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@Roady - Join the AliExpress saddle train!

They have a fair few different models as I own a slightly different one to Shoey and Martyn but this is the one I own. It's on sale at the moment for £34. Totally worth the punt.

I've done a fair amount of 1 hour rides with it but also a 2.5 hour and 3 hour ride and it wasn't the part I was hurting from. My right hand shoe was the weak point in my fit, of all things.
 
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Roady said:
Wow £100 seems cheap, or is that just me?! Last time I asked my LBS quoted 150-175 for a bare frame road bike build 'depending on parts' for generally 'at least 2-3 hours workshop time' if all parts supplied by me (and that's me likely getting a deal). Various talks around if they supplied the frame and groupset and suddenly that cost becoming zero. But they are a chain of stores generally building & shifting a lot of bikes so might be priced up for 'hassle factor' of stuff they're not supplying and using all the time.

They still have a 2+ week waiting list for service but have dropped a couple of sales staff as they're not shifting bikes. Meanwhile 2 other LBS have gone out of business/finished up in the last year or two - one of them (Veloshop) was a very popular one for high end road bikes!


Yes. Pub/cafe bike! Even better if you don't replace the groupset and get it rideable - less appealing to thieves! But again as you're no spanner monkey to tinker and make that affordable, flog it as is with nothing done to it, should get 150-200 for it.


Zwift hub is no longer available. Zwift have discontinued them and pretty much exited the hardware trainer market with their 'Cog' designed to go onto the Wahoo KICKR Core as their only 'trainer' product left.
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Guess the fact i was coming more from an independent mechanic working out of his garage vs a full on LBS with larger overheads. My last service was by a Pro MTB'er who does repairs in the off season.

It might be a good option to try and get it working for knowledge more than anything. However noticed that when changing gears the gear level doesn't "spring" back into place suggesting it's in a bad state from being left outside for >5years in a coastal climate.

I actually meant the new Kickr Core Zwift thingy.


And welcome to the Ali Express club. Next we'll all be submitting a law suit against @Junglist for carbon bottom splinters
 
I take no responsibility!

I am actually on the hunt for some more Ali Express bits but this time for my fixed gear bike, mostly as a bit of fun
 
Speaking about my bike above. I'm actually partly tempted by the Ltwoo/Sensa groupsets

Although 1 thing at a time.

1st Repair Jeep after crash
2nd Build House
3rd Continue to do all the bits to the house not included in actual build
4th Waste money on other crap

Gonna be a long time :(
 
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Yeah i think so. Having etap on my main bike is awesome. I'd also consider upgrading on my hardtail because it just doesn't shift as nice!
 
Roady said:
No spending money for lots of other reasons... I wouldn't say the higher ones have 'less slop' (as they're all good and down to how well adjusted you have them indexed) but certainly the less cogs on your cassette the wider the tolerances are and the 'easier' things get as there's just more physical room for indexing to be 'ok but not perfect'. The more gears you have the tighter things have to be...
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ahh yea more gears didn't occur to me, I guess a bigger gear range increases the twist on the chain/derailleur alignment not being perfect on the whole range.

my emtb has a 11-50 teeth dinner plate and thats a bit of a ball ache to get it to go over the full shifting range, seems to need fine adjustments every few hundred miles as well to keep it running silent.

I guess the drive train gets like 3 peoples worth of torque through it though
 
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Junglist said:
See!

Mind you I'm not sure what it says about me. Potentially the youngest, undoubtedly the slowest :D
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Nah, i reckon you're faster than me, you young whippersnapper. I'm let down by being underfit and overfat. Arguably the worst combination!
 
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Speaking of slow I went for a ride on my Ebike now I can broadcast my HR to it from a watch

Who says Ebikes don't give a workout?
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Actually surprised it's so high, if I go for a slow run/jog I'm around 160BPM and brisk walk somewhere around 110-130

Just cruising along the side of the river, but one side was muddy as hell and I didn't wanna have to wash my bike so I went uber slow...

still got mud on my trainers and jeans :(
 
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arknor said:
Who says Ebikes don't give a workout?
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Usually the people who hear it from some 5'6" guy who has been riding his ebike for 2 years and is still 18 stone.

You can get a great workout from an ebike, the truth is that very very few people do. I've spoken to enough ebikers who have either got both or had experience going back to normal bikes and they all say they have lost quite a lot of their fitness since moving to ebikes.

Honestly, I don't care if people ride ebikes and get 0 workout (as long as they aren't **** riders on trails and are chewing them up). Its just annoying when you see someone who clearly needs a workout who is claiming its a workout as he buzzes around the trails peddling just enough to kick in the motor. You can usually recognise them because they are peddling with their saddle about 5 inches too low.
 
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