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The Bike Shop / Re: new T1/animal tires

« on: March 24, 2016, 11:40:22 AM »

Sidewalls on GLHs are so thick you can almost ride them with no air.

If someone knows of a good tubeless set up tutorial I willing to try it and report back provided it costs no or little money. I have and old hazard lite wheel and old GLH I can use.

Gorilla tape your rim instead of rimtape. Cut a 16" tube down the centre, around the top and stretch it onto your rim. Put your tire on between the flaps of tubes with a bit of sealant. Pump it up, cut off the excess tube hanging out.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2

« on: March 05, 2016, 12:15:46 PM »

I like the idea of those bottle cages but yeah seems like it could be a faff on the road.

You deffo need some nice tyres on there, some 25mm Vittoria Corsas or something, will be night and day.

Should be out on it tomorrow if I slow down on the cider so will find out.

How are the Corsas? Most the lads at work are on GP4000's and I was going to put some of those on for summer. The only thing I really want to do now is change the wheels but I'm fussy on the way they look so everything's leading to Mavics with Exalith rims.

Mavic are shit. Avoid. Conti tires are fine, not very inspiring though. Get something more fun, Challenge, Vittoria etc.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2

« on: March 02, 2016, 02:35:51 AM »

Surprised something didn't explode with that landing haaha

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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2

« on: February 29, 2016, 02:00:51 PM »

Ordered Thomson bits for my road bike today, bored of having mismatched Deda parts. Booking flights to go to Mallorca to ride up the Salad Cobra again soon. Can't wait for that.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2

« on: February 20, 2016, 07:25:23 PM »

Archetypes are such a good rim

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The Bike Shop / Re: Advice needed

« on: February 19, 2016, 03:10:23 AM »

come on guys

i cba

Hmm

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The Bike Shop / Re: Advice needed

« on: February 18, 2016, 02:33:30 PM »

Should be alwhite

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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2

« on: February 18, 2016, 01:57:28 PM »

This thing is finished.

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The Bike Shop / Re: brakes and rims choices

« on: February 09, 2016, 04:35:42 PM »

my friend rode the odyssey quadrant rim with no problems.....you should be fine unless you're riding off roofs like Sean Burns

You'll be fine, unless it's not. Get a welded rim.

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The Bike Shop / Re: brakes and rims choices

« on: February 08, 2016, 01:55:01 PM »

Fly brake stuff and Sun Big Ballers.

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The Bike Shop / Re: New gland

« on: February 07, 2016, 11:59:42 AM »

Seeing how it is two G-sport products I would be amazed if it didnt.

Helpful, as ever.

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The Lounge / Re: Harry Main Explains

« on: January 29, 2016, 03:53:12 PM »

Rear wheel axle is also the bottom bracket.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 26, 2016, 03:25:22 PM »

You can go to town on wheel bolts. 40Nm should suffice though.

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The Lounge / Re: Harry Main Explains

« on: January 22, 2016, 03:21:55 AM »

Toptube and downtube are both the same tube.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 21, 2016, 12:39:43 PM »

The carbon paste has little bits of grit in to help grip things like carbon posts and handlebars when your max torque is something low like 4Nm. A well knurled set of BMX bars in a decent stem shouldn't need it. I saw on the Eclat website a while back that they recommend tightening one of their stems to about 39Nm, which I think is excessive. Cranks and pedals should be 40Nm, a BMX stem can probably be about 12-15Nm.