A friend has recommended
these wheels. Any thoughts? I've listed Halfords cause actually they look to be price matching Wiggle, who were £60 cheaper than Evans and I also get 10% from Halfords, so they come down to about £620. I assume I then get some Continental Grand Prix 5000 to slap on them and I'm ready for the Tour of Britain?
They read as nearly a 2kg wheelset. Quite old in design - narrow & deep as hell, but they should be fast on the flat being that chunky.
Some reviews here, but not many others around. Cup & cone bearings, but read as a solid and reliable 'do everything' deep wheelset. 110kg weight limit on them, less if you go for the fancy USB/CULT bearings.
What lumen light(s) do you guys generally ride on the front? As it's gonna be getting a lot darker soon and nearly dark by the time I'm home from work I think I might look at another light on the front - currently got a NiteRider Swift 350. Do quite like the look of some of the Lezyne 1100-1300's and the Cateye Volt equivalents.
Running a ~1700 lumen Exposure Race at probably 900/1000 lumen and its more than enough for me 90% the time. Running it that 'low' gives me great burn time. Only times I've run it higher is in foggy/snow/heavy rain, but mostly to be as visible as possible, rather than actually needing more visibility. I came to it from the Cateye volt800 and found it 'not quite enough' in many conditions other than clear darkness. Commuting through streetlights across town it was enough, but out of them it lacked a little. Still a fantastic light and almost unbeatable for the price. I'd say as a 'starting point' light they're great balance of value/feature/power. See loads of them on the wiggle 'bay page from returns. I'd happily buy one of them for ~£30 if I needed another cheap light. The clip broke on mine, but only after quite a bit of abuse and it was around 3 times the price they are now.
Ah yeah sorry
@Roady
It’s a 9170 I believe ( 2018 hydraulic di2). The cage looked about the same as my ultegra long cage that has a 32 on it. Should’ve posted this when I was home( away for a few days holidaying).
I did do a bit of googling and I read similar to what you said but got a bit confused as I seem to. The space between wheels ( teeth not centre) is approx 2 fingers which seems to suggest it’s a long cage mech.
Depends on your fingers, haha! Yeah but sounds 'medium' (think they're generally 'short' and 'medium' now?), so should be no issue with a 30t and probably a 32t with a tweak being 9170.
The Elemnt isn’t big at all. I appreciate the extra screen size over the bolt although would get a roam now.
My only problem with wahoo is the app. It won’t save my weight so can’t use the W/kg feature. It constantly reverts back to a base 104kg.
Apparently they closed my ticket as it was a known problem.
Anyone else have this?
Surely that's an excuse to just eat more cake?
Nope hadn't heard there was a bug with weight. Running latest firmware/app? Equally no idea what mines set to and if I wanna risk changing it... I';m heavier than I should be, but 104 is a bit too far...!
I could never get the W/kg working on mine, I wanted to use it with a lap to give me the w/kg average for laps but couldn't get it to. But that was a while ago.
EDIT: Just looked. For weight. Mine is set to Imperial and then 165 lbs. So around 75kg. At the moment I'd consider that a target and not an actual! lol
Maybe switch to imperial and see if it then saves (if you've not tried something like that already?)
Windmill in and chuck it on.
Ahhahaha. Nevermind the more recent definition of windmilling, what was that guy on that funny scetch about windmilling when brawling's name!? Anyone know the one I'm on about? What ever happened to him.
Heads up chain reaction has garmin 820s at 50% off just over 200 euro for it.
So that';s around £380 at the current exchange rate?!
Just chuck it on. I think the 11/32 I had on there was a 105 one, which I used with my dura ace RD with no change. Windmill in and chuck it on.
