Mr Classic, are you walking tall and spitting long this week in anticipation of smashing Geelong?
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Bwhahahaha...I was gunna question his over inflated ego in having to bleat from the rooftops "I'm an engineer" to support his arguement...but I lost interest. I did find it mildly amusing that he also needed to tell us he was able to 'procreate'...obviously not using his personality as a method of birth control!...but again, my short attention span for idiots defeated my desire to respond
531Aussie said:
Nev...it's 'uber' grouse...haven't had a steel frame in probably 15 years & had forgotten how nice a ride they can be. It's not flexy at all, (unlike my last one) & begs to go on the 'attack'...being a fat unfit *******,when the going gets a bit 'vertical' my current tendencies are to change 'down' but this thing positively encourages getting out of the saddle & 'putting in'. Even with a sadlle that I reckon must weigh a kg (turbomatic 4) & the original kysiriums, it still only weighs much the same as the 486...but a fair bit more than the 595 (will report on the 'actual' when I find some accurate scales)
It doesn't twitch, goes where you point it & didn't 'beat me up' on the 1st ride of 80km odd (after several shorter rides to make the adjustments form 'Ed's bike' to 'Hitchy's bike')...I'm not a fan of campag, mostly cos I can't seem to get comfortable on the hoods. All I've changed is the stem, seat height & the 'barney the dinosaur' bar tape & I think it's pretty close to being perfect. (My 'purveyor of bike fitment' is coming around to give it the once over). How do I measure the seat tube angle?...really is my new 'fave'...dunno if I'll race it...more likely will stay the 'fine day poser bike', cos I'm scared of scratching it...it's immaculate, you really couldn't tell it wasn't brand new...I suspect Ed serviced it recently in anticpation of selling, cos everything I checked over had already been done recently by the look of it
Hitchy said:
You don't. Just measure "setback" - use a vertical line from the centre of the cranks and measure back to the tip of saddle (only really works if you have the same saddle on each bike). It's distance "E" on this:
Park Tool Website
Edit: ok, you CAN measure STA if you have a digital spirit level (there's at least one free app available for iPod / iPhone) or are good at trigonometry, but I don't think you need to know this to set up the bike.
Hitchy said:
Trigonometry Calculator (or any other web trig calculator).
Using this:
You can measure distances a, b and c - you only need 2 of these. Make sure angle "C" is 90 degrees.
Nice. Thanks for the review. I get the feeling you'd probably appreciate it more than me anyway -- what, with me with 28 bikes and all.Hitchy said:
Knowing me, I woulda just butchered it with my "fat masher" specs: a cheap-ass stiffer fork and my 2.2kg DT wheels. Did you measure the head tube? What was your last steel frame?
poo jokes are not above the TAN. a bit of a write up of my view from the back of the peleton..
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531Aussie said:These spammers seem to come here first. Does this mean this is the top-rating thread?
Must be. I can't work out why they'd bother though... that looks very much like 'by hand' customised spamming.... I guess labor is cheap in some places.
Type Four for me pleasegplama said:
Bristol Stool Scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(...and Lovelock can keep his copious Type Sevens)
roshea said:Trigonometry Calculator (or any other web trig calculator).
Using this:
You can measure distances a, b and c - you only need 2 of these. Make sure angle "C" is 90 degrees.
near enough to 74 deg..assuming I measured it right...compact geometry
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