But we all can buy Tissot/Certina Titanium watches for less than RM2000.


I also think 170 is expensive for this, if we're comparing Penang bridge full marathon which only costs RM80. But then.. that's a half marathon split between a bike ride. I think it's gonna hurt after transition from bike to the 2nd run! I'll skip this


On a different topic, Shimano Tiagra brake pads are not effective enough especially in the wet/rain. Did Shimano think that Tiagra users won't reach xxx km/h and hence fitted it will less grippy pads?

This post has been edited by nlik: Jul 22 2012, 11:35 PM

the route to japanese Tea House is only 2km, it's the worst 2km I ever ride in my life.
I would rather run than cycle there..

The downhill + straight drain cover = killer for road bike, i almost got caught inside there..

while i am going down.. have to use drop bar to break, even then it feels not good enuff, still 30k+..

The loop is only 24k right? another 4k is to pay RM12 to get to colmar

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Added on July 23, 2012, 8:45 amwell it's different la, it's not distance a lot than make up duathlon fun.. but Rm170 memang expensive..


Shimano thinks tiagra user's life cost less..


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I lost my cadence Magnet on my medal.. I am not sure what's the thing call, any idea how to get the replacement? looks like it snapped during PD tri.. just detected it's missing after 2 weeks...

This post has been edited by Sky.Live: Jul 23 2012, 08:52 AM

That's why I don't bother trying to ride down from the tea house. the gradient is too steep, especially after ppl encountered smoke from their brakes

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cateye...magnet-ec035841

I guess you can check around the different bike shops asking them for it. there are spares being sold. And any magnet will do. I've been mixing magnets between cateye, topeak and sigma all this time.

i though bukit tinggi is only 12k? but i only know 1 way up from the karak highway and i never seen the japanese village before the 2 times i went.. jus reach the T-junction and pusing balik...

smoke... that is too much... i have never seen smoke before even on repeated hard braking zones...

to be fair... even expensive pads can have very poor wet weather performance.. brake pads are always a balance between 3 things

1) pad wear / rim wear
2) performance in both stopping power and modulation
3) wet performance

pad wear and rim wear is often heading in opposite direction... where often one is good, the other one suffers....

i use Zipp Platinum Tangente on alloy rims and i can say even those don't enable me to brake late in wet conditions...

if you ride in rain a lot... i suggest you invest in a pair of wet or all weather pads... i have used koolstop pad inserts in the past quite succesfully... not exactly cheap but also not as expensive as zipp or swiss stop pads... they have dual compounds to assist in different weather conditions and a slightly thicker rear end of the pads so you don't need to toe in the pads to reduce brake squeels....

it's a very old brand but hard to find them nowadays... or at least i could not get them after i wore my last pair down...

wah.... that interests me all of a sudden

your computer brand will usually sell replacement units... worst case if not... other brand magnets should work as well... i know sigma would have quite some replacement parts made available... but might be too far for you to travel to KH Cycle to get em... better call and check up first and see if the magnet is around the same size as yours?

I am going for powerman... my second... but my first Full... last year i did the sprint... its good tat it's the first time it's held in putrajaya, hence no need to travel all the way to Seri Manjung as for previous years..... the price is the same as last year...

Giant TCR Comp1 2010



oh... btw, wanted to ask on your pant, do you wear normal pant / compression tight for run-bike-run or Tri compression pant?

i am using tri suit....
my TCR got a groupie transplant last week... but havent got the chance to test it out yet... I had converted to the dark side... hehehhehe... using SRAM force, only the chain ring is SRAM Red...

Shimano as the bright side???

Tri Suit? FULL　ｔｒｉ　ｓｕｉｔ　ｆｏｒ　Powerman? oh no! i dont want to spend any extra on cloths! this is borthering me!

got people run with compression tight and wear extra layer cycling bib for bike leg, and take off after cycling? my time spend for changing cycling bib can make up by cycling faster which i'm able to do so. wahahaha....

oh yeah... if im joining, i'm going to do that!

why wear compression wear during an event eh... compression wear is for post recovery and i believe it is not useful to wear it during event...

i heard of compression wear being used to bolster upper body muscles for sports like football for performance enhancement.. but i am not sure if it works... never heard of it on the shorts or compression socks able to enhance performance during...

i have a pair of nike compression shorts and a pair of unbranded knee high compression socks... supposedly for post recovery... but everytime, i get too lazy after rides to slip into them... choose to slip in my PJs instead and go to sleep...2xu is too expensive for my blard...

yea... why is SRAM the dark size? i no get it...

i prefer to run the SRAM red crank arm with some osymetric chainrings... it's a biatch to adjust... but should be "in theory" a very good set of biometric cranks

since you are on the dark side...did you take the SRAM R2C shifters as well

someone is gonna kena poison...

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Added on July 23, 2012, 12:05 pmWho poisoned Frank Schleck? A list of suspects

since the tour is over and wiggins made mince meat out of everyone including his "loyal" liutenant in the final ITT and with Mr. Sky sprint king taking the champs elysee win... this years tour is a wrap..

The twisted tour de france final jersey presentations

wonder if Mr. Froome will head to vuelta to see if he can give Andy and Contador a bashing in the mountains... too bad no ascend of the angliru this year...

