Members' bikes

[Oscar's dad]

TimO, your hall looks a bit bare.  How about some nice pictures?  Or better still hang your lovely new bike on the wall!

[clarion]

Last time I saw his hall, it had a junkmail motif to the floorcovering

Crikey, but that's a red bike!  Make sure you don't let our Valiant near it. 

Mind you, there might be an altitude differential challenge.

[MattH]

Looks nice  

I was tempted by one of those too; having so much red on it should make it a very fast bike.

I think somebody, somewhere has bought a load of white-hooded SRAM stuff. The cheap SRAM groupset I bought for my Roubaix also came with white. As you say, replacement hoods are available - though I chose to put white bar tape on instead and quite like the look with the white matching the lettering on the frame.

I'm also interested in how you get on with the rack. Which bag are you putting on it?

[JT]

Last time I saw his hall, it had a junkmail motif to the floorcovering

Crikey, but that's a red bike!  Make sure you don't let our Valiant near it.  

Mind you, there might be an altitude differential challenge.

Surely you're not suggesting Valiant might have trouble getting his leg over?

[clarion]

Never.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Very nice Tim O 

Carbon? What Planet X model is that?

[TimO]

I was tempted by one of those too; having so much red on it should make it a very fast bike.

I think I paid slightly more for red forks, and red brakes!

I'm also interested in how you get on with the rack. Which bag are you putting on it?

A red TailRider of course!

[itsbruce]

That looks fast! 

Can't believe you're going to put a rack on it. 

And not sure about the combination of black saddle, red bar tape and white hoods. 

The Bike is red and black and white and so are the handlebars.  Seems to match to me, if a little towards the Harlequin mode.

I have a bike that's all yellow and black apart from the white saddle.  When you're riding, people can't see much of the saddle.

[JT]

That looks fast! 

Can't believe you're going to put a rack on it. 

And not sure about the combination of black saddle, red bar tape and white hoods. 

The Bike is red and black and white and so are the handlebars.  Seems to match to me, if a little towards the Harlequin mode.

I have a bike that's all yellow and black apart from the white saddle. 

It's a style thing - if it were my bike it would have a white saddle and white bar tape with red or black hoods. But then for me the only correct colour of bar tape is white.

When you're riding, people can't see much of the saddle.

But when you're not, they can so it should look good. 

[itsbruce]

When you're riding, people can't see much of the saddle.

But when you're not, they can so it should look good. 

It does; it's a Fizzik with a lovely streamlined shape.

[TimO]

Carbon? What Planet X model is that?

I think the nearest thing on their website is the SL Pro Carbon Rival, but that's got SRAM Rival components instead of the SRAM Red that mines got.

How much difference there is between Rival and Red I'm unsure.  The brakes on mine aren't SRAM anyway, they're Planet-X's own Ultra-light CNC'ed ones (in red!), so it's really just the controls and gear changers.

[Sergeant Pluck]

I never had you down as a weight weenie Tim O 

Surely your bag of spare parts is going to weigh more than the bike?

[Jurek]

Good Lord, Tim.

Its very nice.

As well as very, well....... red 

[TimO]

I never had you down as a weight weenie Tim O 

Surely your bag of spare parts is going to weigh more than the bike?

Nope, when I use this bike on FRNttCs and their ilk, people are going to have to carry their own spares.

[JT]

I never had you down as a weight weenie Tim O 

Surely your bag of spare parts is going to weigh more than the bike?

Nope, when I use this bike on FRNttCs and their ilk, people are going to have to carry their own spares.

So you'll need a new excuse for being slow! 

[Andrij]

Wow, dat shure is purty! 

If you use that for a FNRttC, I expect you'll be waymarking.  I look forward to watching you zoom along the peloton toward your next junction. 
 

[TimO]

I never had you down as a weight weenie Tim O  

Surely your bag of spare parts is going to weigh more than the bike?

Nope, when I use this bike on FRNttCs and their ilk, people are going to have to carry their own spares.

So you'll need a new excuse for being slow!  

Damn, you're right.  I'd better get thinking.


However, I don't think there's going to be that much risk of me using it on next weeks FNRttC.  I looked up the price of the levers, and they alone would cost me £350 to replace if I dented them.

I think I'm going to want to be a bit more confident on it, to cycle it in a group, on a cold dark November ride, than I'll be by then!

[Kim]

However, I don't think there's going to be that much risk of me using it on next weeks FNRttC.  I looked up the price of the levers, and they alone would cost me £350 to replace if I dented them.

Ah, I know this one...

The solution is to mount Wilko £1.50 "I *heart* MY BIKE" bells outboard of the levers, to take the damage in an impact.   

[Lucky]

If you do ever need to replace them, I suggest you shop around a bit more. Fudge's is the place for SRAM kit, and I'm sorry to inform you your levers are worth a mere £285.99... 

[TimO]

However, I don't think there's going to be that much risk of me using it on next weeks FNRttC.  I looked up the price of the levers, and they alone would cost me £350 to replace if I dented them.

Ah, I know this one...

The solution is to mount Wilko £1.50 "I *heart* MY BIKE" bells outboard of the levers, to take the damage in an impact.   

NO.  Not even if they come in red.

[TimO]

If you do ever need to replace them, I suggest you shop around a bit more. Fudge's is the place for SRAM kit, and I'm sorry to inform you your levers are worth a mere £285.99... 

That's still more than I want to spend in repairs during the first two weeks of ownership!

[fuzzy]

Tim, 's a bike. Riding it is as easy as falling off a bike... Ah- point taken

[MattH]

However, I don't think there's going to be that much risk of me using it on next weeks FNRttC.  I looked up the price of the levers, and they alone would cost me £350 to replace if I dented them.

Ah, I know this one...

The solution is to mount Wilko £1.50 "I *heart* MY BIKE" bells outboard of the levers, to take the damage in an impact.   

NO.  Not even if they come in red.

Don't you find it a bit ironic that your levers say "Red" on them, to match the bike, when in fact they are white? 

[TimO]

It's a little bit ironic, but I knew it was the groupset, and not the colour.

It's a bit pants that they seem to supply them with white hoods though.  The default colour for hoods is generally black, which goes with most stuff, and doesn't show up grubbiness as easily.

[Lucky]

I have a pair of black hoods from a set of Red levers somewhere that I'd swap for your white ones if you can be bothered to change them...