The Cycling Chat Thread

[beesonthewhatnow]

Flat pedals are cheap, have a look at the Rondo rutt that bees posted about a few pages back:

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The Mutt was the one I like...

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[Cid]

SRAM rival 1 equipped gravel bike is an option. But you only get 12 gears. No front mech faff mind... it will give good enough range for most terrain, ride mine in the peaks.

Mine is an on-one which uses the same frame as the vitus bees linked to, but annoyingly they don’t have cycle to work.

 

[iamwithnail]

Quite like that but a bit out of range...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Adventure.road bikes look like the thing for me.

What size frame do you need?

 

[iamwithnail]

Eh, from the charts looks like 54? I'm 5'8" with wee legs.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Eh, from the charts looks like 54? I'm 5'8" with wee legs.

You're almost the same as me then.

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This is the aluminium version of the bike I own in steel. And is in stock now in the size you'd need (small). Well within budget, leaving you money for extra bits you want/need...

 

[Almor]

On that note, if what you need to fix your bike is 1/4" ball bearings, a 7 speed freewheel, any kind of 26" or cheapish 700c suspension fork, GRX or Deore or Tiagra anything, 10 speed anything, you're out of luck there too. We're starting to see suppliers saying 'December' in the 'expected in' box when you look things up. We're having to get creative.

I was thinking of posting about the difficulty getting half decent 8-speed stuff, and 26" wheels where I am (New Zealand)
I found an online shop in Australia with 'more than ten' of the cassette (11-28t) I wanted but they said shimano have restricted international shipping of their parts?

I've only spoken to a few bike shops and they've all complained at the difficulty getting shimano workshop boxes, which seem to be potluck workshop bits?

Took me a while to remember that some parts of an 8-speed drivetrain can use 9-speed parts, including a bike shop mechanic telling me they're not compatible, so that's what I'm looking at for a chainset replacement

 

[Cid]

Which cycle to work scheme is it? Do they have a list of online retailers it works with?

 

[Cid]

You're almost the same as me then.

Get Your Wiggle On | Cycle, Run & Outdoor Shop | Wiggle

Prepare to get your Wiggle on. We have the awesome gear you need to cycle, run, hike & swim from the world's leading sports brands. No excuses, LET'S GO!

www.wiggle.co.uk

This is the aluminium version of the bike I own in steel. And is in stock now in the size you'd need (small). Well within budget, leaving you money for extra bits you want/need...

Hydraulic discs at that price point too... Nice.

 

[Cid]

Could even have both 700c and 650b wheels for maximum versatility.

 

[DownwardDog]

Was chatting to the mechanic from my club last week and he was saying similar - he can't get any Shimano groupset bits at the moment, what few are available are all going to the larger operators, single person outfits aren't getting a look in.

I buy all my Shimano stuff on Yahoo Marketplace Japan now. There is plenty on there but I had to procure a Japanese student from the local university to help me.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Could even have both 700c and 650b wheels for maximum versatility.

Yep. The £700 spare form the budget would get a nice set of 700c carbon wheels from Lightbicycle for when iamwithnail fancied a race to the cafe...

 

[weepiper]

I was thinking of posting about the difficulty getting half decent 8-speed stuff, and 26" wheels where I am (New Zealand)
I found an online shop in Australia with 'more than ten' of the cassette (11-28t) I wanted but they said shimano have restricted international shipping of their parts?

I've only spoken to a few bike shops and they've all complained at the difficulty getting shimano workshop boxes, which seem to be potluck workshop bits?

Took me a while to remember that some parts of an 8-speed drivetrain can use 9-speed parts, including a bike shop mechanic telling me they're not compatible, so that's what I'm looking at for a chainset replacement

You can use an 8 speed chain on a 9 speed chainset, but not the other way round. HTH.

 

[Cid]

Yep. The £700 spare form the budget would get a nice set of 700c carbon wheels from Lightbicycle for when iamwithnail fancied a race to the cafe...

But they only go up to 65mm deep section, just not sure that's aero enough...

 

[iamwithnail]

beesonthewhatnow that looks pretty perfect tbh. Investigating!

Cid it's this one The cycle to work scheme with no £1000 limit - Green Commute Initiative just trying to work out if that works with wiggle this morning!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

beesonthewhatnow that looks pretty perfect tbh. Investigating!

Cid it's this one The cycle to work scheme with no £1000 limit - Green Commute Initiative just trying to work out if that works with wiggle this morning!

