Hope I din make a wrong choice...was pondering between allez and my new toy (secteur)...

THe pic..heheh...it's always good to cycle !! i mean exercise !

please becareful riding this weekend... a lot of cars will be rushing to balik kampung... you dun wan to start the new year lying on the hospital bed...
i did nothing to help... but enjoy riding..

RM4.2 for that bike is not too bad a price..
let people ride first la... why gan jiong...

gib u tahan first until actual pic comes...
http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Specialize...6;Display$

classic events??? anyway found out alot of surface in mont kiara is made up of arranged bricks..ifi u noe wat i mean i forgot the term for it...so secteur with the absorber thingy works quite well to tat...but still it performs the best on tarmac....i hope i din make the wrong choice......

my mindset was like well allez is more difficult and more racy .. and i dun wan to end up crashing since allez it's more difficult to command and too fast..let me learn how to ride properly on skinny wheels...maybe next one go for a true racing bikes....

very scared to make the wrong choice...u noe why....i oni got 1 bullet ...now no more liao...my door to the world of choices is shut !

but, do have to make sure that all the weight was saved from the frame + seatpost and not the parts or future upgrades will not make the bike any lighter...

Why i say "partly componentry" is that even though it is providing a full set of 105 and carbon post at (RM5k on the dot?) it really is in fact a bargain.. but the fact that overdrive 2 is limiting my options for stem length can prove problematic for stem upgrades later on and headset replacement... i don't know about you... but i have a tendency experimenting around different stem lenghts with my past bikes as bike geometry changes from bike to bike even though sizes are simillar...

as for OD2...here is some good reading...

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/gian...d-launch-30729/

basically... what OD2 does is that it doesn't affect the frame.. they just increased the cross section of the fork steerer tube.. which means an increase of the stem clamp size...and also the headset bearing sizes.. as it has to have a bigger hole in order for the fork steerer tube to go through the head tube.

this is why they mentioned in the article that OD2 is compatible to be installed on OD1 bikes from Giant.

much like the Deda OS35... but reversed...
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/deda...for-2011-27825/

a quote on the bikeradar article...

"If our hunch is correct, you'll likely see more manufacturers heading that way, too, as there's also minimal impact on consumers in terms of component compatibility.  Giant of course will offer its own stems with a 1 1/4in clamp but other models already exist from Ritchey, Syntace, and FSA (PRO has stems in the works, too). "

Hahahahahaa Vat19 stuff

Speaking of that, check this out: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/26-pound-party-gummy-bear.cfm

Energy bar replacement?

Or better yet: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/banana-bunker-protects-bananas.cfm

good way to store bananas for those who carries them for long rides?

from my understanding... it says you have to swap all 3 components together... that means reversing the stem, headset and entire fork back to a normal one like ours...

and i don't think there is an upper cup being sold alone and the internal diameter of the lower cup should also correlate to the upper cup since it is practically the same girth that is going through the bottom opening of the head tube through the upper opening...

yup.. what is of concern is the stem because stem length is of the immediate concern...

headset if taken care well enough... should last at leas 2 years before the bearings get shot to hell... even with that happening.. bearings are just a couple of steps away at bearing shops as long as you know the OD, ID and thickness of the bearing...

guess this serves as an interesting topic...

http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/vi...=64725&start=30

must check if any of this parts get anywhere near malaysia...

officially, it does say that ritchey will only start selling their 1.25" fork clamp stems to consumers by 2013... now they are just serving as an Original Equipment manufacturer for canyon...

so, at the end of the day... there is some risk to the designs of this new giant despite it being light...

and it is still a seriously suspicious sort of lightweightness for an aluminum frame... their lower end TCR composites just weigh in at 100 odd grams less than their aluminum counterpart which is very crazy... but if you can risk the stem length issue... then hell... it's going to be worth every penny for getting it down to that weight..

put in a 2 fully filled 750ml water bottle and it will only weigh the same as mine without a bottle...DAMN!!!

yeah.. sleep on it...with early closures tomorrow... there is no possibility of getting it anyways...gives you at least another week to think about it...

not much can be found on that topic.. but they could have used a different welding method or totally just have another secret way of making the tube joints stick together and require less welding to hold them in place...

smoothing out welding points as far as i know serves no purposes except for cosmetic reasons and possibly being a bit more aero if you are that particular...

it is like the lotus elise if you have heard of how they were built... the complications arose with the elise aluminum chassis was that they are risking increase in overall weight if they decided to weld the aluminum boxes and structures to form the base chassis... so, they developed a method with some special epoxy to bond the pieces of the chassis section together and totally eliminating or reducing welding on the chassis itself to drop weight...

i guess this is what happens with the AluxxSL frame compared to a non-SL which only relies purely on welding...

well.. sleep tight 

What nonsense, see this.From a friend in group of mine.

oh come on guys... me riding an indonesian made bike and i nvr regret... just ride it hard la~

is OGK helmet good? anyone use them before? apparently it is a japanese brand.
http://www.ogkhelmet.com/english/bicycle/

Ryan,

The cr1 is a great bike. Get it if you can afford it. Excellent reviews from a mate of mine who got one 2nd hand.

The foil is my dream bike but will have to wait till the engine is fit enough to ride it....

The bike shop installed for me actually.. any reasoning for that being?

Btw what's the differences between Trialthete's bike and a road bike.. they have a arm rester in front instead of drop bar (actually have both)

On the other hand actually my bike is RM3.9k too, just RM100 for those lights and meter...

tats y... 1350 U.S. dollars = 4 114.12272 Malaysian ringgits..and GH price is 4050..cheaper leh...sumore their service is so good.. i just hate their location only...but i note their accessories never follow online price one...for example, the helmet echeleon, online quote 60 usd...GH quote me 260..