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Alfines do get less draggy with use

2 brand new 160 rotors in the box.
£35 posted for the pair

Pretty much new 6 spd wheel. Was taken off a bike because the freehub was a tiny bit draggy.
Not noticeable when riding, I kept it as a spare but I don’t have a brommie anymore

Anyone interested for £50 posted?

That hub doesn’t use a circlip, it’s threaded to use a standard cassette lock ring, still easy enough to find

My 2 cents, I live at the top of a hill in Bristol and I had a 2spd for ages, I had it set up with 50t and the 13/16 cogs from a 6 speed set up, found it perfectly enjoyable everywhere, but I am an coast downhill person(fat) and absolutely never a pedal down hill person.

I sold it and then got a 6 speed for a while and honestly I just found it all a bit annoying, definitely in my head but I felt like I could really feel the weight, didn’t feel as fun.

If I was getting another one I would be going for a P-Line 4 speed

Pretty confident that Colnago is not a real colnago.

All their bikes have custom forks to achieve that crazy tightness. What ever floats your boat

Yep, and that was with old school rims, you can barely fit a 23 in some of them with modern rims.
I wouldn’t pay more than about £300 for a frameset tbh. The Hi-mod ones are pretty exclusively hill climb fodder nowadays

The 2019 S6 with the straight forks had way better clearance, 32s pretty easy with some rims

Sounds like you want drop bars on an MTB grand tbh

I put some mildly swept back bars on my S and it reduced the reach so much I really didn’t like it.

Is there dynamos out there that have variable modes? I would like somethings that’s bright enough for pitch black off road but then ok for riding round town and not dazzling on comers.

Sinewave beacons, worth the money?

I always found the uneven feel with the folding pedal a little annoying. My left foot wanted to be as close to the crank arm as my right.

I tried an MKS left with the normal cheapo right pedal and the bike felt much nicer.

The folding pedal also has a higher stack height if you care deeply about fit

Correct on both counts

Yes

Crux is probably the cheapest decent/carbon grav bike on the market atm. Lots and places selling the mechanical one for £2500, considering it’s also pretty much the only bike around that price that comes with half decent wheels and tyres that don’t need instantly upgrading, I’d say it’s the grav bike if the people. Marx would ride a crux

That’s not strictly true, T47 is the thread size not the shell size, so you’ll need a different BB to fit the same chainset across different frames

Not all T47s are created equal. Like PF30, some use inboard bearings some use outboard. So if you’ve got an outboard T47 BB kicking about it’s not much use in a T47 wide frame, I believe from memory that TREKs actually use the widest of the lot.

Although basing a build around an old BB is quite mad

The SKS SPEEDROCKER XL are hideously ugly but they are probably the best option without p-clips and Velcro.

Similar the the ones above but a bit longer

Muppet bike

To be fair if cyclescheme went away it would pretty much nuke the entire bike industry in the UK

Lovely, what’re the bars on the giant?

Why not get the bontrager one? They probably work alright in a Trek

Just cut them

Damn I’ve cracked a few of those posts but never thought of this. Pretty cleaver (if it works)

Set of Terreno dry tyres in 35c although they size up a little larger, more like 37c.
One has been set up tubeless but both have never been ridden

£45 posted

Dura-Ace R9100 SPD-SL pedals
Have been used a fair bit but never in particularly bad weather. I have just serviced the bearings and they feel smooth as new.

£50 posted

Bont Riot ratchet road shoes -46
Never been used

£50