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One thing, the rather unusual seatpost binder is something to watch out for.

That bugger will fail believe me most likely when you are out in the boondocks far from home.

Luckily for me being a parts hoarder I had a quill seapost laying about looking for a use which it now has, being inserted into my Arcobaleno.

I'm a bit surprised that Eddy went with that binder-bolt option for the Arcobaleno he was generally a conservative frame builder but I suppose it was the 1990s and gimmicks were in vogue back then.

Still, from the first bicycle company that adopted the self extracting bolt on square taper it was a scandal that it took them so long to fit one on their Power torque (when one will actually make a big difference)

Yes agreed it did seem to be an unnecessary design choice especially when a simple cinch bolt on the non driveside would have worked.

In my mind a bicycle should be fixable on the roadside or at the next little village you come to.
So what I would tell the incumbent Mr. Campagnolo is don't try to be a clever dick, just design nice products that are held together with regular bolts, screws fixings etc no exotic tools and make your chainrings with standard BCD ffs!

Seems like he is screwing up (no pun intended) a great brand as things stand.

Ultra torque is dead easy to maintain and Power torque isn't beyond the scope of the home mechanic either.

60 fucking dollars fucking fuck.

But she love you long time...

Things are getting milder this week (thank God) so depending on your effort you may well be feeling nice and warm.

I'm staying with three layers until they change the clocks.

What length is the 3T stem? if 130mm then dibs.

...Of course depending on the price as well.

Merckx looking like Elvis.

Chorus mechanical.

Yeah. I use Veloflex clinchers with latex tubes when racing as they're about half the price of tubs and I can't really tell the difference.

Veloflex, the king of open tubs in my opinion.

Been migrating all wheels to 25mm recently (I'm conservative) even better ride.

Tubulars are wonderful and all the joo-joo surounding them is all fine and dandy but for any use less than competition one has to wonder if they are worth it these days?

I bought 2 Gabbas from Sigma during winter season 2015, both xxl. I'm 6'4" 90kg (atm). In hindsight I should have got them in xl, there is looseness at the back and sometime the wonderful tail bit catches on my saddle. One of them has the zip-off sleeves and is a bit warmer. I wear them with a DHB winter gilet which is great.

Winter footwear consists of 2 x socks the ones next to my skin are always merino and my overshoes are DHB again awesomeness from that brand.

And yes as per the poster above the cold tends to creep up from below I find.

Hello,

I obtained this Colnago Tecnos a while back from an online seller who sneakily declined to mention or show that it had been damaged and repaired.

He did agree for me to to return it but I never got around to it. Anyway I came to the conclusion that it may be cheaper to get 2 new chainstays put in rather than to wait many more years for a Tecnos to show up in my size at astronomical cost.

I have ridden it, very nice it was too. However I am 90kg (winter weight) and I kept having nagging thoughts "what if I hit something and that tig weld splits?" .

So what say you? do you think it would hold? it is at a stress point (the gusset) or should I follow my instincts and just ask Winston to replace the stays?

Here...

Dibs the 11-25 if its still going?

Well, I bit the bullet and plumped for an S type from Power2Max. I selected the Paypal option in the end, just need to get things moving.

Received an instant email expecting it to be an invoice ready for payment but no it was just a confirmation of order and they may well take 2 days to sort it out 0_o

German efficiency ?

Just wanna know my numbers bro!

Has anyone on here bought directly from Power2Max?

Seems like you can only pay for one using poxy Paypal or Bank transfer both of which will add £25-30 to the overall price and with the exchange rate as it is atm makes it a tad too pricey.

I'm after a type S with 110 spider for Rotor 3D+ cranks if someone has an un-abused one going.

Yes, many a jump-sart on cold winter mornings.

The Etix squad are using 4iiii power meters this season so presumably they are up to scratch.
Problem with 4iiii as I see it is you have to buy from the US and if you want them to stick it onto your existing crank arm that's a faff as well so I guess your average consumer here would just plump for Stages.
I was following their progress from almost the begining but they are Shimano only so that's me out.

Yes, I saw that. However I need 175 cranks with a 110BCD.

I thought it too good to be true, no such thing as a free lunch etc... Understood it to be maybe some sort of exchange thing whereby you send your other meter back once you've received the NG or something.

I do like the rechargeable port on the NG though.

What I like about the Power2max is that if you get the Rotor option then it is a modular system ie: cranks and unit can be separated if one or the other fails for some reason.

I think they must have ended the deal because I can't see anywhere on their site where to select getting the extra NG unit when I put an S-type in the shopping cart.

Oh well would have been nice to have another bike equiped also.

I'm about to go for Power2Max an S-type with Rotor chainset.

I couldn't quiet understand that NG Prologue deal.

Does it mean that if you buy a S-type meter via the deal that you get an NG as well for only 299 euros? to keep?

https://www.power2max.de/europe/en/?s=prologue&lang=en

I like Campagnolo.

Well, that's very good news indeed. I was pretty sure that he was a goner.

The people in charge really need to sort out the Motos once and for all.

I didn't ask Mr Colnago , but spoke to his son Alex and right had
Laura , the company does not intend to develop new model steel bikes ,
nor make any more pistas , they can still do masters in Mapei decor
and arabesque re launch my own personal feeling is that the brand
should embrace developing and producing steel frame sets again

I came across this interesting piece on Battaglin abandoning carbon and going back to making steel framesets. http://www.handbuiltbicyclenews.com/c26-frame-builders/227-battaglin-to-focus-on-steel-and-phase-out-carbon-fiber-frames

It's probably too late for Colnago to do likewise. Its a pity really because i reckon 21st century steel Colnagos would be highly desirable.

Thanks for that, I shall make further inquiries.

Interesting.

As you can imagine steerer tube jiggery-pokery is a critical issue and not to be bodged.

One answer I got was that the old tube is heated out and a new one inserted, the caveat being it depends on the model of fork as to whether the fork blades would be affected by the heat.

What I really need to know however is how safe would the forks be afterwards?

I don't suppose you could take a close-up of the steerer tube - crown interface could you?

thanks,