They're a really big club and tend to meet at the cafe on the parade at Crystal Palace opposite the bus terminal. I've got to say, they're one of the local clubs that really used to boil my ****.
They got bored of trolling you and are now concentrating on grudas?
I think many of these club guys get so blinkered into club cycling wrongly thinking that all good riders are club affiliated. Therefore you're not wearing club kit so how can you possibly be a better rider?!
It certainly happens around here, the 'club' guys all stick in their little groups yet the really good riders (guessing CAT2/3) are all friendly and seem to all know either other. Then you have a small number of riders who seem excluded from the 'groups' and almost ignored by some of them, I've got to know one of these 'lone wolf' types quite well. Being a slightly different age group (younger) than the others, living out of town (yet commuting in daily) and not wearing full castelli gear (lol) he stood out. Amazing rider and puts the hurt on the club guys on any of the social rides I've been on. He smokes too, really odd seeing a fast cyclist who smokes lol
considering dropping my bike off at the LBS on saturday for a full service.
"I've booked it in for Thursday as that's the earliest slot we have"
I know when I goto the shop tomorrow I'll see one of the staff I know and it'll probably be ready for pickup on Tuesday at the latest! lol
our roads are far from good haha! I've got some beatuiful patches on my way home but that's because the roads were rebuilt like 3-4months back haha!
Some of the roads around here have grass growing through the tarmac in the middle, probably not been resurfaced in 20 years
Lots of failure to clean properly (once per week with a chain cleaning tool and regular wiping of the jockey wheels seems to help) and lots of cross-chaining seem to be the main culprits. Also, in winter you've obviously got salt and grit on the roads to contend with.
I wipe my chain and jockeys down semi-weekly (and relube) probably every 100-150 miles tops. I tend to do it more regularly when it's covered in road gravy after rain/dusty rides. I do use wet lube almost exclusively (Finish Line Green), had no luck at all with the Finish Line Red. The couple of times I've ridden with it after 30-40 miles I'm getting chain noise, anyone want it?
I probably do cross chain more than I should so could be the culprit, it's just easier/safer in traffic to not be changing rings...
Still ~£20 a chain every 3-4 months I'm not too worried about
I got them from wiggle, I'll dig out the invoice, but yeah I think they could be a manufacturing defect
Certainly worth following up, especially if you can send them pictures and tell them the miles they've done.
