Couldn't you get near even cheaper using a Chinese carbon frame? Or are they only predominantly made using the run of the mill standard carbon with ~1.5kg+ frames? A second hand racelight might be an even cheaper way of doing it, but you may not get below 7kg with an alu frame. Is Ti lighter than alloy?
With a training course yesterday I went out for a later than planned blast on wednesday night as I couldn't face the turbo in that humidity/heat!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1069427389
Ate a BBQ 45 mins before probably wasn't ideal, put a good
threshold effort in but soon started to suffer from a stitch/indigestion which I couldn't quite shake. Rode
mostly tempo back. Happy with the efforts and legs feeling great otherwise (and so they should, I'm low on mileage!). 15 miles @ 19.5mph 243 NP.
Looks like my CX bike was more damaged than I thought. New RD required. Just trying to get Evans to price match CRC so I can pick the RD up tomorrow and use it on Fri/Sat.
Derp
There's a couple of Ultegra RD's on the Wiggle Ebay page at the moment, most seem to sell for ~£45-50. I may pick one up to replace my 5800 which is getting noisy.
Basically this - in a left turn only lane, sat in a lorry's blind spot, then stay in the lorry's blindspot and try to blame someone else for their idiotic behaviour.
This is totally it, I agree the cyclist is at fault and not the lorry driver. But I do feel there is a lot of blame to place on the Department for Transport with the stupid ASL and filter lane designs we have everywhere. The majority of lighted junctions these days have left hand filter lanes with an ASL, every one of those cyclists in the video has been encouraged to filter up the left hand side of lorries at a lighted junction. So when they come across the situation above they think they are 'in the right' and 'safe' even without any road markings, which is UTTERLY WRONG!
https://beyondthekerb.org.uk/2013/10/15/tipping-out-the-paint/
Heh. I'm the same, though I do manically Strava everything. I like the building and the fixing and all sorts as well as the riding. I can totally see the appeal of your £680/6.8kg challenge.
I like my spannering more than most (certainly more than most in the of clubs I'm in!), but equally I end up in situations where I don't know 'what to do next'.
While we're on the subject, fellow spanner monkeys, what would you do:
Have a problem at the moment with my Diverge - creaky bottom bracket. Everything else has been eliminated. I've removed and re-greased cranks/spindle umpteen times, tested bearings and they feel clear/clean, removed seals and added more grease to bearing races and I still get a pronounced 'click' once per pedal revolution when stood or pushing out over 450W more than a couple of pedal strokes. I've bought the special
Praxis Works adaptor to remove/fit the
PF30 BB but with the short 3/8" socket I have I'm not enough man to get it unscrewed. I'm also unsure of how much pressure I can safely place on the OSBB without damaging my frame (thinking iron bar on the end of my socket). Although the BB sleeve is so tight it may not be that... I'm half tempted to replace the bearings as I can do those easily to eliminate them, but the current just don't feel 'gritty' in the slightest... Certainly less stressful & less expensive than damaging my frame!
Question... if I have Bluetooth on can it upload my rides via my phone? It says it can do it via wifi but can it do it this way?
Yarp. Although if like me and you'll mostly be using the WiFi upload directly from the ELEMNT your ELEMNT smartphone app will have a ton of activities to sync whenever you turn BT on and go into it... On android my app will report as 'not responding' a number of times as it takes 5-6s per activity to sync it. With my 3 commuting activites per day you can imagine the amount I rack up... 390 rides so far this year according to Strava!
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