Bike porn

Sugar's a really keen cyclist I've heard. Someone should tell him about Rapha.

thanks double T

only a front though. still nice

What the fuck is with Alans bars/brake levers?

What the fuck is with Alans bars/brake levers?

He prefers Shimano, but the bike came with Campy... so to get the high hood position he tilts the bars. Allegedly.

Surely a man of his wealth could find himself a DA group and a good mechanic

Love the levitating front wheel. Need one of those.

Ask Mohd Awang, he seems to have a source

This is a little one, he had it two feet off the ground yesterday

better, but he really gets it up when he's ahead

sold out and only 32h, :(

I can't find rears either? Or am I being silly?

sorry to quote from 4 days ago, but WTF were u expecting its a very undeveloped country, were you expecting a 5 star resort with coctails? I have spent a lot of time in Peru and Bolivia and would like to know why you think its a shit hole?

I spent two weeks in Ecuador in 1995 and thought it was amazing. And it wasn't nearly as undeveloped as I was expecting.

yep sorry. but some absolute porn. OMGLOLWTF those wheels on the merkx

Sugar's a really keen cyclist I've heard. Someone should tell him about Rapha.

From a surprisingly positive article about Siralan and cycling generally in the D*ily M*il

The article makes him sound like a really nice bloke but a 59t chainring?!??!

they have McDonalds actually, strange experience, knifes and forks and table service!!

pretty much, it may be a 3rd world country, but it's very americanised.

ed, have i missed a poste about your bike?
that bob jackson was it?
where is it?

Mysterious right brake lever.

probably left on becaue they like the hoods position

No! as amatter affect by cycling the movement loosens your pedal! this is also with BB cups. think of it: your righthand pedaltread is normal tread! imagine your bearing would be "fixed :D"

then imagine a forwrd cycling rotation, your pedal would come loose!

The right pedal has a normal thread, but the left pedal has a left (reverse) thread.
The reason for this is not obvious: The force from bearing friction would, in fact, tend to unscrew pedals threaded in this manner. The fact is, however, that it is not the bearing friction that makes pedals unscrew themselves, but a phenomenon called "precession".

You can demonstrate this to yourself by performing a simple experiment. Hold a pencil loosely in one fist, and move the end of it in a circle. You will see that the pencil, as it rubs against the inside of your fist, rotates in the opposite direction.

Ignorant people outside the bike industry sometimes make the astonishing discovery that the way it has been done for 100 years is "wrong." "Look at these fools, they go to the trouble of using a left thread on one pedal, then the bozos go and put the left thread on the wrong side! Shows that bicycle designers have no idea what they are doing..."

Another popular theory of armchair engineers is that the threads are done this way so that, if the pedal bearing locks up, the pedal will unscrew itself instead of breaking the rider's ankle.

The left threaded left pedal was not the result of armchair theorizing, it was a solution to a real problem: people's left pedals kept unscrewing! I have read that this was invented by the Wright brothers, but I am not sure of this.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_p.html#pedal

'sactly

From a surprisingly positive article about Siralan and cycling generally in the D*ily M*il

Fascinating article, I had no idea he rode a bike. That doesn't look like a 59 chain ring to me though, it looks just like a normal one. Also, the bottom of the article says:

"Campagnolo Bora carbon wheel set, with ceramic bearings: £1,900" when he quite clearly is using Zipps!

That doesn't look like a 59 chain ring to me though, it looks just like a normal one.

that's because the 59t is on his miami bike and this clearly isn't his miami bike.

Sugar's a really keen cyclist I've heard. Someone should tell him about Rapha.

They certainly should, just to get some more sedate colours. That Garmin kit looks bloody awful with 'The Prince of Spain' colour scheme!

feeling that. looks like fun.

Messy BIKE..

it took me a good few minutes to find the bike

what bike???

wipes dribble

thinking about either selling it, or giving it a face lift to this -

Would be metallic paint on matt rims.

think about either moving it to the current project thread, or receiving reams of readers wives comments.