you need nokon fully sealed cables... nothing gets in or out

looks like those old german military motorcycles with a frame on extreme diet....

the top looks more like it was ridden by a german... NEIN!!! youf brach das chainstay

then the question comes, what's the difference between a flatbar and a MTB hybrid...

other than drop bars being dropped for flat ones, and dual pivot calipers instead of disc and the non existence of a suspension fork in exchange for a 700c wheels...

and the biggest factor of all when comes a steep steep hill... the granny ring and the big cog at the back...

thought freeriding means taking someone else's bike for a ride without paying money...

you return it of course or it will become hotwheeling...

lets not stereotype singaporeans here K, they do have much fancier bike shops than we do...



if your theory is right... why do i get rejected for asking to test drive the 458 italia at naza mall... is that not expensive enough?

they will have demo when the bicycle industry is a 10 billion dollar biznes... meaning it ain't gonna happen...

if not there will be a "malaybike" (for the lack of names) expo show... i heard one is happening this year... just hope it is not a 10000 square feet showcase of lerun bikes or i will go kill myself...

happening in June... pray hard...
http://www.picc.gov.my/v1/index.php?option...upcoming-events

realistically, there is just no reasons to run demos... just put on some fantastic videos of the demo'ed model of MTB stunt jumping and some famous pros doing crazy tricks and some videos for roadies of some grand tour champion pecuting up some steep hills and we are sold for good... not even our wives will be able to change our minds...

doesn't this make you want to buy a s-works tarmac sl3?
Specialized - Alberto Contador Commercial

not to say we are gullible.. but we are just that easily manipulated ...or in other words, lack of self control...


anyways... it is just the chinaman, scratch that ... malaysian way of doing business... what if you take it out for a ride and come back to just walk out and go to another shop to buy a simillar model at cheaper price... you sked of them they sked of you...

unless you put down your IC and RM5k on the table as deposit... i doubt they'd mount some pedals and et you ride their most expensive carbon XC rig out of their doors... just what i think...

i have never ever ever ever x99 ridden any bike before i buy them... never got the chance no matter how sincere my face and wallet look towards buying it... by the time i get to ride it... regret is already not an option...

heck, and with this (not that it works here with those hefty shipping charges)

http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/12/30/specia...rice-check-app/

you'll never ever going to see the chance of test riding even a children's bike...

This post has been edited by butthead: Jan 4 2012, 08:10 PM

yes.. it is made too long to discourage people reading and go riding more... whichever sort of riding they prefer

why butthurt??? maybe due to wrong saddle sizing.. and not using the specialized body geometry fit system?

just speculatin...

you can read while you ride? nothing in theory prevents you from doing that...

keeps both book and bike shops happy... and as our Gmen says... stimulate the economy...

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Added on January 4, 2012, 8:16 pmi have the balls... just dunno wat to do with em

i have heard of cross dressers.. cross biking is a new concept i guess...

This post has been edited by butthead: Jan 4 2012, 08:42 PM

who's nina? the blonde from tekken

2 words bro... "domestic violence"

didn't you hear what the DJ on the radio said... respect your women...

even though she is virtual... and most probably can and will rip your nuts off if you don't kill her..

what happen to the mosquito infested RRIM nowadays.. can that place still be ridden?

mind me ... i no longer contain much liking or enthusiasm for bone shaking rides... but that is where we use to ride way back.. from tropicana golf club tunnel to the terminal 1 roundabout then along the road to the entrance of RRIM then from there it s a race with the mosquitoes...

i ain't a singaporean and i don't work at KS cycles if there is ever one.. there is a KHCycle and a KSH though...

i was saying it won't happen in malaysia until the cycling biz is a 10b industry... not worldwide...of course it;s OK from a consumer point of view for demo... the manufacturers might not see it like that in a place where there isn't that big a market..

in malaysia, competitiveness means price war... which explains the like of the taiwan brands flooding into the market nowadays.. ask any of the shops holding known bike brands in the biz and i trust they will give you the full blown cursing

i don't regret buying my bikes.. just sometimes regret getting the wrong size or something isn't quite what you expect it to be cos you are never allowed to ride what you want to try... i think if there is something that needs changing that badly... i will take test rides over brand demos...

i don't hate mosquitoes... they are the main motivation to outclimb and outride them... just don't want to rattle my joints lose before i retire...

just send to shop and use your own grease instead of letting them use those horrible lithium grease..

i'd like to try rock n roll grease...but nowhere near malaysia it can be found...ebay is the best bet.

