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uniQ said:
I see what you mean about people walking down some of the climbs. Did a recce of the start of the Fred Whitton then rode up the steepest hill I could see. Came down slower than I went up, didn't help it was wet and a bit slippy. Garmin was showing between 25-32% :eek:

e: ah it was this climb:
http://www.strava.com/segments/2989361
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Good grief, that's one of the worst climbs i've ever seen! I imagine the road surface is pretty bad too?
 
rogan said:
what does everyone think of this scheme?
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It's nice but not very exciting for a custom paint job - is it going to be a geared bike or single speed?

tedmaul said:
On a slightly irritating point, i've been wondering for a while why my elevation data always seems a bit off when i load a file to Strava. Apparently they don't support Bryton devices with barometric altimeters, only Garmin - they basically ignore the data on the Bryton and do some weird inaccurate calculation based on the GPS data. It's out by about 400m on Strava compared to the device reading and what i get on the Bryton website. Quite annoying - i know there's some other Bryton users on the forums that maybe don't realise. I had no idea.
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Yeah, I've seen this. Very frustrating as it would be extremely easy to alter the code to use Bryton altitude data. Almost as if Strava have a vested interested in selling Garmins...

Saundie said:
Potentially, but it'd also be a lot less convenient. A turbo would be louder (I still live with my parents, so unfortunately this is actually quite important) and take up more space. I'd have to either leave a bike attached to it, or go to the effort of going out to the garage and bringing a bike in to hook up to it every time I want to use it. That is made more awkward by the fact that my room is upstairs. I just can't see myself doing it very often. At least with the indoor bike, I can leave it ready to go with my MP3 player strapped to it, so I can just hop on and ride.
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Fair enough, makes sense.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Elevation data is a whole pile of balls regardless of what device you use. It's all just a finger in the air. I've done identical rides with people using a wide assortment of devices and everyone gets different results.
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Probably true. I guess as long as it's consistent relative to other rides you've done you can at least have a rough gauge of the effort - ie what i did today had pretty much double the amount of climbing i did in the Etape Caledonia back in May ( plus the extra 20 miles!). Probably explains why it hurt so much! :(
 
oli collett said:
Good grief, that's one of the worst climbs i've ever seen! I imagine the road surface is pretty bad too?
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The surface got progressively worse as I went up, not sure if I got to the top of where that strava segment ends either.

Strange I thought I quoted touch when I posted that hence the "people walking going down comment". But can't even find the post now.

rogan said:
Geared! The standard is just one colour so anything fancier than that i need to pay extra for, still tempted by just grey or black
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I like that the forks say EDGE when they rebranded to ENVE a few years ago, rogan kicking it old school :D

I kind of agree with OMS though, you're going custom you may as well pay a bit more to get a killer paint job.

My friend has a Robin Mather SS CX. It's a great bike but it looks seriously boring. He loves it but we often discuss the paint job and he would definitely do it differently if he went bespoke again.

http://c.awsm.eu/image/3a271e2s1d1Q
 
rogan said:
Geared! The standard is just one colour so anything fancier than that i need to pay extra for, still tempted by just grey or black
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I'd pay extra.

I'd want a contrast panel on the seat tube with banding and I'd want the main paint in something polychromatic. Have a look at the Mercian frame builder site for ideas

http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/frames/57/frame-builder

The paint options are under the 'Finishing & Cosmetic' tab.
 
I know what you all mean its just getting it right thats the hard bit,

plain black doesnt have to be boring, I love this:

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and this 'matte/satin' black is also lovely

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Thanks a lot uniQ

I might fire croma an email to see how much a paint job would be as I think I'm limited to my complexities with the painter my framebuilder uses!

That first CX bike is amazing
 
They got back super fast! (on a sunday too??) would cost me £200 extra + the postage costs for the croma paint job, i might give talbots painter a call personally and discuss what he can do.
 
Dunno, seems fairly reasonably priced to me in light of the recent £500 Di2 stuff. Maybe a little optimistic if anything, full bikes tend to go for less than the sum of their parts.
 
so i've finally built up the SS i was talking about a week or so ago..

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still needs brake levers but these should come soon.. currently its set up as a fixie but i can't stand fixed gear tbh so its going back to freewheel...

18/48 gearing will be a nice backup bike when my main fails or my brothers..

still a few things to add to complete the paintjob but it'll be a nice and surprisingly comfy bike at the end! :o
 
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