2013 Bikes

Plenty of time to decide ;-)

Besides, it's not the most complicated thing to install later if you think it's required. Or are you deciding whether to have cable mounts attached to the frame for the remote lever?

I'd just go with something like this.....

The Lock-out on the lefty is being left on the fork too. All I want in my cockpit, are two brakes, and a single thumbie shifter.

^ Can't blame you. I can imagine some bikes. 2 x brake cables/hoses, 2 x gear cables, fork lockout remote + dropper remote.

No wonder super wide bars are so fashionable!

I like that langster pro.

Re seatpost - have you seen that ghetto DIY version?

Looks pretty simple and shouldn't weigh too much either.

Obvs depending on your need/usage.

Looks nice PhilPub.

Cheers! In my naivety I had no idea there would be any compatibility issues with shifters/old bar shapes. For the record, I've lucked out a bit here with Cinelli Campione del Mondo, but the same shifters do not work out *at all *with Criterium, due to the bar curve/SRAM lever angling outwards. (Just in case anyone was thinking of trying it...)

^^ operating that whilst riding could be eventful.

^^^ Reminds of of the old hite-rite seatpost.

Back in my day, blah blah bla.....

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=83482
D-Mob "We call it acieed" - YouTube

wat?

Cheers! In my naivety I had no idea there would be any compatibility issues with shifters/old bar shapes. For the record, I've lucked out a bit here with Cinelli Campione del Mondo, but the same shifters do not work out *at all *with Criterium, due to the bar curve/SRAM lever angling outwards. (Just in case anyone was thinking of trying it...)

I have the exact same bars. Picked for the nice flats.

What's the use of those dropper seatposts? Don't quite get it?

*too lazy to google

for mtb, it can be useful to get the saddle out of the way when doing technical bits where you wish to throw the bike around underneath you

and then when you are climbing again and pedalling in a seated fashion you can have the saddle back up to full height for you

=for lazy people

It allows you to move around on the bike. The classic example is hanging out the back on a technical decent. My saddle is seriously in the way on my 29er. But I put this down to my shortness.

In hardtail mode the fatbike is planned to have of 110mm of travel, 3.8mm tyres, and 65mm rims. Which is a set up I'm gonna want to throw down mountain sides.

=for lazy people

not sitting down = lazy?

Wtf!

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/ultralite-sports-launches-36g-pedal-35237/

that is a super hard cleat to walk in. although i guess they all are

Should be the last of your worries when clipping out seems impossible

"Can't stop stand. Don't want to, either."

Those roadies are badass.

looks to me like a M2Racer pedal / cleat system revisited

Those have been around for years. Look like an improvement though.

I meant these...

http://www.aerolitepedals.com/

Which have no mechanical spring mechanism. you rely on the elastic flex of the plastic.

There was a couple of evolution of the M2Racer Orb pedal .. but both worked on a similar principle of the sprung spindle

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=2789

The science behind that seems a bit sketchy.

Reducing rotational weight.

It's an axle... and regardless of whether the bulk of the pedal is on the pedal or in the cleat it's still going to go around whenever you pedal.

Hurts my head trying to work out the advantage.

Sure, reducing total weight might be arguable... but seriously, moving weight from pedal to cleat isn't going to do a great deal when the in-operation setup will still see the same weight moving.

There was a couple of evolution of the M2Racer Orb pedal .. but both worked on a similar principle of the sprung spindle

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=2789

That does lok mechanically more similar.

The aerolites are classic WW fodder. Light but rubbish, from what I've read.

Also spoted these on that site.

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