chiroshi

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• I am a frame builder AMA

  in Frame Builders • 2 days, 4 hours

  

  Is anyone doing steel dropouts for SRAM UDH yet?

• Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes/ - aka Just get an Arkose

  in Bikes & Bits • 6 days, 4 hours

  

  FYI, the 'well established component supplier' was Conti. Their belts couldn't take the cold.

• Sunglasses

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Fair enough. I'm not genetically inclined to have any experience of cycling with a beard so I can't comment there.

• Sunglasses

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Would the lenses not just get filled up with sweat dangling there?

  Something like : https://chums.com/ should work.

• Epic WTF

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  imagine the sneeze...

• Dynamo Lights

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Not really, as long as it's a nice flat sheet. There's no reason for it to be tight to the headset cup. and as long as the headset cup is long enough, then it'll have plenty of grip in the frame still.

• Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes/ - aka Just get an Arkose

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks, 1 day

  

  My 2014 Giant TCX has done all of those things. Agree with the other posts saying adding / removing mudguards is a faff especially when they need a bit of bodging with no seatstay bridge.

• Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 weeks, 1 day

  

  They say in the article that they wrap it in foam.

• GPS tech ( Garmin , Hammerhead , Wahoo , RWGPS , etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 month

  

  Whilst I'm here, who has managed to turn off the 'virtual partner' on the latest gen of Garmin units? My virtual partner is able to ride up 20% gradients at 30km/h so isn't much fun to ride with... That's certainly one annoying notification beep I'd like to disappear.

• GPS tech ( Garmin , Hammerhead , Wahoo , RWGPS , etc)

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 month

  

  Mine (530) was the same now I come to think of it. Haven't looked for a solution yet though.