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Nice one Kaka

To be honest, I wished that Sram made a 3 x 10 XX, as I would have had it on my bike. Not that the 2 x 10 does NOT work for me, but I would rather have more options like you said. But I am saying, if you really like the Sram XX groupset = dont be toooo woried about it being 2 x 10 only. EDIT: You also left out the 26 X 39 ratio....39 brings you closer to the 42

I don't think that the rotors alone will make a difference. Shimano advertises the callipers as having the heat dissipating properties. Not sure what is special on the rotors.

Thanks for the explanation. Like I said I was wondering. I agree that speed is not a reflection on how well you handle your bike, but more like how well you handle it when you are tired from riding at high speed.

Yes it is the formula you use as a GUIDELINE when you start exercising.

Yes is see very high reading whenever I pass under power lines....

I also think it is dangerous to do what theoutriders are doing. The guys normally in G is now riding at higher speeds than what they are used to for longer and then loosing concentration. Looking at the falls that were reported here, I am wondering how many were in G, and how many as a result of riders not being experienced enough to ride at those speeds around those corners. If the rest of the G-Groups is going fast and everyone is hanging on, have safe is it? The is a REASON those riders are NOT in C or D yet...... Not sure why people want a "tow" like LL said up the ladder....you are either strong enough or not.

Do I understand correctly, PPA has made it so difficult to go up the seeding ladder on your own or rather impossible? So the only way riders from a group can move up is to get stronger riders to drop down and then assist in the lower groups? But what happens when these assisting rides return to their groups? Will their friends survive, hang on? And how will they fair if they are now in a higher group but riding on their own? What I see here is that riders are being assisted by stronger ones to get better times, higher seeding etc. and then? How do these riders then cope in their higher groups or they don't ?

100mm to 110 can make a big difference...and also L is not the same....make sure you look at the geometry of the TT and HT....best is if it is the same as your current bike(if your current bike fits you correctly)

So where do you beat your buddy at the line like the rest of the world or at the mat? Surely the race between the buddy’s were over at the line? Doing this kind of thing is like a rugby player "Scoring" a try 5 mins after the whistle was blown

I have had this when a tire was not seated straight....so it was actually the tire causing the wobble....

What about runners? They sometimes do 20km/h or even 25? How can you not have space when facing the traffic but not when going with it? Space on the side of the road is space does not matter if you are facing North or South How often do you or most people here get above 25 km/h in traffic? Fully agree Excatly the same way you currently turn right....

Why?

Fully agree, it is interesting what happens at the front, but we would like to also see happens in the rest of the field

Why do people allways have to say what they spend? How about just saying "I spend what I believe a considerable amount"

I think that we forget that the people who does the layup of the frame for the no-name frames is more than likely the SAME people who does it for the branded frames. The use the same moulds and layup....just "trim" the mould a bit to make if look different. We also forget that carbon has strength in a certain direction when it comes to layup...and this might have just been an hit in the direction where the carbon was not happy at all. BTW I have seen more than one branded frame look worse than this....so it ALL depends on the impact and the forces(Directional) on the frame. Think of any joint on a human, it will happily bend one way but break if with little force if you try and bend it any other way. BTW, why DOES it matter who assembled it?

What about an Garmin Forerunner 305?

Why not? Edit: Not like they don't deserve it ?

So that makes it OK to profit of someone else's design?

Their website looks simular to the Epic....and now they want to charge Epic prices...."almost"

I am not saying they do...I am saying that next there will be request to ONLY buy local.... I am all for the lowest price....and parallel imports...not FAKE How will we know if something being sold here is fake anyway?

What is next? "don't support CRC!" ?

HOw does it get in the seat tube? There is no way on my bike that anything can get into the seat tube. Where the seatpost meets the frame the seatclame keeps it just about water tight.

The main reason for the gear issue is because of the hole in the seat tube and the bare cable coming out there. Mud and water runs down the FD cable and then causes nice friction on the BB cable guide. So the solution is keep the water and mud of the cable, out the frame or enclose the cables....I took the last option and I hope it helps others. RD cable 1. Take a length of housing. 2. Strip the "outer" so only the inner is left for length of your down tube. (or get yourself a set of Gore cables) 3. Feed housing in from the RD side through the "bb cable guide" and up the down tube, using the old cable as guide or another housing. 4. With the Fork out, you can put the inner into the head badge guide. # Now you have a continues cable housing from the Head badge to the RD. Next time you need to change the cable you take out the fork and guide the new cable in. No mud can get to the cable and hence no reason for replacement more often. Front Derailleur 1. Do the same as above using only the inner of the cable housing. 2. Make sure the inner comes out the hole in the seat tube. 3. Now get one of those rubber boots(used on old V-brakes) and place it over the inner so it covers that hole. #Ninerbikes recommended that you close the hole with tape and then push the cable through.... 4. Make sure the little rubber is VERY tight around the FD cable, and covers the hole properly. 5. If you need to replace the FD cable you do same as above. I know it sound fiddly, but worth it. Ninerbikes are working on a full-housing conversion or something similar.