Just looked at the sizing charts for it again - you might actually need a medium. Will depend on your inside leg measurement...

 

[Cid]

Hmm... not listed on Wiggle. But dunno. The scheme could have an online retailer list ffs

Wilier Jaroon from Merlin maybe if not. Steel frame... but bit on the heavy side, design a couple of years old. 1x11 groupset. Generally well respected manufacturer though. Italian.

You can also buy Canyon direct from the manufacturer. They have a bit of a mixed reputation on deliveries and er... have had some ‘problems’ with their high end bikes. Low stock, but actual dates. Have a look at the Grail I think.

Also Ribble but their website is fucking annoying.

e2a: Canyon Grail Al 6 with grx is listed as available in May. £1649

Grail 6

Make new tracks. On or off road, the Grail gravel bike is fun wherever you ride. The Grail AL 6.0 is equipped with a full carbon fork and Shimano’s GRX400 gravel groupset.

www.canyon.com

 

[DJWrongspeed]

In case anyone needed convincing of the Brompton's greatness check this vid. Has some little insights into the bike I'd never thought of. I don't need one but if I commuted differently I'd get one in a flash.

wonder what the waiting time is to get one? Supposedly going to take the bike industry 2 years to recover from the pandemic.

 

[iamwithnail]

Just looked at the sizing charts for it again - you might actually need a medium. Will depend on your inside leg measurement...

Is it the centre to centre seat tube measurement I'm going off on that page? i've traditionally had 18" frames in MTB/hybrid world. The Ridgeback vanteo hybrid i'm riding just now (17") feels compact but not cramped.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Is it the centre to centre seat tube measurement I'm going off on that page? i've traditionally had 18" frames in MTB/hybrid world. The Ridgeback vanteo hybrid i'm riding just now (17") feels compact but not cramped.

To give you an idea - I’m 5’7”, but with only a 28/29” inside leg. The Vitus sizing chart for my height would suggest a Medium, but that assumes longer legs. I went for the small and it fits perfectly.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The section from their geometry chart:



If you’re unsure or between sizes, get the smaller one. It’s a lot easier to make a small bike larger (layback seatpost, longer stem) than the other way round.

 

[iamwithnail]

Grand, thanks for that. I'm 29.5" inside leg so think the small.

 

[Cid]

Vitus have a few models of substance. The VRS, as bees says, is 5’6-5’9 for M. The CR is 5’8-6’0 for M. The SRS is 5’5-5’8. Just fucking why you absolute bellends?

We need some new standards for road bike sizing.

 

[DownwardDog]

Hmm... not listed on Wiggle. But dunno. The scheme could have an online retailer list ffs

Wilier Jaroon from Merlin maybe if not. Steel frame... but bit on the heavy side, design a couple of years old. 1x11 groupset. Generally well respected manufacturer though. Italian.

You can also buy Canyon direct from the manufacturer. They have a bit of a mixed reputation on deliveries and er... have had some ‘problems’ with their high end bikes. Low stock, but actual dates. Have a look at the Grail I think.

Also Ribble but their website is fucking annoying.

e2a: Canyon Grail Al 6 with grx is listed as available in May. £1649

Grail 6

Make new tracks. On or off road, the Grail gravel bike is fun wherever you ride. The Grail AL 6.0 is equipped with a full carbon fork and Shimano’s GRX400 gravel groupset.

www.canyon.com

I've had three Canyons and they have all been fine and arrived in less than two weeks. Just never order anything that is not in stock right now.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oh my god! Each to their own and that, but unless you are riding an emtb then you are WRONG.

Leafster, this is for you;




15 mile ride, 1000ft of elevation, number of times I normally need to get off and push on this route = 4, number of times walking today = 0.

Size of smile on face = fookin’ massive!

 

[DownwardDog]

I'd rather ride a Raleigh Twenty before I got an eeb.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'd rather ride a Raleigh Twenty before I got an eeb.

You are so wrong that you have to live upside down, ffs.

 

[a_chap]

I'd rather ride a Raleigh Twenty before I got an eeb.

I'd love to ride a Raleigh Twenty!

A perfect bike for me to ride an Audax in fact

 

[Cid]

EMBN (GCN’s answer to ‘is there a way we can make a lot of money advertising ebikes?’) is quite funny. Not because it’s good, but for the middle aged men trying to justify themselves against the GMBN people.

I’d quite like an emtb mind you.

 

[DownwardDog]

You are so wrong that you have to live upside down, ffs.

They are for fat fucks who can't drop watts bombs.