Current Projects chat and miscellany

Q. regarding carbon seat posts and carbon-railed saddles:

I'm 100kg. Will they be alright? Are they more comfortable? Worth the weight savings etc? Do you need a certain type of rail clamp on the seatpost to make sure it is ok for carbon rails?

Considering them for my CP.

Fatter tires are cheaper and safer.

That's around the sort of weight that you see limits set at, so I wouldn't be happy using anything that wasn't specifically rated as safe.

Pretty futile and expensive exercise, compared with the alternatives.

Will they be alright?
Are they more comfortable?
Worth the weight savings etc?
Do you need a certain type of rail clamp on the seatpost to make sure it is ok for carbon rails?

1. Some of them will be, my SLR Kit Carbonio is still alive
   
2. I don't think so, when compared like for like with the Ti rail version
   
3. No
   
4. For some seat posts and some saddles you do
   

anyone know what the best 700 x 35c white walled tyres are? if there is such a thing.

New saddle, stem and bars. Still waiting on a new seatpost and my own rear wheel.

love that bike... leccy tape the rear braking surface and desticker the front wheel?

anyone know what the best 700 x 35c white walled tyres are? if there is such a thing.

Tanwall Pasela's?

Did The paint myself, thomson seatpost in The mail

cleaned up and lost the beater pedals, and got a bit of old leather to wrap spare inner tube, air and pump pack, the old one looked somewhat ungainly

sry, cross post, pretty much finished my RIH finally. My short distance commuter and semi grocery getter

Got a flat on the mavic disc and had to switch setup now with mavic starfish cranks and campa record rear wheel. I have a mavic headset and a chorus c record both a bit tatty which one to put on ?

love that bike... leccy tape the rear braking surface and desticker the front wheel?

Yeah do it! #Fucklaner

My wheels can't be destickered, I don't think, as the decals are under the lacquer and I'm not sure about the process of stripping it and relacquering. All I know is it's more than I can be arsed doing, and it lives at HHV now so I can't do a lot of tinkering.

I might just rattlecan the rear wheel.

Hmm, is the Tennersboard™ about to become the new method of measuring saddle - bar reach?

Tanwall Pasela's?

Yeah got them on my bike but the are for my gf and she wants white walled. :(

1. Some of them will be, my SLR Kit Carbonio is still alive
   
2. I don't think so, when compared like for like with the Ti rail version
   
3. No
   
4. For some seat posts and some saddles you do
   
   

Cheers man. Quite like the look of the FSA K-Force 25mm set back posts. The Thomson layback is ugly.

The red paint tcx up there looks fun. Saarf's nago is of course tasty too.

I also need a clamp on downtube cable stops, the cable guide I rigged up didn't work.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/origin8-clamp-on-double-frame-cable-stop-prod26491/ - Is nice and cheap and did the trick for me.

Q. regarding carbon seat posts and carbon-railed saddles:

I'm 100kg. Will they be alright? Are they more comfortable? Worth the weight savings etc? Do you need a certain type of rail clamp on the seatpost to make sure it is ok for carbon rails?

Considering them for my CP.

1. Some of them will be, my SLR Kit Carbonio is still alive
   
2. I don't think so, when compared like for like with the Ti rail version
   
3. No
   
4. For some seat posts and some saddles you do
   
   

I weigh in at an unenviable 105kg and bent the rails of my 2013 Flite with hollow Ti rails, so maybe something with solid Ti rails (if you can find anything)?
I've been using an Easton EC70 seat post and carbon railed Arione since and works ok, but not the comfiest of saddles.

I weigh in at an unenviable 105kg and bent the rails of my 2013 Flite with hollow Ti rails, so maybe something with solid Ti rails (if you can find anything)?

Filling in the hole in the middle of hollow rails hardly adds any strength. Rail bendage is a matter of torque, so it requires both a force and a distance. If you find a post which puts the clamp near the middle of the rails rather than at one extreme or the other, the chance of bendage is much reduced.

The red paint tcx up there looks fun. Saarf's nago is of course tasty too.

very kind of you Squire!

Just got round to taking a photo of my CF SLX that I built up over the winter. I picked up the frame last September and finished it around Febuary, biding my time for the parts to come up within my student budget; all up came to about £1200.

Shame the garmin mount and un-cut steerer ruin the front end a bit.

I weigh in at an unenviable 105kg and bent the rails of my 2013 Flite with hollow Ti rails, so maybe something with solid Ti rails (if you can find anything)?
I've been using an Easton EC70 seat post and carbon railed Arione since and works ok, but not the comfiest of saddles.

Was looking at the Aliante, but not sure if to go with Kium or carbon braided rails. Got an old Turbo on the current bike, which is ok for short rides, but not great for longer ones. Always used SDG Bel Air before that.

Mildly annoyed... just bought a SRAM quick view mount for my road bike and a ZIPP TT quick view mount for my TT bike and neither work with my 910xt.

I thought they worked with all 1/4 turn garmin mounts but it seems that the 1/4 turn mounts on the 910xt are rotated 90º and the head unit ends up on its side. Also the mount is slightly overbuilt on the SRAM one so the 910 won't fit at all.

Can someone recommend a pair of quick view mounts that will actually work?

Listened to advice for a change and purchased some fatter tyres rather than buying new wheels (hehe)

Substantially cheaper at Sigma than anywhere else at £36.99. If I like them I may have to go back for more at this price. Not sure how I feel about them aesthetically, but then again I don't really care. I desperately need to adjust the bar angle as it's quite difficult to be comfy in the drops right now - then again I'd like some FSA Omega's instead of these PX Strada's as the drop itself is much longer on the Omega's IIRC. Also tempted to get a -17 deg stem. Nowhere near enough bar drop right now.

PS soz for shit pic