Wyatt Earp

Another digital afternoon

Nah A fight has to be worth something.

Yes

Single dial Boa adjust better than a double Boa shoe.

Bikes are all made in factories with the exact same setups. Groupsets are all the same on all bikes. In other words Sram Apex on a Specialized is not better than Sram Apex on a Titan. The big difference comes in the geometry of a particular bike. The bigger brands spend more money on refining the ride quality of their bikes. With that said, I rode a Silverback Gravel GR for a few years, it was the best bike I ever had (and there have been many across many disciplines) till it was stolen after a break in. I now have the gravel CF. Geometries on these bikes are really dialled in.

If you are keen, I can get you the RC 702’s in white. 45 narrow or wide. Could also possibly do a deal on DMT KR3

Digital Sunday

Unfortunately many “wheelbuilders” as they get labeled as or self profess, do not use a spoke tension meter, and some who do, tend to use some sub par digital tool that’s not even fit for measuring the tightness of the curls on a Boksburg perm.

This ☝🏻

If I ever get a bike in where one of those become spare, I will keep it aside.

The adapter comes supplied with a BB (unfortunately)

Waves today.

I’m gonna go with cross threading previously.

GXP is very flawed in its design. When Truvativ introduced it, the design was groundbreaking, and then Shimano responded with their Hollowtec, to this day trusted and proven. The GXP takes all the load bearing on the non drive side, which wears that bearing prematurely quick.That and the fact that the tolerances on that bearing is not great. The Token BB uses 24 mm ID bearings on both sides and then supply a beautifully machined adapter with very tight tolerances. The insert sits internally and spreads the load across both non and non drive side bearings more evenly.

I’ve never said it has been on the market for decades. Ive been working on bikes for 35 years plus. And it’s a well known fact that the SRAM GXP BB is the worst BB ever to see lighy of day. I often still wonder what they were thinking. No disrespect to what you own, but alas. Trying to give you advice that could benefit you, but it would appear that was a mistake 👍🏼

It’s the worst BB on the market bar none. And I’ve replaced quite a number of BB’s over many decades.

Luckily us old and slow guys have nothing to boast about.

The bearing on the GXP aside of the Sram BB has a smaller ID

That’s GXP and these things don’t last. Best to go next time is the Token 24 mm that comes with the GXP adapter.

Let’s he honest Swiss The hub has always been like the Lenasia drag championships. The cars with the loudest engines are always the slowest. But yeah, I don’t see Froome making claims about winning races, it’s the suburb kermesse gold medalists who want it.

Good doctors, and then those same guys who see the doctors become supposed and vehement anti-doping crusaders. As for Froome, his expectations of himself is far lower than that of the entitled public.

Because unlike any of us he has aged. I get that Klipdrift makes South Africans feel invincible, but in the end of the day, we aren’t machines. But I digress, he still has more wins behind him than most Brakpanner’s have kids with their sisters, and that’s no easy task.

I write it down to a good old S.A. personality trait, where people simply can’t be happy for others that do well. I remember building a loan bike for him when he was 15, 2 nights before he left for Kenya to go and do a race. A total nobody, but he went nonetheless and won, beating David Kinjah in that race. From there he stayed hungry with an unquenchable hunger. I was privileged enough to have him work in my store over school holidays, it was very evident that he had the highest of respect for anyone and everyone. A humility that most can only dream of, accompanied with a serious training regime and moral ethics. He didn’t rise to the top by luck or favor. He earned every second of his success. I doubt many will ride their first Tour De France as a last minute pick, start Alpe D’heuz alongside Denis Menchov, sitting in the top 10 at the start of that 13.9 km monster, and still come out the other side alive to tell the tale.

Love the condescending posts about sending him out to pasture from the peanut gallery who couldn’t win a stage at Tour of Brakpan.

It’s mos easy. Shops are making 200% margins