Funny. I love bike racer who don;t have the first clue about how their bike works.....makes me laugh.

nah, I think they were $470 or $480 (last year). Cecil Walker now retail them for $537, so they've dropped quite a bit -- they were $620 not so long ago.
Terry Hammond had $725 on his last year, but they would have to have dropped since then!

Dont say that, its much cooler to believe its his ungodly power output breaking his bikes.

A mate of mine rode the Aussie TT champs out at friggin Bayles or Yannathan or Buttferk South or somewhere back in the early 90's. He reckoned Huey was visibily flexing the Merckx TT bike during the TT. Frightening!

Nerds. I hope that they don't get their pocket protectors in a twist.

yeah, "they" say he still holds the ergo power records at the AIS

Well, considering it was the early 90's and TT bikes are designed to be aero, not stiff, I reckon I coulda flexed an early 90's Merckx to buggery....but that's mostly because I'm a fatazz.

470-480 for the latest DAs is a cracker of a deal. Last shop I went into had the XTR MTB equivalent for 900!

My GT has 34/50 FAS carbon 'compact' cranks with a 23/11 cluster. Basically they are lighter because of the smaller chainrings (and the carbon cranks ), and give a lower granny with the 34/23 while the 50/11 is plenty high enough for most sprinters.

Gees this forum was so fgn slooooooooooooooooooooooooow to day. I gave up trying to post anything earlier and I've been unable to connect for days. Pretty crap.

Did the last of the Tuesday night summer crits last night.
Got 2nd... 1st got in a really good attack in the last couple of corners (used someone from a different grade to aid confusion), sprint was 53.5km/h. Woohoo!!

hmmmm.....looks to me like you're in better shape than the other fatty boom-bahs --
been any grumblings that you should to up a grade or 2?

fatty boom-bahs --
Which one is you Odin?

I've sussed the best way to work this forum. You click on an action, go make coffee, come back and read/post, click again and go make toast, come back read/post click, go to work, come back..............................God it's painful aye!

Got that right!!!!
I've even started copying my posts to a text editor so I don't have to rewrite them when the forum loses it all into the bit bucket.

FYI - The Sunshine Coast Bicycle Touring Club has a new web site SCBTC Inc
If your up this way enjoying our "always perfect" weather or on holidays you are welcome to join us on a ride. Club rides are touring speed. Weekday training rides push it a bit - the fast group is not up there with the 18yr old alpha-ones, but we sure make them work hard for the glory!!

You guys all given up on this**********??

just lurking berny

riding? nup.
posting? yep.

Riding....distant, fading memory.

Posting....something to do in between cluster f***s at work.

A rare appearance from Climbo and Willie at track night to will on Dr Jock to a track record

Anyone racing FNWT?

Yep.

Oh, and I'm the fatty boom-bah @ the front Berny

https://www.velonews.com/tech/report/...es/9664.0.html

2007 Shimano pRon. beware rodie types, contains MTB bling as well.

i actually odnt like SRAMS shifting system which is why i went with dual control. ( IMHO rapid fire and rapid rise dont mesh very well, but rapid rise and dual control are excellent) .

what was wrong with the old trigger systems? i think they were much more intuitive and easier to use than SRAMS shifter gear, why copy somone else instead of having your own neiche.

Still waaaay too slow. Let's put it in perspective: my 'record time' was beaten by..... a girl. I am so proud of that spectacular achievement

FNWTR is likely to commence in mid June. I'll be there in my never ending quest for more bettererness. Bernie, that means you have a few months to save up the $1200 for a raceline, avanti, or bianchi track steed

If I ever get over this fgn dogs disease. $#!+, how crook yu gotta be before you die

is a 1200 dollar track bike competitive? sounds like a ripper of a bargain to get some nice close racing in. have seen the Avantis around in certain stores.

Don't you just love marketing. Check out these textbook pearlers from the Velonews article (Similar article on cyclingnews.com) on the new Shimano stuff -

"newly designed XTR RapidFire Plus shifters raise the bar"

"With two-way shifting the new XTR shift levers adapt to meet your needs."

"delivering the shifting and brake positions you have come to know and trust."

"Pull it with your finger, push it with your thumb - you choose." (Ah yes, the classic 'it's your choice' line. Ironic coming from a company who invented planned obsolescence)

"the message is clear: a winning design just got better."

(Just let me know if you've vomited yet )

Anyone up for offering advice to a newb?

Currently living in Sydney but soon likely to be Melbourne and will in the near future be buying a new roadie around 2000$ region before heading overseas to live. This leaves the stock factory type wheels which are not always reliable at all. I had problems with wheels from the start on my previous bike (OCR1) and thought there would be some alternatives out there. I dont intend on racing anytime soon, just some wheels for general riding/training whatever. Any suggestions on good value alternatives besides the usual shimano 550's 500 540's etc..?