Yeah, they are alright for thrashing around! Considing the tubulars on my track bike are like $190 each, and my roadie tyres are up at 70 or 80 a pop, i don't expect these to grip or handle too well. but at $10, who cares.Josh. wrote:Stem, bars, seatpost and some spare tyres arrived today! Had a voucher at Bike Bug
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The tyres seem pretty great for the price! Good find HLC
Still waiting on FSA headset, Pake frame, Pake forks
A few questions about my near-finished build
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:31 pm
NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:31 pm
anyway, ordered two peg spanners off ebay.. one for home one for saddle bag.
do you guys have problems with your lockrings/cogs riding fixed? seems like i'm pulling that peg spanner out all the time.
so excited about the 'new' build once this Pake arrives.
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby slidetaker » Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:47 pm
Tightening lockring for fixed cog requires lockring tool.
Once the cog and lockring are installed and tighened appropriately. They do not come loose.
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Postby Mulger bill » Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:05 pm
This.slidetaker wrote:Once the cog and lockring are installed and tighened appropriately. They do not come loose.
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Fri Jan 10, 2014 7:33 pm
I'll try rotofix before I tighten this time
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:17 pm
New tube, started riding to Manly, half way up the bridge.. flat!
Both conti's
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Postby Gordonhooker » Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:17 am
They are great tyres - I ordered some from Cell recently and they cost me about $30 each which I thought was a great price.ldrcycles wrote:Maxxis Refuse FTW. At one stage I was getting so many flats I was on the verge of giving up road cycling, switched to Refuse tyres and I think I've had 2 flats in about 10,000kms since .
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:06 am
My Pake frame arrived today from the USA! Wooh!
Unfortunately the doggers tried to trick me, put a Chrome Silver into a Dirty Knickel box. Let's see what they do, I've threatened negative feedback and told them I'm certainly not paying another dime on shipping it back, nor do I really want to wait any longer.
What I ordered:
What they sent:
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Postby mitchy_ » Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:45 pm
threatening from the start is likely not to get you a desirable outcome. mistakes happen.Josh. wrote:Thanks guys. I know that feeling ldr, after yesterday's two flats I was really pissed, there is so much fkn glass in the city which doesn't help
My Pake frame arrived today from the USA! Wooh!
Unfortunately the doggers tried to trick me, put a Chrome Silver into a Dirty Knickel box. Let's see what they do, I've threatened negative feedback and told them I'm certainly not paying another dime on shipping it back, nor do I really want to wait any longer.
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:08 pm
Frogleg yeah I got it off ebay it was like $180 for the frame and $50 for the shipping. I went with a neon yellow fork, it arrived today so I was able to build it up.. just finished a couple hours ago and spent all afternoon trying to bust wheelies
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Postby HLC » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:30 am
But lose the saddlebag and all the other stuff hanging off the bike - keep it clean ha ha.
Not very practical, but easier on the eye. But i've also thinned out my spares. Just a tube, C02, 2 tyre levers and multitool. All fits nicely in a Rapha essentials case in my back pocket or Jersey pocket. Can keep a couple of credit cards in there too. Silicone lights are looped on a karabiner clipped into a belt loop
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Postby mitchy_ » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:35 pm
yep, generally they are just middle men, worked out well in the end!Josh. wrote:Yeah mitchy I was pretty cranky when I posted that, I had thought they'd switched the box but they said it came like that from the distributors. They gave me 20% off the price straight up so I was very happy with them and would recommend them now (cycleclubsports I think it was)
it's notClownshoes wrote:That low rake fork looks infinitely better...I can't believe its the same bike!
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Postby Clownshoes » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:43 pm
mitchy_ wrote:
it's not
Haha I see what I did there. Amazing how the welds miraculously changed too
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:03 pm
HLC I wish I could drop some of the stuff hanging off it, but I'm a bit of a space cadet with remembering things so need to keep the spares strapped onto the bike That other huge black thing is my Abus mount.. I might move it onto the seat tube..
But yeah, huge jump from the Raleigh to this. The Raleigh was really quite sluggish, and you had to throw yourself forward to lock out the back. The Pake you barely have to get out the seat. And locking out my goofy foot feels a lot easier. Still not sure how I feel about the risers, I liked having drops for sprinting hills..
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby Josh. » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:03 pm
Might flip my stem, is that common?
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby slidetaker » Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:36 pm
The cause is mostly because hand positions of raiser are very limited (which really is just one position offering reasonable control).
With bullhorn and drop, you can easily gets 3 positions to switch around.
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Re: A few questions about my near-finished build
Postby HLC » Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:12 am
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Your bars are too far away and you are leaning on them.
Use your core to support your weight.
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