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Yeah that first plastic bit is just a spacer of sorts if I remember correctly?
Nicely done!
Nicely done!
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So it doesn't actually fray at the 'end' noddle thingy which holds it in the shifter ratchet, but further along?
If it's just out of picture there then it's where the cable is leaving the shifter into the cable outer?
If so, more attributed to cable routing outside of the shifter causing strain on where the cable leaves the shifter, pressure on a join there and not internally?
If it's just out of picture there then it's where the cable is leaving the shifter into the cable outer?
If so, more attributed to cable routing outside of the shifter causing strain on where the cable leaves the shifter, pressure on a join there and not internally?
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Rode the Ultimate in this morning, it's dirtier than a whores mouth after a busy night. Least the di2 is working now and the sun is out.
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Anyone want a set of SRAM Red shifters? They sent me the mechanical ones and I need electric and want me to pay to post them back which will cost me a ton, so thought I'd offload them instead.
Chinese cockpit arrived anyway...
Shame the remaining parts are the most expensive and I've had my cycling/ bike budget "re-evaluated" so it'll no doubt take me until summer to finish it now. Hmmph.
Chinese cockpit arrived anyway...
Shame the remaining parts are the most expensive and I've had my cycling/ bike budget "re-evaluated" so it'll no doubt take me until summer to finish it now. Hmmph.
Yep it's further along but I think it's within the shifter. That photo shows the whole piece of snapped off cable. It's quite possible some external factor exaggerates the stress inside the shifter though.
Looks good, but needs black stem bolts! Obviously you need Ti ones...
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Yea, that was actually a first thought too. Will get some for it. Can't have them like that.
Who else is waiting for the Wiggins vs Froome Wife Handbag Fight (tm) to start on Twitter? Are they going to sell tickets?!
And Tony Martin luls. Bitter much Panzer?!
I really do feel someone somewhere being very anti-Sky in the media trolled it to the extreme and with The Guardian's help blew it all out of proportion, all in preparation to ruin any hope of having a cyclist as BBC SPOTY.
EDIT: In case anyone missed it (I did!) there's a bunch of PowerTap refirb deals on their site. They might be US only? Prices are extremely good and supposedly Powertap refirb units go through the same QA as their new units so very little chance of getting a stinker.
EDIT EDIT: US only. Boo.
Have a good weekend all, I've put myself down for a Metric on a WBR Zwift training ride tomorrow morning at 6:50am. The little one doesn't let us sleep in much later than 5-6am anyway so I'm just using that as a bonus to get some mileage back on track and still have a day at home/rest day (doing chores) afterwards.
And Tony Martin luls. Bitter much Panzer?!
I really do feel someone somewhere being very anti-Sky in the media trolled it to the extreme and with The Guardian's help blew it all out of proportion, all in preparation to ruin any hope of having a cyclist as BBC SPOTY.
EDIT: In case anyone missed it (I did!) there's a bunch of PowerTap refirb deals on their site. They might be US only? Prices are extremely good and supposedly Powertap refirb units go through the same QA as their new units so very little chance of getting a stinker.
EDIT EDIT: US only. Boo.
Have a good weekend all, I've put myself down for a Metric on a WBR Zwift training ride tomorrow morning at 6:50am. The little one doesn't let us sleep in much later than 5-6am anyway so I'm just using that as a bonus to get some mileage back on track and still have a day at home/rest day (doing chores) afterwards.
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Ribble sent me an email this afternoon that's supposedly a secret deal just for me (hah) offering 4iii Power meters
105 5800 - £314
Ultegra 6800 - £389
Starting to get to reasonable numbers, not that I use shimano stuff, or particularly want a powermeter
105 5800 - £314
Ultegra 6800 - £389
Starting to get to reasonable numbers, not that I use shimano stuff, or particularly want a powermeter
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Who else is waiting for the Wiggins vs Froome Wife Handbag Fight (tm) to start on Twitter? Are they going to sell tickets?!
And Tony Martin luls. Bitter much Panzer?!
I really do feel someone somewhere being very anti-Sky in the media trolled it to the extreme and with The Guardian's help blew it all out of proportion, all in preparation to ruin any hope of having a cyclist as BBC SPOTY.
lolwut
Martin is right, smaller names get their adverse tests published straight away. Let's not forget the failed test was leaked, conceivably Sky might have made this all go away without anyone knowing, which is hardly transparent.
Ultimately Sky have put themselves in this position by painting themselves as whiter than white but increasingly looking like one of the filthiest teams going.
Same amount I got a 4iiii from them for in black Friday event.
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In hindsight, I was probably mad not to buy the 4iiii 105 for ~£270 during Probikekit's Black Friday deals, but at the time I was fixated on buying an Elite Direto instead!
... Still not resolved my turbo, no turbo dilemma. The Tacx 2240 is now £190 at Halfords, matching Decathlon, before British Cycling discount.
Would I have to use a Tacx bolt thru X12 skewer on the 2240, or could I safely use a Kinetic Traxle instead?
... Still not resolved my turbo, no turbo dilemma. The Tacx 2240 is now £190 at Halfords, matching Decathlon, before British Cycling discount.
Would I have to use a Tacx bolt thru X12 skewer on the 2240, or could I safely use a Kinetic Traxle instead?
-4 on my commute in this morning, first for over a week due to the conditions! Don't think it froze hard overnight so not really solid ice around, just the 'glisten' of frost on frozen tarmac. Took it very steady when off the main vehicle routes.
Lets also forget that when the test anomaly was leaked it wasn't yet seen as failed test by the UCI, they asked for more information. Than again didn't the same thing happen with Simon Yates? The media was all over it, labelling him a cheater, even though the fault was the doctor failing to fill in the paperwork for the TUE required. Orica excluded him from racing and he missed the TdF, it was only afterwards (after the media storm) that the UCI handed out the actual retrospective ban.
Thinking about it, he's always one of the riders who's required an inhaler, does it mean a TUE is required for each race for a rider who may require an inhaler? So teams have to apply for them continuously? It's not just a TUE to 'compete' which only expires when they stop competing or are clear from 'illness'?
Great prices really, thankfully the 4iiii are fairly well regarded and accurate and along with the mini price war they've had with Stages has really helped! Bit of a shame a similar thing hasn't happened with the pedal PWM's from Powertap and Garmin to drive their prices down.
I'd argue that they seem to be under more scrutiny than any of the others with anything negative blown out of all proportion by the media, admittedly that's more their own fault by the style of racing and incorrect 'cleaner than clean' attitude but really think much of the media is against them and always hunting for 'bad press'. A lot of that hatred I think is deeply ingrained animosity/reaction to the Sky brand, not really the riders and team.
Lets also forget that when the test anomaly was leaked it wasn't yet seen as failed test by the UCI, they asked for more information. Than again didn't the same thing happen with Simon Yates? The media was all over it, labelling him a cheater, even though the fault was the doctor failing to fill in the paperwork for the TUE required. Orica excluded him from racing and he missed the TdF, it was only afterwards (after the media storm) that the UCI handed out the actual retrospective ban.
Thinking about it, he's always one of the riders who's required an inhaler, does it mean a TUE is required for each race for a rider who may require an inhaler? So teams have to apply for them continuously? It's not just a TUE to 'compete' which only expires when they stop competing or are clear from 'illness'?
Should be ok with the KK one. I'm using the Tacx one on my Vortex as I could never quite get enough information about which thread width on the KK I needed for my frame. I could with the Tacx one but only through lots of googling and checking out forums.
I think if they can get under £200 it suddenly becomes much more of a consideration for the recreational rider (ok I know they're de rigeur for recreational riders here....)
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@Roady I think the key difference is Yates needed a TUE for the type of inhaler he used regardless of dose, whereas Froome didn't need one for the type of inhaler he used up to a certain point. You do need one if you take more than that limit or take it in tablet form. Either way he needed a TUE, so seems he is in a similar situation to Yates. The only potential difference between Froome and Yates is Yates tested positive by virtue of having the drug in his system at all, whereas Froome was over the prescribed limit. There is a question over whether Froome's dosage was truly therapeutic IMO which I guess the inquiry will have to establish. I'd be interested if anyone can find exactly how much terbutaline Yates had in his system as I can't.
I'm happy with my 4iiii. I'm sure the novelty will pass but right now I'm enjoying a good poke around the power data post ride.
I've set my Zwift up to use the 4iiii for power so I've now got all power reading from the same unit whether indoors or outdoors. Not much point using two power meters both reading differently, you've got to use one or the other and stick with it. One thing that is pretty obvious to me is that the power meter in my Tacx vortex was over-reading quite substantially - by maybe even 10%.
Yup I'm not disagreeing, my gripe is the information I read over the 'recommended dosage' and how it came from the medication and not from anything specific for athletes, almost as if there was no medical measure or double checking of the dosage and how it affected endurance cyclists at altitude. It didn't sound specific enough to me, which then makes it sound even more strange there was 'no TUE required' up to a certain dosage.
Very similar when you put it like that isn't it! Regarding dosing something else I read said that a majority of cyclists preferred to take it in tablet form at the start of a stage, rather than having to carry an inhaler or trips back to to team car to have a puff etc. Which totally makes sense, obviously a tablet is going to be a much more concentrated form so rightly requires a TUE. It also neatly explains how a urine sample would be so high - excess medication being excreted. Strangely not much more has been said about tablets as I bet something happened and he ended up taking one without a TUE. I bet he was really suffering and a member of the medical team misunderstood and double dosed him with the tablet form when he normally took the inhaler form (not needing TUE).
I mean if if they didn't and Froome actually had to carry an inhaler the amount of dosage they reported could've only come from multiple inhalers (wasn't the number 64 doses?!) used over the space a 4 hour 15mins race. Lets assume he didn't need a puff for the first 15 minutes, that is then one puff on average every 5 minutes, or more! Even if it's only 32, that's a dose/puff every 10 mins.
Good to hear, have to say the novelty has mostly passed with mine, but I still love riding with power! When my battery ran out midweek and I took a couple of days to change it I really did miss it!
The Vortex is known to be quite inaccurate, but once warmed up accuracy improves. I started out doing spindowns every use for mine but now probably every month/6 weeks. There's actually a firmware update for it the last couple of days so will be updating mine at some point this week. Interesting you found it that different, as all of my power related training is all done on the turbo I've not worried too much. I use power on the road more for pacing rather than training.
How do you know the 4iiii isn't under-reading?
That would be my first suspicion for a power loss
Apparently most power meters are inaccurate but as long as it's consistent it's useful info to you.
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/l...hows-inaccuracies-popular-power-meters-330322