Caporegime
You didn't miss much, Col du Mellor is a sod
Bought this for 599, what do you guys reckon? Good buy?
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/road-bikes/13-intuition-alpha-road-bike-2015
Bought this for 599, what do you guys reckon? Good buy?
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/road-bikes/13-intuition-alpha-road-bike-2015
You didn't miss much, Col du Mellor is a sod
My rear gears are sticking... It's 5800 with its polymer coated cables and I've read of people having difficulties with the polymer costing gunking up and making things stick. What sort of inner cable should I pick up to replace the cable with? It only went on back in March, so it's not a great result, I have to say.
I'm tempted to pick up some uber lights and just keep on riding this year. In fact the plan is to get something from Busch and Muller or the likes and run it alongside a light up the whole planet trail light. Most of my riding is on country lanes that don't see any traffic and if a car does come along I can just kill the blinder and still have a decent light. This will probably last as long as it takes for a full speed pot hole hit like last year The alternative though is Zwift and the turbo...Well, I got out for 24 horrible wet dark miles this evening. I took my winter bike, which I've not ridden since I shifted the tiagra kit onto it after upgrading the summer bike to 105. The bike worked fine, though the long drop calipers, the only bit that didn't get upgraded, are still as crap as ever.
I think this is my annual watershed ride, where I go out one evening thinking its summer and soon find myself in the pitch black. Evening rides are done. Rubbish.
Well done if you sorted it all! Quite a steep learning curve, but once you've done it once then you'll find it loads easier all the next times! Congrats, you can now index gears - a skill only around 30% of cyclists seem to have...Well I've finished the indexing and adjusting, seems to go well on the stand.
SPOKES!Finally got my cycle scheme bike through:
Hadn't heard of this, fantastic news! But damn that price...Don't know if it's been mentioned but as there are a few on here with Kurt Kinetic road machine turbos, they are releasing a smart control power unit so it now has variable controlled resistance. https://kurtkinetic.com/products/smart-control-resistance-unit/. I think I will upgrade mine for zwift when it gets grim this winter.
Hope you had a good week!Back from a week's holiday and no riding.
Good deal, love my 2016 Diverge I picked up a month ago!Spesh UK are doing 25% off RRP on 2016 stock, I picked up a SL4 Comp Disc for £1500 and I'm chuffed with it.
Well done if you sorted it all! Quite a steep learning curve, but once you've done it once then you'll find it loads easier all the next times! Congrats, you can now index gears - a skill only around 30% of cyclists seem to have...
My rear gears are sticking... It's 5800 with its polymer coated cables and I've read of people having difficulties with the polymer costing gunking up and making things stick. What sort of inner cable should I pick up to replace the cable with? It only went on back in March, so it's not a great result, I have to say.
Haha love the last one! Gimmie a holla when you've got the Trade team listed, would love it in Blue!Three new short sleeves, one is my favourite...
Bought the Team Trade one as I bought it originally in large last year but I'm a small, so need to shift that on eBay at some point.
http://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/shop/trade-team-jersey---yellow/product/TTJ03O
http://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/shop/men's-canyon-sram-core-jersey/product/CSE01
http://www.scimitarshop.co.uk/cycling/retro-mens-cycling-jerseys/mr-grumpy-cycling-jersey
I can wait for the last one to arrive.
Ok setup, bit overpriced for what it is - an unknown brand of unknown quality carbon with a part unbranded groupset. You could've got more for your money at another bike shop with one of the more popular brands alu frames. Or even a Boardman (which I'm sure Halfrauds sell)!Bought this for 599, what do you guys reckon? Good buy?
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/road-bikes/13-intuition-alpha-road-bike-2015
Supreme effort mate, well done! Shame about your Garmin, ELEMNT soon?Thanks everyone. Will post more later or tomorrow but it was "fun". Worst weather I've ever seen. Penultimate stage knackered by people exclesioring off and ignoring the pace riders. Broke the fast group peleton apart.
Looks fairly miserable weather mate, but good effort regardless! Burger looks awesome!Didn't feel like a particularly focused ride due to not knowing the roads or profile particularly well. Also felt pretty bent out of shape since Friday though ate well on Saturday which helped me up Pyms.
https://www.strava.com/activities/683438966
Put a SRAM PC1130 on and it looks like bike shop that installed my Ultegra chain actually used a SRAM powerlink to fit it instead of Shimano's joining pin anyway.
Forgive my naivety but does this cause notable issues?
I removed a link from my 105 chain and rejoined using a SRAM quick link, just like I had on my Ultegra chain on my other bike a few months before. Couldn't see any issues on the chain-rings or cassette (skipping/rising).