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Flinty72 wrote:You upgraded Carlos?

certainly did.. 'tis a thing of beauty now i just need to wait for this rain to stop so i can go out and ride it

CLP wrote:

Flinty72 wrote:You upgraded Carlos?

certainly did.. 'tis a thing of beauty now i just need to wait for this rain to stop so i can go out and ride it

Awesome looks great.

Flinty72 wrote:

CLP wrote:

Flinty72 wrote:You upgraded Carlos?

certainly did.. 'tis a thing of beauty now i just need to wait for this rain to stop so i can go out and ride it

Awesome looks great.

it's fairly had to see the detail on the finish, but it's a bit of a carbon weave pattern on it. on the other side of the bike the pinarello graphics are red, so it's not completely stealth just need to get a few bits to finish it off (bottle cages and garmin sensor)

There is a hint of Pinarello about that frame.

Nice work Carlos.

CLP wrote:
it's fairly had to see the detail on the finish, but it's a bit of a carbon weave pattern on it. on the other side of the bike the pinarello graphics are red, so it's not completely stealth just need to get a few bits to finish it off (bottle cages and garmin sensor)

Ah, that is why it looks Pinarello-ish.

Are you telling me they dont have the inbuilt sensor on the frame? If Trek can do it.

norbs wrote:

CLP wrote:
it's fairly had to see the detail on the finish, but it's a bit of a carbon weave pattern on it. on the other side of the bike the pinarello graphics are red, so it's not completely stealth just need to get a few bits to finish it off (bottle cages and garmin sensor)

Ah, that is why it looks Pinarello-ish.

seems to be a pretty good reason

norbs wrote:Are you telling me they dont have the inbuilt sensor on the frame? If Trek can do it.

indeed. Giant also do it.
So that might be the only disappointment to date on it. (that said, the Trek version appears to be an extra, which needs to be purchased separately)

After my last bike was stolen, I didn't really have any plans to replace it - but I couldn't pass up what I think was a pretty good deal. Oppy Team carbon frame - the guy had replaced all the super expensive bits with all Shimano 105's and its practically brand new. Not bad for $700
Ordered some new gatorskins and pedals from Wiggle aswell.

I'll just need to find a safer place to lock it up now

Nice score!

kwijibo wrote:After my last bike was stolen, I didn't really have any plans to replace it - but I couldn't pass up what I think was a pretty good deal. Oppy Team carbon frame - the guy had replaced all the super expensive bits with all Shimano 105's and its practically brand new. Not bad for $700

new bike.jpg

Ordered some new gatorskins and pedals from Wiggle aswell.

I'll just need to find a safer place to lock it up now

Very nice! Looks like Mavic aksium wheels? And internal cabling too? Not bad at all for $700

kwijibo wrote:Oppy Team carbon frame - the guy had replaced all the super expensive bits with all Shimano 105's and its practically brand new. Not bad for $700

that's a lot of bike for $700 .. nice pickup

Cheers guys. You make me feel better about a spontaneous splurge

Yep - Aksium wheels and internal cables. I think by default the bike comes with Zipp wheels but they must've been swapped too

I don't think a picture has e'er been posted of my mechanical horse, Beryl, the road bike that probably thinks she's at least a cyclocross bike by now ... underneath four years of dirt is a bottom-of-the-line Dawes 200 - 11 kilos of prime aluminium. She now has some new forks (old ones were actually steel, new ones second-hand carbon) courtesy of me breaking the old ones by badly packaging her for transit to Spain. These are not pictured. She's being propped up by a bamboo cane. Until moving to Spain, at least 40% of her total mileage was done at night.

'tis a fine replacement horse that Beryl..

what sort of brakes are on Beryl? cable feed is opposite to the current standard. You haven't got some crazy arse retro brakes on there have you?

CLP wrote:'tis a fine replacement horse that Beryl..

what sort of brakes are on Beryl? cable feed is opposite to the current standard. You haven't got some crazy arse retro brakes on there have you?

European bikes have the brakes reversed to us.

norbs wrote:

CLP wrote:'tis a fine replacement horse that Beryl..

what sort of brakes are on Beryl? cable feed is opposite to the current standard. You haven't got some crazy arse retro brakes on there have you?

European bikes have the brakes reversed to us.

that's just the cabling of the levers rather than euro specific calipers.. happy to be corrected. (eg. i've never seen the option on (say) wiggle where you could purchase a "euro spec" brake caliper)

old school brake calipers had the cable feed on the left (when we consider the front caliper, viewed from the riding position) and then campagnolo changed the standard, to put the cable feed on the right. I'm sure there was a good reason for it

For what it's worth, a left side cable feed on the front makes a lot of sense on a bike with the front brake lever on the right since the cable arc would be much shallower.

Carl I think your new bike calls a B2 Dad.

CLP wrote:'tis a fine replacement horse that Beryl..

what sort of brakes are on Beryl? cable feed is opposite to the current standard. You haven't got some crazy arse retro brakes on there have you?

I'd not be the least bit surprised if the brakes are somewhat retro (this being a 2009 bike built with bar-mounted shifters) in design, they certainly look like a modern brake but as if it had been made in the 1970s ... none of the sleek, flush fitting and compactness but wider and more clearly made of different parts.

The fronts have now been replaced (breaking the fork revealed why they hadn't really worked properly for three years - unless I manually reset them after each application - the holding bolt for the brakes was bent from when a VW decided to run into me whilst stationary waiting for it), I'll check what side the cable went in on, possibly on the right as the new calipers are more swish and modern-looking.

norbs wrote:European bikes have the brakes reversed to us.

They do (found that out by slamming on what I imagined to be the rear brake and promptly going over the bars), but Beryl was a UK build and buy so she should be the same as you guys, I'd imagine ... and I think it is just the cabling of the levers, although this experience was based on a rented mountain bike. Interestingly my girlfriend's bike that was built in Italy and sold in Spain has the brakes on the familiar side to mine.

CLP wrote:old school brake calipers had the cable feed on the left (when we consider the front caliper, viewed from the riding position) and then campagnolo changed the standard, to put the cable feed on the right. I'm sure there was a good reason for it

For what it's worth, a left side cable feed on the front makes a lot of sense on a bike with the front brake lever on the right since the cable arc would be much shallower.

Definitely think this is Beryl's case, and agreed that the shallower cable makes sense, although perhaps looks a little less neat with a big cable curling round.

Speaking of neat, that bike does indeed look the business!

Jamo wrote:Carl I think your new bike calls a B2 Dad.

have tried to find a photo of the other side.. the non stealthy side.. apparently none taken yet..

I can confirm that the new front brakes on Beryl have a right-hand (from rider's perspective) feed for the cable, which is still wired to the right hand lever, as it should be, unlike these crazy European bikes that try to kill me ...

"I love these real Saturdays, they're so relaxing ... not like that fake Saturday that almost got me fired. I hate them so much!"

My fairy basic Hasa Comp 29, only a casual MTB rider but I'm having a lot of fun through the local fire trails with it. Some front brake issues are the only complaint so far.

Well that answers what I was thinking of asking you in your other thread.

Coopz wrote:My fairy basic Hasa Comp 29, only a casual MTB rider but I'm having a lot of fun through the local fire trails with it. Some front brake issues are the only complaint so far.

nice looking bit of kit!

Getting into the cycling thing, my $75 gumtree special

GT VIRUS wrote:Getting into the cycling thing, my $75 gumtree special

very retro looking enjoy

It'll do till I earn some more money, rides ok and will get me started