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 Cycling V6 - Cycling season begins, General talks on Racing/road bikes

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post May 6 2013, 11:07 AM

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no one is clean... that is a fact and accept it for wat it is...
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post May 6 2013, 11:27 AM

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Drinking H2O and the occasional Pisang....we are clean for sure.... Cannot afford EPO or Steaks...la.
You mean now? post LA era.. Let's put your money on the next to be exposed... Bradley, anyone?

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post May 6 2013, 11:41 AM

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Does anyone here have experience riding on the velodrome ?? Tried it for the very first time yesterday and managed to do a couple of laps. Was bloody hard work and felt really awesome, got dizzy after a while though lol .. where is your eye suppose to focus on when riding ?? directly in front of you ?? Managed a top speed of 40+km/h but only for two laps .. legs and lungs cursing me after that

btw this an outdoor track and not indoor

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post May 6 2013, 12:00 PM

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QUOTE(Mac Wai @ May 6 2013, 11:27 AM)
Drinking H2O and the occasional Pisang....we are clean for sure.... Cannot afford EPO or Steaks...la.
You mean now? post LA era.. Let's put your money on the next to be exposed... Bradley, anyone?
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i'll put my money on everyone...it's a matter of time...

QUOTE(yolk @ May 6 2013, 11:41 AM)
Does anyone here have experience riding on the velodrome ?? Tried it for the very first time yesterday and managed to do a couple of laps. Was bloody hard work and felt really awesome, got dizzy after a while though lol .. where is your eye suppose to focus on when riding ?? directly in front of you ?? Managed a top speed of 40+km/h but only for two laps .. legs and lungs cursing me after that

btw this an outdoor track and not indoor
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they don't simply let people into the velodrome in or out... i remember going to the cheras one just to take a peek and apparently they don't let the public onto the track...

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post May 6 2013, 01:20 PM

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Cav won day 1 on giro and Sky won TTT on sunday...hmmm... the italians must not be happy with some brits dominating their race...
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post May 6 2013, 02:18 PM

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Looks like the TT caused the most damage to Sky's rivals.
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post May 6 2013, 03:49 PM

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TT is wiggins strength... TTT is not Sky's main strength...

but the TT heavy giro is also the reason wiggins is willing to give giro a go rather than the tour...
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post May 6 2013, 05:10 PM

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some hilites...




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post May 6 2013, 06:40 PM

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Why so quiet one... too engross with GE13?
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post May 6 2013, 06:45 PM

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i think everyone is out to start a riot...
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post May 6 2013, 07:33 PM

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Were they too distraught to even lift a finger to hit some keys...

Maybe they, our usual suspects here are part of the Gomen's drones to kept you busy and happy answering their troll.
Now that everything is secured, they too disappeared along with Ubah.....ha ha ha ha!O

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post May 6 2013, 08:32 PM

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i am not a threat to the general election...why waste resources on misdirecting a non threat??? i didn't even intend to register to vote anyways...(i am not a human if you remember, i am not eligible to vote)
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post May 6 2013, 11:45 PM

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Cadel pick up some bonus sec. being 2nd in a bunch
sprint, closing the gap on Bradley and Hesjedal.
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post May 7 2013, 01:05 AM

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bought 3T ergonova team carbon stealth black. the thing is, i felt more comfy with the old specialized handlebar.

le butthead, how high can i position the sram shifter? i mean, the placement of the shifter clamp.


