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Gaston will know.....

The 'gtfo' comment ranks alongside preferring a modded Fiesta to a vintage Ferrari, or a Mielec to a Roberts.

those wheel cover cranks can gtfo.

** Insert facepalm.gif here **

That's the second generation Starfish right? First one was even more bulky I think.

1st gen, second generation is slimmer in between the arms:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread54948.html#post4005216

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Not a great pic but awesome bike

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv268/elliott79/E96BAAD8-DFDE-4FBF-9796-3FD327771781-14348-0000156649C39B41_zpse7b87d49.jpg

the road version:

the race (competion nearly original set up) one:

Dat volare

those wheel cover cranks can gtfo.

Ya nob

Fave CX bike to date.

bring the action!

I quite don't like this front brake, I prefer look of cantis. But it's brake, it's not about looking.

Bow-legged V-brake seems redundant with skinny CX tyres, and it's an MTB brake, so modulation with road levers will be a bit off (as can be seen in the action pic :-) )

rusty chain?

Very NAHBS, but very rad.

^gold chain.

Wrong = > http://www.paulcomp.com/minimoto.html

And you should know, front V-brake with road bike lever, it's ok (cable and wire are really short, and the difference of run for the cable between V-brake et Canti, isn't problem). For the rear, it's another thing.

i just wonder if you realize who you're talking to here?..

Wrong = > http://www.paulcomp.com/minimoto.html

Fair point, but the shape remains idiotic, the more so given that their MTB brake has straight arms which should be curved while their Mini-V has curved arms which should be straight.

TRP CX8.4 is half the price and made by a company which knows how to stick to their knitting, placing the Paul ones firmly in the more money than sense camp.

And you should know, front V-brake with road bike lever, it's ok (cable and wire are really short, and the difference of run for the cable between V-brake et Canti, isn't problem). For the rear, it's another thing.

Cable length is irrelevant - MTB V-brakes with road levers have the wrong leverage ratio. Long, compressible, housings can make the position irretrievable, whereas short cables mean they will just about work, but not in a nice way. Some people might like brakes which can't be adjusted to give decent rim clearance without the lever coming back to the bar, but there's no accounting for taste.

long rear "sheath"

http://imalbum.aufeminin.com/album/D20081006/475761_LSDXI248RSE7TXBYNL7UG8J7HZQAD8_300px-kennethwilliams_H020213_L.jpg

I know MDCC-tester is a well-known person on this forum, I need to speak differently, otherwise he will eat me ?

not sure he eats the people that cross him. I would like to think he hangs them up in his hallway so he can sigh and pity their lack of knowledge each time he walks past.

According to Sheldon Brown french/english bicycle dictionary, "gaine" is "cable housing". I've always found it to be very useful for technical terms: http://sheldonbrown.com/fren-eng.html

pozidriv , have you used v-brakes with road levers?

I've Only used 105 brifters with deore v-brakes. But they were terrible.

I make mistake, he can do also.

It's a good job some people remember this. At school, the entire Physics class would wait until I had pronounced before deciding how to respond to the teacher's question, a largely successful ploy but on at least one occasion they all got the 'wrong'* answer by following my lead.

Why ?

The fork is closer to the tyre than the brake is. Any mud clearance gained by the curved brake arm is useless because the fork will already have scraped that mud off the tyre. On the other hand, MTBs have loads of fork clearance and usually a much bigger difference between tyre and rim width, so that curve in the brake arm could be beneficial.

One made in USA, and the other one in TAIWAN, I think it's a begin of explanation.

I had to explain to somebody else the other day, if quality is equal (and I'd say the TRP is at least the equal of the Paul by any objective criterion), it is better for your local economy to buy the cheap imported manufactured good and spend the balance on local services**. However, it's not just the location of manufacture which makes the TRP cheaper, it's their decision to make it by a superior method which is more capital intensive but has lower unit costs as volume rises.

*in fact, I was right because I was considering a realistic situation whereas the teacher was trying to make a different point with an insufficiently explicit question

**In the case of Americans buying Taiwanese product, there is a double benefit as making Taiwan rich enough to carry the burden of her own defence costs would make it easier for the USA to stop subsidising them.

**In the case of Americans buying Taiwanese product, there is a double benefit as making Taiwan rich enough to carry the burden of her own defence costs would make it easier for the USA to stop subsidising them.

There is no place for logical and reasoned economics when it comes to the gung-ho nationalistic types you know - foreign = bad

By relying on the USA security guarantee, Taiwan has a low defence expenditure as a proportion of GDP (about half the US rate), freeing money to invest in the productive economy.

Check out the Bi-lam headtube and forkcrown (Clockwork Bikes);

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I've not read any of the previous posts. Nor seen the two parts or companies which you are talking about so excuse me if what I said is incorrect or irrelevant.