[tlr]

Not quite up to these bike pr0n standards, but I'm selling my road bike http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,13846.0.html if anyone is interested.

[fatkid2000]

So when's the cervelo arrive?

[tlr]

Hopefully Friday, Alex has been waiting for some parts.

First ride Saturday

[chappers]

i was just about to ask you to sell me your lovely wheels. balls.

[tlr]

Well, I've only been talking about it for a year.....Here it is then finally, fresh from an inaugral breezy 100km. Bugger me I'm unfit at the moment.

Stiff at the front end, compliant at the back, and soooo stiff when you stand on the pedals. Weighs 6.7kg, and is far too good a bike for me!

Sram is interesting, very positive downshifts, great brakes, not got used to upshifting just one gear accurately yet.

[fatkid2000]

That's well nice tir.

I eyed one of last years R3s up in Grassington yesterday.

Is that a compact chain set?

[fatdoc]

looks sweet.

[soapy]

nice ride tlr and a common sense wheelset!

[Duma]

yummy!
Agree with soaps - like your style re wheels.

[chappers]

well nice! congratulations!

can i ask what the stem and seat post are, look very nice. (tune?).

[tlr]

Cheers, I’m certainly very pleased with it (still think that my old bike is a bit nicer looking though…).

Wheels are DT1.1 on Tune hubs, so light and reasonably strong too. Factory wheels look flashier, but in my limited experience they can be a bit uncomfortable.

Seatpost is 3T Doric carbon which comes with the R3 frame, stem is a fairly cheap but very light Smica carbon.

Just need to get out and ride it a bit more now.

[Yossarian]

Those Tune hubs - how have they been in terms of reliability / servicing hassle?

I was thinking of DT 1.1s with Royce hubs, as I know the latter go on for years and years with no probs, but the Tune ones are lovely...

(The new Chris King road hubs look nice too, but I'm not sure if they're compatible with Campag cassettes...)

[fatkid2000]

I was thinking of buying some royce hubbed wheels around a year ago, through Alex a La Bicletta & he had real problems getting hold of them. Things may have changed & they are awesome hubs - my cousin worked as a courier in London town & he has some which are around 10 years old.

I think the Chris King hubs do work with Campag & are suppose to be good . I've got a Chris King bottom bracket in my commuter and its not broken despite a year of commutes.

[soapy]

yoss, if it's the swift road hubs, rutland are stocking them, give them a ring?

[Yossarian]

I had a chat with one of the builders at the shop down in Exeter who did those Tune / Lew wheels.  They showed me a Royce hub wheel, and the fit and smoothness was amazing.  I heard similar stories about unserviced examples going on for thousands of miles.

My Ambrosio / OpenPro combination continue to impress, but it would be nice to leave those with the winter tyres on and have something lighter and faster for sunny days...

[tlr]

I’ve had those wheels for about 5000km, not done anything to the hubs at all, so can’t comment on serviceability, but durability seems reasonable.

[Percy B]

I have the same Tune hubs on Ambrosio rims and they are brilliant. I had to tighten the bearings in the front wheel after the first five hundred miles or so (just bedding in, as they like to say), which turned out to be dead easy. Just poped the wheel off, removed the skewer, an allen key into either end of the hub and tighten until all the excess play had gone. So easy-peasy for basic servicability. Probably go to somebody who knows if you ever wanted to strip them down completely though....

[SteveM]

Nice cervelo, I'd seen it in Alex's but not seen who it was for. Looks understated, but fast out of the blocks.

Which all reminds me that I must sort out my diary for an evening to pick up my new bike from him.

[chappers]

right then, lay your bets down for milano san remo:

im going Tom Bonen.

i would love boasen hagen to get it but he is too young (they said that about cav last year)  , and cav is out of shape.

edit: (look how may posts i have done, may leave it at that now).

[mr__j5]

right then, lay your bets down for milano san remo:

I'm going for Thor Hushovd

[cowboyhat]

Boonen is the obvious choice but I don't think it will play out as a simple sprint. I think (hope), something unexpected will happen like with the Fabien Factor 2008 but either way Hushovd will place.

So basically I've no idea. Good job I'm not a betting man.

[chappers]

my deam finish would be a four man break - pozzato, fabio, thor and eddy. but im betting on a sprint and boonen. 

[webbo]

i've just been lent a lapierre xelius 700 to try for a few days.first impressions is that it seems very responsive,i almost feel i've developed bike handling skills overnight.the sram gears take abit of getting used after shimano,i keep nearly bending the brake leavers.

[tlr]

That looks very nice indeed. Are you thinking of buying one?

I really like the Sram on my bike for down shifts – very quick and precise. Big upshifts are easy, but it is still tricky to get a precise single upshifts. Brakes seems stronger than my old Dura Ace too, but that might just be the new pads.

[webbo]

no.  rockcity in hull do lapierre mountain bikes and they are thinking of doing road bikes.apparently my tails of epic road rides have impressed them so much they value my opinion.if only they could have seen me today grovelling into a block head wind they might want it back pronto.