Bicycles
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Gorgeous bike. Love that name, makes me think of a song by a band I like @seawolf
I am with you on discs in general. I haven't made use of electronic shifters, but hydraulic disc calipers and whatever actuation is in use in modern drivetrains are game-changers.
Thanks! I can't speak to SRAM's functionality (although I've heard nothing but great things) but the Shimano Di2 shifting is out of this world. Coming from a very old Dura Ace groupset that was quirky and sometimes finicky, this shifts-when-I-tell-it-to system I have now is just delightful.
And I don't get a lot of rain here, but I've heard discs are without equal in wet conditions.
Which song does Greta remind you of?
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Last Crit of the season tonight. The S5 has been a privilege to race this year.
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??? That thing is HOT AF, @BloodnThunder ???
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@henry_david Thanks! It's an incredible bike. Stupidly fast.
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I'd have preferred it a bit blacker.
Ha! I love black bikes. The above photo does the paint no justice. It has a really cool glitter effect in the sun.
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How was the race [mention]BloodnThunder [/mention]
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@Nkwkfld last race is tonight. This is only my second full season racing but it's been a busy one. Tonight will be roughly race 25 of the season.
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Sounds fun! Good luck and it would be cool to hear more about it at some point.
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I like the geometry of the frame. I somehow can't "yet" get used to disk brakes on a runner. But a beautiful bike for sure!
Is that because you've never used them? I can't go back to rim brakes after this. And frankly I'm not sure I can go back to mechanical shifting after having a bike with electronic shifting.
It’s just the looks. Technically, it has so many advantages, they are far superior compare to rim brake if you ask me (blasting a tube because it got to hot on the rim while going downhill at 80 km/h is not much fun, I can tell you from experience).
I mean people discuss weight and all that, but to me that’s a non-factor. If you take a proper shit in the morning you have less weight….. -
Having ridden and raced both I can say I marginally favor disc. Rim brakes are very easy to deal with as compared to disc and, I personally think, look better. But, disc has noticeably better stopping power, especially in wet conditions. Brake rub on disc brakes makes me want to stab myself in the ear. You can get rub on either type of brake but only one type (disc) sounds like you're sharpening a knife for the entire ride.
This summer racing stage one of the Baker City Classic down in Oregon having disc brakes probably saved me from a very serious crash. Going somewhere between 50 and 55MPH I was leading the group into a blind right hand corner that until you began the turn you couldn't get a look at the road. Turns out it was covered in gravel and the line I had chosen was leading me right into it. Rather than chance riding through it with a solid lean, as we were hauling ass, I sat up and rode straight into the other lane (there was no oncoming traffic) which gave me enough time to grab a ton of brake and keep the wheels down and stay on the road. There's a legitimate chance I would have gone off the road into the barbed wire cattle fence had I not been riding disc.
Rim also tends to be more aero and lighter, but those two factors are pointless reasons to choose one over the other unless you're a highly competitive bike racer.
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@BloodnThunder beautiful bike!
Curious what invisible means do you use to keep the bike upright?
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@motojobobo Thanks! Just a cheap camera trick. iPhone is set to 0.5x zoom which gives it a bit of a fish eye effect. Looks like I'm not close to the bike at all but I'm standing just outside of view to the left. Hand on the saddle, pull hand off, click photo, hand on saddle. Bike has to stay upright on it's own for maybe 1-2 seconds.
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Another vote here for disc brakes on the basis of the safety of better stopping power.
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Retrogrouch checking in:
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Yeah I like to feel shifts as little as possible and for them to occur as quickly and decisively as possible. Clicking into a gear versus sort of pulling into it is great. Hydraulic discs retain the dynamism required to feather and modern drivetrains seem to support more of a quantized all or nothing feel and less dicking around between gears.
This is the song @seawolf
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Look at that beauty!!
Yup, I love riding this thing. 2011/2012/2013 (totally unclear) Ritchey Swiss Cross canti with Paul brakes and HED Belgium+ laced to White hubs with Sapim spokes. This thing shreds. 40T with 11-42 in the rear.
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@motojobobo Thanks! Just a cheap camera trick. iPhone is set to 0.5x zoom which gives it a bit of a fish eye effect. Looks like I'm not close to the bike at all but I'm standing just outside of view to the left. Hand on the saddle, pull hand off, click photo, hand on saddle. Bike has to stay upright on it's own for maybe 1-2 seconds.
Cool trick! Never thought of it, I’ll try it soon. Thanks
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less dicking around between gears.
This pretty much sums it up. When I tap the shifter, it shifts. Period. Less dicking around. No stretched cables. No barrel adjustments. No tweaking. Just shifting. It's heavenly, to be honest.
Thanks for the song! WP has always intrigued me, but I've never really dipped my toe in the water.
