Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:28 pm
Update on my situation: no creak to report on my current frame. Fingers crossed. I will know categorically by the end of summer. At which point, I will sell up and buy a Look.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby HAKS » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:59 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby DW260 » Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:21 pm
Um, not sure about an adaptor, all I know is it has shimano ultegra, but that's what I thought the frame was designed around.mrgolf wrote:BB creak on the Reacto? Are you running an adapter for shimano BB on your frame?
Update on my situation: no creak to report on my current frame. Fingers crossed. I will know categorically by the end of summer. At which point, I will sell up and buy a Look.
Funny you should mention the Look. The choice for me was between the Reacto and the Look 595 and the Reacto won based purely on Di2 and the obvious fact that the Look had skimped on a few areas even though it was the best part of $5000.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:54 pm
I found that once I cleaned it up and gave it a good coating of lithium grease it came good.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:50 pm
JC: where did you put the lithium grease? Crank to bearing surface? How long has it been creak-free? My new frame has been OK so far.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jcjordan » Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:14 pm
Creacked from the start till I cleaned out all the orginal grease and replaced it. Good for 18 Monte rain or shine till I retired her for the Trek Madone.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby petie » Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:21 pm
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Re: Todays rides
Postby DW260 » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:08 am
Aha, interesting. So my frame was originally designed for the BB30 which is more unreliable? Am I reading that correctly?mrgolf wrote:DW, the Reacto frame has a BB30 aperture, which on the 2012 frames runs an adapter to enable heavier and less rigid (heh heh) shimano cranks. The tradeoff, unless you consider your issues with creaking (surprising, considering the teggy cranks), is less reliability...
JC: where did you put the lithium grease? Crank to bearing surface? How long has it been creak-free? My new frame has been OK so far.
My creaking has been solved and I think it was more of an assembly issue from the bike store by virtue of the replacement frame I got several weeks ago.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby nickdos » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:19 pm
http://app.strava.com/activities/27390827" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edit: he was only half done - he finished the ride: vertical Mt Everest!
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:11 pm
Yeah, it was originally intended to run BB30. My second frame has about 4-5000kms on it now with some serious work on the pedals including Fitz epic. So far absolutely no problems. Its brilliant now. BB30 is terrible when it goes wrong, but if it is running correctly, it is no less reliable. I know some guys running outboard shimano BB's that creak like nothing else. I guess, BB30 is more likely to go wrong, or there is more scope for error, as the bearings are essentially glued in with loctite rather than screwed in. It is a simpler system, offers better torque transfer as it is more rigid, and is lighter. If it is working right, no problem. In my case, there was a problem somehow with the bearing races in the frame.DW260 wrote:Aha, interesting. So my frame was originally designed for the BB30 which is more unreliable? Am I reading that correctly?mrgolf wrote:DW, the Reacto frame has a BB30 aperture, which on the 2012 frames runs an adapter to enable heavier and less rigid (heh heh) shimano cranks. The tradeoff, unless you consider your issues with creaking (surprising, considering the teggy cranks), is less reliability...
JC: where did you put the lithium grease? Crank to bearing surface? How long has it been creak-free? My new frame has been OK so far.
My creaking has been solved and I think it was more of an assembly issue from the bike store by virtue of the replacement frame I got several weeks ago.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:49 pm
That's just nuts. I've bonked after doing four repeats plus riding there and back... roughly four an hour for 12 hours? Where did the batteries plug in????nickdos wrote:Holy S#!+, Dave & his mates have one-upped their recent Black Mountain session with 43 x Mt Ainslie reps:
http://app.strava.com/activities/27390827" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edit: he was only half done - he finished the ride: vertical Mt Everest!
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Re: Todays rides
Postby jacob_T » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:10 pm
That is just insane!nickdos wrote:Holy S#!+, Dave & his mates have one-upped their recent Black Mountain session with 43 x Mt Ainslie reps:
http://app.strava.com/activities/27390827" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edit: he was only half done - he finished the ride: vertical Mt Everest!
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:35 pm
Unfrickingbelievable... awe inspiring... demoralising lol.
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked. Just set a new PB to Lake George n back: http://app.strava.com/activities/28580613" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
35.3! Woot
Hilarious thing... coming back past Watson (doing 50+), some dude in a ute slowed down and was cheering me on hehe
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Re: Todays rides
Postby nickdos » Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:54 pm
That's pretty huge! Well done, best I've managed in 32.5 on that ride.mezla wrote: Anyway, I'm pretty stoked. Just set a new PB to Lake George n back: http://app.strava.com/activities/28580613" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
35.3! Woot
Just noticed our very own mrgolf is leading the Mt Ainslie challenge with the aforementioned Dave O a very close second and then daylight to third: http://app.strava.com/challenges/Santos ... MT-Ainslie" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I managed a PR and a respectable sub 12 min time but now feeling inspired to go back and improve on it.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:57 pm
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mrgolf » Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:08 pm
And, yeah, that was us up Stromlo as well. I saw you descending. I was playing cat and mouse with the other climber in our group. Funny morning for Stromlo. I felt like crap and didnt feel fast but I set a new PB up both the short course (8:31) and long course (9:09 having pulled out of the sprint early cos the other climber didnt have the legs for the final assault.) Could there have been tailwind? I didnt notice any on the way up.
Crappy ride every where else today. Wind was going everywhere, just like yesterday.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby Ross » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:03 am
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Re: Todays rides
Postby mezla » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:01 am
Unfortunately, most of the people listed on the Strava segment haven't actually ridden the whole segment, so rather than being 3rd, I'm 17th. Don't *reeeeallly* care, but it's a tiny bit irritating.
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:11 pm
Sent from my iThingy...
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: Todays rides
Postby twizzle » Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:56 pm
O.K., that's extremely quick for a road bike.mezla wrote:If only I had a TT bike! Or at least TT bars /jealous
So many things to buy, so little money... sigh 1st world problems
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Re: Todays rides
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