Bike porn

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^ Why these cranks?... (training?)

maybe because they're very light?

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Ah, yule-tide track porn. Very good.

I like the Ti track porn!

what about this?

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Never knew BT stood for Belgian Team :-)

Just WOW, and look at the grin on his face, too!

Germans don't grin. His face is just flapping about from the moving air.

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I really hate the font used on the cranks.

I like the Ti track porn!

what about this?

anti

anti

The Mavic stickers just tip it, eh?

hey Tester, know of any carbon rear track wheels that aren't like £500? LIke an old Zipp or something?
I'm looking at building one with a no-name rim/converted shimano disk hub/dt spokes and it's going to cost about £300.

I really hate the font used on the cranks.

can you really see the font???

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anyway, million dollars question, how is the bike hold in the workbench???

hey Tester, know of any carbon rear track wheels that aren't like £500?

For actual track use, there's really no point in anything other than a disc. Six Day riders seem to like non-disc rear wheels, but nobody else does. Same goes for time trialling on fixed on normal courses; it needs to be either blowing a gale or going over mountains before anything else makes sense, and then you probably wouldn't be on fixed anyway. So my first question is: What do you want it for?

It's for riding Herne Hill this coming season. I'm building a new bike for the road and turning my current one into just pure track and want a rear wheel to go with my front Zipp 440.

So keep a look out for a nice second hand disc.

Alright, cheers.

can you really see the font???
anyway, million dollars question, how is the bike hold in the workbench???

The bike's held by the front wheel axle.... I guess.

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a hand-made frame from IKPN (indonesian frame builder for the athletes here)

It really gets on my tits when people set up their saddle like that.

Instead of getting annoyed, just laugh at them. It's nearly always a result of their putting the bars too low and the saddle too high, prioritising aesthetics over comfort, and then completely wrecking the aesthetic to make the thing ridable by dropping the nose of the saddle.