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The advance of aero position, high intensity training and carbon products has done more to break the record than anything else. Look at Wiggins, he failed miserably to break the 10 record in May. I doubt it was down to bananas and a protein shake...

He did an 18. And it took 17 years to break his record.

Carbs is all you need post ride. Plenty of em.

Post ride - jam sandwich. Graeme Obree smashed nearly every British distance record on jam sandwiches. And the hour record, twice. Marmalade was a favourite. I was there the night he smashed the British 10 mile record. 18 minutes, on jam sandwiches, and 120" fixed. He also holds the British record of 1h 39" for 50 miles, on 120" fixed.

He laughs at gels. Sugar + water, mostly.

A common problem with bikes coming out of boxes (the majority of shop bought bikes) is the way they are packed - the cables are generally twisted right round. This is where cable stretch starts. DJ is sort of right to say barrel adjuster, but it's usually a combination of barrel adjuster/set screws and pinch bolt on the mechs that will take up the slack/sort the gear throw/fine tune.

Can also happen after a crash where the cable can get snagged or pulled through, or when the outer cable gets bent or distorted.

Rust in the outers (low end bikes won't normally have stainless cables) or dirt ingress accounts from about a third of bad changes - the only alternative is to change the outers. I'll change the outers on my bike about twice a year.

A final solution, where the mech might be slightly bent (see above) is to cold set the mechs back into alignment. Most mechanics will do this out of sight of the customer. You can generally do it by eye. I've had to do this on several bikes when all of the above failed.

Also if you have crashed, and on the gear side, there's a fair chance you might have bent the gear hanger on the drop out - this is generally a bike shop fix who will have an alignment tool to reset it.

So, DJ is about 15% right. Well done.

Barginz

Just had a look - rims £85, spokes £3 each. Basically bollocks.

These are nice frames - sure to be collectable in only a few years time. Pity about the fork though...

That's a bit skanky. Velo Orange usually pretty hot on QC..n

Sounds like general cable stretch. Happens after a few weeks/months of bike set up with new cables. A bit of tinkering with a small screw driver on the adjustment screws should sort it.

Last time I looked it was 90 quid.which is basically a 'fuck off, just buy a new wheel' scenario. I'm done with Mavic.

Bikes on trains has got an awful lot more complicated in recent years. I did a tour of Provence from Paris in 1999 coming back on TGV. All we had to do was get a bike box from a local shop, roll the whole lot down to the station and hoopla, they'd put it on and we'd arrive with the bikes same time other side. No fee.

I've converted an 8 speed Shamal to 10 speed using a Daytona donor hub. That's another option, not exactly straightforward, but very possible.

Yeah decent hub, good bearings. Just check the flanges are straight before you build it up. Common problem.

I've been there... It's so expensive and such a faff to rebuild you're better off binning and starting all over again. Buy Mavic now = disposable in 2016.

You could buy an older Veloce or lower spec Campag hub for a tenner, making sure of course the bearings and spindle is good and then just donor it across. They're mostly interchangeable at 8 speed.

Try eBay.it. It's a bit of a long shot looking for one in the UK unless you you know a few older track riders

How are you finding the da 9000? I've heard tell it's super positive shifting.

Yeah. That looks a formidable bell!

The Takhion bars are hard to find let nd know if you do!

Apparently the Japanese prime minister has got 6...

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/ratrocket/3956920392/

Pictures of an Rene Herse Camping here, the racks are all hand made and most of the fittings have been modified or hand tooled by the builder himself. Even the cantilever brakes are in house. The difference between this bike and your Camping model is about £15k... The Japanese go mental for RH and it's only a matter of time before one of the really rare ones fetches 50k on ebay.

Yeah, wait till you get to know us better..

I've had this on nearly every Shimano brifter I've owned. The internals Do seem quite 'wobbly' and once the grease dries out a rattle is inevitable. I've had to pack one of mine with grease again, which solves the problem short term.

You can find low end Avanti RD on ebay most of the time and they are surprisingly good quality, and cheap as chips. Even nos.

It depends what you mean by 'work'. It'll shift gears okay but it wouldn't necessarily be clean or crisp shifting. I've ran Dura Ace/Chorus 10 speed on 8 speed cassettes during the winter but it's not been really precise or smooth. It may take quite a bit of fettling but it's possible