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Was browsing through old pictures:

London, ca. 2010

It's a 11-speed cassette. Shifts fine. When backpedaling on the lowest gear, the chain may drop to a next largest sprocket though. Could be a problem when riding technical off-road (which is not going to happen with this bike).

There has also been rumours that the largest sprocket of Sunrace wide range cassettes are prone to bending but I'll worry about that when it happens.

Thanks!

The gearing is 42/11-42.

Now, some may wonder why not 2x11 for smaller steps between gears. For me, the mostly used cassette cogs are 15-21 (2 teeth jumps between gears). If you go to a gear calculator site (for example: http://ritzelrechner.de/ ) and regard, say, 46/30 with 11-36 cassette, you can see that there are equal steps between gears unless you use front derailleur to fine-tune your cadence, and I do not see much benefit there. Of course 30T small ring and 11-36 cassette would give a low gear of ≈23 gear inches, but currently I have no need for that.

One owner and a fanboy here o/

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Those DX Cross frames look terribly tall & short. I'm 191 cm and I would have to take size 64 and use 120 mm slammed stem (nothing wrong in that in theory, but I think 120 mm stem is a bit too long for a cross bike). Also, the standover height of that beast must be close to 90 cm (ouch).

(for comparison, my XL Inflite Al has 26 mm less stack and 10 mm more reach than the DX Cross and I would not describe it low&long)

I almost sold mine last year...fortunately did not, I would have regretted it bitterly although its use is quite irregular nowadays.

The bike is already six and half years old and I am its first and hopefully last owner :)

I would't mind having those wheels in my vigorelli. With black tires though.

Hello this is rat. It seems I have a hair stuck between my new front tyre and downtube.

Here's my 2013 Inflite Al, size XL. It used to be my most functional bike with fenders and ortlieb handlebar bag, but as I now have a more functional Wolverine I took those off. Got rid of the inner tubes too :)

My new not-so-unique snowflake, a 60 cm Soma Wolverine.

The geometry chart seems odd to me. 18" and 19" have actually more reach than the "larger" frames.

Seen in Turku, in New Year's Eve. DIY straps from old mtb tyres btw - I approve :)

^^ & ^ : hmm was there some problem with my earlier pics? The URL's were from photobucket, and I copied them to "Image" area.

This I would like to have!!1

This one would have had potential, but I sacrificed it to the altar of functionality :/ Probably borderline anti too, but at least the owner liked it :D

I am yet to see a Nelson Pista with an Union Jack Thomson :(
Could someone? Pretty please with carbon on top ;)

Can't:

Too bad that shimano clutch deraileurs are not compatible with shimano brifters.

^yes. So far only 2 dropped chains - I must be more careful on steps ;)

My functional bike - last year's Canyon Inflite Al 8.0. Now with 700x41 Surly Knard (front) and 700x35 Schwalbe Cx Comp (rear) though. Unfortunately I have no picture of that setup, because there is no enough light on these latitudes to take pictures with a cellphone's camera :(

Nice bikes in this page :)

Here's my current pub/city bike, a 2013 mostly stock unit. Beating in progress

kyttrya be interested to know more about the bottle holders front and back..

I use SKS bottle holder adapters. Cheap & easy to install.

A review with which I agree: http://road.cc/content/review/58524-sks-bottle-cage-adapter

My 2013 Beargrease. It's ridiculously fun (naturally) and light enough for me (11.9 kg unloaded).

Well I like'em. They were cheap (≈22 € from Bike-Discount), light (<220 g) and it feels that they roll as well as 23 mm tyres while the ride is softer (I use ≈6 bar front/≈6.5 bar rear). As for puncture resistance, I've had only one flat so far (after a gravel/offroad session :o ) Luck perhaps, as especially the sidewalls are THIN. Probably a few proper skids would annihilate that rear Ultremo. Then again I prefer the front brake in purposes of slowing/stopping and anyway I swapped a 28 mm Durano to rear in case I should ride this bike during winter.

Thanks :) Those are 28 mm Schwalbe Ultremo ZX's. Not true to size though ;)

HI :)

I tried to find a proper topic to my vigorelli, but it's not a beater/rat bike per se, or a hhsb, or - well, I would like to think it as a functional bike but I don't know whether a track bike w/a road cockpit counts - so I'll just post it here:

It's a 58 vigorelli with misc parts and it rides nice :)