c'mon. Lon Haldeman rode his rollers in a dark basement to get used to riding fast and smooth in the dark. With those early morning NYC races coming up what better way to train?

Or was that kid doing donuts in the street again?

BB30 is press in. There are adapters which can be less than press in, meaning you put a regular BB into a BB30 shell. And there is now that new BB shell that's less than press in, i.e. BB30 bearings that aren't quite as tight as "BB30". Mentioned in one of the NAHBs articles. I'm missing a letter but you know, the handbuilt show.

I decided that as much as I like BB30 (light cranks, stiff, narrow frame, plus my SRM happens to be BB30), they're a royal pain. You can get the whole tool kit minus the press from Cannondale - they come with certain bikes (mine did). You just need a press, which, if you have a friendly hardware store nearby, you can make yourself. I made a "headset press" that way. Although it's not great it works. I even used it for the BB30 bearings but again, not ideal. Need a shorter bolt and some "parallelizers". I don't know how to explain it but I need them. But that's how I put together the Tsunami.

TJ is a good guy. Willing to bury himself for a teammate. Enthusiastic beyond belief. Wants to get the job done. My heartrate was higher after the Keith Berger crit when I was "warming down" with him, Chris, Drew, one or two others. TJ had some ideas on what they could have done in the race, I had some ideas on how leadouts should happen, and we all decided we'd race together in 2010.

TJ: "So then we did this, that and the other thing. You know, like Fasso."
Me: "Well, I'd have done the other thing, that, and this. Think of what it'd look like from the other side...."
TJ, after a moment of thought: "Now that's what I'm talkin' about. That's what I'm talkin' about."

cdr

Good thinking. I used a flashlight. All those guys riding outdoors with those tree melters should htfu and just duct tape a maglight to their helmets

lots of good vids of maceo

I do all the work on my BB30 myself. I've got the tools plus a hardware store headset press that I use. It'd be fine if they didn't constantly move around and creak. I've tried loctite, and it worked on one side but not the other. Just a lot of work in general. If they didn't creak I wouldn't really mind.

BB30/80/90 are all BS...like 11s cassettes they need to change so people will have to buy more stuff...it's marketing crap. Velonews did a test and found the difference between BB30 and standard BB's was negligible...

Yeah, that was the one down side to my Fuji decision, but at least the BB92 is compatible with Hollowtech II cranks.

Speaking of the Fuji, a local racer just bought my entire kit off that bike: Ksyrium Elites, Ultegra cranks, brakes, and ders, all at once. So, I calculated the value of the wear items that I'm keeping (saddle, cassette, chain, tires): the frameset, bb, and headset cost me $610.

Hell.

Yeah.

I still think the press fit bearing design was developed to minimize the chance of bb shell failure in carbon frames

Actually I believe it was developed to keep people from working on their own bikes....much like modern cars you really can't do much more than change your own old these days...BTW how many BB shell failures have you experienced on your non-press carbon frames (Wookies aside this isn't really a common problem).

Speaking of which, I may have a failure in the works on my Ritchey's BB cluster. I can't tell if it's just raised paint right now, but it seems like it might be torn metal. It's been through a lot in 10 years though. From wookie at 225 lbs to wookie at 1750W.

This one is at the bottom of the down tube.

My Bridgestone warranty was a lug failure in the BB cluster (circumferential crack on the drive side around the BB).

me personally? none. I figure my carbon frames will last many years. I don't really put much lateral flex into them though. non-sprinter at 135 lbs.

as far as working on bikes... I made my own headset press so it stands to reason that I could make my own BB press.

some of you guys are college professors. question. do you make college students write these days or is everything multiple choice? i consider the folks i've hired in the past 3 years to be completely void of writing ability. no single problem, but everything is horrible. no logic, flow, organization, or ability to succinctly present their point.

i realize that my bf posts might resemble some of these problems, but that's different than a technical report.

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When I saw you posted Candy Dulfer, and referred to it as funky horns, I was going to respond with this video. Night and day.

candy dulfer is hot though. I'd rather look at her while listening to Maceo.

I just went back to school, so far I'm two semesters in, and I've had to do a fair bit of writing. I just took intro to business and technology, and the final was six essay questions, which, for me, ended up being ten pages of writing.

Some of my younger classmates...maybe aren't quite as sharp as I expected to find in the college environment. I reckon they'll thin out a bit going into the second year.

Yeah, she's ok. That keyboard sound that you hear right at the beginning of her clip, though, man, I just associate that sound with bad music.

I'm listening to the Maceo clip right now. It wins.

Paris-Nice: last climb. Contador took off his knee warmers!

Alberto leading the climb!

217.

Alone. Voigt is back, suffering. Levi who?

henry, please f off to 217.

What's this guy's problem?

In other news: <removed by mod>

henry, take it 217.

what's his problem? slag off

Spoilers for people that may be watching on a time delay perhaps????

i prefer pro racing be discussed in the 33 since i never click on the 217.

It doesn't bother me, but not done ticker style in a thread that has nothing to do with the race.

you do realize that 'blaireau', and his former sockpuppet henrythenavigator, knows nothing about pro racing apart from whatever live feed he's copy and pasting from and doping innuendo, right?