2015 Bikes

You should get a BMC

I've dismantled the BMC and am in the process of selling it

Yeah, you hardly ever ride that bike lately :-)

All the #rep for the alp-smash @Smallfurry.

Have they published the new (low stack) S5 geo charts?

Cheers Miro_o feeling totalled now. Hence being able to dismantle the bike without getting upsett.

The BeeMC has been awesome. It does what more up to date frames do With improved BB, and headset standards, With a little weight penalty. Which I've basically upgraded out of it anyway. I past 80kph a few times in the alps, and while I didnt really trust my Budget brake pad/ Budget carbon rim combo totally. The frameset handled, as they say, like it was on rails.

I'd jump on a low stack S5 if the front end stiffness has been improved. Have they moved to tapered steerer like the S3?

Probably off Budget. But I plan to ride the fixie skidder till april/may now anyway./turbo duties. I'll be fat biking it mainly I Guess.

Looks like http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cervelo-s5-aero-road-bike-relaunched-for-2015

Thats exactly the blurb from the 2014 S3.

'one of Our engineers found out theres a brake caliper on the front fork of bikes. Which made the super skinny headtube a bit silly. So we fattened the front end so the bike doesnt steer itself Down hills'

Paraphrasing of course.

Ah i thought I saw something on the lines of tapered steerer somewhere .. I guess given the UCI status of it they dont want to pursue it seriously ..

A lot of it is the ability to fit 25mm tyres.

Theres a lot of BS spouted about why the pros used the S3 so much. When the R5 and S5 are offically the top end bikes. I'd Guess at not needing the lightness of he R5 under UCI rules, and wanting 25mm tyres as an option.

All -17 stems are going to mtn qhubeka this year ..

Not noticed it on the Genesis site anywhere or here, perhaps I missed it, but here's the new Volare frameset -

stupid geo

spits

Now that I've sold my track bike I'm thinking of ripping about town on one of these:

http://www.konaworld.com/humuhumu.cfm

Any thoughts?

^ is it fixed? if you want to change the chainring from current 36t to something bigger where can you get compatible chainring?

That looks like a 104bcd crank, so any mtb middle ring ( up to about 40t ) would probably fit ok, depending on chainstay clearance.

Or an outer ring, in place of the chainguard ( up to about 48t ).

in that case i would snap up the bike. 600 quid is ok i guess for it's got two disc brakes and frame looks strong

Until they bring back the Smoke, Kona are dead to me. Dead.

It was easily the best value OTP hybrid and I pointed a bunch of people to it over the years, but they killed it off. Bastards.

On a more positive note, the London Road frameset could be the solution to my 'cross frame problems. Zesty Lime, natch.

Until they bring back the Smoke, Kona are dead to me. Dead.

Fuckin' A, it was basically a classic MTB with big slick tyres, I really loved mine as it's my first proper bike.

They replace the Smoke with a World (same bike, but 3 speed internal) but they killed that one off too.

Closet one would be the Kona Coco, why they didn't make a men version I have no idea, the 1x9 drivetrain make a lots of sense.

'Trouble is. What I need is a great climbing / decending bike. But what I want is a fast looking aero bike.'

It's about the rider not the bike. I can out descend people, on carbon racers, on a loaded up touring bike.
Just get a bike you like the look of from a good company. No bike will make you a better rider in any way. So get one you like.

Preaching to a buyer...

No bike will make you a better rider in any way.

Yes. Don't.