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I have an all-carbon bike from Go Outdoors on which the paint seems to be fading unusually rapidly. It's maybe three years old. I've always stored it either indoors or under a cover.
The forks seem especially bad, but there is a little bit of fading on the frame as well. It's supposed to be bright fluorescent yellow, but it's starting to look the colour of your average CTC member's waterproof jacket.
What it's supposed to look like (and did when I got it):
What it looks like now:
Pic coming soon
It's just cosmetic, so I don't really care, but I'm interested to know if there's anything one can do to restore the paint. The kinds of products people use on cars and vintage bikes might not be appropriate for carbon, I suppose.
And does anyone have any idea why this happened in the first place? It's a cheap bike (for the spec) so maybe the manufacturer used cheap paint? I don't think I've been over-cleaning it.
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Fitted a brand new chain today. The old one was slipping every now and again and was past 0.75% wear. This coincided with the emergence of an annoying rattling noise. What could it be? A loose bolt? A slack spoke? The chain too tight or loose? Eventually traced the source to my Kryptonite lock, which hangs on the bike. Irritating. Solved with a few scraps of inner tube to damp the rattle.
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I'm not saying I'd want one, but I was just interested that such a thing exists.
A mixte mini-velo.
Called the DarkRock V-22. Not quite nice enough for the other minivelo thread though.
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I don't know anything about Campagnolo, really, so could be one or both.
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Funny you say that. Ride London last week was the first time I encountered (or at least noticed) people who aspire to make their freewheels/freehubs as loud as possible.
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Thanks, all. Been riding this the last few days and enjoying it so far. The single speed freewheel is completely silent, which is a novelty for me; was quite unnerving at first.
Helpful explanation, thanks.