Any question answered...

I'd like to run a Fizik Arione K:1 with a 3T Dorico seatpost.

Currently I am using a Ritchey WCS one-bolt seatpost, and I had to buy a special cradle as the rails of the K:1 are quite a pronounced oval, rather than the standard circular shape.

Is anyone running a K:1 with a Doric/o, or has anyone heard of this being done?

ProBikeKit say "no, it cannot be done", whilst Sigma say "should be no problem".

Cast your vote!

Condor reckon "yep that'll work".

However, they've not done it. Anyone running this setup?

Possibly made by De Rosa for Eddy about 1981. Note the dropout treatment with the De Rosa points. Also, has signature seat stay caps instead of EM.

awesome, thanks a lot. now to decide if I'd use a road bike enough or need another bike.

Condor reckon "yep that'll work".

However, they've not done it. Anyone running this setup?

buy off the one's that say it will then turn up with splintered carbon hanging out of yer 'arris demanding a refund when it fails.

I am tempted to ask whether they will pay for the saddle if the rails break

Precisely what I'm looking for. Stupid, yet slavishly devoted. He must also laugh at my jokes.

sounds like my housemate...

Dead to me.

Shouldn't laugh really.

And Paul, what you need is a closet gay 16 yo emo cousin from Devon, not a Rottweiler.

I'm using a LA84 which is a 26.2 clamp, what would be the best a-head stem size to go for? Oversized and shimmed or a 25.4 with a bit of a gap?

I'd like to get a really decent stem, like a Thomson, but I want to keep using my LA84's. What would the hive mind recommend?

Oversized and shimmed or a 25.4 with a bit of a gap?

Neither of the above. Some people have successfully used a 26.0 road stem without modification, but the more robust [stems|users] have enough [metal|mettle] about them to tolerate reaming the bar bore to 26.4, and this is likely to be safer than overstressing the clamp by bending it round the bigger bar.

I'm using a LA84 which is a 26.4 clamp

I'd like to get a really decent stem, or a Thomson

ftfy

Tester to the rescue!

What's the difference between the old style Shamal, Vento and Zonda wheels? Spoke count? Rim depth? They all look the same to me...

Different hubs too.

Vento and Shamal definitely different - had both. Different depth, different profile and spoke count.

Whilst on the turbo (not a euph) the speaker on my laptop are drowned out by the "whum whum whum", which makes watching a film/tv a bit of an exercise in lip reading.

Has anyone got, and can recommend, some wireless headphones?

Ideally they'd stay in place when the wearer is extremely hot/sweaty, and is not paying attention to them.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread11510.html

Sadly not one pair of wireless headphones in that thread, I'll chuck a post on the end and ask.

Did you need to post to tell us that?

is dammit aware of google?

Sadly not one pair of wireless headphones in that thread, I'll chuck a post on the end and ask.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread1014.html

Perhaps, the person Dammit should have asked about headphones is Dancing James.
Famously, I seem to remember, there was a claim that headphones help you negotiate traffic. Made, I seem to recall, by DJ.

I don't think that there was such a claim. I seem to remember skydancer explaining that wearing headphones can help to make people more visually aware.

^^

That was not the claim made. The assertion is that eyes are better for assessing the road than ears. Visual confirmation is much much stronger than assuming hearing is giving accurate location - for example when you hear a police siren how often do you guess correctly from which direction the car is coming if you are at a crossroads? Sound reflects and bounces so is a very unreliable way to guage where things are.

By wearing headphones it makes you aware of how much you try to use your ears to assess location and hopefully will make you more likely to use your eyes and observe what is going on. Direct observation is much safer. Many cyclists barely look behind themselves. Whereas the safer approach to take is that if you don't know what is behind you then you ought to be taking a look.

... and, obviously, the best thing is to use both senses, as appropriate.

Yes. But the point you made DJ, was that you riding with headphones in ACTUALLY made you more aware of what was going on.