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HoKe standing next to his bike on Grays Inn Road. Whats the customary response to a DAS if not on bike?

Wheres a good place to take a carbon wheel to have it confirmed that its buggered? Will evans just scratch their heads or do they know about this sorta stuff?

i might possibly be interested in a full wheelset. How much for 50 and 60mm deep tubular wheels? (road wheels). I went on their website but cant find these tables you are copy pasting?

I'd be up for double tag. Was planning on swinging by after work but havent got any good ideas for a new tag.

Lady with white charge frame and white SPOK around shephards bush and notting hill this morning. I wish I had 50 dorrah.

Another question,

I've just bought some cheap carbon forks from someone on here which have a 19cm steerer. My charge has a 15cm headtube, I take it the forks will fit fine?

Hhmm maybe not. Is it ahead? if your installed headset and stem height is more than like 4.5cm, the steerer might not poke through your stem enough to clamp well

Not sure if I should be asking this here or in the mechanics thread but here it goes. I just bought this carbon wheel:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300605163052?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1193

Arrived today, extremely excited with the apparent bargain I had scored. Upon close inpection, there is a kink on the edge of the rim on one side. It looks like it deviates out by about 2mm, like the rim has bent outwards. The kink from where it starts to where it ends is about 2 inches long. Its just on the one side so its nothing to do with truing.

What do you think it could be? No visible cracking or anything like that there, doesn't appear to be fragile. Could a tyre lever do this? Or a blow out? Should I be sending this back to the seller?

I was watching this wheel too. The earlier DT Swiss carbon clinchers were known to delaminate under the heat of prolonged heavy braking, which would manifest in a similar way to what you've described. Naughty seller, methinks.
I'm sure either Dammit or I (or me, Schick) would take the carbon specific pads off your hands if you wanted to offload them. Not all is lost, don't worry :)

The plot thickens. I noticed it has 4 unoriginal spokes too. They are round (instead of bladed) and the white paint is blobby, like it was some kind of rattle can jobby. What a cunt of a seller. I'm not even going to send it back, its a death trap for the next person they try to con.

I was watching this wheel too. The earlier DT Swiss carbon clinchers were known to delaminate under the heat of prolonged heavy braking, which would manifest in a similar way to what you've described. Naughty seller, methinks.
I'm sure either Dammit or I (or me, Schick) would take the carbon specific pads off your hands if you wanted to offload them. Not all is lost, don't worry :)

Cheers Tom. Have messaged the seller now. Hopefully she wont be a biatch and will refund the monies. Im tempted by the planet x wheels now tbh instead of faffing around with 2nd hand stuff although I've heard stories about excessive heat build up on those too...

Yeah im messaging them now. It's definetly not damage due to transit. Im pretty pissed off to say the least, went out and bought all sorts of extra bits for it, carbon specfic pads, skewers, new tyre etc. So much for 100% feedback eh

Not sure if I should be asking this here or in the mechanics thread but here it goes. I just bought this carbon wheel:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300605163052?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1193

Arrived today, extremely excited with the apparent bargain I had scored. Upon close inpection, there is a kink on the edge of the rim on one side. It looks like it deviates out by about 2mm, like the rim has bent outwards. The kink from where it starts to where it ends is about 2 inches long. Its just on the one side so its nothing to do with truing.

What do you think it could be? No visible cracking or anything like that there, doesn't appear to be fragile. Could a tyre lever do this? Or a blow out? Should I be sending this back to the seller?

Question regarding hood position-

At the moment I've got Cinelli Vai bars and R200 brakes. I would like the tops of the hoods to be in line with the bars ala my geared bike but the minute I have this position set up it becomes hard to use the brakes when on the drops.

Is this normal, am I doing something completely wrong?

Its difficult to get non compact bars to have flat top transition to drop levers sometimes. I always found that I had to compromise in one area to gain comfort in another. This page is worth looking:

http://ruedatropical.com/2009/03/road-drop-bar-geometry/

If you split, ill have the rear derailleur ;)

crazy cheap

Anyone want a lift to Nottingham this weekend? Will be leaving friday eve or possible sat morning and coming back Sunday afternoon. All I ask is for a small a contribution to petrol monies. Cheers

PS, In my dads Beemer, be rollin

Awesome looking hill, wish I knew where it was! Contemplating digging out an ordnance survey map and finding the steep parts of london. hhmm

Good work Hoke, did you win the whole thing then? I thought you got 26.something 6pt?

Must be a USB 1.0 cable. Slow transfer innit.

Nice work, indeed the first pic isnt working

PS, what frame is that, I want.

I have no idea, Ive never scanned one, thought it might be related to the shop somehow.

Anyone have that barcode app on their phone?? see if you can scan that box on the left!

Sounds cool. Its bloody windy today, will probably give this a miss and check out the rolla.

Whats everyone saying for HoP this week? Early start again? Apparently by the end of the month when the clocks go back, it will be dark by 430. Daylight savings win.

Was a fun one, definetly enjoyed being on gears (booo). Lost count of how many laps but my computer gave the following:

Distance: 17.8 miles
Average Speed: 20.8mph (not moving speed, comp sucks)

I did resort to screaming very very loudily in order to keep up with OSR and co. Darkness wasn't too scary and everyone was quite well behaved, although somebody made a rather dubious undertake at one point which caused a bit of a scare further back. Not sure if it was one of our lot

Something funny about Leinster Gardens...

"In the 1930s, a fraudster sold tickets for a charity ball at 23/24 Leinster Gardens and made a fortune. The guests arrived in their evening finest only to discover they had all been conned."