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Added on January 4, 2012, 10:29 pmyou strip it of it's grease and you replace with lube that is not thick enough?

hope the bearings last...

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Added on January 4, 2012, 10:44 pmi use this for spoke calculator... the outcome is a bit different from DT due to DT calculating with 12mm nipples i think. for me it is a lot less complicated

http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/spokecalc/

the site will just give you a list of calculated lengths from radial up to x4

try to run it through multiple calculators to confuse yourself further.
http://www.sapim.be/index.php?st=spokelength

if you have a reputable rim and hub, the info should be easy to find. Just need to find the rim ERD if is it not already on the rim sticker. here is a good site i usually use as quick ref as they keep info on rim and hub models collected and entered by users who have too much free time

http://lenni.info/edd/

how to measure..

http://lenni.info/edd/howtomeasure

This post has been edited by butthead: Jan 4 2012, 10:44 PM

why i'm da man.. i am already a man... was, is, and will still be in the near future... hard to say for the far future if i decide to ride off road again..

price war... u know how that goes right

first, reputable entry level and lower end brand bikes get hit by this flood of taiwanese bikes (not that reputable brands are not made in taiwan, but still nike is nike whether it is made in the USA or china if you get my drift) and this will attract most of the people who just got into cycling and don't want to spend too much

advanced enthusiast will rarely look at sub 1.5k bikes with vbrakes unless it is bought for their GFs, i ain't discriminating.. but there is a certain scrooge in all of us...

:- outcome, bike shops lose interest in entry level bikes because they can never lower them enough to compete

on the other hand, rich kids continue buying high end stuff and this taiwanese brands are incapable of competing in the high end arena... and who has the money wants an XDS with SRAM XX riding on Red Metals rite (not against XDS here, just an example)? unless it is so cheap you can chuck out the frame and buy a nice one and still end up paying less

:- outcome, bike shops will start dropping entry level bikes and start carrying high end stuff and most prolly they have higher margin in high end stuff

:- final outcome for us poor souls who are slaving our asses every day so we can put in a ride on the weekends to find our furry bunnies biting our rubber and dog pissing on our 72 point engagement hubs.. we end up with bike shops selling tons of shit that we can never afford or we end up with huge huge credit deficits...

for me this is what happened for the past 10 years or so... god, i can afford a fairly nice bike last time just saving my lunch money... now that i am working, i find that i can't even afford a nice tube of grease or replace the spoke on a nice set of wheels... it ain't inflation, trust me.

and don't tell me this is how it works...and to go work harder... it ain't reality as well... it's a nightmare

i jus double quote... dun want to get complained about being long winded...

demos i would term it as something done by manufacturers... where they showcase all their upcomming models and if they are good throw in some nice rides ... practically just to showcase their bikes and have their sponsored pedal mashers there to show you a thing or 2..

something like this done by polygon indonesia
http://www.baikbike.com/reporting-from-bal...%93-30-09-2011/

SRAM recently held a product demo for the dealers this year at GH... but what can you do grappling around with parts... you can't go pogo ridin the trails with an SID can you?

test rides i would say is given by the shops when you express an interest in the bike itself... meaning putting the pedals on, help you adjust the saddles and let you go out on a ride...

never get it before... everytime it is raised, they just go into full evasive maneuvers to avoid it...

thats how i feel.

i ain't powderful, just the mozies will give you the motivation when you find 10 , 20 of them blood suckers on your legs and everywhere else imaginable... no fun and even worst post bitten..

my friend use to jus counter it by smoking his way up... in that sense he is much more powerful than i am... imagine who can climb and suck on a ciggie at the same time.. not even miguel indurain

nothing weird... my old iron horse use to be like that.. different rear shock placement but same effect, unable to lower your seatpost...

