Any question answered...

I've a Leatherman Wave - it has been very good. Buy in the USA if possible, much cheaper.

In other news:

Is the circumflex the French umlaüt?

My Gerber Suspension is awesome.

Heart rate monitors. I've been reading about how they aid training. Mostly about Zone 2 rides to build an aeroic base or something.
I rode with one for the first time today, topped out at 187bpm, seem to have a resting bpm of 70 and over 30 miles averaging 150bpm when going 20mph. It was a fairly average ride, on a route I've done a good few times. Although I didn't feel particularly strong today. That puts my average bpm at 80% of max and apparently in "no-man's land"
Apparently if I were to ride at 120-140 bpm instead then it would raise my aerobic capacity and would be able to go faster for the same effort.
This sounds good to me, but I can't get past the feeling that riding slower for the same distance just isn't going to help. I don't get much time to cycle, usually just 1 or 2 days a week, so want to make the most of it.
Does anyone on here use or have used a HRM to train? Have you done the whole cycling in zone 2 thing and has it worked?

Used to.

Ride faster to go faster.

There's a HRM thread.

I couldn't find it

Blame 14435 for the removal of tags.

My Gerber Suspension is awesome.

I got one of these on the forum's advice, a fraction of the cost (£30 and I got it BOGOF) and works well for me.

Has anyone ever tried to make a frame that's very un-aero from behind so that it acts as a sail in tailwinds?

Wear mchammer pants be aero all the time

Maybe some kind of lever on the top tube that deploys harem pants. I like it.

OK further research confirms that it does exist.
http://thersic.com/wordpress/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sail-Wagon-Brooklyn.jpg

But will it let you do the running man?

^had to google what that was. Feel out of the loop now.

Has anyone ever tried to make a frame that's very un-aero from behind so that it acts as a sail in tailwinds?

You want the bike equivalent of a Kamm back.

Why is it impossible to buy 700c wheels with disc compatible hubs? Is it just that they are all labelled as 29ers?

Or CX wheels?

Build your own.

Why is it impossible to buy 700c wheels with disc compatible hubs? Is it just that they are all labelled as 29ers?

Because 29ers are 700c, they're the same.

And CX frame take MTB spacing too.

reccomendations for a nice multitool a la Leatherman or similar?

Get a Leatherman, I've had mine for about a million years

Heart rate monitors. I've been reading about how they aid training

Articles by HRM manufacturers, by any chance?

You want the bike equivalent of a Kamm back.

Trek Speed Concept etc. have Kamm tails

I got one of these on the forum's advice, a fraction of the cost (£30 and I got it BOGOF) and works well for me.

Price difference is likely down to country of manufacture, I've read that in around 2008 Gerber switched from Taiwanese to Chinese factories and quality suffered as a result. Leatherman tools are still made in Usonia.

anywhere in london with a good stock of enamel paints that will try and match my bike? just want to touch up a few bits that are chipped off, slightly not matching is better than the alu showing through

I have a massive stock pile of enamel hobby paint, 'just sayin. Id give you some if I was local.

is the colour im trying to matchish

what are the tester approved 1 1/8' chain and 10spd chains

is it the wippermann connex 10sx for 10spd (durability desired)

also 19t stainless sprocket

10-speed: Any Wippermann or KMC, I'd always spend whatever budget I have on more frequent replacement than higher end models, the basics don't change much and the 'enhancements' are poor value for money. I'll probably never buy another 10-speed chain since I hoovered up the Mavic(Wippermann) ones when CRC were clearing them at £10 each.

⅛": Wippermann 1Z1 for road/MTB, 1R8 for track

Sprockets: Phil all the way

would you advocate 2 chains per life of a cassette or just run a chain and cassette into the ground and then replace?