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@KLizotte 13422 wrote:

CCrew – noooooo! But you have super powers!

Oh well… I guess I failed (and yes, I have this shirt )

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@rcannon100 13409 wrote:

Toured the C&O once. LOTS of vibrations. Had to cannibalize screws to get my pack rack back on. After a while your hands (and butt) can be numb from the vibrations.

Little trick I learned. On drop bars pipe insulation foam on the flats will give you a nice cushy place for some vibration relief. Less than a $5 relief mod.

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Thanks for the update. Unfortunately I won’t be able to report on my monday commute in as I’ve been officially ordered OFF the bike for the foreseeable future. Gawd Metro is just gonna plain suck

[CCrew]

Did it in one day on a bet. We left Cumberland @3am and ended at National Harbor at 7:45pm. Aired down cross bikes on 35’s to take the hammering from the rocks (and there are a lot) and other than that just basic repair/hydration necessities. There are actually pretty well spaced places to stop that don’t require that you pack heavily and we had a SAG vehicle that met us in Williamsport with an incredible lunch.

I will say that if you’re talking the Profile Design bottle holder bring some bungies to keep the bottles in place or they’ll be ejected like a mortar. Don’t ask how I know that!. We did it in May. June can be hit or miss on the heat.

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They start to look like shark fins…they pretty much lose their symmetric points.

https://www.google.com/search?q=worn+chainring+picture&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=dZ0VT7esEObY0QG544jyBg&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=777

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Huh? You say something? I had my headphones in, sorry

Thump thump owwwwwwwwww

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@PotomacCyclist 13144 wrote:

I have a visor on my Louis Garneau aero helmet. There are different colors available, including smoke, amber and clear. I don’t know if there are visors available for standard bike helmets.

http://www.louisgarneau.com/in-en/product/305547/1405956/Helmets/VORTTICE_HELMET (I have an older LG model, not the Vorttice.)

Is it just me, or is anyone else expecting to soon see a video of Dirt commuting with one of these?

If not I have a Spiuk one he can borrow:)

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@TDB 13128 wrote:

Thanks for the heads-up, I weigh around 155 before clothing and gear and whatnot, dunno if that falls under the very light category.

TDB

You could get away with it under #175.

Due to the design they’re not very laterally stiff, and tend to crack the rims at the spoke eyelets, so unless you can see and touch them before you buy it’s not a wheel I’d ebay. The later Bontrager’s solved the issues but not before they got a really bad rep. I have a set of the Bontrager Select Discs in the same design, and I’m 170, and they’ve held up although I have two friends the same size that have both had issues. Still a bit noodly though.

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Dunno your size, but the paired spoke design of the Rolf is not good unless you’re a very light rider. Bontrager made a wheel similar and found that out quickly.

[CCrew]

I’ve tried the Lizard Skins and gave up on them quickly. Only product I use of theirs anymore is their chainstay protector.

[CCrew]

@americancyclo 13117 wrote:

Once it’s a regular thing, you come to love the hills, and sometimes don’t even notice!

Key word: Sometimes

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@TDB 13105 wrote:

This seems like a dumb question but there are no dumb questions, just dumb people. That being said, is there a reason not to mismatch front and rear wheels? I can’t imagine the weight imbalance from front to rear would have a significant impact but I am curious, as finding used wheels is often a one-at-a-time venture.

TDB

No reason, other than it just totally trips the OCD trigger in some of us

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@Greenbelt 13098 wrote:

Thanks Ccrew and elcee — this is really helpful. The wheels on my cross bike were by Velocity (Dyad), which my LBS ordered for me when I wore big grooves in the stock rims on my original CX bike (it’s a long story). I think I have these: http://store.velocityusa.com/products/productdetail/part_number=3601-700XX/7455.0.1.1

So I should be able to just order the exact same wheelset again. I’ll ride over and ask them about the idea today.

The biggest issue is the hubs, although rim width will be a factor. Different hubs can have the freewheel placement slightly off from one another necessitating the rear derailleur adjustments, where having to adjust the brakes is going to be just a factor of whether the rims are the same width. If the width is the same it really doesn’t matter the brand on the rims.

I ran into it because I was trying to go between Mavic Aksium’s with cross tires and Easton’s with road tires. The rims were the same width which caused me no pain on the brakes, but the cassette placement on the freewheel was so different it required a re-setup of the RD on every wheel change. I finally just gave up. Not that it couldn’t be done, but it wasn’t the “swap on a whim” I had hoped for.

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Frequently you also have to tweak the rear derailleur on a wheel change, so thinking along those lines it’s not always a “I’ll ride my race wheels today” kind of affair. If that’s what you’re going for it’s almost easier to have two sets of identical wheels with different tires.

It’s just that freewheel spacing isn’t always *perfectly* the same, at best you can adjust with just the barrel adjusters to trim, but I had one set that almost required a complete re-tweak of the RD. Needless to say I gave up the wheel swap on a whim idea pretty quickly.

On the bright side it’s a GREAT excuse for “I need a race bike to go with my cross bike honey”

All that said, yes those wheels should fit your bike. But yes they’ll prolly be narrower so tweaking brakes too is a distinct possibility. It is a good price for a turn-key set of wheels.

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Nice bike!

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