Thanks Donkey
My commuting hack has colarado brakes (which come with the bevel washers like on v-brakes) - maybe I should swap them over (or get some tektros)
Thanks Donkey
My commuting hack has colarado brakes (which come with the bevel washers like on v-brakes) - maybe I should swap them over (or get some tektros)
I bet the colarado brakes you have are the re badged tektros
do thay look blike theses
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/tektro-cr-...item1e671eae1c
Originally Posted by monkeynut
think so (without being at home to look)
Ooh vote now - shall I swap? or do the froglegs give extra required mud clearance??
Landcruisers are going back onto the crosser, then a little ride on the hills on it... Mountain Mayhem 24 hr solo out of the way, training for PPPCX has officially started...
800' of hill reps with my bike yesterday mean a very bruised shoulder today, but training has officially started!
Need to learn to carry my bike properly though, or am I just a wuss?
Are you using pipelagging? I put a length of pipelagging all along top and seattube for carrying... Just fitted it but am short a couple of cableties and ducktape, which is in the car, which is still in the bodyshop
The cross bar levers are also still in the car but I can do without those for now...
Managed to find a couple of the right size innertubes... so at least I can put the landcruisers back on... My mate still has the other cross tyres and tubes :/
Once they are fitted, I shall be off for my first ride/carry of this year
Last edited by Hanneke; 29-06-2012 at 03:13 PM.
Good point! I've got pipe lagging but haven't built my cross bike yet, so I carried a road bike with the cable mounts under the toptube - that's what was digging in!
Must put pipe lagging on the bike I'm actually carrying, and must get cross bike built this weekend...
Technically, in true 'old skool' style, you should only need lagging on the front 2/3 of the top-tube, none on the seat tube.
Learn to carry with this section of the top tube on your shoulder. That way you won't have the front wheel 'drooping' and hitting the ground in front of you on the climbs. If you can get hold of a copy, it's well worth reading "Cyclo-cross" by Simon Bourne .... he was manager of the Peugeot Cycles UK team, back when Tim Gould and David Baker were their stars.
Some of the fast folk and people with no pain receptors scoff at pipe lagging, but I quite like it. As above though I think it's an easier carry with the bike more horizontal and the shoulder further forward in the triangle, rather than dangling vertically with your shoulder wedged into the seat cluster. Try wrapping your forearm around under the downtube to grab the bars. Tall people sometimes come right around the headtube with the arm. Quick search - a bit like this http://videos.parentdish.com/the-bas...ike-484150652/ from about 1'30 on.
I use three ways of shouldering the bike, to release the pressure of my boney, ropey, injured and inflamed right shoulder... horizontal, further forward on the top tube, arm around downtube, or diagnoally, resting on the shoulder with the corner of the seat/headtube, or for Simon's Fell I actually carry it like I carry my MTB, right accross the shoulders... for this I need pipelagging all along the top tube, or otherwise my neck gets bruised, so hence having a piece that covers the whole top and seat tube
I bruise easily and am very boney, no fat... 5'10'' weighing 58 kilo's :-O
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