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Sorry for nagging, but if you are willing to change rear wheel I really suggest you change transmission too. It's 98% as durable and you still wount feel any flex. I ride it on my fixed gear CX and I really can't tell the difference. It can be hard to find 144bcd 3/32" chainrings though, but the weight saving will be massiv for relativly cheap money as mentioned.

Good job.

Light rear wheel and 3/32" transmission and you are well under 6kg.

Wow i could never make something that bad even if it was the quest of my life.

Even for a touring rig its horrible.

Are you riding a 1/8" chain and chainring? There is possibly about 150g of saving in switching to 3/32" chainring, sprocket and some SL (x)-speed chain.

After some rigorous checking:

• It's not a sudden dip
  
• The rim is ~1mm closer to the right hand side of the bike at the valve than it is opposite the valve
  
  

Should I not be able to feel that?

Definitely not trying to freak you out, nor am I an expert on expensive carbon BUT isn't deep carbon rims supposed to be really stiff. And if so, wouldn't there have to be something quite wrong with the spoketension if the wheel is out of true.

I've heard stories of people having trouble truing wheels with B43 rims and the like because those kind of rims are very stiff and don't show their "out of trueness" very well. They then ended up with spoketension not being very equal and therefore a weaker wheel.

I suggest checking the tone of the spokes individually just to check weather there are a couple which are way of.

Ruined quite a bit by the fact that geometry whise it kinda looks like it needs a 650c.

That BMC looks the buisness, but is the braking performace acceptable enough on decents and stuff in contrast to normal brakes? And what about comfort? would that be close to the equivelant road model?

EDIT: Whoops... Mixed it up with their actual TT model.

Whenever I see that Kelly, I always end up saying to myself - "that could really use another tube somewhere".

And where the hell is there a picture of the owner?

Nice partsbin. Open to public?

Yay + white bartape and silver crankset.
What frame is it?

Whoops. Never answered this.

Its a small series of steel frames named "Spirit" which were ment for the messenger community i Copenhagen. I think there was made about 200 which are all numbered. Mine is number 130. All tubes are fairly oversize and thick steel to avoid dents and give strength in case of a crash. I'm hoping its fairly stiff but we'll see.
Angles are 75 deg for the HT an 74.5 for the ST so its fairly aggresive too.

Here's another with original paint.
http://velospace.org/node/39108

Nice CAAD

Any link?

White headset - yay or nay?

^Thats what she said.

http://i.pgu.me/z58VAsIv_original.jpg

Yes, but this feels better.

Try putting it a little down and then level it out. Since most people ride a lot on the tip of the saddle you migth have felt uncomfy because your saddle was to high when it was level.

And the cool thing is that the sperm figure has a liquid nitrogen tank with actual sperm cells.

Always wondered how hard you have to crash into a woman to impregnate her....

I'll get my coat.

Hej Simon ;-)

It looks like a fun ride!! Is it fixed or SS?

Hejsa!
Its so much fun. Probably even the best citybike I've got. Big tyres and snappy handling makes it really good. Current setup is fixed, thats why I can live without the rearbrake. Slower but more fun :)

wtf?!?!?!

Let me ellaborate and excuse for the poor explanation. What I ment was, you are not allowed to use any sort of bicycle to cycle within the tree areas. You can only use the gravel/logging roads.
From what I understand, there is not that much forrest in Denmark in comparison to other contries so to protect animal life and the forrest itself from a lot of destruction some of the forrests in Denmark are ristricted this way. I.e you can't build mtb specific tracks.

Regarding my height I'm actually not that tall. I just have very long legs and arms. I would be 6'3" in your terms. :)

I would like to change to folding tyres mainly to save rotating weight (about 100g pr tire for the CX Pro) but from what I've noticed the tire sides seem a lot more flexible on a folding tyre than a wired which should give more grip.

Stickers are reflective to! ;)

It is. a 350mm post is on the short side. :) Long seatpost helps on comfort though.

I do have a set of guards for it. They get on in the winter along with some slighty smaller tires to avoid clearing issues.

I live in Denmark, more accurately in central Jutland where there is a little bit of forrest area. Its not allowed to use MTB's in the woods but cyclocross bikes are ideal for the logging roads. The scenery is great and there is a lot of elevation on some of the roads so it makes some pretty nice rides.
In the winter I mingle with some of the real cyclocrossers on training day. Goal is always to try and keep up. :) Demounting at full speed is always a sight for itself.

Its a 58 but with a 60cm TT which is my size. A bigger frame would not allow bars as low.

The logging road racer has been updated with slightly longer and lowered stem and new chainring, chain, sprocket and bearings in the rear wheel.
Amazing how much better et feels now.
Gearing is now 42/18 to deal with the 15% gravel climbs with 50m of elevation.

Needs better seatpost and folding tyres instead of wired.

Definitely not bad either!

What sort of avg cadence do you aim to hit on a good run? are you quick enough to hit 100rpm, cause thats impressive.

No rear light! Lier!

Cippo's old bike.

Fetish Porn.