dylankeyter Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 What is the weight of the bike with the rigid fork?
rock Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 very nice....tell me more about the rigid fork....make? price? tks
TitusTi Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Rock, don't do it, you will live to regret it!Looks kinda like the Pace? Half an inch of fore and aft flex apparently, that's all anyone needs.
Dirty Twin Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Bike lyk mooi Jo. Only time I saw that bike on the weekend was at the Start and about 4 1/2 hours later at the blooming finish. Sean he is so flipping fast he only needs one water bottle so unfair.
Dirty Twin Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Still can't figure why someone would jump back in time and negate all the fancy-schmancy technology to take a beating' date=' hell why not just remove the gears and make it a single speed, or better yet; jump out a 3rd story window face first  All these die-hard single-speed-no-suspension-would-be-retro-posers, they still use the latest in disk brake technology, care to elaborate why?! p.s. the bike does look the dogs-danglies tho, just can't be understanding why there be no shock on such a pretty piece of blackness, since I thought they were built for comfort to go with all that "once you've tasted chocolate blah blah" [/quote']  This guy aint no poser. He is donders fast (sic).
jamex Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Yes so fast that he used a GU on dry chain.It made the bike faster.He didn't need the GU.Bike couldn't keep up with him!
Baaisikilist Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Once you've had black you'll never go back BL...  Nah...i like my white bike... with a little bit of colour to break it:)...  In the interest of meeting the correct affirmative action criteria in my garage, i bought a white bike and a black one... Just 3 more black ones to come n i'm all compliant...
Brighter-Lights Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 I got the fork from www.twowheelstrading.co.za - It's unbranded, but the same fork (Carbotech Axima) sells for 180 euro in Belgium. I got a good deal. Contact Victor. There's a slight fore and aft flex but waaaaay less fore and aft than my sid... Actually, it's a joy to ride on gravel roads... the slight roughness on fast downhills is nothing in comparison with what I gain when climbing and when standing up.  It gets a bit bumpy on rough stuff but relaxing the arms sorted out everything pretty quickly + lower front tyre pressure. A 2.2 or 2.3 would be perfect for front but my aim is just to use it on smooth races and to have less wearing parts on the bike for training.  Im 66kg
Brighter-Lights Posted July 24, 2008 Author Posted July 24, 2008 The saddle is an Amoeba Scud, also seen it unbranded on ebay.... Been using it a while but wouldn't recommend it... the rails are epoxied to the carbon and came loose after 4 rides... luckily I have a friend who built himself a carbon bike... ;-)  From a comfort point of view it's quite good, just slightly too wide for me. My previous hard plastic saddle got me through TB without any flesh wounds...  Trick question.... with the bonk starting at 20km to go and a chain so dry it sounds like something is going to break soon... Do you eat the GU? or lube your chain with it? hahah  Well... funny things happen when bonking while in the lead, but I thought a wet chain would get me there quicker....  Â
Flea Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Hey BLIs the road much worse than last year? The road then was reasonably good.
Brighter-Lights Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 The section between Doodsklip and the final ascent up bergplaas is worse than ever before...but ridable...  The steep section up bergplaas is quite good if you stay on the left edge of the road. (op die rand vand ie afgrond)  Doing the 2km steep part UP bergplaas was quite OK going up... but to give you and idea... when coming down the back of bergplaas towards doodsklip on day one I could hardly let go of the brakes.... and in the past there were sections where you would let go and flew... I don't tink I went faster than 30km/h down the back of Bergplaas...  Descending from Bergplaas to the Patensie side (like we'll do in trans) was faster than before (they filled the road at places)  I remember touching 40+ almost all the way down and 50km/h near the bottom near poortjies...  If it doesnt rain now, we'll have another trans like 2007.  Â
rock Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Rock' date=' don't do it, you will live to regret it! Looks kinda like the Pace? Half an inch of fore and aft flex apparently, that's all anyone needs.[/quote']  thought it might be more comfortable than my other rigid  Â
Flea Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 BLGreat - waiting for you feedback on Never-ender. you going to do all the way to the coast - ie after checkpoint 7 as well?
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