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Hmm, definitely something I'd want to practice before sewing a tubular back up...
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lacquer over
That's a bastard innit. I have a mad full carbon 1" fork with about 49 decals on it under clear... Need to find someone with a sandblaster and some walnut shell or something.
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Sounds alright
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How do you patch a latex tube, anyway?
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brittle fracture
Was it though? There's a strange depression around the crack, almost as if it's necked in...
Hard to imagine that's actually the case though; doesn't seem right at all. Just a nasty forging?
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It's because dropped right chainstay.
/heave
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Plainly ftl, in plasticniki's experience.
Both brakes failing at once! Not a great advertisement
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Fuck putting HY/RD on it, that's the worst of both worlds
Not sure how you get to that...
I spent five years fixing excavators and forklifts and shit, and I was a bike mechanic too. And I say, fuck hydraulics.
Except those nifty TRP calipers, which give you the self-adjustment, with virtually no expectation of hydro hassles. So you lose a bit of modulation with cables... But that's largely from housing compression, not so much cable stretch - that can be mitigated with beaded housing like Jagwire Elite Link or Nokon or something. Cable friction is another factor, but uncoated die-drawn is the go and nothing else, as any fule kno
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losing di2
Didn't suggest that. But it sounds like your bike is hydraulic only, so my suggestion isn't worth a damn.
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Is it on a bike with full internal hoses?
If not, I'd consider going to cable brakes with some hybrid calipers (because plain cable disc calipers are a pain in the arse with the constant adjustment). If they're a thing in flat mount, which you probably have....
Might be a tempting option after all that hydraulic hassle. I was a hydraulic service technician, and I gave it away because hydraulic shit is a nightmare.
(Those nifty hybrid calipers excepted, since the hydraulics are self-contained)
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Yep. Desticker the rims tho?
I'd make the black headset an Innicycle adapter myself, but I'm sure I'm in the minority there
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ruined
What was?
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There's a spectrum between removing enough paint to be sure you've uncovered all the rust, sanding off the rust, then priming and painting, and just throwing a splash of rust converter at it.
Looking at that rust trap of a gusset, I wouldn't be inclined to try too hard...
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The Colnago's seat is too far forward and the valves aren't aligned on the other two...
Half joking, but who knows
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Cool. Needs direct mount brakes tho
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Meh
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That's a bit strong; it's just another modern bike that looks like all the other aero disc bikes. IMO it actually looks okay for one of those, except for the splash of red on the fork and the white seat
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Campagnolo isn’t the problem. Campagnolo snobs are the problem.
Between the exclusive cost of it (how long has Campy been such poor bang for buck?), and the fact it's Italian, with all that intangible toss of brand identity, the Campy snobs are inevitable, like Ferrari's tifosi. Giocare è a pagamento.
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If you're gonna pimp it...
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How wouldn't that count as profiting from crime?
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So far... just from what has reached the press, I am firmly unimpressed.
That I was donating to the Lib Dems, Green, and a couple of indepedents only a few weeks ago, as a lifelong Labour voter, shows that I'm very disillusioned in a soft-Tory version of Labour.
You're prepared for the disappointment. Anyone who isn't, take a look at Labor under Albanese.
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Back in the dark days before I left quill stems behind, never to return, I sometimes used to hold the bar clamp open with something jammed in the gap after removing the bolt, often helped a lot. I think I first tried it when trying to avoid scratching outside the clamp area of the bar, but found it also helped heaps with getting the bar through to that point.