Recent content by kiwirider

+1 for that. The simple fact is - and I'm sure that Durianrider knows this and just wants to get people saying it - Australia (and believe me, it's even worse across The Ditch in NZ) is an expensive, and often overpriced, market. Some of it is due to logistics - although it always cracks...

Ok, that makes more sense ... but while I'll agree with your maths, I'd still disagree that they translate into the mechanics in the way that you suggest. Factors like cable stretch, where the derailleur finally rests after a shift, tendencies to over/under shift, impact of chain tension...

Your logic is off there ... If you were right, you'd still be at about cog 7 when you'd shifted all the way across the block - since 30% is approximately 1/3 of the total shift. The thing that you're missing is that, while the total difference in shift distance is increasing, the...

Have you looked at the Garneau Quartz? http://www.louisgarneau.com/in-en/product/305547/1405950/Helmets/QUARTZ_HELMET I picked one up after trying it at the Garneau tent at the Quebec GP last year. I had been a bit suss on them - there's still a part of me that remembers the very early days of...

Good stuff getting a masseur to look at the muscles. My partner is a massotherapeute, so I am a huge advocate of getting massage. Without knowing how your therapist works, maybe ask him if he can do some range of movement/motion (same thing, just some people call them different names) on...

What is your hip flexibility like? If I say "do an ilio-psoas stretch" do you know what I mean? And if you do, what does it feel like? What about if you do the Cobra yoga position - do you feel that pulling down the front of your abdomen? I'm not anything medical, but I have had similar...

I love the way that you keep citing road bike weights to justify your position regarding a cyclocross bike ... Cannondale weren't making cyclocross bikes in 1993 (at least not according to the catalogues that I just looked at - the XR800 and XS800 didn't appear until 1998) - and even then...

Not sure, but here's a pretty detailed profile of the bike, tell me what you think:http://www.cxmagazine.com/zdenek-stybar-pink-specialized-crux-cyclocross-bike-pro-bike-profile BTW - article confirms my (guess at the) use of the 1070 rather than 1090 cassette for the maths above ...

Nope - that's not the calculation that I get ... First off, brain fade on my part for using the Fidea bike spec rather than the Campag equipped "Merckx". However, as the frame is apparently an X-Night that has been painted in Merckx colours, then the only issue in my calculation is for the...

This is utter and complete bull****. Whoever told you this must be a monkey of a mechanic (be that a home mechanic or in a shop) - or else they're trying to sell you something else ... or they just don't know **** about what they're talking about ... I've ridden only Campag on my roadies...

Don't know if this should go here or as a ***** about the website ... I was interested to read the "review" of Stybar's new bike - although as a Campag rider from way back, I so wish that he was still on the Merckx that he started the season on ... :( Anyhow, the "review" makes for interesting...

Just to hijack the thread briefly - in the name of correcting your post ... His name is John Britten - and, although I never had the pleasure of meeting him, from everything I know of him, he was very much one of those guys who walked that fine line between genius and insanity. For anyone...

I think what you're describing is more what I was told was a problem that Italian frame builders were having with the tubing that they were using around that time than a problem with aluminium frames per se. I had the same sort of experiences with Bianchi - one cracked at the head tube (only...

Why not just shoot off to MEC and pick up one of their $13 one size fits all toques? http://www.mec.ca/AST/ShopMEC/MensClothing/Headwear/PRD~5016-199/mec-bolt-toque-unisex.jsp I use that under my helmet all winter, and it works fine - it is thin enough that the bike helmet doesn't need...

Cateye BC100 - http://www.cateye.com/en/products/detail/BC-100/ Definitely don't meet any styling requirements - but cheap, and absolutely indestructable. And because they're moulded plastic, they consistently grip a bidon tighter than a schoolboy gripping ... (I'll save the mods the effort...