thought nowadays there is all this i-drive and the assortment of anti bobbing shit around... why still this sort of designs?

yes, i was sent to confuse you all..

i know... i know... and i promise to change definitely not

Cyphereza, you had to post pics with girls in wet white shirt at the top and then a bike named morewood at the bottom... u hintin something?

maybe it is missing a 'H' in front of Ellsworth

feels like the swing arms can travel up if you land a massive jump and break your coccyx

how can any shop charge 50 bucks just to take a part the bb, degrease, wipe, clean, regrease and put it back... a bit too much..

lithium is not bad.. beats the cheap RM7 per can yellow grease.. but those are really meant for machinery use where it is either going to tolerate high heat or heavy loads...

you would try to get away with as light a grease as possible to reduce drag on bearings and they in some ways have less tendency to not keep dirt trapped... or so i think.

i've tried those shimano small grey canisters from rodalink, finish line little left in tub given by friend and also parktool polylube from ebay but all on different places hub, bb bearings..

what is good is that most of them are lightly colored (light green or bluish) so you can see it getting contaminated by dirt and stuff over time.. usual lithium is red unless you get the white lithium...

hard to tell if which is best but i generally feel it is better than industrial based grease.. you might need to get it serviced a bit more frequent though

read somewhere off the net that campy's own factory grease is very good but again never near our shores and wouldn't be cheap...

http://www.competitivecyclist.com/product-...-7012.51.1.html

if you can't beat em, join em i was told

from way back when..

trek y-five-o, one of the first few carbon monocoque MTB frames


spinergy rev-x if it did not patah before the frame does


proflex, among the first few to offer electronically adjusted rear dampers like cars of today... failed epically back then like a SRAM ESP 9.0 carbon RD


never seen before in bare carbon weave, but with spin wheels


AMP research who made bikes for merc and introducing multi-link suspension design and makers of the lightest cable operated disc brakes back then...

magura hydraulics..one of the few hydraulic stoppers back then when we only have v-brakes


capable of breaking and split your fork and crack it without any brake boosters...

they just brought along their road concepts to mtb... don't think it works...

is that an integrated seatpost? why would you want that on a mtb if you constantly adjust seatpost height... and i doubt aero front end is of any help

most prolly bb30 bb as well.. are they well accepted on MTB community?

Enduro? where???

i've been looking for it but ordering online is massively expensive and shipping is choking me up....

do they bring in full range and sizes, ABEC5 grade / hybrid ceramics?

SKF is easy... u go jalan ipoh got berlambak lambak... i prefer NTN bearings but they seldom carry precision bearings and their size increment skips are usually to huge for bicycle use.

for bikes either enduro or ceramic speed if you have the money to spare..

ceramic speed is available in malaysia but price is untouchable.. they do not deal with end users but you can check where they distribute to.
http://creativemill.net/products

those online shop shipping will kill you if you don't leave there.

cheapest check is to see if you are dealing with a warped rotor first.. minor warp the bike shops can try to straighten it back... it could also be oil had landed on your rotor...

are you getting brake juddering or just plain noise?

they do have some proprietary brake blocks on them.. maybe can ask around to see if the old shops still have it..

page 13
http://www.magura.com/uploads/media/downlo...FELGEN_06_E.pdf

ebay should have it... don't expect it to be as cheap as normal pads though

http://www.ebay.com.my/sch/i.html?LH_Avail..._arr%3D1&_rdc=1

quite the lowest with shipping included... didn't browse through all
http://cgi.ebay.com.my/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...em=180567457534

without considering tyre grip, rim brakes (magura and v-brakes) are always the most powerful way to totally halt the wheel as you are stopping the part that is nearest to ground contact.

magura did state trials riders as their intended users.

disc brakes came in only when they were light enough systems and their only performance advantage is when mud and dirt comes into play.

agree with xandman, the sound seems to have a rhythm to it...

try to stop pedaling and coast to see if the sound is still there to rule out the drive train, BB and pedals

if only when pedaling then it could be coming from wheels or brakes.