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Cotic aren't really that big, so adding a size is going to hit their bottom line fairly hard. anecdata, but I worked in bike shops for nearly ten years and I reckon I sold fewer than 5 60cm bikes

(and I did sell a lot of other sizes, before someone points out that I could just have been really shit at my job)

I forgot my irony emoji.
Having said that I stacked it into a wire fence on mile 60 of an 90 mile ride today. On 47mm slicks in SFAB, shame it wasn’t on the beach. So your point stands.

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It litterally isn't

What narrow gauge railway is that?

It’s the Bure Valley Railway. It runs between Aylsham and Wroxham, about 9 miles. It’s nice in a cardigan and slippers kind of way, much more fun to race the trains on your bike.
https://www.bvrw.co.uk/

Thanks. Will need to make a visit if I'm ever down that way.

Bonus points for getting the driver to honk/toot the horn. Are they still doing the resurfacing along the path?

Have we had this yet?

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One of the best things I've done with my MS is swap out those tyres, they're so draggy for slicks

Hertfordshire single track - cause and effect. It was ridiculously sloppy yesterday.

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True dat.
They seem to have stopped for now, the bit from cawston to about a mile or so outside Wroxham are still to be done. That’s the bit with bridges etc so I’m guessing they’ll leave that.

Yeah they’re not the quickest. I have the light/fast one and to be fair they roll better than the marathon plus on my commuter. (That’s not saying much I know)

That looks like a road drizzle more than slop fest.

Was out there on Friday, the thin and runny mud of the morning slowly turned into SFAB during the day as the sun removed some moisture from the ground!

Properly ground the side of my rear LB rim with some mud-leaves-natural-sandpaper stuck by the chainstays!

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I don't believe it and I can't tell what I'm looking at. Is that the bead of the tire that exposed at the top of the action? Is LB Light bicycle? Carbon? We need another picture and more explanation. Never seen nor heard of this before. Far out.

No bead exposed anywhere as far aa I can tell. What you see is the top of the Light Bicycle carbon rim, with the bottom of the Vittoria tyre side wall having a different colour on it from the rest of the tyre. The band on the side of the rim that looks like a rim brake braking track, where my fob is pointing at, is the bit of the side wall of the rim that got scratched by the mud trapped by the chainstays (despite the 8-9mm clearance).

Here is a picture of the non damaged side for comparison.

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Thats exactly what i thought you were saying. Absolutely incredible. I wonder if warranty would help. How many miles did this occur over?

as a kid i used to allow my pads to wear out beyond usable life span and damage my rims like this. Never in 35 years of riding have i seen this from mud over one ride - or any number of rides for that matter.

No chance of warranty with wear caused by smashing a bike through SFAB. How deep is the deepest groove?

what is SFAB?

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Shit from a butt

That doesn't sound right

Shit a brick! I once wore through the inside of a carbon fork leg, but that was over the course of a winter, I found out cleaning the bike for spring. But one ride, that must have been some extra crunchy peanut butter.

Seems impossible to have done that with that clean of a pattern with mud. A larger rock must have been jammed in there and packed in with mud, held in place and just slightly pushing against the rim for miles. Totally amazing and unfortunate. I'd ask about a replacement, maybe at cost.

Did you do the keg work on one of the mass purchases use that email and maybe you’ll get something…?