Furry's new roadbike

Paves must always be green. The only coloured tyre you're allowed.

no no, none of that rules nonsense thank you.

Take a sharpie to those tyres, it's ruining the batman effect

No rules, just the way it is. They're available in black too, for people who don't want to advertise that they're running the best ever tyre.

How heavy are you to required that pressure??

Or were you just trying to stretch the tyres?

I have no intention of riding them at that pressure.

I will glue them then pump them up to the max advised PSI for a few days. Which is probably about 145PSI.

The thing about tubs is, that if you dont stretch them nice and even as you install them. You get slight unstrethed portions, which form slight bulges. I was a little worried that this would cause issues if clearance was tight. But it isnt. Still I figured I'd take them up to the max to check.

This^

I quite like them. Not for the colour as such. But because I associate the colour with epic efforts over shite roads in shite conditions.

Plus green was cheaper.

Thought as much, I did the very same with clincher too.

They glued up perfectly.

Partly due to the more forgiving alu mastik, partly due to the hig quality of the tubs.

I was a bit unsure about the climbing wheels. Alu rims, too few spokes, robust tyres. But now theyre all built up and tyre'd. I think they're going to be great.

You just reminded me to swap my tubs over (stretching some new ones).

I have some mental images of recent tub failures.

Latest was a FMB silky. Which I'd had on for ages, and used on far too many wet rides.

Heading to the car with the bike and my neighbour looks at my front tyre and freaks. I look down and theres a 4cm long segment that has ballooned 20% bigger than the rest. Must have been an allergy. Keep meaning to send the pic to FMB.

Hmm, Schwalbe One seem to be butyl, the Ultimo HT's were/are latex.

Really?

I was one one before I ditched the old worn carbon rims. Pretty sure it was latex. Held air for a while. But it had a can of pitstop in it.

Paves must always be green. The only coloured tyre you're allowed.

Yep, own it.

#keepcyclingweird

If you have Garmin's own mount you can always attach the junction box under it, instead of under the stem.

A heavily filed down K-edge is the only thing that will fit my bars.

The Tharsis will work perfectly I think. I may need slightly longer wires from my levers to the junction box if I want to put it in my steerer. Which makes sense, as then its accessible with minimal faff.

Out of interest are you swapping brake pads when switching between the crabons and the climbing wheels? I'm looking for some new training wheels at the mo but not sure whether to get crabon or alu rims so I don't have to swap pads, but then crabon rims aren't ideal for the winter slogging.

Definitely swapping pads.

Descending in shite weather is very doable on carbon. Especially these. But early spring the road dust in the surface water wears the rims to feck. The idea is that the alu set will give me loads more use from the carbon set.

Shimano pads seem to slid easy enough into my calipers. So it's not a big deal.

Dat bartape.

Cheers man - sounds like a plan.

The silver is gone.

The black stuff was 39nok. It's a bit shit.

But I'll be retaping to replace some Di2 cables. So might change it then.

The pads you use on your alu rims get full of metal. If you then use them on your carbon rims they wear them horribly.

Someone ran koolstop salmon on carbon rims, the pads have melted.

Even cork pads glaze if youbrake like a twat.

So far I'm happiest on the budget ones that you get with chinese rims. But I dont like grabby brakes. Have 8 in the parts bin.

I installed the tharsis stem,
lengthened my di2 cables,
Drilled a hole in my bars,
And made the front end super tidy.

Only a tiny loop of di2 cable showing behind the stem.

Having a garmin mount made that will bolt on to the lower bolts of stem faceplate.

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