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Spoke too soon!
Pulled up at work outside the roller shutter, unclipped the left foot.

Bike went to the right. :o
On camera too ;)
 
Rear wheel clipped by a moron in a van on his phone this morning. Only an outrageously fast start by me at a junction prevented it being me getting clipped.
 
None that I can tell, the wheel certainly doesn't look damaged or out of line.

There may or may not be a fist shaped dent in his bonnet, I couldn't tell as he drove off.
 
Scubascorpion said:
Spoke too soon!
Pulled up at work outside the roller shutter, unclipped the left foot.

Bike went to the right. :o
On camera too ;)
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Haha. Only time I've not unclipped is when I've gone up a drop curb at slow speed that's not actually a drop curb so my bike has just come to an immediate standstill. I tend to upclip and lean one way plenty of time before coming to a normal stop :p.
 
Put the bling wheels on this morning, but after 60mile hilly club run at the weekend that looked more like an audacious breakaway (5 started in the group and 2 had dropped off the back into another group after less than 5km!) I've got nothing left in my legs to spin them up properly.

I was hoping for that whooshy sound, but it wasn't forthcoming.
 
Just got my new Cube through :D

Will get some better pics later, but right now, I'm off for a ride!!!

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Yeah, freak!

Nice bike, however lack of valve alignment with tyre logo compels you to re-mount tyres and take another pic :p.

It almost looks like the white bar tape on the top of the handlebars has usage stains on it, but I'm sure that's just the shadow / quality of the photo.
 
I've got a £10 off voucher for CRC when you spend £75. It runs out in 2 weeks and I'm not planning on buying anything in that time so who wants to give me an internet cookie for it?
 
Ging3r said:
Just got my new Cube through :D

Will get some better pics later, but right now, I'm off for a ride!!!

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Is that the Agree GTC Pro? Want a full report if so because I'm supposed to be buying one on Thurs!!
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Robbie G said:
Yeah, freak!

Nice bike, however lack of valve alignment with tyre logo compels you to re-mount tyres and take another pic :p.

It almost looks like the white bar tape on the top of the handlebars has usage stains on it, but I'm sure that's just the shadow / quality of the photo.
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Im a lanky thing me :p it's a 60cm frame, but they're quite compact, my Trek was a 58

It's new to me but not brand new, second hand but only done a couple of hundred miles, looks almost brand new!

It is the 2010 model aswell.
Just been for a quick 35miles and after coming from my Trek 1.5 its amazing.

It's got full Ultegra apart from the chainset, and compared to Sora it's beautiful! Changes without a hitch and nice to have got rid of the thumb shifters!

The main difference i noticed was once you get up to speed then it stays there! Much less effort to keep spinning! But I'm thinking thats down to tyres and wheels.
Didn't get much climbing in so can't comment on that.

But a huge thumbs up so far!
 
I'll also admit to lining up the valve with the logo! I even make sure it's lined up with the same letter on the logo :p It's definitely a must with the hub logo when building up a wheel though.
 
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