TheLegend

for heavens sake STOP IT! I need to work here. All that nipple talk distracts me so much! ni....ni......nipp.........nip on them niplles ... uuuuhm

you probably sold them as lighweight racing wheels, only used 3 time, as new

your answers are usually quite "exhaustive" but occasionnaly they don't satisfy my small and general knowledge brain.

a wheelbuilder should know what rims to use!?

ya, maintaining a bike can get expensive but the three most important things to reduce the money oyu have to spend are as follows: 1) clean chain and cassette often and lube it 2) replace the chain regularly, before chainrings and cassette are worn out too often 3) don't beleive your bike shop too much cause they easily exhcange parts that can still be ridden for a long time. a way how they make money! TheLegend2008-10-06 07:23:03

I use fast one - 16 Mbits!!!!

let's see how intense colonel's attention for semantics is today...he might also come around here and correct the thread starter. Not "in" CWC but "at" CWC.

On the helpful side: my mavic rim has a small crate where the rim is joined. when I rode it with a tube in the begining I just put some insulation tape over it.

then don't speak, you know not what you're saying. Don't tell me, cause it hurts ...

Now THIS is an awesome bike! It's called the "Flow". Custom made carbonfibre bike, back link (what do you call it) is borrowed from Specialized. Race ready sub 9 kg's. Belonged to Swiss XC champ Katrin Leuman, but been stolen in Austria before the last World Cup. http://www.katrinleumann.ch/Flow.html Drool all over it and report it if it gets offered to you.

It's not about the bike... correct! It's about the chicks!

so is it for sale? or do you just wanna show it? hmm why all the ? you not happy with it? good way trying to sell a bike - if you intent to ;-)

C'mon guys. you're trying to have an argument that is vying for top spot in the 'how boring and pedantic can you get' competition (and I'm not saying that the competition isn't fierce' date=' cause it is) Play nice! [/quote'] but summit called lefty "aggressive little fella"!!!!!

could be some troll clicking his fingers wound

allow taht poor sod to come back - it's his life after all! ps: what happened?

wie bitte, ich ich verstehen nicht Du alte flaume, bisst due deppert oder wass? entschuldigung? Aber bitte mit Sahne!

haha. man, two friends of mine actually managed to get at least one of two cranks of the square axel off. they moered it so hard I expected bad damage but nothing really happened. They then gave their best on the other crank but that one stayed put and they eventually came to their senses. I might have done the same but when I was really young my older brother told me how it goes and so saved me from that one mistake. Many others still happened though.

I have the same feeling as Sean - perceived effort to slow bike down is definitely lower with hydraulic disk brakes than with v-brakes (the good xtr's). especially when it's wet and muddy the discs have a biger advantage because they collect less dirt, grit, water (and so less abrasion on the braking surfaces) ... than the rim surface so close to the tyre and the dirt action.

I thought so but I have seen too many people using the moer in an attempt to get the crank off....and they did moer! not a slight hammering around the crank...

either I completely misunderstand you or your sicription doesn't make sense. The "lock" ring, as I have it on my XT octalink crank, isn't as much a lock ring but what helps you to undo your crank without any extra tools. All you need is the allen key to screw the "crank attaching bolt" out, it'll press against the ring and your crank will subsequently come loose. The octalink cranks on my road biek don't have such a ring and there I use the old crank remover with the help of the coin. hammer is out of question.