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Starting to get a bit of a collection of these things...

New wheels to replace my Zipp 101s arrived this morning. Just a little bit fancy I tried taking a quick photo, but black on black doesn't tend to photograph well.

I got a set from here:
http://www.carbonbikewheels.com.au/en/

38mm depth up front and 49mm depth out back. Hopefully all set for the Gran Fondo now

took a photo during my first spin on the new wheels. I think i'm going the complete opposite to Norbs in colour schemes

Similar to my MTB, except I put red grips on it recently. Love me a stealth bike, wheels look great.

Yeah that looks the biz CLP!

KNAPPO wrote:Similar to my MTB, except I put red grips on it recently. Love me a stealth bike, wheels look great.

Funnily, that side is all stealth, the other side the Pinarello lettering is bright red. So it's not completely stealth Just depends on if you photograph it from the correct side, as per the rules

CLP wrote:Funnily, that side is all stealth, the other side the Pinarello lettering is bright red.

So the left side goes faster then?

KNAPPO wrote:

CLP wrote:Funnily, that side is all stealth, the other side the Pinarello lettering is bright red.

So the left side goes faster then?

funnily.. according to the power balance numbers coming out of my Vectors, I put marginally more power out on my left .. much to my surprise!

So.. possibly yes, but not for the reasons you might think :P

CLP wrote:took a photo during my first spin on the new wheels. I think i'm going the complete opposite to Norbs in colour schemes

Very nice mate stealthy

So last Thursday was new bike day. I got in contact with new kids on the block Chapter 2 and the team got a pretty sweet deal. The guys have been rolling around on the new bikes for about a week now and they are freaking amazing. It makes the Propel Feel like a toy!

Nice looking machine!
So what are the specs?

Cheap Powertap hub from ebay + rims and spokes from Bike24 + couple of hours = new wheel day

CLP wrote:Nice looking machine!
So what are the specs?

I transferred my groupset/power meter, Ultegra 6870 and Pioneer. Foil F60 wheels. 3T Aeronova bars.

With Amy's Gran Fondo coming up, Miss V and I thought it might be a good opportunity to try out wider tyres which seems to be the trend at the moment. So we'll move from our usual 23mm to a 25 mm. Anyone done the same?

I've also been trying out lower pressures recently and actually enjoying the improved ride comfort. I just have to get out of my Old Skool mindset of setting pressures by looking at the max pressure label on the side wall

CLP wrote:So we'll move from our usual 23mm to a 25 mm. Anyone done the same?
I've also been trying out lower pressures recently and actually enjoying the improved ride comfort.

Different disciplines i know but.

Love low pressures with the exception of commuting to the trail head on paved paths.

60mm @ 20psi

CLP wrote:With Amy's Gran Fondo coming up, Miss V and I thought it might be a good opportunity to try out wider tyres which seems to be the trend at the moment. So we'll move from our usual 23mm to a 25 mm. Anyone done the same?

I've also been trying out lower pressures recently and actually enjoying the improved ride comfort. I just have to get out of my Old Skool mindset of setting pressures by looking at the max pressure label on the side wall

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Looking at Wiggle orders, 2014 I started on 25mms. Never gone back to 23mm.

Keep an eye out Carl and you can get GP4000SII for under $50.

https://www.pushys.com.au/continental-g ... roved.html
http://www.wiggle.com.au/continental-gr ... road-tyre/

Yes, both out of stock now, but good prices to be had.

KNAPPO wrote:
60mm @ 20psi

you'd probably enjoy CX racing pressures

norbs wrote:
Looking at Wiggle orders, 2014 I started on 25mms. Never gone back to 23mm.

Keep an eye out Carl and you can get GP4000SII for under $50.

the prices on these are a bit misleading. We got them from 99bikes who have a "club" and "non-club" price. So they worked out to 58 a piece. Still not sub $50 but we needed to make sure we had them on time. What pressure do you run in them Norbs?

I've installed a set on V's bike and did a bit of a test with some calipers. the tyre on her rims measured (as you'd expect) ~25 mm. my current 23mm tyres on my wider rims seem to measure slightly more. so now considering whether i swap or not :/

Placed an order with Chain Reaction on Tuesday night for a torque wrench it arrived at my front door 11 am today!! Got to be happy with that!!

Ive ran the 25mm GP4000SII for almost every km on my bike, wife is the same on her commuter.. Never had a single flat since I swapped to them, they last ~1,500km

I run 100 front, 90PSI rear, makes the ride nice.. in the wet ill drop a little

hutchy wrote:Placed an order with Chain Reaction on Tuesday night for a torque wrench it arrived at my front door 11 am today!! Got to be happy with that!!

Damn that's quick! :o presumably from a local warehouse?
That said, my last few orders from them have had pretty speedy delivery too

What torque wrench did you get?

nutty wrote:Ive ran the 25mm GP4000SII for almost every km on my bike, wife is the same on her commuter.. Never had a single flat since I swapped to them, they last ~1,500km

I run 100 front, 90PSI rear, makes the ride nice.. in the wet ill drop a little

I've been really happy with my GP4000s and more recently GP4000sII. Running the 23mm tyres on a wide rim I've been putting the rear at about 90-95PSI and the front at 80-85PSI.

It's been difficult to get out of the old school habit of inflating to max-pressure-plus-a-bit-for-luck PSI but i think i've been really happy with the ride quality. I'm actually unsure whether I should bother moving to the 25mm version now :/

CLP wrote:

hutchy wrote:Placed an order with Chain Reaction on Tuesday night for a torque wrench it arrived at my front door 11 am today!! Got to be happy with that!!

Damn that's quick! :o presumably from a local warehouse?
That said, my last few orders from them have had pretty speedy delivery too

What torque wrench did you get?

Pretty sure it was an o/s delivery.......grabbed this one to try out......mainly to do my chain rings. Hopefully its ok got good reviews will let you know.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/e ... prod155414

nutty wrote:Ive ran the 25mm GP4000SII for almost every km on my bike, wife is the same on her commuter.. Never had a single flat since I swapped to them, they last ~1,500km

I run 100 front, 90PSI rear, makes the ride nice.. in the wet ill drop a little

100 & 100 for me on my 23mm GP4000II"s

hutchy wrote:

CLP wrote:

hutchy wrote:Placed an order with Chain Reaction on Tuesday night for a torque wrench it arrived at my front door 11 am today!! Got to be happy with that!!

Damn that's quick! :o presumably from a local warehouse?
That said, my last few orders from them have had pretty speedy delivery too

What torque wrench did you get?

Pretty sure it was an o/s delivery.......grabbed this one to try out......mainly to do my chain rings. Hopefully its ok got good reviews will let you know.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/e ... prod155414

I have one of those it's a nice bit of kit.
only issue i have with it is that it's a little too easy to change the torque setting while tightening a bolt.

Pretty sure it was an o/s delivery.......grabbed this one to try out......mainly to do my chain rings. Hopefully its ok got good reviews will let you know.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/au/e ... prod155414[/quote]

I have one of those it's a nice bit of kit.
only issue i have with it is that it's a little too easy to change the torque setting while tightening a bolt.[/quote]

Ahh cool cheers for the heads up!