2019 Pro Race Gear

shirley_basso

Stunning. Want.

ocdupalais

Shirley Basso wrote:

Stunning. Want.

Only cos it's got your bloody name on it.

gweeds

Shirley Basso wrote:

Stunning. Want.

The best looking bike of this lot. By a mile.

shirley_basso

Thing is I don't know know how much lower than a 16mm HT I can run for longer rides. And the money.

kleinstroker

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

joey54321

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Euro style? isn't the right hand the rear?

joey54321

I LIKE this. Aero gravel bike designed to take both 650b and 700 tyres

bobmcstuff

Which pros are going to be racing on that?

(I do like it as well...)

joey54321

bobmcstuff wrote:

Which pros are going to be racing on that?

(I do like it as well...)

Sorry, I got carried away :-p

inseine

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Because nearly everybody does, just us Brits who don't (and I assume other RHD countries ?)

cq20

inseine wrote:

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Because nearly everybody does, just us Brits who don't (and I assume other RHD countries ?)

The traditional Italian setup was right front brake / left rear brake. (Check some older Pantani photos) Don't know when they switched to right rear brake.

kleinstroker

inseine wrote:

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Because nearly everybody does, just us Brits who don't (and I assume other RHD countries ?)

Euro routing is front brake left, rear brake right, so a better cable route would be to have the entrance to frame on left hand side of top tube. The Basso frame is set up for left brake lever as rear. Unless you think cables shouldn't cross over steerer tube for a better line?

inseine

cq20 wrote:

inseine wrote:

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Because nearly everybody does, just us Brits who don't (and I assume other RHD countries ?)

The traditional Italian setup was right front brake / left rear brake. (Check some older Pantani photos) Don't know when they switched to right rear brake.

You appear to be right. That surprises me and even more so if he switched at some point (as you seem to suggest). I don't know how you ever retrain your muscle memory, I certainly can't.

kleinstroker

here's the answer

In the U.S., the law requires that all bikes are sold with the left hand controlling the front brake, and the right hand the rear brake. It’s the same in France. In Italy and Great Britain, it’s the other way around.

Didn't realise we aligned with Italy on this, learn something new every day

kleinstroker

Fizik Infinito R1 Knit



Fizik Infinito R1 Movistar

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Trek Madone SLR 2019

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Team Direct Energie Bikes. Nice

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12 Speed Campagnolo

Lanterne_Rogue

inseine wrote:

cq20 wrote:

inseine wrote:

kleinstroker wrote:

The Basso is nice but why have they routed rear brake on the right hand side?

Because nearly everybody does, just us Brits who don't (and I assume other RHD countries ?)

The traditional Italian setup was right front brake / left rear brake. (Check some older Pantani photos) Don't know when they switched to right rear brake.

You appear to be right. That surprises me and even more so if he switched at some point (as you seem to suggest). I don't know how you ever retrain your muscle memory, I certainly can't.

I swapped for a while to get a better (eg eusable) cable run on a singlespeed with narrower bars, but left my road bike set up conventionally. Was surprisingly easy to swap between the two, although I preferred right-hand front as it gives me more control/strength on the front brake when it's loaded up.

thegreatdivide

inseine wrote:

I don't know how you ever retrain your muscle memory, I certainly can't.

I had to hire a bike on the first day of my Alps trip this year after the one I took had a fit (fixed it later on that night thank feck). Came out the bike hire shop and went straight up the south side of the Colombier into a rain storm. Got to the top, turned round and started descending. Anyone that's been up the Colombier will know that the steepest part of the climb is the last bit up to the cafe. I started my descent down this on pretty much a river, touched what I thought was the front brake to scrub some speed and immediately went into a sliding speed wobble. Self preservation mode kicked in as well as a heap of panic because I had about 100m to the drop off the first hairpin so I tugged the brake and put the bike into an even bigger sliding fishtail. Miraculously I managed to stop without coming off the bike, just before the edge and promptly started retching.

F*ucking Euro brake set up.

When I rode the bike back to the hire shop on the last day, I had to stick a plaster on the right shiftier.

bobmcstuff

I didn't do anything that bad! But it does massively reduce my descending confidence. I tend to end up on hired bikes in Europe quite often cos I always end up tacking on cycling to family holidays etc.

above_the_cows

Two different set-ups works if your UK/Italian set-up looks like this...

kleinstroker

Chava's bike for the tour

above_the_cows

Groenewegen's special Amsterdam (and Dutch lion) Bianchi

Vino'sGhost

So what year will see only disc brakes?

gweeds

How is anyone supposed to know? It’ll happen when it happens.

kleinstroker

This might appear in Tour de France 2038 but not anytime soon

Direct drive 13 speed

gweeds

That’ll be nice and affordable as well.

FocusZing

gweeds

Sungod is in the details