Carbon Junky

Honestly not bothered by the desicion, could have been a non CSA race for all I care. I enjoyed the effort and atmosphere at the race and will definitely be coming back next year. Everyone has to start somewhere and I always like it when new companies enter the market. Learn from the mistakes you made and embrace that what you've gotten right. Keep the entry cost low as it is and try get racetec on board. Other than that, don't allow late licensed entries to make things easier. If I could have done the effort to make an entry on time, then so can the rest. Those complaining about the licensed riders all starting together, how many crashed were there? I know of one and it was an isolated incident in the breakaway. Other than that, good job

I raced licence and didn't have a problem with the entry or collection of numbers. Had a problem with them putting all the licenced batches together, but alas it's a small race and one cannot expect them to start batches of 20 riders for each category. Other than that, entry wasnt too much, road rangers were there and timing wasnt too bad. I'd pick this race any day before I do an ASG event where you pay R300+ for a race and then not even properly organised and very little prize money. This was a well organised event by a new company. Would suggest using racetec next year to attract more entries

Thanks guys, I will add some pics later today or tonight. The cable comes from the bottom and not from the top

I am busy building my first mountain bike and now confused as to what type of front derailleur I should be buying. I must confess that im a roadie and new to mountain biking. Can someone please explain all the terms like high mount, low mount, direct mount and then low clamp and high clamp. Thanks

I raced with him last year if its the same guy, but I was greeted with a bad attitude as was the whole group when greeting him. I had a lot more respect for the man in the hand cycle without any legs and his friendly attitude towards life.

Once AGAIN championchip has screwed up my result, its becoming like a second nature knowing my result will be wrong and this with my third chip eish

Can anybody tell me where I can get the BB30 circlips seperately?

Does anybody know where I can find the circlips seperately for the BB30 bottom bracket? cycling shops are all just pulling up their shoulders here

Its quite disappointing, these are excellent saddles and yet nobody stocks them

Im on the lookout for one of the scratch models, preferably the carbon ones

Ive been trying to find out who imports these saddles, but no luck. Anybody know who can supply me with these saddles?

Ok here it is. Its totally different from the exact actuation technology. I do know that the road versions 11 speed and 10 speed derailers are the same in shifting movement, but as far as mountain goes, its different. The 11 speeds have a whole new concept in design to ensure ghost shifting is elliminated. Best advice is to find someone that has the 11 speed setup and play around with the 10 speed derailer on the 11 speed cog and shifter. If it does work, you'll be a legend on the hub

Since your topic title is for the Sram groupo, I'll give you my thoughts to it and what I found in my research. Firstly, 10 and 11 speed rear derailers are NOT the same. Keep in mind that there is only a limited space for a cogset and if they kept the spacing the same as 10 speed, then there won't be enough space for another cog. Ok its a bit wider than a 10 speed cog in total if you put all the gears net to each other, but the spacing between gears are definitely smaller than 10 speed. Then secondly, I've only done research on Srams cranks and I don't know if Shimano even does the single blade crank yet. Srams crank was invented for both the 1x10 and 1x11 setups in mind. This being said, you will need to get the type 2 derailer. Some have mentioned in the topic that I started 'X01 front and X0 rear' that you need a shadow derailer on the rear of you want to go shimano on the back. I'm assuming that you meant you wanted to add the 42 tooth cog, this is for rear? This is where you have to go check what the derailer is capable of. Each derailer has a max cog tooth. On road we go up to a 32t for srams long cage. I'll check on srams mountain parts, but I don't know about shimanos. Best advice will be to stick to the manufacturer that already has this technologies available like sram before losing a lot of money

Gareth just for curiosity on your wheels and how a wider profile benefits in the wind. Go check out Eastons Phanton wheel video that boasts the wider rim. I had a long debate when it came to the deep sections and how the wind was going to affect me as I am 171cm and weigh 63kg. After a lot of research on the topic I decided to buy the Concept wheels instead of the Darkhorse wheels for 2 main reasons: it has better control in cross winds as due to the wider rim, has a lot more stiffness. It is a little heavier, but being that my bike is already on the weight limit of 6.8kg, weight was brought into account. I'd say ask someone who has a wider rim deep secion wheelset for a test drive in the wind and see if it feels better for yourself

Screw Google, you guys are much better!!! Hahaha thanks guys. I'll post some pics when I'm done with the build

Is Race face the brand name?

@Roneblack46 where can I get those components?

And how can I determine the Q-factor for the frame?

And are there different bcd cranks from sram? As W@nted said 104BCD, I saw 74BCD on some? What would be the best BCD configuration when you want to replace parts later? I'm asking this because just reading through one shop, I've noticed a lot of different BCD sizes compared to road BCD sizes where you only have compact 110BCD, standard sram/shim 130BCD and then campag 135bcd

Another question, what is meant by Q-factor

And where is the best place to buy a single blade crank?

Sounds like sram are a few years ahead in mtb with technology. I'm a roadie so all this info is very interesting. I'm busy building a merida ninety nine hfs 3000D with DT swiss rear shock and Rockshox SID RLT front shocks. This is for a friend new to cycling. I want to add a Rotor chainring in the mix, any advice?

Why a type 2 sram derailleur?

Thanks a lot guys, after doing some research of my own, I have found that Sram actually built the X01 crank to be able to work with both the 10 and 11 speed setups and even confirms it on some of their pages. So it is possible to build a single 1x10 setup and save a lot of cash at the end of the day

I am busy with a build and I am considering using a single chainblade crank on the front with a 10 speed rear setup. Since Im no expert in mountain bike setups, is this possible?