Any question answered...

And ultimately, incorrect

Ready salted is better than cheese and onion.

Seconded. Cheese & Onion is the worst flavour by far and should be replaced in multipacks with Pickled Onion Monster Munch.

Cheese and onion isn't a flavour, it's an offence.

Flamin hot or gtfo

Seconded. Cheese & Onion is the worst flavour by far and should be replaced in multipacks with Pickled Onion Monster Munch.

Prawn and crisps. Two things that should never, ever go together.

#shudders#

Just stick skinny tyres on the rims?

This.

Will work unless you go for campagnolo which is different.

But why do you want skinny rims? All the cool kids are rocking fat rims these days.

Unnecessary weight - it's going to be going up proper hills in mountains and the stock rims are heavy fuckers. Or maybe it's the tyres that are heavy? Is there such a thing as trying to put too-small tyres on them?

changing the tyres would be a noticable difference, what size do you have at the moment?

A big heavy puncture resistance tyres will feel quite slow and stiff, whether a light tyres the same size with no puncture resistance will feel smooth and comfortable.

I rode on Mavic A319 rims, it's not the lightest, but with a light supply tyres it feel fine.

The current ones are 32mm - Ritchey speedmax knobblies but not puncture-resistant (as they've made plain by puncturing already after under 100 miles, the fuckers).

So I could just chuck on some 25s instead and that'd all be ok? They wouldn't go pinging off on a descent, leaving me broken and bloodied at the bottom of some godforsaken ravine?

700x25c tyres will be fine as long as your rims are no more than 25mm outside width. Don't over inflate - with 700x25, tyre pressure in psi should be no more than your (rider+bike)weight in kg, and try a bit lower to start with to see how you feel.

Bothwell: you have an off the peg Crosscheck? The Richey tires are jokes, bin them, seriously. No really, THROW THEM AWAY.

The stock wheels will take 25mm fine, but Marathon Supremes in 28mm are a very good compromise.

The current ones are 32mm - Ritchey speedmax knobblies but not puncture-resistant (as they've made plain by puncturing already after under 100 miles, the fuckers).

they're 32mm knobblies which says it all, it's not the wheels, it's the tyres.

even a decent 32mm slick tyres will make a huge difference in term of performance and comfort.

Cool - I'll give it some new tyres and see how it feels then. Thanks guise!

they're 32mm knobblies which says it all, it's not the wheels, it's the tyres.

They aren't particularly knobbley. They actually roll OK... when they aren't getting punctured by blades of grass or pinch-flatting.

No idea why Surly ship what is ultimately quite a nice bike with such shit boots.

Carbon assembly paste, which to buy?

Bothwell: you have an off the peg Crosscheck? The Richey tires are jokes, bin them, seriously. No really, THROW THEM AWAY.

This ^.

I rode 4 races on Ritchey Speedmax clinchers and punctured in 3 of them.

Carbon assembly paste, which to buy?

Tacx

thank you sir,

this seems to be a bargainous deal...

Being as I'm on ribble I'm going to buy enough stuffs to get the 20% off offer. What bar time shall I buy for my fixed gear commuter? Just switched from risers to drops and want something comfy.

do they sell lizard skins bar tape?

what brake are you using? if only a cross top i would suggest getting proper brake levers with hoods to ride on

Brakeless, and no lizard skinz...

Fizik tape and get some of their gel inserts if you want extra plush.

You said you wanted to commute

So brakes and decent bar tape seem like a good idea.

I may well fit some eventually but at the moment I'm OK with carrying on without.

So they don't have lizard skins so trying to decide between these: Fizik or pro gel