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I feel like there wasn't anyone in the 70s who saw all that drillium and panto going on, who decided to make parts so light that nobody would dare to go the hack on them...

Oh wait, Ofmega. I guess we don't see it much because it's all broken by now?

In case anyone's wondering what that ended up like

(Bars have had 40mm cut off the drops)

Ye gods, I think we've hit peak wank...

If it wasn't for the crap tape job, I'd be in half a mind to say maybe folks are starting to feel like what's the point when road bikes keep looking more and more like MTBs; maybe they've crossed a line with the discs and the 34 cogs and the fugly cranks and RDs...

Also crank angle fail. We won't even bother to mention valve placement

Makes me feel old; had no idea Pantani was around long enough to have rocked single-pivot brakes.

Also had no idea Campy had been there, done that with four-bolt cranks! (Assuming that's a Campy logo I can't quite make out)

For some reason, Mavic hubs were 11s compatible before 11s was a thing - they'd come standard with a spacer on there.

Bit weird, jumping the gun like that; dunno why you'd intentionally add unnecessary dish for several years. I went to a fair bit of trouble to go the other way on a RS80 wheelset - fitted a 7s cassette body and bumped up the OLD to 132, and machined a slice off the back of a billet 10s cassette.

Not that the wheel really needed to be any stronger for my weight, it was more just to illustrate how lazy Shimano was in establishing all those spacing dimensions, let alone Mavic. I was able to add a couple of turns of NDS tension, so the wheel could have been designed even lighter around my dimensions... Dish is clearly a design compromise, dunno why you wouldn't want to minimise it.

Whoah

This beastie is just about to click over 200,000... Still pretty tight. These things have a pretty good resale, but I wonder how much Putin fucked that up... Although, thanks to decades of policy negligence, folks in Oz can't even get electric cars. 80,000 peeps on a list for 200 electric Hyundais.

Just looking at the first page of this thread, with a couple of folks wondering about Beta vs VHS, in case anyone's still wondering twelve years later, there's an excellent YouTube channel called Technology Connections that delves into this question in glorious full-blooded Aspie detail.

Rick fucking Astley. Belinda Carlisle. Richard Marx. Whitesnake. Poison, all that dross.

Also, popular music since 2010; all that autotune and handclap, it's utter puke.

Holy shit, that is a long read. What a dodgy cunt.

Makes me wonder how much of the corporate world is saturated with psychopathic bullshitters...

The hell? Bring your cats to the park?!

What could possibly...

Just got dragged through the last thirty-odd pages of this by my horrified fascination, and I'm left with one abiding thought:

Douglas Adams fucken nailed it. We're descendants of the Golgafrinchan B ship.

With the brown tinge on those Campy rings and the faint hint of brown in the epoxy of the rims, it all ties in with the gold paint beautifully.

If you can make all the colours on your bike by changing brightness and saturation on the one hue, I'd say you're onto a winner.

I would like to see it on some dark gumwalls, like Conti did in the 80s and 90s, and briefly did again a few years back on a special edition of the GP4000, sadly 23mm only...

That colour sidewall somehow adds a badarse flavour IMO, like hardox rims on a 70s bike. Such a bummer Conti didn't bring back those gumwalls for good.

Textbook example of how to get away with a gold chain.

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If you're going to use a converter, it's Innicycle or bust.

Sif deep or shallow rims makes as much difference to the ride as 1/8 of a psi.

Paul Brodie has a pretty good YouTube channel, BTW... Although his delivery is a bit slow; I like to watch him at 1.25x

I like how it's got a power meter so he knows exactly how much worse it is without proper bars

Hudz are a bit shit compared to OEM

My 6.1kg TCR feels pretty solid

That wasn't a complete bike; downtube shifters pfff

Doesn't need to be a flexible one if it's the right angle, although the solid ones aren't easy to tweak well.

V-brake noodles were my go-to fix for rear brakes on step-throughs when I used to volunteer at the co-op...

Wtf is this i don't even. How many 30mm spindle lengths are there?!

Edit: Surely that's BB386? Looks like room for external cups in the difference.