Road Cycling

If anyone is interested in how frames and parts may be made in the future, have a read up on additive layer manufacturing. It's already used in F1 and aerospace for weight saving. In a crude way, it's like 3D printing with metal. Will mean that areas of parts that aren't contributing to rigidity can be removed completely, which isn't always possible with conventional machining techniques.

Definitely one for the weight weenies.
 
As I say, I feel tan walls can work on the right build and I wasn't 100% sure about them on my Bianchi so I've swapped them out for black Veloflex Corsa tyres and moved the tan walls to the 60mm Chinese crab0ns which will go on the all black bike. Some poorly lit photos to illustrate...

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Do like bontrager wheels.

Spun one on the stand one day, it just kept on spinning. Even when it got down to really slow speeds the valve would make it rotate again.

Smoooooth
 
Neglected my bike a bit, just forgot to check and the chain is well, rather stretched! It’s always washed and cleaned just didn’t look! Think the turbo accelerates the wear too.

Hope the cassettes ok... it’s been swapped between two different ones.

New chain from Merlin on Monday I think!

Edit: temp fix use the one from the TT bike, it’s just a little shorter so I can’t use big/big gearing!
 
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BennyC said:
I finish earlier than a colleague and often our riding/driving paths cross on his commute home. The first thing he says he sees are my shoes :cool: :D The heels, despite being black do actually have reflective strips in them as well :)
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Mine should roll up Wednesday - fingers crossed they fit - ive sized up a touch as they seem to come up a touch narrow from comments ive read. ??
 
Something a little bit different today. They've finished a stretch of the northern distributor road and opened up a stretch of the dual carriageway for cyclists to have a play on today before it opens to cars on Monday.

I wasn't going to bother but a couple of people I know were heading down so I thought why not. Without an actual meeting point arranged I just headed down for roughly the meeting time but by the time I got there it was pretty grim with driving rain so I just got straight on with riding it rather than waiting around. It was quite nice TBH to ride on brand new tarmac with no traffic. They had signposted the left lane as "slow" and the right as "fast", while I'm not what I would consider a fast rider in the context of familys out with their kids I took to the fast lane. There were a couple of dads showing off on their pristine OTT hardtails that probably haven't been out all year riding with no hands on the bars. Not the best example for their kids and the guy doing it against a blustery cross wind with his kid on the back was on a different level of special.

The subsequent Strava upload showed that 7 segments had already been created for it :p I imagine the serious guys got out early when the weather was better.
 
merlin said:
They seem to photo red/orange but theyre actually pink.
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They're a coral pink-ish colour. But for the most park look pink.

merlin said:
Mine should roll up Wednesday - fingers crossed they fit - ive sized up a touch as they seem to come up a touch narrow from comments ive read. ??
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I went a size up from my Fizik R5B as the heel cup was slipping, contrary to what I would have done (gone down to a size 43). I was measured in shop which showed me as a 44, they felt a little roomier around the toes than what I was used to but just think the Fizik were a bit naff tbh.
 
Bit different weather up north then. It was awful yesterday but beautiful today, not too warm but sunny.

Wet first thing on the roads but slowly dried out, I got nearly 90k in and then spent the rest of the day painting the fence at home.
 
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