Itboffin's next bike?

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited September 2009 in Commuting chat
Come on let's apply the pressure.

He owns a small arsenal of bikes, rides 100miles as a warm up. Has willingly ridden to London from Wiltshire. He's built a TT bike. Where/what next?

The next step is carbon.

It's time ITB. It's time. :wink:
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Titanium is the way forward. You all know it.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    For the distances he likes to ride, another vote for Ti.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Strange I already came to that conclusion in fact i've started buying parts :wink:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Frame? Van Nicholas? Litespeed? Lynskey?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    NO!!!!!!

    Carbon carbon carbon!

    Though, even I'll have to give the man props for Ti...
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Litespeed Archon mmm tasty :roll:
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    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    NO!!!!!!

    Carbon carbon carbon!

    Though, even I'll have to give the man props for Ti...

    Carbon is sooo last season dahling, Metal is where it's at now. 8)
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    itboffin wrote:
    Litespeed Archon mmm tasty :roll:

    Beautiful.

    I might have to start a "What frame material" poll. :)
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    I know nothing but I know it has to be Ti :)

    Like ITB it will go on for ever.
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  • pigeon42
    pigeon42 Posts: 98
    Where's the "I don't care what it's made of, what about the colour?" option?



    :D
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    He should get some new inner tubes first. :)
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  • Mr Sworld
    Mr Sworld Posts: 703
    Well according to the 'Silly Weight Loss' thread IT Boffin should buy a steel frame to support the amount of food he eats! :wink:


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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    StuAff wrote:
    He should get some new inner tubes first. :)

    :lol::lol: Nice choice with the Ti tho, certainly the ideal material for someone on such a high mileage - there was a gorgeous "naked" Ti frame @ GB Cycles last time I was in there.......hmmm......why on earth you'd paint one I don't know!!
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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    itboffin wrote:
    Litespeed Archon mmm tasty :roll:
    My Ti of choice. Nice one.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Why not just get old school solid rubber tyres?... no more punctures
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Why not just get old school solid rubber tyres?... no more punctures

    My dad had one of them in the 90's when they were cool again, not comfy but did the job. I wonder if you can still get them.

    Edit: Word! http://www.greentyre.co.uk/28inch.html
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    prawny wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Why not just get old school solid rubber tyres?... no more punctures

    My dad had one of them in the 90's when they were cool again, not comfy but did the job. I wonder if you can still get them.

    Edit: Word! http://www.greentyre.co.uk/28inch.html


    OOoooooooooh cool! I might get some of those. It would help to allay my pinch flat fears...
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    prawny wrote:
    My dad had one of them in the 90's when they were cool again, not comfy but did the job. I wonder if you can still get them.

    Edit: Word! http://www.greentyre.co.uk/28inch.html

    Hmm, the lightest of those is actually pretty light. Not far off the weight of a normal tyre/tube/rim tape combination.

    I want to try a set now.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Not sure what the new ones are like to fit but the first incarnation of the green tyres were a ba$tard to fit as there is no give in the tyre atall, the technique needs lots of washing up liquid. Took 2 men 20 minutes of struggling and swearing to get one tyre onto an mtb rim. From reports back from the rider the rolling resistance is high, you pedal downhill and freewheel for all of 20 feet before having to pedal again and worse than normal tyres on white lines and wear to a nice square profile.
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Yeah I found that site though a review site that said it was like riding with flat tires. Good for an MTB/tourer though I spose, would fancy the drag on my road bike, also my dads old one killed his rear wheel.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Get him scoot along balance bike with solid tyres. End of visits from PF. Simples.
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    prawny wrote:
    Yeah I found that site though a review site that said it was like riding with flat tires. Good for an MTB/tourer though I spose, would fancy the drag on my road bike, also my dads old one killed his rear wheel.

    On a mountain bike, I'd want enough squish in my tyres to be able to corner/grip stuff properly.

    Road bikes would be the logical place where you'd put them (if you'd put them anywhere - I'm not especially convinced), given as people seem to inflate their tyres to high enough pressures that they may as well be solid.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Aidy wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Yeah I found that site though a review site that said it was like riding with flat tires. Good for an MTB/tourer though I spose, would fancy the drag on my road bike, also my dads old one killed his rear wheel.

    On a mountain bike, I'd want enough squish in my tyres to be able to corner/grip stuff properly.

    Road bikes would be the logical place where you'd put them (if you'd put them anywhere - I'm not especially convinced), given as people seem to inflate their tyres to high enough pressures that they may as well be solid.

    The new ones have little bubbles in to make them like real tyres and as a resulf they're too soft, like MTB tyres, rock hard punture proof rubber would be great.

    From the website
    Greentyres are produced from one piece of micro-cellular polyurethane. There's no inner tube, only millions of tiny air cells that give Greentyres a comfortable and puncture free ride.
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