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I think it must suck to be told exactly what kit to use sometimes. Your favorite wheels? Not sponsor's cant use them! Saddle? Nope. Bars? Nope.... etc.

There's been a lot of re-stickering of stuff over the years though. Still happens. Sky running HED rims with Shimano decals, etc., saddles plastered with competitors' logos (or anonymised a la Boonen's Regal). You don't tend to get the rebadged frames so much any more though. Was a bit less obvious in the steel era.

Didn't some Peugeot riders actually ride Masi frames (including the M shaped BB cutout) with PX10 decals on them?

Saddle? Nope. Bars? Nope.... etc.

Not many teams have saddle sponsors, that's usually a rider decision for obvious reasons, and some riders have personal saddle sponsors. Same with shoes and sometimes pedals too. Handlebars? If you're a big enough star, your cockpit sponsor will make whatever shape you want and then sell it as a Signature Line

WTF happend to that Marino fork!?

nice, that diamant, more pictures? (and cranks dont fit.)

needs more like this with single ring.

that marino looks tough! the discs look fragile though, but very nice

Seatstays like that don't work with cables going over the toptube. And rightside front brake with a caliper designed for leftleg? Why?

I kinda like the spokecolouring though.

rightside front brake with a caliper designed for leftleg? Why?

To eliminate the risk of wheel ejection

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To eliminate the risk of wheel ejection

Useful information right there sir!

To eliminate the risk of wheel ejection

And increase the risk of caliper detachment.

Seems less likely for the wheel to eject on a bike with "skinny" tires and mechanical brakes with limited braking power.

And increase the risk of caliper detachment.

Seems less likely for the wheel to eject on a bike with "skinny" tires and mechanical brakes with limited braking power.

Pulling at the calipoers mounting bolts isnt going to be any different to pushing at them. Still the same shear force.

Mechanical discs have more than enough power to lock a front bicycle wheel. So the forces are the same.

A bolt through front hub seems like a nice solution though.

Why not just have a pip on the fork ends, to keep the QR honest?

Post Mount calipers (to some extent) also rely on Friction forces since they are partly pushing towards the mounts. When braking these are increased on a normal setup and therefor helping. When mounted the other way round these will decrease.

Shear forces are almost equal but you'll add pulling forces on the caliper aswell. The caliper is most likely designed for pushing forces so this could have an effect on the functionality of the caliper.

Ok, so maybe its not a catastrophy but I think its a bad solution to an almost nonexisting problem (for crossbikes).

Maximum braking forces will be exerted when braking on pavement and most mechanical brakes will not be powerfull enough to lock the wheel. Atleast the ones I've tried.

I use a slowrelease on my CX bike with discs. Its the halo ones. http://images.jensonusa.com/large/hu/hu295z12blk.jpg
They have small lips on the "nut" end so it should be less likely to undo itself.

^^ Because the (alleged) problem involves the QR unwinding, so that wouldn't help.

I love the Marino. That's how the On One Pompetamine Kaffenback should have looked.

Putting the caliper on the drive side seems like the obvious solution. In fact putting it on the NDS seems as daft as French Bb threading -why did that ever seem a good idea?
Of course this is the first time it's ever occurred to me - I've never owned a disk brake bike.

Maximum braking forces will be exerted when braking on pavement and most mechanical brakes will not be powerfull enough to lock the wheel. Atleast the ones I've tried.

I have cheap tektro jobbies on a fecking heavy cargo bike, running 2.5" hookworms. I can lock the front on the road fine. Although I do have a beefy 203mm disc.

Its a good point though. The point of traction loss on a cx bike is probably a lot less than a MTB with far fatter, and knobblier tyres. So there's lees force at the point of wheel lock.

This style of front hub/drop-out looks like a neater, if massively over-built for the use, solution to me.

Not massively overbuilt at all. They're trials bikes. It needs to be able to lock the whell easily and not have any hint of slippage.

^^ Because the (alleged) problem involves the QR unwinding, so that wouldn't help.

Why would it unwind? If it did, I'd imagine there'd be an issue with the QR.

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I have cheap tektro jobbies on a fecking heavy cargo bike, running 2.5" hookworms. I can lock the front on the road fine. Although I do have a beefy 203mm disc.

Thats a suprise to me. Should depend slightly on tyrepressure, but still.

Why would it unwind? If it did, I'd imagine there'd be an issue with the QR.

Now imagine with the benefit of the information linked to on this page...

To eliminate the risk of wheel ejection

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