybe even the ability to send data to apples health kit

Not really fussed on heart rate as a Fitbit charge can do that without the need for a chest strap.

Thoughts....
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I like the Garmin edge series. Currently use an Edge 800. Perfect for my needs, although don't really use the navigation side of it.
 
unless you're wanting the navigation, the edge 510's probably the best "bang for the buck", and it'll work with the Trek's integral (built into the chainstay) cadence sensor - or anything else ANT+ for that matter. Light, small, and probably good for 8 or so hours riding between charges.
810's great, but the only real extras are navigation and a bit bigger screen, for quite a bit more money.
 
I'm not sure I'd ever need the map display as I'd probably become distracted by it, background gps logging to check efforts around a route would probably be enough.
 
510 looks good, how do they pick up wheel/ road speed? The trek has the ant+ bracket in the chainstay which I presume would only read cadence
 
gps actually provides speed on the road, but there's a backup sensor which works with a magnet on the rear wheel. Reed switch that senses each rotation of the wheel, So if you're riding in a tunnel for example, it still picks up tour speed and distance. The mag sensor also does double duty as speed sensor if you use the bike on an indoor trainer, because it gets data from the rear wheel. The sensor actually goes through the Chainstay, the outer side reads the cadence from a magnet on the crank arm, and the other end picks up the wheel magnet.
 
Awesome stuff, a lot has changed in the road scene since Reynolds 853 was the dogs dangly bits :)
I have a real ocd with wires....so anything that looks messy won't get bought :D
 
I was thinking of treating myself to a pair of RS-81 C35's for the Dolan this summer, but as I've been benched for over 3 months now, I doubt I'll have the fitness left to make it worthwhile spending anything on the bike this year...
 
TheBigYin said:
that looks nice Jim... (y)
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Thanks Mark. Still need to find some time to ride it. May pull an early one tomorrow morning before I have to do the Mother's day mass cater.

digitalfailure said:
Kysriums seem to be a popular wheel set this year :)
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Came with the bike, elites. Not sure about the tyres but I have a set of 23mm Schwalbe Ones waiting in the wings. The wheels are narrower than my usual archetype rims.

TheBigYin said:
I was thinking of treating myself to a pair of RS-81 C35's for the Dolan this summer, but as I've been benched for over 3 months now, I doubt I'll have the fitness left to make it worthwhile spending anything on the bike this year...
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Would be nice to have a treat when you get back up and running!
 
menthel said:
I have a set of 23mm Schwalbe Ones waiting in the wings.
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Fantastic tyres - I was running the tubeless 25mm variety on my Dolan last summer (it's got the road-tubeless Ultegra wheels on it, so it was dead easy to get set up.) - Did about 2,500 miles on 'em last summer, not a single puncture - couple of hiss-and-seals with the supplied spooge stuff, and a couple of shoves with the mini-pump put the pressure back to 115psi no bother. Once I'd established there was no glass remaining in the hole, I didn't even bother checking it when I got home...

Ride beautifully - nearest I've got in the last 10 years to being back on sprints-and-tubs...
 
TheBigYin said:
Fantastic tyres - I was running the tubeless 25mm variety on my Dolan last summer (it's got the road-tubeless Ultegra wheels on it, so it was dead easy to get set up.) - Did about 2,500 miles on 'em last summer, not a single puncture - couple of hiss-and-seals with the supplied spooge stuff, and a couple of shoves with the mini-pump put the pressure back to 115psi no bother. Once I'd established there was no glass remaining in the hole, I didn't even bother checking it when I got home...

Ride beautifully - nearest I've got in the last 10 years to being back on sprints-and-tubs...
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I don't have any rims I would trust to go tubeless- the archetypes are the closest but apparently not the best for doing it given the internal rim profile. Would like to give it a go at some point- seems to be getting a following, even Steve Abraham doing the year cycling record is running ones tubeless!
 
The whole tubeless cycle tyre thing fascinates me, the wheels which come on the Domane are Bontrager race which are listed as being tubeless ready. Surely the addition of the rim sealing strip and the tubeless specific tyre (which appears to be thicker / heavier than standard) and the tyre slime are about the same weight as a tube anyway.

So aside from the obvious benefits of not having to stop to fix a flat there isn't much of a performance / weight advantage.
 
One of the big things is rolling resistance... Most of the differences in rolling resistance for a given tyre size on a bike is down to how flexible the tyre casing is. Tubeless tyres are a bit thicker on the sidewall so they're less flexible ... But - with tubed tyres the inner tube also has to flex, and it's got 120psi of air in it, so it doesn't like to flex. And it's rubber, so it grips the rubber on the inside of the tyre and results in something that's not very flexible at all. That's why tubulars are so great to ride on, the inner tube is encased in a simple canvas tube instead of a hard rubber casing, the only rubber on tubulars being the rolling surface.

Other thing with road tubeless is you can run a few psi softer than tubed, because you won't get pinch punctures (snakebites) which again helps the comfort aspect - or in my case, because I'm so heavy, with tubed tyres I need to run at a minimum of 120psi on 23mm tyres to prevent snakebites if I hit anything bigger than a pebble in the road... With tubeless I can run 110psi, get more comfort, a bit better grip in the wet, and still have no problems with tyre 'burping' and losing the sealant.

It's really not a weight saving thing... Tbh, I think the schwalbe ones and spooge were heavier than the conti gp4000s and tubes. And, my ultegra wheels are proper road tubeless, they don't need any rim tape, tubed or tubeless

I still carry tyre levers, a co2 cartridge, and a spare inner tube or two for long rides, because I'm paranoid though...
 
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