2018 Gear

ridgerider

Just on a train so limited www access, but the pictures of that storck Aston Martin bike do show how ugly the etap rear mech is!

Just saying...

pinno

Fugly:

ridgerider

No offence intended to any etap rear mech owners, but it is not an elegant accessory to a bike...

RichN95.

Pinno wrote:

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

each to their own !

I wouldn't have those but I do have Oakley's.

Well if you do want to look like Andy Hampsten...

When I was about 16, I very much wanted to look like Andy Hampsten. Or Charly Mottet. Or Ronan Pensec

pinno

I liked Charly Mottet. He looked so incongruous on a bike though.

RichN95.

Pinno wrote:

I liked Charly Mottet. He looked so incongruous on a bike though.

There was a picture of him in Winning magazine on his way to victory in Lombardy which at the time I thought was the coolest a man could look on a bike

pinno

RichN95 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

I liked Charly Mottet. He looked so incongruous on a bike though.

There was a picture of him in Winning magazine on his way to victory in Lombardy which at the time I thought was the coolest a man could look on a bike

Funny that. My idols were Jean Francois Bernard, Kelly, Roche, Bugno, Raul Alacala, the classy Argentin and later, Gilbert Duclos Lassalle.
Yes, I remember 'Winning' magazine. I still have the edition with Roche winning the Tdf except I cut pictures out of it and stuck them in my school jotters. :roll:

inseine

All the chat about 1x11 aside (although the 9-32 cassette is pretty wild) this looks great;

johnboy183

So have disc brakes been allowed now for 2018 onwards?

pinno

johnboy183 wrote:

So have disc brakes been allowed now for 2018 onwards?

Uh?1 I thought that ^ was a gravel bike.

cougie

We've had discs in 2017. The first tour stage to be won on them.

So yeah we have discs for 2018.

johnboy183

I thought disc brakes were still only being trialled? Roompot were running all disc brakes then had to swap to rim earlier. Just wondering what aqua blue will do if the same situation happens

jimmythecuckoo

RichN95 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

each to their own !

I wouldn't have those but I do have Oakley's.

Well if you do want to look like Andy Hampsten...

When I was about 16, I very much wanted to look like Andy Hampsten. Or Charly Mottet. Or Ronan Pensec

Dag-Otto Lauritzen for me.

shipley

inseine wrote:

All the chat about 1x11 aside (although the 9-32 cassette is pretty wild) this looks great;

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when one of these is in a break and gets a rear puncture. Neutral service ?

darkhairedlord

Shipley wrote:

inseine wrote:

All the chat about 1x11 aside (although the 9-32 cassette is pretty wild) this looks great;

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when one of these is in a break and gets a rear puncture. Neutral service ?

I imagine every tiny stone is going to get jammed between the tyre and the frame.

inseine

darkhairedlord wrote:

Shipley wrote:

inseine wrote:

All the chat about 1x11 aside (although the 9-32 cassette is pretty wild) this looks great;

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when one of these is in a break and gets a rear puncture. Neutral service ?

I imagine every tiny stone is going to get jammed between the tyre and the frame.

We hd this chat back on page 7 (photos too). Maybe the gaps are so small that the frame 'cleans' the tyres? won't do much for the paintwork.

pinno

Shipley wrote:

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when one of these is in a break and gets a rear puncture. Neutral service ?

They get a wheel with a straight through 11-21 cassette on the flat stages, a 11-38 on the mountainous stages and a single speed when in the UK.

m.r.m.

Hahaha Hat!

inseine

AquaBlues rig for Roubaix?? ( yes i know it's a cyclocross bike, but it shows they've a solution for the tyre clearance issues that have been raised).

greasedscotsman

Looks like it's got mounts for a front mech hanger.

darkhairedlord

inseine wrote:

AquaBlues rig for Roubaix?? ( yes i know it's a cyclocross bike, but it shows they've a solution for the tyre clearance issues that have been raised).

Jeesus, what does it look like with it on the large sprocket?

pinno

What's with the asymmetrical chain stays?

inseine

Pinno wrote:

What's with the asymmetrical chain stays?

Sits the latest thing in gravel bikes. Allows shorter chainstays wirh wide tyres because there's no space between the tyre and the chainring with a straight chainstay.

rollemynot

inseine wrote:

AquaBlues rig for Roubaix?? ( yes i know it's a cyclocross bike, but it shows they've a solution for the tyre clearance issues that have been raised).

I wouldn’t bother... quite frankly this is the one of the worst bikes I have had the displeasure to see... never mind a pro bike is meant to be a marketing machine to boost sales.

rollemynot

delete

pinno

Rollemynot wrote:

I wouldn’t bother... quite frankly this is the one of the worst bikes I have had the displeasure to see... never mind a pro bike is meant to be a marketing machine to boost sales.

Surely not? Get rid of the silly green walled tyres and it wouldn't look too bad, Sort of. Maybe.

inseine

Pinno wrote:

Rollemynot wrote:

I wouldn’t bother... quite frankly this is the one of the worst bikes I have had the displeasure to see... never mind a pro bike is meant to be a marketing machine to boost sales.

Surely not? Get rid of the silly green walled tyres and it wouldn't look too bad, Sort of. Maybe.

Quite. That's quite a strong reaction to quite an interesting bike. People hate anything new

darkhairedlord

inseine wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Rollemynot wrote:

I wouldn’t bother... quite frankly this is the one of the worst bikes I have had the displeasure to see... never mind a pro bike is meant to be a marketing machine to boost sales.

Surely not? Get rid of the silly green walled tyres and it wouldn't look too bad, Sort of. Maybe.

Quite. That's quite a strong reaction to quite an interesting bike. People hate anything new

I had the displeasure of having to queue up next to a specialised roubaix last week. Truly the foulest mechanical creation since the rover City.

pinno

inseine wrote:

Pinno wrote:

Rollemynot wrote:

I wouldn’t bother... quite frankly this is the one of the worst bikes I have had the displeasure to see... never mind a pro bike is meant to be a marketing machine to boost sales.

Surely not? Get rid of the silly green walled tyres and it wouldn't look too bad, Sort of. Maybe.

Quite. That's quite a strong reaction to quite an interesting bike. People hate anything new

But the thing is, how much can we re-invent the wheel? There are so many variations of the same theme and like all things mechanical, alteration is minor and peripheral. Unless the UCI change the rules, boundaries of the current limitations will be found readily and improvements to the standard will always be marginal.
It's akin to the combustion engine which has received more engineering attention than any other mechanical device but had half of that attention been afforded to say Rotary engines, how much more advanced would the most common form of propulsion would the car have now?

You are in design, what do you think?

Back to the bike. A different paint job may have sold it to the luddites perhaps.

mfin

darkhairedlord wrote:

I had the displeasure of having to queue up next to a specialised roubaix last week. Truly the foulest mechanical creation since the rover City.