all purpose gear thread

just bought a black san marco rolls instead

Guys I just won a competition! Well, actually I was runner up in a competition but I won a Rapha Classic Sportwool Jersey! Are they any good? They're quite expensive it seems, so I assume so.

MARK, THEY ARE AWESOME!! KUDOS!

Yes truly awesome and worth nearly 200 quid or something ridiculous.

£110 but still, I'm pleased :) Cheers ddb!

its not the hampsten one is it

I don't know - apparently I will be contacted by a Rapha rep to find out my size (fuck knows what size I am - large, I guess, but I always get it wrong). Actually, just found the competition - no, the winner wins the Hampsten stuff, I just get a jersey apparently, with complimentary arm-warmers!

i own a classic sportwool jersey. i don't wear it as much anymore because i have team kit but i wish i could wear it everyday.

Hey all I just got a new pair of shiny hand built wheels that are awesome. Thing is, the old cassette had to be replaced along with the sprocket since I have a 20 year old bike with 6-speeds.

Since this was done, the drivetrain is noisy, jumpy, and shifts strange. Any ideas whether this is a case of a lack of lube (sounds like a personal problem), something that will work itself out over time as the new cog teeth wear down a bit, a chain issue, or what? Maybe a question of derailleur adjustment? There is exactly one gear where it rides smoothly now.

Did you replace the chain as well? How many cogs on the new cassette? How many rings up front, or is it just one? If you're running 1x6, you're going to get a baddish chainline at either end of the cassette. A newer chain might be the fix?

Got any pics?

Also, I rode a Selle Anatomica the other day and O_O

Quite how anatomica did it get to make you O_O??

So have you got a new 6-speed cassette, or is it 7+? Cos the chain that fits 6 speed will be large and sloppy on the narrower sprockets of a more extensive cassette and it certainly sounds like that could be the problem.

i mean it is practically a blowjob in saddle form

I didn't replace the chain, was thinking of that. It's a 2x6.

I will look into taking some pics tonight perhaps.

This weekend I have to compile a list of the things I'll need for my Paris ride. One of those bags that goes behind the saddle, y/n?

yeah, take some of the weight off your back.

triangular ones under the top tube quite nifty too.

Update: installed new SRAM chain, bike shifts much much better. A+

i bought the wrongest looking saddle the other day to replace the ripped one on my commuter. yet to try it tho

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31KtEnNt81L._AA280_.jpg

that saddle is ESPECIALLY DONG-LIKE!

http://dojak.net/blogpix/moped.jpg

Ledge (as I know you have one) and others: Do I want a bike GPS?

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=&pID=10885

I kinda want one, Ed, but £300 is a lot of money.

I have seen them as cheap as £240 (including maps and cadence sensors, but not heart rate).

I get your point though. Especially as I am hoping that forthcoming macbook pros are worth spunking on.

HEART RATE MONITORS

which one do i buy

the one thats attached to the powermeter rite?

i ultimately decided a really basic one did enough for me.

This is a totally silly question:

Does anyone have any ideas for an interesting bell? I'm finding that a bell would be useful for the last little leg of my commute (peds in the way). Any bell will do, but I figure there might be something interesting out there.

perhaps this?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ED48ZFVEL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

haha

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31XS59JXAGL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Kind of classy:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EzR1xr2VL._SL500_AA192_.jpg

For gbx

this is probably overkill

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=160&pID=331

One of my best mates swears by his Polar HRM

As mentioned elsewhere, here's the new wheels for my Armstrong Moth conversion:

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l261/krakow81/IMG_3445.jpg

Goldtec Track hubs on Mavic Open Pros, 36h, black

Flatted last week and decided to swap out threadbare tires for a set of folding 700x28 Grand Bois Cerfs:

http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com/images/Cerfgreen.JPG

They're supposedly spec'ced by Ikuo Tsuchiya of Grand Bois cycles in Kyoto, made by Panasonic, and dist'd in US by Vintage Bicycle Press.

they're just tires, right?

aw, you're mean.

i just got this on sale!

http://www.trailspace.com/images/news/2007/02/21/rab-latok-alpine-jacket-300x300.jpg

lol it's british

nice. you're set for the mountain passes.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/HPM/HM23~Kenny-Posters.jpg

the many mountain passes of minnesota

...mostly i just bought because my marmot shell is ten years old and weighs a ton.

the hood has a nice periscope profile. maybe if you cleverly install some mirrors you can burrow right down into the torso of the shell, sparing your face from the cruel minnesota winter entirely!

Good on you for buying Rab. (I used to live near the factory, my sleeping bag I have of theirs is getting on for 15 years old and going very strong.

fixed gear sturmey 3spd sounds like a cool idea.

ive been thinking about using 3 speeds instead of 8, if the nexus ever dies. it would be like having gears 3,5, and 6.3 from my current hub.

yeah, i've been v v intrigued by the sturmey! would be fukkin great for a winter commuter bike!

i've been v v intrigued by the sturmey!
commenters there are all rabid about the product but have the indie vapors that it will be named the S3X plz so waht.

i actually dont want fixed, but i want the proto barend shifters shown in that blogs nov post.

if they want to call it the sheldon then they can do what everyone else already does and write the word 'sheldon' on it with a fucking marker

yeh and totally blaspheme by putting like "S3X WITH DED SH3LDON" or "SH3LDON'S S3X MACHINE" or whatever

what are you all desirous of that is bike-related this holoday season

um, holiday