http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Really Bad Advice Needed en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:55:11 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84994 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:51:19 +0000 recombodna 84994@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sweet ride streethawk... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84993 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:23:28 +0000 Uberuce 84993@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Brooks came off black fruity, so it's been broken in well, with a little CCE help; multiple Hilly Tuesdays, Anth's ride, St Abbs, the cyclocross jaunt and the sendoff with Portovelo.</p> <p>Conversation with my sister as I swapped the saddles:<br /> Claire: "So is that brown saddle comfy?"<br /> Bruce: "No."<br /> Claire: "...."<br /> Bruce *busy fiddling with clamp*<br /> Claire: "Okay, short answer." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84984 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:53:07 +0000 Nelly 84984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>uberuce, nice bike - watch it doesnt fall in that canal though </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84981 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:45:39 +0000 Instography 84981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks sweet. Nice Brooks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84980 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:38:07 +0000 Uberuce 84980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>After a bit of new-Dad paranoia and a public failure to unclip*, I got round to taking a naturally lit picture of the Croix:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uberuce/8002757352/in/photostream"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8177/8002757352_329659855d_m.jpg"></a></p> <p>*In irony news, the multitasking it takes to catch a new bike with your inner thigh at the same time as catch yourself with one good hand and one mutant one is significantly more demanding than that needed to unclip in the first place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84920 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:53:20 +0000 amir 84920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's probably a forum for that sort of thing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84919 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:45:25 +0000 chdot 84919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"glad no-one can see the way I'm looking at it right now"</p> <p>Perhaps you should cover it up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84918 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:42:38 +0000 Uberuce 84918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am sincerely glad no-one can see the way I'm looking at it right now. That is all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84891 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:13:40 +0000 chdot 84891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seriously</p> <p>Uberuce's series of bikes and different types of ride, documented since <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3860#post-40492">first post</a> a year ago, has been most interesting - and entertaining. </p> <p>"<br /> What put me off for years was the belief that Edinburgh cycling was too dangerous and too difficult.</p> <p>"</p> <p>A 'new' cyclist coming to terms with traffic and bike sizes etc. etc. </p> <p>I'm sure .cc will be looking for the full story. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84886 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:58:34 +0000 chdot 84886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Pics?"</p> <p>Think he's too busy just gazing. </p> <p>And perhaps wondering which wall to hang it on. </p> <p>It's not for riding is it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84884 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:56:21 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 84884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Pics?</em>"</p> <p>Finger test pics? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84883 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:54:04 +0000 amir 84883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pics? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84882 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:51:39 +0000 Smudge 84882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool! B-)<br /> Enjoy :-D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84878 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:39:00 +0000 Uberuce 84878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The deed is done; the card is smoking; my hallway is a gallery of modern art. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84440 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:59:50 +0000 Smudge 84440@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Uberuce, just what I was about to post, no special painting required as they're already painting the frames in two other colours, just a decision to offer a choice that is lacking :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84439 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:55:38 +0000 Uberuce 84439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brompton charge £30 to choose from their extended colour range, but there's black/white/pink for free. Admittedly I've no idea how much they'd charge for the bike overall if there wasn't even that choice. </p> <p>In the Equilibrium's case, it doesn't seem to me that they'd need to paint to order; there's presumably three lines in the paint factory already, so why not just take a few of the standalone frames that are all destined for the 30's line and send them onto the 00 and 10's? </p> <p>Beyond my ken, and since I have a bike in a pretty colour en route, not my problem any more. Good luck, Smudge. *runs* </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84435 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:34:48 +0000 steveo 84435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>It was a triumph of will to keep my mouth shut and hands and my credit card in my pocket.</em></p> <p>My colleague <em>dragged</em> me out to the bike shop to look at road bikes the other week, before walking in he say "Don't let me walk out of here with a bike" I nearly replied with the same sentence. