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platypus said:
Have sold them to Saundie already. You might be able to buy them off him if they don't fit :p.
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Apparently the Pompetamine can accommodate 700x42c tyres, but comes with 700x23c tyres - I'm fairly confident that they'll fit :)

Got my saddle bag today (along with water bottles, cages, mounting brackets etc) and it's tiny; I can barely fit my waterproof trousers in there! I guess I'm going to have to buy a rack for the commuter, as I'm getting tired of having to carry all my stuff on my back. I'm open to suggestions on this; the Topeak range of racks and bags looks good, but I'm not entirely sold on the quick release thing, especially seeing as it means I'll be forced to use Topeak products to retain compatibility...

There is good news though, the mudguards and other crap for the Sirrus has arrived, so at least I'll be able to get out on it this weekend :)
 
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platypus said:
My rear tyre exploded today. Fortunately fairly near to a friends house, so I dumped the bike and got the bus. In full cycling gear. Those commuters just don't get it. Full cycling lycra on a bus is perfectly fine.
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At the station I get commuters stick the elbow in and try and stick a shoulder in almost every day and it never happens when I'm in in normal clothes. It's quite pathetic.
 
One More Solo said:
Bugger! :D Let me know how you get on Saundie. Out of curiosity, what made you go for the Cruds over the SKS Race Blades?
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Ignorance, mostly. Joking aside, the RoadRacers seem to get better reviews, and also cover more of the tyre.

In other news, the Pompetamine is scheduled to be built tomorrow, so now I am left feeling like a 10 year old on the night before Christmas Eve. The anticipation is crippling :D
 
Received lots of stuff from Wiggle today. I was looking forward to fitting my PD-M540 pedals, but I couldn't get the pedal off from the chainset side no matter how much force I put in. I was concerned I was pulling it the wrong way but after a bit of checking around I was definitely pulling it the right way. Also glad I'm not person having difficulty removing the chainset side pedal. I wonder why that is?

Anyway, had to put my original pedals back on and ordered myself a big wrench
 
It's very difficult to get pedals off some bikes without a pedal wrench if the pedals have been on there for a while and their threads weren't greased when they were installed. If they're really stuck try a bit of WD40 on them to loosen the threads.
 
Yeah I only had a small wrench which was fine on one side, but not the other. I had greased the threads before I installed the pedals and they have only been there for about 3 months.

I'll give it another go when my pedal wrench arrives. Don't want to use my spanner anymore as it's not doing much more than scratch the pedals :(
 
No idea who he is.
Size of the frame shouldnt be too far out., i'm 6ft and a 58 fits me fine.
That frame will be difficult to make into a fixie tho.
It has vertical dropouts meaning that there is no way of moving the wheel to adjust the chain tension. There are ways around this (off-centre bottom bracket, off-centre rear axle or a half link chain) but it's much simpler to just get a frame with horizontal dropouts.
 
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