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post May 7 2013, 01:47 AM

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QUOTE(Mac Wai @ May 6 2013, 11:45 PM)
Cadel pick up some bonus sec. being 2nd in a bunch
sprint, closing the gap on Bradley and Hesjedal.
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still to early to do anything yet...

as long as the main gc players are within 30secs of each other, they should be safe

furthermore there is no point taking the lead so early on... the team has to carry the burden in defending the jersey so early and waste their energy
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post May 7 2013, 01:52 AM

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QUOTE(mrjgx @ May 7 2013, 01:05 AM)
bought 3T ergonova team carbon stealth black. the thing is, i felt more comfy with the old specialized handlebar.

le butthead, how high can i position the sram shifter? i mean, the placement of the shifter clamp.
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sram recommends holding a something like a buble level on the bottom of the drop and the brake lever tip jus touches the gauge... lemme find the vid tmr...remember it is on utube

but the shifter can be run very high... depending on how you like it... tilting it up so much comprimises brake lever reach on the drops...while tilting it too low causes pain in joints...

google some berty pics and you can see how he or armstrong position their shifters which is quite high

some people like it low so the top of the handlebar extends out onto the lever
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QUOTE(butthead @ May 7 2013, 01:52 AM)
sram recommends holding a something like a buble level on the bottom of the drop and the brake lever tip jus touches the gauge... lemme find the vid tmr...remember it is on utube

but the shifter can be run very high... depending on how you like it... tilting it up so much comprimises brake lever reach on the drops...while tilting it too low causes pain in joints...

google some berty pics and you can see how he or armstrong position their shifters which is quite high

some people like it low so the top of the handlebar extends out onto the lever
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i believe the mechanic set it up wrongly which is not to my fitting, and I guess your explanation is spot on. I've felt my arm is extending further to the front when riding on the hood which cause discomfort, and I started to think how it could possibly be as my stem length is the same. Now I know why.

The thing is, I can't rest my wrist on the drop as it is now not flat enough to hold all my bodyweight on the drop (now it's a bit slanted so my wrist a bit cocked up). Adjusting the handlebar angle will make my shifter too low, hence the question of how high I can position the shifter up so I can have my drop level.


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post May 7 2013, 09:46 AM

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Revenge.

Gotta redeem myself on the 240km loop this coming Sunday.

last year still a noob newbie, i rode up Fraser top, and i lost my group, rode myself back with total 210km.

this year, pray ti kong ang kong, kuan kong blessing, will complete the loop.

Kepong (ride from home) - Uptown - KKB - Fraser - Bentong - G. Sempah - Kepong.

er... does this sound a challenge to you?
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post May 7 2013, 09:57 AM

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the video from sramtech is no longer available... i think they removed it and replaced it with the new red shifter set up...

but the ruler method is actually not as good if you like your shifter tilted up... the ruler method is a sort of middle ground where your reach for the brake levers from the drops is well covered while the shifter is not tilted up so much...again, what bars you use affects a lot on how the shifter transition feels from bar to hood..

for a lack of examples..
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contadors shifter setup... tilted quite high (the bike is propped up from the back, so the shifter looks very level)

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andy schleck's setup... from the days of saxo and sram...he prefers his shifter more lower and forward... but he also uses a shallow drop while contador is more on a compact i believe...

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a better comparison of their shifter height side by side (not quite side by side, but pretty close)

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perspective wise hard to gauge... but boonen's setup is also pointing the shifter quite forwards...

i guess contador likes his shifter that way because it is an easier reach for him as he uses the hoods quite a lot both in and out of saddle...

for your case... i think you have to adjust the bars to where you like it... especially the drops where you hold them..and then unwrap your bar tape and move the shifters up further and re-wrap again... a bit trial and error until you get it dialed in...

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post May 7 2013, 10:02 AM

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QUOTE(vin_ann @ May 7 2013, 09:46 AM)
Revenge.

Gotta redeem myself on the 240km loop this coming Sunday.

last year still a noob newbie, i rode up Fraser top, and i lost my group, rode myself back with total 210km.

this year, pray ti kong ang kong, kuan kong blessing, will complete the loop.

Kepong (ride from home) - Uptown - KKB - Fraser - Bentong - G. Sempah - Kepong.

er... does this sound a challenge to you?
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you challenging us to it???

challenging??? not really especially when i am on my ES5...

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