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84431 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:22:40 +0000 Instography 84431@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But if they're manufactured in Taiwan then you'd have to have them delivered to the UK with only an undercoat and then have them finished to order. More than £20 and if you measure the impact in the loss of competitive position and the lost sales from higher pricing, the loss of a customer here and there who wants to choose the colour of their bike would be a fair trade-off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383&page=2#post-84426 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:10:41 +0000 Uberuce 84426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am of course no-one's idea of a competent commentator in such matters, but it would seem to me a better business model to have all of them in a range of colours and just not tell us that we're all paying an extra twenty notes or so for the priviledge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84418 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:32:36 +0000 Smudge 84418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I notice no reply on Twitter from Genesis re pulling production frames off the line to provide alternative frameset colours :-(<br /> It's costing them a sale at the moment and me a shiny guilty thing! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84412 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:55:33 +0000 Instography 84412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was a triumph of will to keep my mouth shut and hands and my credit card in my pocket. Uberuce's distraction was essential. Looking forward to doing a version of Ebony and Ivory with his black and my white Croix. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84402 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:21:15 +0000 Uberuce 84402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Next PY will see me astride the Bike Station's Bullitt, but I'm sure something else will come up soon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84398 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:08:07 +0000 amir 84398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow! You gonna need counselling.</p> <p>PY when you are in possession? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84390 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:41:22 +0000 Uberuce 84390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, Instography and I soldiered into the Bike Chain this lunchtime after trading bikes; me to confirm sizing(I'm a mutant 5'10", but not mutant enough for 60cm) and Insto to dip his toe in fixed water. </p> <p>We came under heavy incoming fire almost immediately, and to save Insto from taking a Volant to the wallet, I threw myself into a hail of slate grey steel (enemy were using 725 rounds - have they no mercy?)and will spend the new few weeks fiscally convalescing. Great love hath no man etc... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84153 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:16:34 +0000 Uberuce 84153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a shot on TBC's delectable Day-One Disc in the 58cm and it was a bit of an eye-opener. In the abstract I've known all my bikes are too small for me since I got them, but it's the first time I've really felt it. In wee blue floofy's case it's not a problem since I don't think it'd climb as well in my actual size, but getting back on black fruity shortly afterwards was decidedly underwhelming. </p> <p>If I'd not been called into work while I was in the shop I'd have asked for a shot of the 56cm Vapour, partly for more sizing and partly since it shares the Croix's groupset, but hey ho. </p> <p>To no mean extent I wish my knees had waited until this year to give up, because then I might have the Disc rather than wee blue floofy, much as I love throwing that device around. No more and no less fun to ride than floof(ie a lot) but those Avid-7 brakes are fearsome and the drops allow silliness the flats do not. Pretty tough cookie of a commuter, and if you did want to do some 'crossing on it, I think it'd be a wee nightmare like Asterix.</p> <p>Anyway, Baldcyclist, I do thank you for the offer, but I am now pretty set on the Croix. Just need to wait a handful of days so I'm sure it's not an impulse purchase.</p> <p>Of course, I could just find someone with smaller hands than me...</p> <p>And yes, that Volant 30 looks like they rolled the tubing on Aphrodite's thighs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84080 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:40:03 +0000 Baldcyclist 84080@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Uberuce I have the triple full groupset...</p> <p>Triple shifters: some scratches/chips/dents, work fine<br /> Triple crankset: 53/42/34 (I think), normal wear. Works fine, middle ring replaced.<br /> Bottom bracket: been through the mill but still seems fine.<br /> Brakeset: rear was sticking all the time, serviced a number of times to get working again, may be fixable but wouldn't bet on it? Probably needs pads, may have some in my tin, don't know?<br /> Rear cassette: Don't really know condition of this, can't remember how old it was when taken off, probably do a turn.<br /> Chain: May, or may not be one in the bag, can't remember.</p> <p>Like I say hadn't really thought of selling this stuff, was going to build the Giant up to save my Cervelo, but bought the Whyte CX on cyclescheme instead!</p> <p>Would give it away just to see it used (same with the Giant frame), but I suppose a small amount of £s would be welcome. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84008 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:20:28 +0000 amir 84008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My advice, buy the bike for the frame. You can always upgrade other bits over time. And make sure the bike fits. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-84005 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:58:57 +0000 crowriver 84005@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Far be it from me to attempt to derail a cyclist hell bent on a dream bike. I also wouldn't want to take business away from fiercely independent local retailers.</p> <p>However, for the price of the CdF you could have a <a href="http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-audax-12">Revolution Audax</a>, <em>and</em> a <a href="http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-cross-12">Revolution Cross</a>, with quite a lot of change left over. Okay, maybe comparing apples and oranges, no 725 frame on either EBC bike, but still. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-83995 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:32:33 +0000 Instography 83995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just back from a nice little ride on my Croix de Fer now that it's got the full complement of wheels again. It was rather nice. </p> <p>That Volant 30 though. Hmmmm </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8383#post-83988 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:53:48 +0000 crowriver 83988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Sizing for me is a problem by itself. If you ask my arms and legs, I'm over 6' but if you ask my torso, I'm around 5'7". I stand 5'10".</em></p> <p>I'm the same height as you but have the opposite problem: long arms and torso but shortish legs. So I tend to go for (traditional) frames between 52-53cm, sometimes smaller. 'Compact' frames can go bigger due to the sloping top tube.</p> <p>I second Min's warning: don't give in to temptation! </p>