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Second dibs corsas, let me know if Tim wont take them

I do all that too

I only used squirt and decathlon's own stuff, which also served me well. I usually warm up the bottle in a mug of hot water, dab a drop on each roller around the chain, few slow pedal revolutions, let it sit, then wipe off excess from the outside of the chainlinks.

According to Silca the squeaking is mostly from the sideplates, and wax should still be present in the rollers doing its job. I think they covered this when talking about riders topping up their chainlube on rides like Unbound XL. The first time I used immersion wax on a brand new chain I just topped up with drip wax when it got noisy. After 3000kms the 0.25 chain checker thingy still didnt go in it.

I now rotate 2 chains every 600km or so. Immersion wax them at together at the end of the 1200km, drip wax in the meantime. Takes a good 30 minutes to do both chains.

Vittoria open pave 27mm for £16.99 each on wiggle [https://www.wiggle.com/p/vittoria-pave-c­g-open-clincher-road-tyre]

I ordered two of these in 25mm at first, not knowing beforehand that they usually come up a bit narrow. If anyone wants it I'm happy to part with it for £30 in London to save the faff of return!

No worries! Its my go-to for bolts, but the trick is to search for their technical specifications, it wouldnt pop up as "stem bolt".

Do confirm that your stem uses M5 bolts, but almost all do.

Whats wrong with ebay for this? Free shipping, usually here in 2 days, and never had an issue with them.

Couple different campag splines. I could imagine Miche making a 10 speed cassette for older 8speed campag freehub (IIRC the width is there).

These plastic tubs that tables come in. In my experience they’ll fit ~38g of SIS go carbs if you compact it by knocking/tapping it against the kitchen counter.
Less mess, preportioned, easy to store in jersey pockets with gels…etc :)

No funny picture opportunity though :(

Instead carrying around bags of white powder I highly recommend holding on to the plastic tubs of electrolyte tablets, and fill them with carbs to take with you :)

I tried it, so you dont have to. But you'll probably want to.

I followed the instructions from this Silca video (except I wore PPE):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjZpgvWVzA

Even the 5th notoriously sticky factory greased SRAM chain came out dry to the touch after a water rinse from a batch of 150ml Silca chain stripper. Against their guidance I wont (responsibly) get rid of this batch just yet, I will see how well it does with a 6th chain.

The math comes out to ~£13 for 5 chain cleaned relatively faff free in an hour, and in the process I only create 150ml solvent waste. Consider me #influenced.

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I dont recognize the frame but could be thats its made to be compatible both with normal routing (empty hole on downtube) and a system like FSA ACR (hidden through stem)

Thats very cool. Would love to see a video of the assembly & demoulding process of this:

So, has anyone forked out £40 for the new Silca chain stripper yet? I'm very tempted, got a batch of chains to do, and the reviews are quite good.

Thanks for that! Bought my last ones off of Planet X for more than that...thats me sorted for a while

Im very surprised this hasnt sold! Great price, and awesome bike.

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Pick two :D In the same boat.

I think the idea is that by locking in the rollers position relative to the tooth they reduce the movement/friction between the roller and the tooth, and only reintroduce a fraction of it by more rotation between the chainlinks & rollers. Then they reduce the number of teeth by half, and you get an overall more efficient system.

I think. They're not doing a great job of explaining the how.

And Im sure theyre doing it for commercial purposes to recoup their investment on equipment, but I think its cool that if you had the cash, you could rock up to their own testing rig with your own stuff, and compare apples to apples.

Im flying Budapest-London on the 26th with a half empty wheelbox, happy to assist.

(ui: bojler elado!)

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Awful Taste But Great Execution

Edit: nah, not even awful taste. Its a weird choice, but I could see that on a Master coming together very nicely. It's definitely not worth £2k to me, but its very nicely done.

It really does :DDD cant unsee it.

And those rotors are very good looking.

Mate had his bike stolen. Found it on FB marketplace (put up a few hours after it was stolen). What are next steps with the best chance that he could see his bike again? Would police be quick enough?

This bike has been stolen from my mate the other day. It was locked by the loading bay of the Amazon offices at Principal Place, close to security post. Bunch of guys, wearing balaclavas, came with a van & an angle angle grinder, and stole a few bikes off the bike rack.

It had a different saddle, otherwise same build as here: