Today's Bike Ride

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Originally Posted by Hanneke

WOW!

And wowowow...

Just took him for a quick spin, up and down the road to work (including 1 km
of steep climbing, with sections of 20%, the hillclimb I won the other day
goes up it) and it FLEW up! It climbs better than the roadbike

I then took him into the fields at work, all on rather a slope... the bike
copes amazingly well with camber riding, seems very responsive in the
steering, as we expected, holds a line beautifully and plugs uphill just
fine :)

I need to tweak the brakes a little because they squeel and are too tight,
so start rubbing when muddy as they don't shed the mud as well... but I also
think I want to replace those funny short stocky blocks the Shimano canti's came with for the long thin
ones I prefer... Braking power excellent, no judder! Thanks to the Kinesis fork mounted hanger!

Will put it through its paces properly on rough stuff on Saturday morning on
a 1.5 hour Three Peaks style ride and let you all know how that goes, but as far
as 'normall' cross racing I reckon it will be brill! Light enough for me to
swing it over a 6 bar gate with ease should help with the runups and
hurdles :) :thumbup:

Also, having just hosed it down... Mud doesn't seem to like to stick to the Ti!!!

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Oh and while your at it
Your cupboard door knobs in the picture are lob sided. They need sorting as well :)

:p

There is some serious bike porn on my Facebook.. but only friends can see it...

Maybe this works? http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...1&l=e122ac390a

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Originally Posted by daz h

Oh and while your at it
Your cupboard door knobs in the picture are lob sided. They need sorting as well :)

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And another top tip from Daz :)

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Originally Posted by daz h

Hann
Just set your blocks with some toe in them
Put a rubber band on the rear of the block then tighten against the rim and usually the squeeeeel will go.
crack on

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I fancy these...

http://www.hargrovescycles.co.uk/pro...p?partno=47186

Have you seen the bit in Spinal Tap where the stage prop is made actual size because Nigel Tufnell puts inches instead of feet???

• Size 622/700"
• Width 33"

Those are fecking huge!!! :w00t:

LOL, if I point that out to them, you think they give me a free set???

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Originally Posted by dominion

Have you seen the bit in Spinal Tap where the stage prop is made actual size because Nigel Tufnell puts inches instead of feet???

• Size 622/700"
• Width 33"

Those are fecking huge!!! :w00t:

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Originally Posted by Hanneke

New cross race bike :)

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Han, as a fan of Ti, I can only say, "Utterly beautiful!!!!!" . Plus loads of options, with the rack and disc mounts. The one bike that will do it all, very competently!

I more or less forced them to get it back for me, because it has both dis and canti mounts, which gives me a choice of breaking option :)

As it stands, it feels quicker and mnore responsive than the road bike climbing, so this may well become my hillclimb bike as well as cross bike :) I doubt they will get this prototype frame back... especially as it was made for me anyway, so the right size... Because it is a prototype, there are some ugly tweaks to it, where the brazeon for the front mech has been filed off and where the cable guides on the tp tube have been filed off... But I don't mind that, as it is what it is: a prototype :) It hasn't got the flattened top tube either that the current frames that are on sale have as per my suggestion. Don't mine that either as it is so light, it doesn't matter for normal cross and for 3 peaks I put pipelagging on anyway!

Really looking forward to racing it on Sunday and testing it further tomorrow :D

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Originally Posted by wheezing donkey

Han, as a fan of Ti, I can only say, "Utterly beautiful!!!!!" . Plus loads of options, with the rack and disc mounts. The one bike that will do it all, very competently!

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Saw the bike last night Hann....very nice. I'm sure you'll have many happy times together. I love the way my crosser climbs hills also. I took it to the Alpes in the summer & did - among others - the Marmotte route with it. It was great climbing , but I wasn't so happy descending Clo du Glandon in a snow blizzard with crappy brakes.

Hmmmm, new bike in the house this morning, all sparkly, shiny and scratch free (not for long eh?) .....not quite the same as Hann's Ti given it's my (not so little) daughters 'birthday bike' :w00t: