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Whut?

Thanks marcola.

I'm just trying to work out how the hell the kmc is only £5-6 while all the other high end chains are £30-50.
I'm needing a track chain for a bike which will be ridden with a chain punishing 100 gear inches (or there abouts). Is the z510 still the prefered chice for herne hill?

Does not depend on the gear ratio. More on the size of front chainwheel and crank length.
This decides by what factor your power is multiplied...
Connecting skills also play a role.

Does not depend on the gear ratio. More on the size of front chainwheel and crank length.
This decides by what factor your power is multiplied...
Connecting skills also play a role.

Well i'l be starting with 50/15 and then increasing the gearing as i get stronger :)

thankyou for kind words people.
track is in manukau. south auckland represent n shit

that is a great film, shocking too.

just finished this unidentified conversion, could possibly be a claud butler...
its not the greatest bike around but i like it :)

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I know you guys dont like to match colours but I think the Fizik bar tape looks ok.

• puts head in oven
  

Plain white soyos FTW - Rest of the bike looks good IMO, though i would loose the halflink

KC, is it a full time job replacing your bar tape this often?

I only ask because it's a fairly demanding part-time job keeping up with you in this thread.

KC, you always manage to ruin it, don't you? Plain bartape would have been more than fine...

edit, the problem is, the bar tape looks to busy, it draws your eye away from the rest of the bike too much. Its a distraction from what is otherwise a lovely ride.

+1

the barber's pole and the stripy tape look cack together IMO

I'm intruiged as to what you do for a living, KC? You seem to be a bit of a perfectionist; incapable of letting something be finished, always tweaking.

Are you guys fucking serious? That thing is beautiful!

I'd be more than happy hanging it on my christmas tree.

It looks wank!

Black saddle
Black tyres
Black straps
Black tape
Black cable

....and lose the brake

....and lose the brake

What?
Why?

....and lose the brake

I know you guys dont like to match colours but I think the Fizik bar tape looks ok.

Surely that's all that matters?

KC, just stop posting pics of your bikes. You will never impress everyone - and people just seem to see you as a bit of a target now.
If a newbie posted that pic, they wouldn't get a grilling.

I'd ride it.

Incidentally, this is what I did to the Look which I gather KC had originally. Cack photo.

I'm intruiged as to what you do for a living, KC? You seem to be a bit of a perfectionist; incapable of letting something be finished, always tweaking.

He's a barber I think.

I don't think he's a target - he's more active here than most, so attracts more criticism and praise than most.

Personally I think he'd nailed it with the version above (black tape, Brooks etc), but then went a tinker too far and ruined it. There's no point saying "change it back"; he obviously likes his bikes to be constantly evolving - nothing wrong with that.

Incidentally, this is what I did to the Look which I gather KC had originally. Cack photo.

Looking good!

There you go, simples!

Great minds and all that! ;-)