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Cannondale R1000 650c road/tri bike £400/ now:£375

Iconic '90s 'Handmade In USA' Cannondale bike with full Campagnolo 9sp Groupset and 650c wheels.

-Cannondale 2.8 aluminium frame 60cm seat tube (C-T) 57cm top tube. Iconic aluminium finish with classic lettering and logo on headtube, in great shape and would look even better with a bit of T-cut.

• Carbon forks with aluminium drop outs, some cosmetic marks but overall pretty good.

• Campangolo 9sp groupset; a mix of Chorus (LH ergolever), Athena (rear brake), Daytona (RH ergolever, Derailleur), Veloce (Fr Derailleur) and Mirage (Fr brake). Hubs and crankset also Campag but unsure of exact model.

• Wolber 650c Profil grey hard anodised tubular rims on campag hubs. Nearly new Vittoria Corsa evo-cx front and Continental Competition rear tubs (glued on).

• Shimano finishing kit - Dura Ace 1" threaded headset, PRO in-line seatpost and 45cm bars.

-Jagwire Elite Link aluminium cable set. Light, durable and match the frame

-Selle Italia saddle

-Pedals not included

Located in Bath, travel up to UB6 most weeks so could arrange collection there or drop off anyway near the M4.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like some more photos, thanks.

Are you able to share a link?

There is a standard for E Scooters, EN 17128

This is what is used in every other European country where they are legal and hence can be regulated as opposed to the UK where a 25kph scooter is just as illegal as a 60kph death trap.

Interested in how the function is worse than the plastic version?

Pm'd

There's overthinking, and there's underthinking.

I stuggle to imagine a suspension system with zero damping giving a plush ride, Moulton knew more than anyone about suspension and used 'just an elastomer'.

I agree that replacing stock with a stiff / solid suspension block can improve the bike for some use cases, but don't think a spring is a great solution.

His incorrect usage of geometrical dimesioning and tolerancing makes me sceptical of his knoweldge and experience in mechanical engineering (as opposed to his aero proffesional specialism). Using cocentricity in a control frame without a datum dosen't make sense, and using an ISO fit tolerance (P7) but then explicity listing a tolerance band which is tighter is ambiguous and lazy. You could argue that the a machinist reading it would probably understand the intent, but if he knew how to do it correctly there'd be no reason to do it wrong.

From working in large engineering organisations, I can imagine that in his job he may have produced designs and drawings for one off test fixtures etc., but this shows me that he probably dosen't have hands on experience of producing production designs.

Thanks, Pm'd

Ok, thanks for looking @mjm and let me know what you find @dkmike. I've just bought one new Continental Competition 22 which Nidderdale cycles were selling on eBay.

The wheels I bought came with one fairly well used Conti Podium 19mm and a Tufo 'Tubular Clincher' which I'm fairly certain is not suitable for the tubular rims! If anyone is selling a tub because they've switched to 650c clinchers, you're welcome to have that as part of the deal.

If I can get another decent 22mm tub, I'll keep the old podium as a spare.

I might give Universal Cycles a call in the week.

After 1 or prefferably 2, 650c 19-22 tubular tyres for a road bike, so nothing really fragile.

I figure that they used to be a more popular than they are now, so what people have in sheds might be better than the limited range available from wheelchair shops...

Thanks

I'm really struggling with working from home now that I have this glistening in the sunlight out the window.

I'm loving the simplicity of my Hooligan at the moment which has spurred me on to get a (kinda) matching silver 1994 r1000 as a cheap fun fast bike, since discovering a crack in my German plastic best bike.

The 650c wonder is due to arrive tomorrow, I'll take this for the time being though.

I'll take these please, PM incoming

People talking about the key 'takeaway' and not meaning the local chippy.

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Hi, Looks like a great ride! I'm Purley-on-Thames born and raised (in fact you're going just past my house), so thought I might offer a little bit of unsolicited advice.

Firstly I'd think about extending the route down into Sulham woods further south- there are loads of bike tracks in the woods and you can follow the contours of the hill down until you reach Wilder's Folly and then drop down onto Nunhide lane (farm track) back up north and onto Sulham lane (or parallel footpath) up to Pangbourne.

Secondly, I personally wouldn't fancy riding up Streatly Hill on a ride like this when heading up Rectory road and the double track onto the ridgeway just to the north of it is pretty nice.

Hope you have a great ride, I might see you up the Ridgeway as have planned a ride out that way with a mate.

Thanks @Jaap and @edscoble.

I think 2.4" is probably a bad idea, I was just being lazy and would have 2.4" tyres mounted tubeless on the decent 29er wheelset anyway, and it would have been nice If I could get them in.

I should probably use the High Latitude whenever 2.4" tyres are needed and put something narrower such as G-One 38mm on the cheap 29er wheelset for the Sequoia, possibly with mudguards.

Maybe I should #JustGetAnArkose Fork.

Or maybe this none of this will happen and I won't buy a bike that I don't really need.

Ok, thanks for your advice.

I do disagree a bit though, the axle is only lifted 16mm (one side of the tyre between axle and ground), the same happens to the rear so angles stay the same but BB, standover and CoG height are increased by 16mm.

Then the A to C will be slightly larger, about 16mm assuming clearance is kept the same, pushing the headtube up a bit and making the head angle marginally slacker.

By going from a factory 45mm (with at least 6mm clearance for ISO4210) to a 61mm tyre? Ruin?

Any recommendations for a fork for the Spesh Sequoia with large tyre clearance for 29er wheels?

I have the opportunity to get a Sequoia frame for cheap, and have a two wheelsets for my 29er mtb so am tempted by the idea to have two bikes I could swap the wheels between for different styles of bikepacking trips (one wheel has dynamo hub).

In an ideal world, it could take 29x2.4" tyres, 15mm Thru axle, 1 1/2" - 1 1/8" steerer, low rider rack mounts, and be carbon. I realise that's probably asking too much though.

If you need any testers for the C1, let me know!

Just about to build up an SP PD-8X.

@edscoble I'm a bit of an Instagram lurker so did see you had what looked like a great trip as well, did you venture off tarmac much?

I'd been eagerly watching the midge forecast, as I think it's getting very close to full on midge season, at least on the west coast. Yesterday after stocking up in Mallaig, I thought i'd venture on out of town before having breakfast only to find the air in Morar was thick with midges so was forced to suppress the hunger and climb over the hill out of the village and round to the beach which was completely midge free.

I could then enjoy my scotch themed breakfast.

@frankenbike I agree with @andyp ;I've done a lot of tandem riding with my girlfriend and on hills it's definitely slower. I can't even imagine trying to get up that Glenelg climb- I could hardly keep the bike straight with only one set of legs to coordinate.

I've never quite been able to correlate that experience with the points you raise about power/weight though, and can only put it down to the coordination of smoothly getting the power down and managing effort. Maybe a discussion for the tandem thread .

I'm just off the sleeper train from Fort William after an incredible 4 days touring in Scotland. Can't believe how lucky I was with the weather, lack of midges, and beauty of the Highlands.

I've been cycling in the area a few times before, and have friends living in Aberdeen and Glenelg so planned a route to include both of them, return to some favorite roads, and ride some new ones.

This was the route:

One of the many highlights was the road to Glenelg (Bealach Ratagain), which was hideous going up and beautiful coming down in almost equal measure; genuinely the most enjoyable descent I've ever ridden. I was a bit delirious from the heat and hills by that point though...

One gratuitous bike shot, on the north west corner of the Applecross peninsula.