Don't buy a Felt

Percy Vera
Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
edited September 2009 in Road buying advice
I hear they are badly designed.
Apparently the rear brake calliper is behind the bottom bracket (some sort of aerodynamic nonsense) and if your chain happened to come off it could quite easily knock the brake calliper out of line and end up rubbing the rim!

Could you imagine that happening in your local 10?! Think how much time you'd lose!

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  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things and 'apparently' is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    I think you missed the joke in that post, perhaps you are not upto date with cycling news?
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  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    redddraggon wrote:
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    I think you missed the joke in that post, perhaps you are not upto date with cycling news?
    Is this the Wiggins thing - if so, I apologise to Percy!!! He might have put a smilie :)
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  • wiIlhub
    wiIlhub Posts: 8
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    redddraggon wrote:
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    I think you missed the joke in that post, perhaps you are not upto date with cycling news?
    Is this the Wiggins thing - if so, I apologise to Percy!!! He might have put a smilie :)

    I was just about to write 'well i'd be worried if the rear caliper was in front of the BB'
    So i obviously missed something as well :?
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    Well spotted reddraggon

    Sorry I forgot my smiley thing :D
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things and 'apparently' is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    Jeez - I thought ozzies were supposed to have a sense of humour :roll:
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  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    Chip \'oyler wrote:
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things and 'apparently' is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    Jeez - I thought ozzies were supposed to have a sense of humour :roll:

    A few things:

    1 - I'm not Aussie (yet)

    2- You may consider it appropriate to create a thread to slag products off without having any previous knowledge, I don't. I've already highlighted that Percy Vera's post was vague and its obvious that I wasn't the only one who thought this. With the clarification and in retrospect, I and everyone else can now see the post for the prank it was intended to be.

    3-Anything else I'd say would be offensive towards you so I will stop here. :wink:
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Sounds like someone just got off the serious bus!

    So in simple terms then, was it di2 electric stuff, and was it the chain coming off really then?

    The caliper being down there is a good and simple idea surely on a TT machine too, so surely felt cant be criticised for that?
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    Chip \'oyler wrote:
    Top_Bhoy wrote:
    ......that is only your opinion based on hearsay. Creating a separate thread simply to slag off products based on 'hearing' things and 'apparently' is absolute crap. What I have to ask, is your agenda?

    Jeez - I thought ozzies were supposed to have a sense of humour :roll:

    A few things:

    1 - I'm not Aussie (yet)

    2- You may consider it appropriate to create a thread to slag products off without having any previous knowledge, I don't. I've already highlighted that Percy Vera's post was vague and its obvious that I wasn't the only one who thought this. With the clarification and in retrospect, I and everyone else can now see the post for the prank it was intended to be.

    3-Anything else I'd say would be offensive towards you so I will stop here. :wink:


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  • bobpzero
    bobpzero Posts: 1,431
    why didnt it happen to david millar & all the other garmin slippystream tt riders?
    just hope BW doesnt end up without a team.

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