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Not sure you could do away with the biggest as they are pinned on to a carrier? Might be able to lose one of the smaller cogs though.

Disclaimer I've never used a SRAM road 11 speed cassette.

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Cheers! I'll take a look.

Just to put it in perspective, this is for a bike I fully anticipate to be stolen.

If I'm honest Im a bit skeptical that there's going to be a huge difference between the last 9 speed DA and the last 9 speed tigra.

For pre-6800 shimano id prefer to have exposed gear cables.

When I do it I use GT85 on the square taper, tighten it up, then give it a couple swift knocks with a mallet to ensure it's properly seated, then usually turn the crank bolt a couple more times to tighten it up. A torque wrench is ideal, but not necessary

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The weather forecast for the weekend (according to meteoswiss) is for it to be dry and cool, so cycling isn't out of the question. If yo haven't brought your bike, there are loads of places to rent a bike for free, look for signs that say Genève Roule. You leave them 50 or 100 CHF and they return the deposit if you return the bike on time and in good shape.

If you want to stay out of the cold air, there are some good museums. The Museum d'Histoire Naturelle has some good fossils and animal displays, while the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire has some good modern art, a few good Impressionist pieces, and and a fine selection of Renaissance weaponry. Both are walkable from the centre ville and open both Saturday and Sunday. The Cathêdrale Saint Pierre in the old town is worth a look, and round the corner from La Clémence on, a good place to have another beer or a latte.

If you like watches, stroll along Rue de la Confederation and check out the jewellers, also Rue du Mont Blanc.

A stroll along La Rade (the lake shore) to the Botanical Gardens will take a couple of hours if you allow time for checking out the plants and having an outdoor coffee at the restaurant in the gardens.

Carouge is a 10 minute tram ride from the centre, and has all kinds of characteristic little shops including a couple of very old style bike shops.

Drinking a beer on Place Molard and watching the passing parade is essential. On a Saturday afternoon, pretty much everyone in Geneva passes through there.

As for cheap restaurants, there aren't any, really. Restaurant Carnivore (literally a stone's throw from La Clémence) has some great ways to eat steak at a price. If you want to eat inexpensively (by Geneva standards) then try Da Raffaele in the Pâquis (down the hill from the main station) who do decent Italian traditional dishes and notably a very fine Pizza Salmone. The local specialty is Filets de Pêrche served with very finely cut frites, kind of an elegant way to make fish and chips.

The Steak Hâché (hamburger, but nothing like English hamburger - it's made with actual beef) is good everywhere, and generally less spendy than other choices.

If there's something specific you're looking for that I haven't mentioned, feel free to ping me.

I don't think that's correct, not with their road stuff anyway. I'm running a 10 spd rear derailleur with 11spd everything else and it works perfectly. The geo of the derailleurs are the same.

The geo of the derailleurs are the same.

That would mean the gap between the cogs on an 11 speed block is the same as a 10, assuming the shifters do pull the same amount of cable and Len's not telling us porkies.

Amazing!

Cheers I really appreciate all the info.

The 7800 series is 10 speed though, and ugly.

The 7800 series is 10 speed though, and ugly

Say whaaaaat!?

I don't think the gaps on the block are the same. Len must be telling porkies, as my setup works perfectly! The cable pull must be shorter on the 11spd shifters.

For reference.
Shifters: Force 22
Rear derailleur: Force 10spd
Cassette: Force 22 11-28

FFS len

It might be that the difference in cog gap size is so small that the slack the jockeys have can make up the difference.

But yeah I've never actually tried this stuff.

Hhmm, possibly. I hope not though, that would make me want to replace it.

Earlier this week I cycled through Burgess park early in the morning. There were a number of Lycra-clads bombing around, up and down the little hills etc. generally looking like they were doing a bit of impromptu cyclo-cross training before work.
Anyone know if this is a regular, organised thing?

I think its this crew: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYIlsXmFxJ5/?taken-by=sunday_echappee

Also @youramericanlover does it some times ..

@amey is right, those are the people. Mixture of sunday echappee and 5th floor. It's only a regular, organised thing if you're one of them.

What time were you riding through? I have done it a few times around 8am and tbh it's too busy with people for a serious looking session like they are attempting.

Might trying organising something again though, I'll put it in Dark if so....

It was maybe half 7? Didn't seem too busy, plus they were seemingly staying in areas away from peds - up and over the building, around the back etc.
Interesting.

Sounds like hill assist which my driving instructors car had. I hated it. He said it could be disabled... Worth a look in the manual!

I'm pretty sure that the cog spacing is different for 11spd but the 11spd shifters pull less cable per click, it's the ratio of cable pulled to cage movement that stayed the same from 10spd to 11spd meaning you can use either type of mech but the shifters have to match the cassette
TL;DR match shifters to cassette

Frequest flyers - if you had a 12 hour flight (london san fran) and the choice between lufthansa, united and virgin who do you go with?

Virgin then Lufthansa, in that order. Yes I did leave out United.

good to know

are https://poloandbike.com any good?

asking cause i saw one of the tripletriagle ones next to the bar and it looking correct, did not ride it tho ...

Been a while since flying to SF, but Virgin used to fly 747s but half of the upstairs was actually economy - worth seeing if that is still the case if they haven't switched to Dreamliners as upstairs is much quieter.