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Did anyone get a reply from Adventurance? This is a CSA/UCI sanctioned race and the organizers and participants agreed to participate by those rules. If Adventurance don't reply then can we take this up with CSA or maybe we just go to the sponsors?

Hi Wessel, What is the official response to the allegations of cheating in the Hakahana marathon? Also, do these results affect the seedings of the riders they have "beaten"?

From Bike Rumour: Cafe Roubaix Bicycles is a small bike shop located in historic downtown Cochrane, Alberta. Like many shops, it got it’s start in a garage. Where owner Dan Richter had been building high end custom wheels for friends and local racers. A twenty year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, starting Cafe Roubaix Bicycle Studio, was a culmination of a life long passion and a great way to force himself to meet new people. His military career, after stints in Afghanistan and elsewhere, was brought to an end due to post traumatic stress disorder. His shop, which opened in March, is located perfectly above an ice cream shop caters to road cyclist. It’s named after the famous 117 year old Paris-Roubaix race, because Dan wants every client to “roll away experiencing the same level of service and attention that every European professional demands from team mechanics, coaches, and equipment providers.” The problem is…. Specialized Bicycles is requesting Cafe Roubaix Bicycles change it’s name or else they’ll huff and they’ll puff and they’ll sue due to trademark infringement. While Dan’s lawyer claims he has a case, since the name is an icon of bike culture, and there are dozens of products with the name e.g. the Fuji Roubaix Road Bike and Challenge Roubaix Tires. But to pursue this case would cost an estimated $150,000, so the small shop must capitulate. According to Specialized Canada, the company is defending it’s legally owned trademark because it is legally required to defend or lose it. For Dan, changing his stores name is a lot more than just a sign. It’s about rebuilding a reputation he has carefully cultivated building custom wheels and providing exceptional customer service. You can find directions to Dan’s shop, pick up a jersey, or just learn more about his shop here. Via Calgary Herald

A local brand would be designed/manufactured in the local country. All the brands you mentioned are international, who has a problem with that? You are trying to deflect the point of my post and that is you are trying to influence the market for a brand as in the example from Malcolm Gladwell's books, a common marketing strategy in the electonic age. As far as supporting local talent goes, all brands do that to a degree, it's called advertising. If they got no exposure for it they wouldn't do it.

Momsen is as local as Swift/Silverback is (run by South Africans). And no it's not a compliment. You started banging on about Momsen Bikes about the same time Victor stopped his activity on The Hub.

Seriously Crow, you are Victor's Hush Puppies Guy. It's a little too obvoious.

Like I said, an F1 carbon engineer (or any properly qualified carbon engineer for that matter) would still be rolling around the aisles. Yes, you are entitled to your opinion but it is an opinion and your opinion is dangerously misleading and misinforming. Like they say, a little knowledge is more dangerous than none at all. Here are some pictures of F1 carbon gearboxes and the winning Audi from Lemans. These are structural members of the chassis and handle 800 plus horsepower plus all the suspension and brake loadings. By contrast a human being average 0.25 to 0.30 horse power with short burst for trained high level athletes reaching 600 plus watts or 0.80 horsepower. Some sprinters get close to ONE horse power (746 watts) Please preface your opinions by saying something like “I believe” or “In my opinion” so punters know it is your opinion not irrefutable fact. Oh, and before you bamboozle people with things like Hooks Law, take a look at what Hooks Law is all about on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia....Hooke's_law And right at the top of the article: “Hookes's law is only a first order linear approximation to the real response of springs and other elastic bodies to applied forces… HTC rider, power output? dont know but he still rides carbon: Chris Hoy, bench pressing 631kgs, rode carbon bikes:

Ok, everyone is entitiled to an opion and I'm sure you know your stuff, but come on that is just plain rubbish! If a F1 engineer read what you just wrote he would still be rolling around on the ground laughing his head off. http://drerowery.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DSF0374.jpeg

http://www.cyclingne...nti-doping-test "The RadioShack-Leopard team has reacted angrily to the reports in the Spanish media, saying that Horner updated his whereabouts information before the start of Sunday's final stage, specifying he would stay in a different hotel. It seems that Horner opted to stay in another hotel in central Madrid with his wife rather than stay in the hotel with the rest of the team. The team say Horner specified the name of hotel and even his room number when he updated his ADAMS information. The team suggested the Spanish anti-doping inspectors failed to use latest ADAMS whereabouts information and went to the wrong hotel rather than Horner missing an out of competition test. “There is no problem. The USADA went to the wrong hotel. They went to the team hotel but he is in another hotel. He had mentioned this in his ADAMS. They should do their administration more correctly than they did. They need to check their whereabouts too,” press spokesman Philippe Maertens told Cyclingnews."

When top pros are crashing and braking bones on an uci XCO course which happened last year as well, you know that the course is wrong. Stop pandering to the uci and their lust for ratings. Kids and their parents are looking twice at XC now due to the nature of these uci XCO courses. Novamesto was another example of this kind of course. When the pros are saying that as soon as dropper posts are light enough they will get one you know something is wrong.

Here's a broken Momsen HT frame, photo was originally posted by someone on the Momsen Facebook page. It's not there anymore funnily enough: Also cracked carbon Momsens mentioned here: http://www.thehubsa....n-sl729-r-type/

IBIS, that's the one! Also distributed by Two Wheels Trading (Victor) - interesting. Another thing that has been brought up here which is wrong is Momsen's R&D The alloy frames are straight from the Kinesis OEM catalogue (downloaded size is 41mb, look at pages 13 & 17) The carbon frames are OEM as well, you can change a few options but you can't change the angles for instance otherwise you need to open a new mould which is very expensive from what I've read. So that's a bit miss-leading as well. As far as poring big money into local racing goes, guess who's money that really is? When you are paying R5000 more than the other people are charging that's where your money is going, into sponsorship and advertising to sell more bikes to you. Finally, the 10/4 marketing is a bit miss-leading: the team that got 10th at the Epic wasn't the team that won 4 stages. Two different teams in two different classes. Would that stand up if someone complained to the advertising standards board?

Yeah, that's actually an interesting point Bos. Have you noticed how The Crow has been championing Momsen for a while now? What was the brand he used to push before that, can't remember now?

Brant Richards On Reynolds 520: Other tubes. All they seem? On-One frames will not be available in Reynolds 520 tubing at any point. We were offered it by our frame builders a year or so ago, who thought we'd like it. After a bit of digging, the best we got out of anyone that all Reynolds 520 was, was a sticker, that you paid $5 for, and tubing from a Taiwanese manufacturer, which as far as I could ascertain, was the same as the tubing we were using. Our framebuilders (we've changed since then) suggested that the Reynolds sticker would be a good selling point for us. We disagreed.

Here's a link to a website full of broken carbon, a lot of it is big name brands... http://www.bustedcarbon.com/