Road Cycling Essentials

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[DOD]Asprilla;20294550 said:
Given Wiggins age I don't think he can afford to ignore the grand tours next year.
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Yeah, but he cant realistically go for the yellow in the TdF and still expect to do well at the olympics. 2012 will probably be his last olympics, so he might want to go for that instead, just depends which is more important to him.

I have heard that gerraint thomas is thinking about quitting track riding after the olympics to focus on road racing.
 
Hi guys,

My new bike's chain is slipping on the rear gears when under load. It seems to only be occurring on the 5th onwards (5th cog and smaller ones). This occurs regardless of whether I'm on the large or small chainring. I have SRAM Apex groupset.

Can anyone give me some tips as to what I need to adjust?

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Insufficient cable tension.

Although post a photo with it in big ring big cog, Looks to be a lot of chain still being held by the derailleur unless you're on the small ring at the front.
 
Shift down to 10th gear and feel the cable along the chainstay, if it's slack it's probably just the cable that has 'stretched' and needs a wee tension.

Undo the 5mm allen key holding the cable, whilst in 10th, and check the mechanism is sitting in line with the 10th gear cog. Then check by pushing it with your hand that it doesn't go past the 1st gear into the wheel. If it doesn't sit right in those gears you will need to adjust your H and L limit screws but being a new bike you shouldn't have to.

Once that's done pull the cable through by hand and tighten the 5mm allen key again. Pedal and click the shifter up one gear. If it doesn't jump up to that gear unwind the barrell adjust on the cable until it jumps up and double check by eye that the chain runs straight down vertically. If it shifts up and make a lot of rubbing on the next cog you need to wing the adjust back in a little. Do it a qaurter turn at a time nothing majot.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I had a closer look. It shifts up to the highest gear ok, but when shifting back down, it catches every now and again on the next lowest cog (but not enough to slip to the next gear completely).

Here's the picture 6thElement:
 
Been out for my daily constitutional. Must have made it close to a mile today :).

Not yet confident enough in my ability to stop in a rush to cycle to work, nor fit enough, but the gym work is on going. I reckon I'll be back on the bike late Oct/Early Nov.
 
platypus said:
Been out for my daily constitutional. Must have made it close to a mile today :).

Not yet confident enough in my ability to stop in a rush to cycle to work, nor fit enough, but the gym work is on going. I reckon I'll be back on the bike late Oct/Early Nov.
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You on a fixie or something?
 
SteveOBHave said:
You on a fixie or something?
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Daily constitutional, as in daily walk. I'm recovering from a fractured ankle/torn ligaments, and today is the longest walk I've done in 4 months :).

Not confident in stopping in an emergency in terms of yanking my feet out of the clips, or having to jam weight down on my foot. My normal daily cycle is 30 miles, which I'm slowly going to have to work back up too. I'm pootling about town on my crappy Cambridge bike, and I do 30 mins/day as part of my recovery gym routine on an exercise bike.
 
I may have just bought the last Planet X Pro Carbon frame @ £250......... in pink

Do people think that a dash of white components would make it too girly? (yes I reckon a pink frame can be made more girly!)
 
BlackDragon said:
Thanks for the advice guys. I had a closer look. It shifts up to the highest gear ok, but when shifting back down, it catches every now and again on the next lowest cog (but not enough to slip to the next gear completely).

Here's the picture 6thElement:
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Picture needs to be big cog at the back, big ring at the front. While you're at it do small cog at the back, small ring at the front. They'll show us if the chain is too long or too short.
 
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HTC mozart has an amazing camera :)


Gave it a proper clean and then it started raining on the way home :mad:
 
Hamster said:
Ah the law of sod!! That's a very reflective saddle bag you have there, is it a Madison special Maxi Pro?
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Yup it's a pro from madison - sadly a maxi. The mini was too small and we have no mediums in stock as madison have none either.

Also we finally got a B2B account on the go with Madison which I'm chuffed about as I used to use it in Halfords but this being a smaller shop just phoned it through. Was due to a guy in the other shop having a bit of a 'debate' with Jake@Madison due to him being unhelpful.
 
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