Posh Wheelset?

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Imposter, you clearly don't know who I am... what have you won?

    I won the Fantasy Giro on a German website against 4,000 opponents in 2006, which did grant me an official Milram Jersey in size medium... if that is not enough to pontificate about races, I don't know what is... :wink:
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    I won the Fantasy Giro on a German website against 4,000 opponents in 2006, which did grant me an official Milram Jersey in size medium... if that is not enough to pontificate about races, I don't know what is... :wink:

    Bah, that's nothing. I won the '97 Cycling Weekly Fanatasy League, beating 7,000 people to win a Cannondale R4000!
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Bah, that's nothing. I won the '97 Cycling Weekly Fanatasy League, beating 7,000 people to win a Cannondale R4000!

    Finally someone qualified to talk... so Paul Curran: cycling legend or someone that history will bury as one of the many in the peloton?
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Bah, that's nothing. I won the '97 Cycling Weekly Fanatasy League, beating 7,000 people to win a Cannondale R4000!

    Finally someone qualified to talk... so Paul Curran: cycling legend or someone that history will bury as one of the many in the peloton?

    Can Paul or someone from Planet X please put this guy in his place?
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Imposter wrote:
    Can Paul or someone from Planet X please put this guy in his place?

    Look, jokes aside, this is what I mean, from Planet X website:

    SAB Montale Carbon Road Frame and Fork

    From £539.99
    £599.99
    free UK delivery on orders > £20

    The SAB Montale is a design classic- an Italian designed, full carbon engineering masterpiece. Its curved top tube equipped monocoque carbon frame tips the scales at under the magic 1000g benchmark, but this frameset is about much more than about light weight and high performance.

    The Montale is a stand out from the crowd piece of carbon beauty- like the finest Italian sports cars it's a coming together of performance and aesthetics.

    With no design corners cut, this is a high modulus race frame that competes with the world's best. More than just great looks, it's a no compromise race frame of the highest calibre and available exclusively through Planet X in the UK thanks to our continued distribution of the legendary San Marino bike builders

    When they asked for people's support last year to buy a Legendary Italain brand, I didn't expect it to be SAB... I thought it was Guerciotti or Benotto or Ciocc...
    That even ignoring the fact that San Marino is San Marino and not Italy... :wink:
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  • mamba80
    mamba80 Posts: 5,032
    Well im not from PX but Paul Curran was a very well known and respected rider in the 80s, won loads of stuff and did most of it as an amateur ....ok he wasnt a outstanding pro rider like an Hinault, Roche or Lemond but he did very well, lack lustre is just insulting - but what i find depressing is that a mod can get involved in a thread about wheels and twist it into rubbishing a company and a rider - its got fugg all to do with the OP's questions.

    Get Mavics :) women rarely stresses wheels in the way a fat bloke can, so they last for ever!

    the OP isnt interetsed in PX frames is he ?
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    mamba80 wrote:
    but what i find depressing is that a mod can get involved in a thread about wheels and twist it into rubbishing a company and a rider - its got fugg all to do with the OP's questions.

    Don't sweat the small stuff Mamba... the thread about posh wheels was going nowhere like Thegreatdivide correctly pointed out a few posts ago and has been buried, despite Mavic's very own staff attempt to bring it back to life.
    An attempt to convert it into "what's new and innovative in the bicycle world" could be an interesting diversion, if people stopped getting fussed about the details of a rider been successful or not, which frankly is completely irrelevant

    BTW: I love Planet X and I do mean it!
    left the forum March 2023
  • mamba80
    mamba80 Posts: 5,032
    ...then lock it down? Im afraid you were the one that bought up PC and no one else :) whats new and etc etc wasnt the direction the thread was going
    - as i said in an earlier post, Wheels/tire and similar belong in their own section, every day someone brings up the same Q asked in a different way, mixing them all in with general buying advice is just asking for repetitive Q's.

