Commuto-x bike

Very decent of him.

Give you a change to play with the brakes too.

(I'll give monies, for you to fill the seat tube with lead shot)

Heh, it wouldn't make a great deal of difference- the bike is 9.4kg.

am not happy that CRC have their frames already which came in the same batch from Hotlines

I may buy one from CRC now.

Cruel, cruel irony.

You could have it ready by the time James gets back from his holiday

sits on hands to avoid abusing dammit online

Nah CRC can fuck up delivery as well as the next man! Or at least the 5 star service that is Hotlines... what an excellent bunch of professionals they are.. :-p

You could have it ready by the time James gets back from his holiday

Mmm tempting.

Is my CAADX frame too big for your missus?

I suspect it would be about perfect.

I suspect the Supercross Hi-mod disc frame I really want is somewhat out of my price range. But at least the wound-up fork would suit the Lynskey.

Will mull it over.

Nah CRC can fuck up delivery as well as the next man! Or at least the 5 star service that is Hotlines... what an excellent bunch of professionals they are.. :-p

My frequent interactions with CRC have so far been spot on - but it's entirely possible I've been winning the customer services lottery.

Balls, the Lynskey isn't BB30 is it?

CRC have been brilliant for me too. and I ordered a complete bike once. It was assembled very well.

What do you think of my Halfords bike DJ?

Did he leave a bike with you?

Because I can't imagine him on public transport.

I have some sort of unbranded beater in my hall, I was going to chain it up to the railings outside

That'll be his langster with the Thomson finishing kit.

Well at least it won't rust outside then

yep, left the polished aluminium bike there

the boardman is fun, minor squeal on the rear brake, will see if i can find a muddy puddle to dip the caliper in (this is how i clear squeals on the mtb)

the finishing kit is almost identical to mine, same bars (but one size larger with the hoods angled in), arione saddle, thomson seatpost and stem, time atac rocs

hood angle on the bars feels a little odd, especially as i have the same hoods and bars on the fixie skidder

the bike feels stiff as a stiff thing, am sure i could drop a little pressure from the tyres as it was a little unforgiving over speed humps

Neil is clearly harder than me, with a much larger overall gearing, and my girly hands found the Apex shifting a little hard work, though I do like how doubletap work, it just requires more force than Dura Ace.

handling felt quite nippy and could definitely throw it into corners quite happily

next stop is to scoble it with a rack

It's a funny one -and a cliche- but my road bike is actually stiffer laterally than the cross bike, but significantly more forgiving over crap road surfaces.

Some of that might be down to the alloy post on the cross bike versus the carbon on the road bike, but I think that's kind of cancelled out by the "slab of carbon" saddle on the road bike versus the sofa like Arione on the crosser.

Whatever- the crosser beats you up, the road bike doesn't.

On road tyres, anyway.

your bike haz bin semi scobled, the spacer stack has yet to be fully utilised

On road tyres, anyway.

Makes sense that manufacturer would make a cross bike as stiff as possible in the back end, because of the fat tyre thing.

James, is your frame being delivered to you or the LBS?

Only if it is you, sods law says this will be Monday, you will have one week to arrange redelivery before they send it back to the distributer. It will be warehoused/sold to someone else and you get to a whole new world of pain.

If it is your LBS, that will not be as much fun, for us.

it is going to the LBS

and t̶h̶a̶n̶k̶ ̶ fuck you very much for you your concern!

you're welcome, have a good holiday