Wiggins Equipment Malfunction...........

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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Nowt wrong with them as far as I can see. Wouldn't buy one but might if comedown to sensible price levels. I thought I read somewhere that they have a failure rate of about one in million. Small comfort if you are whizzing down a mountain at 50...
  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Nowt wrong with them as far as I can see. Wouldn't buy one but might if comedown to sensible price levels. I thought I read somewhere that they have a failure rate of about one in million. Small comfort if you are whizzing down a mountain at 50...

    What on earth are you on about?
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    The brakes are not electronically controlled.
    My London Road
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,745
    Hah! just what they want you to believe! :evil:

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  • TakeTurns
    TakeTurns Posts: 1,075
    SoloSuperia wrote:
    Seriously though Sky's mechanics are going to be the best around aren't they?
    which points towards an equipment malfunction..............

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudyCkMaQcg

    Riiiight. That seatpost must've malfunctioned too. :lol:
  • meesterbond
    meesterbond Posts: 1,240
    jordan_217 wrote:
    One of Team SKY's mechanics have 'fessed up. Apparently he forgot to mount that thingy on the front of the bike that makes him climb faster, now what did he call it...Chris Froome

    :lol:
    Not enough appreciation for that gag!

    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Singlespeed it is then.
  • AchillesLeftKnee
    AchillesLeftKnee Posts: 713
    meesterbond wrote:
    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.
    After all the dropping this season, the real big risk when it comes to bikes seems to be to have a Schleck-operated one.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    meesterbond wrote:
    jordan_217 wrote:
    One of Team SKY's mechanics have 'fessed up. Apparently he forgot to mount that thingy on the front of the bike that makes him climb faster, now what did he call it...Chris Froome

    :lol:
    Not enough appreciation for that gag!

    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Singlespeed it is then.

    Too much to go wrong with all that freewheel business, fixed wheels all round with rod operated brakes!
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  • flasher
    flasher Posts: 1,734
    meesterbond wrote:
    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Not strictly true, Schleck won the 2010 Tour.
  • meesterbond
    meesterbond Posts: 1,240
    Flasher wrote:
    meesterbond wrote:
    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Not strictly true, Schleck won the 2010 Tour.

    :oops:
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    meesterbond wrote:
    Flasher wrote:
    meesterbond wrote:
    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Not strictly true, Schleck won the 2010 Tour.

    :oops:
    Blimey. A bit of revisionism going on.

    Contador won by about the same time that Schleck lost when he shipped his chain, but was subsequently banned and stripped of the victory.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tour_de_France

    It's clearly time to return to the days of a wheel with a single cog on each side and riders have to stop & flip the wheel to get the other ratio. No batteries, no cables, no fuss, no dramatic failures unless the wheel falls out due to a threaded fastener malfunction. It's the only way. All this progress is madness, on stilts.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    CiB wrote:
    It's clearly time to return to the days of a wheel with a single cog on each side and riders have to stop & flip the wheel to get the other ratio.

    That's the setup that Eugène Christophe had and look what happened to him!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,745
    CiB wrote:
    meesterbond wrote:
    Flasher wrote:
    meesterbond wrote:
    Presumably, given how Andy Schleck dropped his chain on a mechanical setup costing him the 2010 tour no one will risk cable operated either.

    Not strictly true, Schleck won the 2010 Tour.

    :oops:
    Blimey. A bit of revisionism going on.

    Contador won by about the same time that Schleck lost when he shipped his chain, but was subsequently banned and stripped of the victory.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tour_de_France

    It's clearly time to return to the days of a wheel with a single cog on each side and riders have to stop & flip the wheel to get the other ratio. No batteries, no cables, no fuss, no dramatic failures unless the wheel falls out due to a threaded fastener malfunction. It's the only way. All this progress is madness, on stilts.

    I think that was Flasher's Joke CiB...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • flasher
    flasher Posts: 1,734
    No joke, Schleck won in 2010.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,745
    ok, you re taking this way more seriously than I am...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Flasher wrote:
    No joke, Schleck won in 2010.
    :)
    Technically he won the 2010 TdF in 2012 after the bloke who won it in 2010 was stripped of it.

    Anyway. Where were we?

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