What's with the mahooosive bloody handle bars appearing on MTBs? Stupid things take up most of the track!
Spent a lovely evening in Richmond, about 30 miles got a puncture in Weybridge but carried on as it was getting dark - front tyre luckily.
no, it's fine and I need to junk it soon anyway, it's an old AlexRim 500 and the cups were worn even 3K miles ago. I ignored this and have just adjusted the slack! but friction is increasing and i'm too old to swap the centre out and re-spoke. Even the tyre seems ok but will check. I need to treat myself to a few service bits ideally.
A mate has lent me his Merida cyclocross bike for the last few weeks. I've really enjoyed it and found that cycling opens up options that aren't possible on a trail bike down here, so I've just put a deposit down on a Look gravel bike. Call me a tart but even though I know I should have gone black, I've ordered some white pedals to go on it as well ;-) Picking it up next weekend
Nice, the 765 gravel yeah? Tempted by one of those myself took a loop round into Essex and back through Herts today
Yes that’s right. A bit of a bargain too - half rrp! I’m right getting into this peddling lark. Did a few rides last week on my mate’s Merida and his Mrs has persuaded me to drag my mtb out for a slog in the rain tomorrow morning. Bonkers.
Love the Pace, had some Pace forks on a Zaskar back in the day. Been an Orange man for years, some of you will remember Gizmo he was one of the head honcho's at Orange so I always got a fair amount of discount, had a Patriot 66, then a 5 and now an Alpine 6 (no photos of the Patriot sadly). Road bike is a Genesis Datum 20, but I'm looking for another "cheap" bike just to strap into to my Kickr/Zwift if anyone has anything.
Thanks, my lad rides the Pace for now until I can build his Pipedream frame up into a hardtail. I bought a Orange Clockwork back in the very early 90's from Neil Walton in Didsbury Gripshifts, Flexstem and Magura Hydro stoppers great bike. He was also a Pace dealer, i'd lusted after a Pace from that moment took 9 years for me to buy 1 from A1 cycles in Wakefield. Orange bikes are just peachy. Love the Gt triple triangle design, my Guitar tech has a early suspension GT. I haven't got anything for a turbo, I loaned out my frankenturbobike a few years back, guess the current user likes it too much.
I had real difficulty finding a suitable bike - COVID-19 has massively increased demand and reduced supply. I eventually found a choice of three in my size at Tri UK not too far from me in Yeovil. An aluminium Cannondale Topstone at £1700, a carbon Topstone at £3500, and the Carbon Look reduced from £3500 to £2600. However when I went to the store it turned out that the Look was actually at the Nottingham branch and they wanted a £500 deposit to bring it down for me to see. The good news was that it had actually been reduced even further from £2600 to £1700 that very same. I wasn’t going to find another bike in stock nearby in my size with the 2-by spec I wanted ... and a deposit would give me three to choose from so I asked them to bring it down from Nottingham. they called me up a few days later and said it had arrived, and I was well impressed ... at £3500 it was perhaps a bit overpriced, but at £1700 it is an absolute steal. The only downside is that it isn’t tubeless ready so I asked about an additional wheel set. It just so happens that they were offering 60% off all accessories so I have blagged two sets of Mavic tubeless wheels - one with 30mm tyres on and one “ex-display, shop soiled at 70% off” with 40mm tyres on ... nearly £1500 worth for less than £600. Sweet. I love a bargain
They have - court just chose the best bidder from 14 offers, the guy who started the Bricorama DIY chain
