My sexy new wheels
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It looks like the valve dustcaps might be torqued incorrectly too.0
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robbarker wrote:It looks like the valve dustcaps might be torqued incorrectly too.
Hi there.
I don't usually put the dustcaps on road bikes...
Cheers, Andy0 -
I don't even put dustcaps on mountain bikes (assuming Presta valves).
Oh, but I have BOTH QRs on the right on my MTB (there is a good reason for that - guesses welcomed!)0 -
aracer wrote:I don't even put dustcaps on mountain bikes (assuming Presta valves).
Oh, but I have BOTH QRs on the right on my MTB (there is a good reason for that - guesses welcomed!)
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You should have them the same side as the discs so you are guaranteed to graze you knuckles when you undo the QR. This to prove that mountain bikers feel no pain - it's the sign of a real man..0
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Heavymental wrote:haha...here's one I've just spotted! Your front QR is on the right. Convention states that both should be on the left. I'm not joking either...that is actually one of those things people look for.
Tyres best performance are designed to roll in one direction and it helps me know which direction with the QR being on one side, always left. Why left? Mainly for uniformity both should be on the left cos there too much going on at the rear deraileur to be on the right.
While we're at it... too much cable casing to the rear brake callipers!
Still think it's a gorgeous bike. Not as nice as mine you understand.Every winner has scars.0 -
Ah yes, the well known Eladnonnac Righty.andrewgturnbull wrote:aracer wrote:I don't even put dustcaps on mountain bikes (assuming Presta valves).
Oh, but I have BOTH QRs on the right on my MTB (there is a good reason for that - guesses welcomed!)
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I should point out that my QRs physically won't fit on the left.0 -
MegaCycle wrote:I am taking her to the Etape this year. :-)
See ya there! Not nearly fit enough yet I reckon.
Oh and this is me (well not quite, now with red bar tape and black/white bottle cages!):
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MegaCycle wrote:Just took them out for the first time and they FLY! A real difference.
pliptrot - I got them with SRAM hubs and they fit the Ultegra compact cassette just fine.
you're not telling me you can actually feel that these wheels are faster are you?
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wildmoustache wrote:MegaCycle wrote:Just took them out for the first time and they FLY! A real difference.
pliptrot - I got them with SRAM hubs and they fit the Ultegra compact cassette just fine.
you're not telling me you can actually feel that these wheels are faster are you?
of course!! Why do you think I shelled out the best part of 600 quid for them!0 -
MegaCycle wrote:wildmoustache wrote:MegaCycle wrote:Just took them out for the first time and they FLY! A real difference.
pliptrot - I got them with SRAM hubs and they fit the Ultegra compact cassette just fine.
you're not telling me you can actually feel that these wheels are faster are you?
of course!! Why do you think I shelled out the best part of 600 quid for them!
sorry, it was an oblique reference to another thread in which I debated with aracer whether it was possible to feel 400g additional weight at the rim of a pair of bicycle wheels ... I say yes, he says no.
what wheels were you riding previously?0 -
I was on Ultegra WH6600s. Not especially heavy, but a good bit heavier than zeros.
Of course, you have to remember that saving weight on wheels gives about twice the effect than saving on "static" elements because of the angular momentum.
But I'm sure you know that!0 -
jashburnham wrote:MegaCycle wrote:I am taking her to the Etape this year. :-)
See ya there! Not nearly fit enough yet I reckon.
Oh and this is me (well not quite, now with red bar tape and black/white bottle cages!):
Good luck for the Etape.
NIce looking bike mate. Yep, I have lots of training to do as well. I am doing 100k each Sunday and about another 100k spread through the week, but I gotta find me some big hills!0 -
MegaCycle wrote:I was on Ultegra WH6600s. Not especially heavy, but a good bit heavier than zeros.
Of course, you have to remember that saving weight on wheels gives about twice the effect than saving on "static" elements because of the angular momentum.
But I'm sure you know that!
yes, it's an interesting issue what is perceptible and I'd like to do some tests but getting the equipment together than would make them valid is not easy.0 -
aracer wrote:
Ah yes, the well known Eladnonnac Righty.andrewgturnbull wrote:aracer wrote:I don't even put dustcaps on mountain bikes (assuming Presta valves).
Oh, but I have BOTH QRs on the right on my MTB (there is a good reason for that - guesses welcomed!)
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I should point out that my QRs physically won't fit on the left.
I would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you pesky kids...0 -
Only for acceleration, and you don't actually expend a lot of energy on that in the course of a normal ride (not even in a crit). For climbing, which is what most of us care about, it makes no difference being on the wheels, the frame or your gut.MegaCycle wrote:Of course, you have to remember that saving weight on wheels gives about twice the effect than saving on "static" elements because of the angular momentum.0 -
what model roubaix is that - it looks the same paint job as my s-works 08 frame but it has a decorative layer of carbon on the top where mine is just the functional stuff lacquered over.
it has the same quick-step logo's and everything - it must be very new is it - you haven't taken the sizing and "death will result in blah blah" stickers off of it yet!0 -
nice bike!
How much dose it cost to enter the etape. I am very intrested in trying it next year. From what I can tell from the pics looks like your going for it with a double !.0 -
gkerr4 wrote:what model roubaix is that - it looks the same paint job as my s-works 08 frame but it has a decorative layer of carbon on the top where mine is just the functional stuff lacquered over.
it has the same quick-step logo's and everything - it must be very new is it - you haven't taken the sizing and "death will result in blah blah" stickers off of it yet!
It's the Roubaix Expert 08. As for stickers, I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the dircection this thread is taking in terms of obsessive-compulsive disorder! Valve caps on or off, quick releases on the right side! Jeez! Life's too short! 0 -
muz250 wrote:nice bike!
How much dose it cost to enter the etape. I am very intrested in trying it next year. From what I can tell from the pics looks like your going for it with a double !.
It doesn't cost much to enter. But gettiong there and the accommodation is the real issue.
You don't need a triple! A compact (50/34) is perfectly adequate. Plenty of people do it on racing gear ratios.0 -
MegaCycle wrote:muz250 wrote:nice bike!
How much dose it cost to enter the etape. I am very intrested in trying it next year. From what I can tell from the pics looks like your going for it with a double !.
It doesn't cost much to enter. But gettiong there and the accommodation is the real issue.
You don't need a triple! A compact (50/34) is perfectly adequate. Plenty of people do it on racing gear ratios.
I take it the local hotels get full pritty quick / or put the prices up. How soon did you get it all sorted?. You takin a few weeks in france or going purely for the etape?. Just started thinking about the logistics, you,d need a hotel at either end.....0 -
muz250 wrote:MegaCycle wrote:muz250 wrote:nice bike!
How much dose it cost to enter the etape. I am very intrested in trying it next year. From what I can tell from the pics looks like your going for it with a double !.
It doesn't cost much to enter. But gettiong there and the accommodation is the real issue.
You don't need a triple! A compact (50/34) is perfectly adequate. Plenty of people do it on racing gear ratios.
I take it the local hotels get full pritty quick / or put the prices up. How soon did you get it all sorted?. You takin a few weeks in france or going purely for the etape?. Just started thinking about the logistics, you,d need a hotel at either end.....
Hi there.
I've done it for a few years now, but the organisers usually run buses to get you back to the start after the finish.
They also have a bar at the finish line...
Cheers, Andy0 -
MegaCycle wrote:gkerr4 wrote:what model roubaix is that - it looks the same paint job as my s-works 08 frame but it has a decorative layer of carbon on the top where mine is just the functional stuff lacquered over.
it has the same quick-step logo's and everything - it must be very new is it - you haven't taken the sizing and "death will result in blah blah" stickers off of it yet!
It's the Roubaix Expert 08. As for stickers, I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the dircection this thread is taking in terms of obsessive-compulsive disorder! Valve caps on or off, quick releases on the right side! Jeez! Life's too short!
sorry - i didn't mean to have a go at you about the stickers!
it's just the first thing I did when i got the s-works frame was take off the sizing, "made in taiwan" and the "blah blah death blah serious injury" stickers!
nice looking bike - in many ways it is actually better looking than my s-works as the decorative layer of carbon looks really nice - I can't help sometimes thinking that mine looks like a lump of plastic rather than nice carbon weave :oops:
you can't really tell in these pics but it's not the best looking finish on a carbon frame:
that said - I guess it does kind of go wel with the random weave finish of the carbon centaur bits0 -
you are quite right, of course, I have now remolved the yellow stickers.
By the way, does anyone know why they have Quick Step stickers? No one actually uses a Roubaix in competitions do they? Tom Boonen etc all use Tarmacs.0 -
MegaCycle wrote:By the way, does anyone know why they have Quick Step stickers? No one actually uses a Roubaix in competitions do they? Tom Boonen etc all use Tarmacs.
I believe at least one of the riders decided to use a Roubaix as he found it more comfortable.
But I can't find the article now.....0 -
i think someone did - wasn't it specialized's dream to have someone win paris-roubaix - on a roubaix.
i would imagine that the team would have been under some pressure to have a couple of roubaix frames in the mix.
the qs stickers look ok - glad they are on top of the laquer though - so we can get rid of them if we get sick of them or if specialized dump quickstep (or vice versa) next year.0 -
MegaCycle wrote:[It's the Roubaix Expert 08. As for stickers, I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the dircection this thread is taking in terms of obsessive-compulsive disorder! Valve caps on or off, quick releases on the right side! Jeez! Life's too short!
Nice bike-agree the point about the white tape and you're most of the way there to OCD and lining up your tyre labels with valves
QRs SHOULD be on the L
If you need a confidence booster/idea about the climbing for the Etape, I'm running some Etape specific training on Dartmoor on 15/16 April, and on 25/26
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Hang on - valves must always line up with labels. No argument. I'm sure I could find reasons to do with fading light and astigmatism... Onlookers will see it and cringe - but be too polite to mention it (except on this forum of course)0
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normanp wrote:Hang on - valves must always line up with labels. No argument. I'm sure I could find reasons to do with fading light and astigmatism... Onlookers will see it and cringe - but be too polite to mention it (except on this forum of course)
Thank you norman!
Let's see if we can't come up with a full set of ocd rules here:
- Labels/valves lined up
- QRs on LHS
- Bars taped from the ends towards the middle
- Tyres and wheels have to match each other
- Excessive steer tube must be sawed off
- Only one gadget on handlebars at very most
- Bike always photographed in large chainring, with tyre labels at 12 o'clock
- Preferably no riders in photo, and bike proped up by upturned wine glass under left hand pedal
- And clean please!
Any more? Keep 'em coming!
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Cheers, Andy0 -
andrewgturnbull wrote:normanp wrote:Hang on - valves must always line up with labels. No argument. I'm sure I could find reasons to do with fading light and astigmatism... Onlookers will see it and cringe - but be too polite to mention it (except on this forum of course)
Thank you norman!
Let's see if we can't come up with a full set of ocd rules here:
- Bike always photographed in large chainring, with tyre labels at 12 o'clock
Cheers, Andy
...........and in the small sprocket, when photographed
-no seat pack-OK a very tiny one at most
-matching dustcaps with the flashes on the wheel in my case
....you could start talking about Campag/Shimano but I'd rather not“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best..." Ernest Hemingway0
