DieselnDust

cycletour fever man.... finishers medal is moerse importante

Mtb uses a 104 BCD. i think there was a5 bolt 110bcd 32t chainring available a few years back but I can’t remember if it was wolftooth or absolute crap that manufactured it. It was very unsuccessful. The 2x sub compact cranks use a 110bcd for the big outer chainring and either a 96mm or 74mm bcd for the inner chain ring that can then be sized down to a 26t. sram may have a 32 but on a 107mm BCD. That’s just enough clearance for the chain ring bolt to not snag the chain but inconvenient enough to not be adopted by other manufacturers. You see good ideas are not adopted by the bike industry. They would rather have a million different standards for the same thing so you can mortgage the house for a chainring . i found these on ebay. you can see there isn't a heck of a lot of material around the mounting bolt for a 30T and 32T on 110mm BCD https://www.ebay.com/itm/123706511747 they 5 bolt and 4 bolt mount. I'm not prepared to be the guinea pig

The closer to the finish the attack the more motivated the group around you will be to ensure you don't go anywhere. Attack from 100k out and they think about it a little too long

correct and then we're into the 96mm or 74 mm inner chainring BCD

a 32 on a 110 BCD is not possible.

temu.com, the outlander 2 without the free extra water bladder is R845. More inline with what I paid direct from USwe in 2019

and your penchant for fairy tales is why you continue to entertain🤣

you mean throwing a tantrum and abusing his bike

which pack price is given?

i'm calling BS here. absolute BS with urea spread liberally across the top If a bike falls over at a Cafe and exhibits the type of failure shown in Furbs images then it must have hit a sharp edge with some speed. Firstly the handlebars will hit the ground long before the seat stays, then likely the pedals and derailleur. But please keep your inventive story telling coming because I'm a little bored and suffering a bit of writers block with a failure report I'm writing up . If what you say is true then all it serves is to reinforce the notion of very very low quality bicycle products being sold into the market at premium prices because a long column secured at two ends should cope with a lot more bending strain then any scenario being suggested. Take a carbon rod from a high performance stunt kit and see how far you can bend it before it breaks. PS: Wear safety goggles, hard hat and gloves

it appears that there is a culture of acceptance of poor quality products. Must be a Millenial thing. If a bike cracks by falling over at a coffee stop then I want a new one, not a crash replacement. If the frame fails bending in a place its designed to bend then that fail is due to either exceeding the strain or poor layup. A bike that has travelled in a bike bag, assembled and ridden for a few hundred kilometers before failing then its a layup fault which is a straight warranty claim. Bad luck for sure but its a warranty not a crash replacement.

Ya well…. This is the way…. Of the industry. Quality is just a word and cyclists lap it up because we’re prepared to pay R100k for wheels that cost R500 to make. When their shyte fails , somehow it’s the users fault

In this case . Most carbon frames break in crashes but those will generally break in more than one place. This frame would have had to be hit from the inside face of the stay to fail in the manner it did. So I believe an impact fracture in this case is a fairy t

In this case . Most carbon frames break in crashes but those will generally break in more than one place. This frame would have had to be hit from the inside face of the stay to fail in the manner it did. So I believe an impact fracture in this case is a fairy tale

Ya people seem to forget that Eritrea had a sprinter in the World Tour earning them loads of UCI points while RSA.........🦗

https://www.cyclingsa.com/south-africa-announces-team-for-historic-road-world-championships-in-rwanda-kigali-21-28-september-2025/ Only Byron was selected / qualified. There were two reserves but it appears we only has one spot allocated to RSA

I binned the supplied uswe nozzle for a camelbak bite valve. The uswe unit leaked. The bladder and nozzle in the Ryder pack is as a generic, similar to uswe, first ascent and a few others

a lot of the trail runners packs are better than the cycling packs, including the USWE.

yes strip Pogacar out of the equation and he's probably the next best all rounder, no argument there. My only contention is that the press wrote Pogacar off after his poor TT and basically placed the stripes on Remco without considering that they likely had very different focus in terms of prep and focus

if you have the parts for the conversion from PopLoc to handraulic I'd be interested too as I'm using the Monarch XX as a spare shock

if you have SRAM AXS maybe fit a drop bar and drop bar brake levers. This will give you better aero for the flats. His gravel bike is going to need some gearing adjustments anyway as the fangs and clig to bergplaas just isn't going to be rideable without a 0.7 ratio gearing for a 14to15hr finishtime

well I say "probably" because there are nuances to a career that is still quite young. If Remco wants to win the TdF he would have to drop a bit of weight? This may then slow his TT down. Does he then live out the accoloade of greatest TT rider ever? I don't deny he is a great time trialist but the best ever is a bit of a stretch for now. His road racing execution needs work despite winning the Olympics Road Race last year so the media promotion of he suddenly being the favourite for the Kigali Road Race was more than a bit premature

maybe a bit more than a GC rider. He probably the best road racer ever, oneday and GT

He is probably a better but definitely a more consistent TT performer than Pogacar. Since 2021 they've met head to head 11 times in UCI TT events with Evenepoel having a 9:2 strike rate. The winning margins were never as big as 3,8 seconds per kilometer as it was for the TT in Kigali last week. So that was an outlier which suggests it should never have been an indicator of relative form

And none of them could bring him back. This from a group that included Pidcock, Evenepoel, skuilmose, Healy and del Toro. it was clear in the TT that either Pogi was carrying race prep fatigue or wasn’t interested in winning it, instead saving his legs for the Road race. There’s just so much desperation within the Belgian camp for Remco to win something big. The Olympic Road Race is already long forgotten.