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tim-b wrote:The clear coat has obviously blistered in your photo and will need to be made good before moisture gets in beneath the epoxy and starts wicking through the CF.

Cheers tim-b I never thought about this.

The 'UD coating' you speak of … you mean paint? Well it's just probably the paintwork that is marked, like you get with the fitting of lots of FD clamps. I don't know if it is paint, it's like a clear coat or something, you can see it bubbling on the images and there's other parts of the frame wher...

I can't tell if the carbon tube is damaged, or this is just a depression in the UD coating?* *I mean the clear coat stuff the frame is lacquered with/clear coat. The depression is shallow, I'd say probably 0.25mm, if that. I know tapping around it with a penny can't tell you much but the pitch sound...

I do not think pubs harm the brain,though alcohol consumptiion may do if excessive.Similarly cycling can be posed as hazardous if you fall off and bang your head.Most activities are thus potentially hazardous. Right but you can't damage brain cells by cycling, whereas drinking really any amount wil...

I've always favoured having an odd number of sprockets, so there's always a middle sprocket. 11-speed doesn't shift as well as 9-speed did (XTR shifter and XT rear mech in both cases). It shifts acceptably well, but there's definitely a slight delay there that wasn't there on 9-speed. It seems the f...

mumbojumbo wrote:

Both kill brain cells.

Evidently

Yes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i ... cna1008576

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-fa ... statistics

I sometimes look at Spa Cycles stuff and wonder how they can do such a cheap deal on it. For example those Zicral 7075 aluminium chainrings, dirt cheap for what you're getting.

Look what they did to this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4herWkGMiaM

Both kill brain cells.

I wonder why they all on mountain bikes and not BMX.

simonineaston wrote:I can't hear any foul language!

Posh Southerners.

These aren't my bikes, but I found a listing on eBay where the listing is there to detail bikes that got stolen and it doesn't look like the guy posted on this forum so I am reproducing the listing here: Stolen Bikes: From North Leeds, 9th June 2020 Planet X XLS Pro, carbon, black, cyclocross/road b...

ChrisButch wrote:Hard to keep up with today's sequence of government pro-active travel announcements.

This is why I don't bother trying to keep up and voila, the problem is suddenly solved.

I had the saddle on a seatpost with 50mm setback so it was 34mm further back than I had it on my Thomson - but it felt weird. There were also times it felt like I could accidentally pedal backwards, which seems odd considering the saddle position, I would have thought it would be the other way aroun...

The title says "a bike". The difference between flat bars and drop bars is enormous. The seat tube angle and top tube length that's correct on flat bars, is going to have you too stretched out on drop bars. The seat tube angle and top tube length that's correct on drop bars, is going to ha...

I have made a spreadsheet where you put in your effective top tube length, your seat tube angle and your inside leg measurement (with the same shoes you're using for cycling) and hopefully it spits out a rough percentage for the size of bike you need. It's only ever going to be rough because it's us...