This post has been edited by butthead: Jul 23 2012, 12:05 PM

2XU the garden ada sales...
Get your Rudy as well to the event , you will look macho and high chance get your bedminton partner there

Poison added

This post has been edited by joonming: Jul 23 2012, 12:07 PM

sales also still beh tahan la... li tat... my nike after sales ... no need spend more than 3 figure lo... hard to compare it with 2xu...

yeah... do it for you bedminton partner vin_ann... do it!!! Just Do It!!!

You were there yesterday? did you recognise me? I should be the fattest with a white focus Bike.

I think I have to ask around for the magnets. I din even know the magnet drop out, too concentrated during the race, i know cadence was lacking but i never bother to look through it during races..

Garmin replacement magnet is 10USD each, not sure if it is selling in Malaysia

It's not mean for cycling i think the last 2 KM, i ended up pushing my bike up, it's faster that way haha...

http://www.trainingpeaks.com/av/FZM44TUGY2K7HQ4MIRRJRZCIRY
Elevation and map if you are interested

I wear tri-pants and race provided Tee shirt during my previous short duathlon.
You can do with cycling pants too, but mine looks a been to saggy and my pants keep falling off when i run. so i don wanna be caught on the camera for that..

Tri-pants main advantage is the swim part which is not too important in powerman i guess

those on sales, are things you dont feel like buying.
Btw, try on skins, they looks quite good too, got 30% off voucher on A200 series. almost wanted to buy one but then the staff there seems to know nuts about product they are selling

This post has been edited by Sky.Live: Jul 23 2012, 12:25 PM

didn't know bkt tinggi was a loop... have to go recon again if i am not too lazy...

last 2K is from 1:45 onwards? covers 1000 feet in 2K... quite steep... should be averaging above 12% gradient... not to say crazy... but a very tough slog up the incline if you have a narrow cassette...

you meant to type fastest instead of fattest is it?

i think the sigma ones are a tad less than that... i think i saw RM35 last time around...jus double side tape the bugger and zip tie it to your crank arm...

most salesperson know jack shit about what they are selling nowadays... bosses only want to hire staff that are cheap to pay and not staff who have a passion in what they are selling...

it's the reality... we all work for a paycheck at the end of the day...

haha when i click into my own link, surprised to see the revamp the interface,
it actually looks better than my own trainingpeak user graphs and interface.

RM35 for a piece of magnet, looks like no choice =(

I weight 95kg, you would hardly see anyone bigger than me in triathlon community usually..

This post has been edited by Sky.Live: Jul 23 2012, 01:34 PM

95KG isn't that bad... like eric cartman always says... "I'm not fat, I'm big-boned"

give KH cycle a call... a call costs nothing.. better than wasting petrol to go around looking for it...

03-7722 2999, Jacky

sigma cadence power magnet...


that, or jus strap any magnet you can find onto the crank arm and see if it works... it's only a matter of getting it close enough to the sensor...

my compression wear = compression short pant... this mean to be smoothen "geseran" between 2 parts. Reduce crafing.

FYI, i have 3 same design of LineBreak compression pants, i wear it for TRX workout, short running, body pump, RPM and etc etc... only when come to heavy running / trail, i wear my compression SKINS top and short pant for it. example, trail running inside FRIM for 3 hours.

the compression you mean is Long Compression Pant, which mean for recovery, wear it for overnight, your legs will feel like fresh the next day.

I'm dont know how to swim. Tri pant would be next upgrade if im eager / lost rational again. But 2XU short tri pant is blooody expensive! RM400 plus! can get long compression pant le!

To be honest, for cycling, i wanted to get compression bib too... but it's damm extreme bloody expensive! can sky up to RM1,000. This 1 i'm very concious and never can lost my rational as it's hurting my pocket too much. A pains that i cant endurance!

endurance sport ma... both physically and monetary...

ohhh... geseran... isn't that the job of your lycra shorts? nothing to do with compression rite... i guess my nads must be like the roasted chest nuts the unkers in sri petaling street sells...

my one is not long one wor... it's like the usual bike short length.. not long like 3/4 covering knee caps even... and it was written there post-recovery for purpose...maybe to be used with those japanese school girl knee high socks??? maybe i got conned??? anyways, one of my rather impulsive / experimental buys... the one where you usually regret for buying 5 seconds after the credit card transaction goes through...

anyways, i am not a pro competing for wins.. this stuff is overkill.. and not 1 bit enjoyable... rather push the money in direction of spending it on the bike...

look for the cateye one. Think you can get it for RM20 or below

A compression pants would make ur leg feel fresh the next morning?? for real?
I would buy without a think if that's the case, which I highly doubt so haha

perhaps bcoz i'm from ultra running background, my perception is different on compression wear.

A good compression wear helps me go through 100KM ultra trail with running / walking over 24 hours.... that's y im bringing the same perception that cycling compression can give the same comfort for cycle long.

To be honest, if those japanese school girl knee high socks got compression effect, i dont mind getting one...

the 2XU compression sock cost about RM149 le...!

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Added on July 23, 2012, 2:41 pmy would i want to bluff you.

it's 2XU long compression pant. u can ask the seller is it true or not? been using it for 2 years, it's just become physiological effect now. the compression no longer giving compression as new, and yet you feel the recovery in good progress.

that's my experience. But as i'm training more, i realised, compression wear for recovery doesnt hold anymore. now i just need 2 days to recover naturally without any aids of external influence. you just need to endure the pain in the process to be stronger and recover faster.

Now i just need comfort compression pant for every single workouts.

running 42km, its just become weekly affair if i'm continue pursue in running.



This post has been edited by vin_ann: Jul 23 2012, 02:41 PM