Lo Pros, Represent

Fuck me Indra that's looking nice. Damn.

Cheers Hugo!

it's already pre broken ?
whats that on the down tube ? welded section ?

That guy ^^ got the braze-ons removed and track ends put on, I've been thinking and one day it might be nice to do a geared build again though.

ah yes

Lo pro with long jag stem, crazy. Any ideas how much an old disc rear wheel would roughly cost, 100GN's?

Reminds me of a tachyon.

Lo pro with long jag stem, crazy. Any ideas how much an old disc rear wheel would roughly cost, 100GN's?

Cost me about a ton, in the shown condition.

Silly question, but is it worth it?

I dunno, I just always wanted a disc and had a bit of cash so I bought it.

The noise alone is worth it to me...

things fixie skidderz say >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No shame

you better not kill that disk wheel

Lo pro with long jag stem, crazy. Any ideas how much an old disc rear wheel would roughly cost, 100GN's?

got my Zipp 950 (tub) for £150 on ebay

Good to know a rough price, thanks. Would love to know how much difference it would make, in say a club 10.

You can borrow mine some time if you want.
It's in quite rough in some spots.

Good to know a rough price, thanks. Would love to know how much difference it would make, in say a club 10.

If you're doing about 26:00 now with 32 spoke wheels, a rear disc on its own will save 6s to 13s over 10 miles depending on how bad your current wheel is. A front disc is worth about double the time saving, but not CTT legal. A Zipp 808FC, though, is almost as good as a disc. Taken together, you're looking at about 40s for a slow rider by going from classic road wheels to the best TT wheel set. Time savings for fast people will be considerably less.

Yo dawg, I also has a 'bros disc wheel on my lopo

The noise alone is worth it to me...

This.

Lovely! I really need to sort out nice front wheel when I get some cash.

Just arrived!

Ishiwata 017 (Record Breaker), Suntour dropouts, 2.4kg with headset races.

More here.

is that a zullo upside down in the background?

Unfortunately not: it's an Orbit.

I was desperate for that Zullo, a) because I love Zullo and b) so I'd have a "not quite matching" pair with the Orbit.

Unfortunately I couldn't get the cash together in time...

What are your plans for the build?

I thought I'd post LES here...

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8203/ehcs.jpg

I've got a 2nd gen. Chorus group, for a "period" build: it was built in 1990.

But I plan to race it, so I'm in two minds as to whether I should concentrate more on function than form.

My biggest dilemma is over the wheels: I haven't got any aero wheels, so it's either Vento/Shamal or trispoke and disc.

Just to complicate things I have both 8 and 9 speed shifters, but nothing else 9 speed. I'll have a single ring up front, so will lose the use of the lowest gear: going 9 speed would effectively give me 8 gears.

Ultimately, I think money will be the deciding factor and this will have "form" and the fixed TT "function".

I'll have a single ring up front, so will lose the use of the lowest gear: going 9 speed would effectively give me 8 gears.

Why do you think that? All the cool kids are rocking 1×10 or 1×11 these days, and we aren't carrying around that dinner plate sprocket not to use it.

On the basis of an exchange I had with you a little while back: I was asking about moving the cranks inboard to allow me to use all the cassette, when running 1x8.

The upshot was that BITD, testers sacrificed the lowest gear(s) for a straighter chainline in the higher ratios.

No, we sacrificed a good chainline in the warm up/bail out gears for better efficiency in the racing gears. We could still get all the gears*.

*unless we had dismantled the block and binned all but the top 3 for weight weenie reasons :-)