    Start a new thread if thats the Q you want to pose ?
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Fair enough, I might...
    That said, you can't lock and delete all threads that go off topic... at the end of the day it is a free discussion place. We lock the threads where people keep insulting each others or bring up topics which are inappropriate to be discussed in an open space
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    It's only 4 pages long - needs at least 6 before the hammer comes down...
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    We lock the threads where people keep insulting each others or bring up topics which are inappropriate to be discussed in an open space

    You mean like the ones you posted in this thread? (Be honest now - you walked into that one)
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Imposter wrote:
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    We lock the threads where people keep insulting each others or bring up topics which are inappropriate to be discussed in an open space

    You mean like the ones you posted in this thread? (Be honest now - you walked into that one)

    No imposter... I think we have gone through this before, but we might as well share it again. Two things are not tolerated

    1) abusive behaviour
    2) inappropriate content, like soft/hard pornography or offensive images and language

    Surprisingly for you, what you call trolling, like someone posting something completely off topic is not regarded as an offence worth bothering... or in other words we are not here to patrol those who are obsessed about Power Meters or other trivialities. If the post gets reported, we might decide to delete it without making a big fuss... there is freedom of speech after all, within reason.
    Also, opinions on current and past cyclists are tolerated... for example one can say that PC was a lackluster or crap cyclist without breaking any rule of the forum, while if someone insults him because he says that, then he breaks the rules.... but with a bit of help you have got that part already... :wink:
    Also had someone said that a certain cyclist was a paedophile, then things would be a bit more complicated in the absence of overwhelming evidence and it would be unacceptable trolling... BUT saying that one cyclist was doped is tolerated in the right context, as it is a forum of discussion about cycling matters after all.
    In simple words, I can delete my posts about PC if you ask me to, as they are not relevant to the topic discussed, but that's as far as it goes...
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    No - I think your comments about Paul Curran should remain on the forum. They do, after all, say far more about you than they do about him.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Imposter wrote:
    No - I think your comments about Paul Curran should remain on the forum. They do, after all, say far more about you than they do about him.

    Sure, I will leave them then... I would also appreciate if you tried to get the message I wanted to come across, which has nothing to do with the person in question

    (pathetic attempt to drag the thing on and on)
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    No - I think your comments about Paul Curran should remain on the forum. They do, after all, say far more about you than they do about him.

    Sure, I will leave them then... I would also appreciate if you tried to get the message I wanted to come across, which has nothing to do with the person in question

    (pathetic attempt to drag the thing on and on)

    Not sure what you mean - if you hadn't posted such crass nonsense to start with, I wouldn't even have felt the need to post on this thread. Please don't blame me for the way this is turning out for you. Anyway, I will leave it now.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    The only person I see on this thread (about wheels) not even bothering to try and post anything relevent is.....oh. that will be........ Imposter.

    Seems a little ironic that the person complaining about irrelevant posts is the very person who has not mentioned wheels at all! It did make me chuckle :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    smidsy wrote:
    The only person I see on this thread (about wheels) not even bothering to try and post anything relevent is.....oh. that will be........ Imposter.

    Seems a little ironic that the person complaining about irrelevant posts is the very person who has not mentioned wheels at all! It did make me chuckle :-)

    This thread should have been locked after the 2nd post. I won it.
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    SloppySchleckonds wrote:
    This thread should have been locked after the 2nd post. I won it.

    Nah, Chris King are overpriced and overrated. There I said it, que the flame :mrgreen:
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    They sound lovely though.
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    They all sound the same in the garage or when pedalling :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Chris King?

    Look, they are massively discounted on Planet X... the front is 60% off the RRP (of the rear)... :wink:

    http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HUC ... 5_road_hub
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  • blinddrew
    blinddrew Posts: 317
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Chris King?

    Look, they are massively discounted on Planet X... the front is 60% off the RRP (of the rear)... :wink:

    http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HUC ... 5_road_hub

    You're not helping yourself Ugo! :wink:
    Music, beer, sport, repeat...
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    blinddrew wrote:
    You're not helping yourself Ugo! :wink:
    Possibly...

    Lace them to a pair of Nemesis, great rims, at Planet X, discounted from 93.99

    http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HUS ... 0_road_hub

    Except the RRP for Nemesis is not 94 but 85... as correctly pointed out here

    http://www.ukbikestore.co.uk/product/59 ... r-rim.html

    So the Planet X discount is in fact negligible...
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  • Supergoose
    Supergoose Posts: 1,089
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    Rock 'n' Roule
  • Camcycle1974
    Camcycle1974 Posts: 1,356
    Genius.
  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Chris King?

    Look, they are massively discounted on Planet X... the front is 60% off the RRP (of the rear)... :wink:

    http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HUC ... 5_road_hub

    I noticed that. Perhaps because they're the previous, non-11 speed option? It doesn't specify.

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