Caporegime
I've just bought a second hand minoura b60-r on eBay for £85. 5 stars on bikeradar and can be had new from Evans for £105. I'll let you know what I make of it when it arrives.
I've been looking at the Tacx Blue Motion but probably as it would go with my bike colour (tart!) Reading reviews on Wiggle is dangerous!
I'm not adverse to buying from China (if I know what to get, import tax will probably sting due to weight) or second hand (if I don't get ripped off/scammed)... Ideally want to find a local buy/sell group (Facebook) for cycling stuff but have drawn a blank - it all seems to be done by the many LBS we have around here (who seem to charge and sell what they want to you)!
I've been off the bike now for, oh, 3 days I think and driving into work is already sending me mad.
It's actually 2.5 days, and I was going to give it at least a month with no cycling. Stupid knee
Meant to post this up a few months ago when she built it, GF's road bike.
Flyxxi FR-322 frame, seatpost, cages.
SRAM Force 22, compact with 11-32 rear
Easton EA70 wheels
Ritchey WCS bars and stem
I've just bought a second hand minoura b60-r on eBay for £85. 5 stars on bikeradar and can be had new from Evans for £105. I'll let you know what I make of it when it arrives.
If you want something cheaper I'd consider the CycleOps Fluid 2 trainer. I wouldn't go magnetic personally - it will be fine for now but if you later on decide you want to get into measuring virtual power with any degree of accuracy you'll wish you'd have bought a fluid.
PX Pro Carbon SRAM reduced to £800:
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXSLPRIV22/planet-x-pro-carbon-sram-rival-22-road-bike
I didn't think much of Sufferfest videos either. I like the footage but the music/hud/sound effects really annoyed me.
This. I picked up a new Road Machine for just under £200 on ebay. Sadly I couldn't find any deals as good as InQ's.
I've just bought a second hand minoura b60-r on eBay for £85. 5 stars on bikeradar and can be had new from Evans for £105. I'll let you know what I make of it when it arrives.
If you want something cheaper I'd consider the CycleOps Fluid 2 trainer. I wouldn't go magnetic personally - it will be fine for now but if you later on decide you want to get into measuring virtual power with any degree of accuracy you'll wish you'd have bought a fluid.
Yep, the schools have just gone back too, so driving returns to being a slow trudge through traffic again. It's been quiet on the roads all summer. I think I might adjust my working hours to avoid the traffic, won't just help my sanity but it'll be a bit lighter on the wallet too.That sucks. In that situation I'd be stuck with public transport, which would drive me absolutely crazy - especially now that the students are back around here. It''s gone from pretty quiet to utterly ridiculously crazy busy everywhere.
Yep, the schools have just gone back too, so driving returns to being a slow trudge through traffic again. It's been quiet on the roads all summer. I think I might adjust my working hours to avoid the traffic, won't just help my sanity but it'll be a bit lighter on the wallet too.
Still, I'm riding in one-way on Thursday and I'm looking forward to that
didn't you have a massive hot rod lol? that'd be good fun
This is supposed to be a family-friendly forum!
disk brakes made their debut on mountain bikes in the early 90s (shimano had them for tourers in the 70s, but that was a one off)
it took until the early 2000s for them to become common at the high end (helped in no small regard by standardish mountings coming about in the late 90s), and by 2006 or so they were on pretty much everything
of course, mountain bikes have blazed the way and got the technology reliable and consistent, so adoption on the road may well prove much quicker.
Same - daren't lookat my personal discount page - all I know is I'm at platinum discount level.Haven't had a cheap year since I discovered wiggle .