As advise by da boss, I'll keep that ceramicspeed plan for the SL5 (god knows when it will be released). But the video you showed is damn poisonous!

In the meantime, the money will be wisely spend on a Retul fitting session.

well you can sustain a ride to over 12 hours if you really want to. but you cannot say the same for running. and even if you can, its not a good idea to do that often

The thing I hate about coming back with this cycling activity is...it makes me think that there are still a plenty of upgrades that need to be done on my bike..

it should be just go out and ride and not thinking about upgrading too much.

remember the joy of riding with trainers?..that should b what we shud b pursuing...

my wallet when thought of buying bike...

that's your mind playing with you

haha. in fact in every hobbies or other things, motorsports, dslr, PC upgrades, etc..they are no fun if there's no window shopping from shop to shop to see expensive items to drool our mind

anyway, nobody in this thread ride a Trek bike? Trek not mainstream in Malaysia?

trek expensive and no one likes the dealership that much...

when edwin was still selling it, there are more trek owners... with the choices out there now, it's dwindling in numbers

and no, i dun agree on window shopping...there are internet shopping now and that is way more dangerous... and with peer to peer poison needles flying around, the danger levels is compounded

I need a new headset for my mtb. The oem one keep getting loose. Any suggestion?

Cane creek vs chris king?

This post has been edited by miaopurr: Nov 10 2013, 03:17 PM

chris king if you have the dough... it should last longer than most other headsets...

Was quoted rm450 after discount. Dafuq

it's about there lar... actually.. their headsets are more worth it than their BBs... it has a known track record of reliability already... especially the steel ones... ceramic ones, i am a bit more doubtful of it's longevity...

which is why i say.. if you have the dough... where the actual fact is.. if it can last you 5 years and your cane creak f@ks up at the rate of 1 set per year... you might still equal back the amount of the CK headsets after 5 years... just that you dun need to go see bike shop that many times only...

so, it's up to you at the end of the day... the one plus point of CK is... it has many color choices...the bling factor that is missing on cane creek or FSA..

I only want black version.

butthead, what do you think of madone 7 series? I saw madone 6, the frame is damn bulky and muscular looking. when you see in the net it isn't obvious but when i see in in real life it's monstrous.

we have Trek boutique shop here, a few other shops are carrying Trek as well. Do you think it's better than speccie? It tries to combine aero and lightness (700g + frame weight). 2-in-1 u know. too bad no demo bike to test it out



This post has been edited by mrjgx: Nov 11 2013, 12:44 AM

then cincai buy one lar... cane creek, FSA, token, watever yanks your chain....

the madone 7 tubing looks smaller??? tak perasan pun last time i saw it... the tube shape is different lar cos they employed the kamm tail (truncated airfoil shape) onto the madone 7 and even the new madone 6... i didn't see the new 6... but i've seen before the madone 6.9ssl radioshack replica and the madone 7 series bike... with a bb90 bottom bracket, the downtube is going to be inevitably fat on both bikes.. .so, not sure which or how you saw it looks less bulky...

the madone is a good bike never the less... whether it is better or worse than a tarmac.. i am not sure.. i don't own either one.. i believe it is on par with it plus you get a all rounder + aero bike all in one... the 7 series should cost over 20k as the 6.9ssl team replica last i know was in the 30k region with a set of bontrager aeolus 5 wheels....

the only question is whether you should get 6 or 7 series since both is more or less the same with what i believe to be the 7 being lighter in weight... i am also not sure if 6 is made in waterloo, wisconsin or they have handed the manufacturing to the asians... 7 is for sure made in house because of the HexSL carbon which is exclusive to the 7...

the thing i like about the 7 is the duotrap sensors which provides a clean look throughout the bike with it's internal cablings... the bad thing is.. you are stuck with the brakes as they are more or less a proprietary design with the shrouded brakes... with the 6 and 7.. you also get to fit types which is H1 and H2...

that or you can also consider the domane... it's practically made for people with osteoporosis...

the popularity of the bike... i think i dun need to explain lar... cos of the armstrong, schleck brothers farce... it's practically gone from hero to totally zero...

This post has been edited by butthead: Nov 11 2013, 10:57 AM

ok la i'll try to look for cane creek

go see TTDI lar... they should have all the headsets for MTB one... wat brand dunno lar... maybe ritchey or FSA... not too sure...

last resort is to go find token or some of those chaplang ones...

ttdi got ck, cc, hope. hmm..... nice.....

cane creek official dealer is them.. or their alternate company responsible for doing trading business...

Ooh..I asked about Madone 7, as I only have seen Madone 6. The 7 was not at the store, have to order, roughly the 6 is 15k dirhams (ultegra), the 7 is around 20k (not sure about the groupset).

The frame looks pretty fat, but light. As far as the ride is concerns, I can't tell how nimble it would be as it looks damn fat! More like MTB kind of fat. I know Tarmac is pretty agile and nimble so I best kept my money for sl5

That is the sole reason why they stilll use BB90 which is to make a wide downtube to handle the torsional loads from the BB section... the tubing shape is not a worry cos it's still very thin at the end of the day.. it's not like a whole solid chuck of carbon there or something like despite looking chunky...

handling wise, it should be no slouch.. if you take the domane, then maybe cos the fork rake is different if i am not wrong...

and the ride should be quite tuned out as they use a ride tuned seat mass to kill out the road buzz...

This post has been edited by butthead: Nov 11 2013, 11:25 AM