Neuvations are pretty darn good and reasonable with our discount.
They Boyds got more expensive when they went to the fatty rim.

450 is just one wheel.

Yeah, and I didn't notice that was the old narrow clearance style.

The November Rail52s are carbon clinchers for a decent price. Always heard scary heat explosion stories tho..., I wouldn't ride them in the mountains I guess (not that I ever do that), but with tubulars you never end up riding them to train at all b/c of flat worries, so they just sit around unused so much. I'm not sure which way i'll go next time I get some, T or C.

We had a Boyd deal?

Someone mentioning mentioning "tire pressure" again this decade...

Jeff Owens said:

450 is just one wheel. Yeah, and I didn't notice that was the old narrow clearance style. The November Rail52s are carbon clinchers for a decent price. Always heard scary heat explosion stories tho..., I wouldn't ride them in the mountains I guess (not that I ever do that), but with tubulars you never end up riding them to train at all b/c of flat worries, so they just sit around unused so much. I'm not sure which way i'll go next time I get some, T or C.

Yikes, okay that puts it into a different perspective.  Maybe sell the old hubs, make some money back, and buy the new wheels?

Marc Bertucco said:

We had a Boyd deal?

Not really. They're willing to do group buy discounts.

For those rainy ay "emergencies"

http://ass-savers.com/

 

the prologo kappa that came with my caad10 creaks like an old barn door when i'm in the saddle.  which is most of the time i'm riding my bike.

What makes you so sure it's the saddle?  Have you taken it off, replaced it with another saddle, and the noise gone?  If you have not definitively done that, check:

and chain ring bolts

I agree with Adam. The source of creaking is not always obvious. Ragot got rid of a creak by turning his front wheel around!

Sometimes it's as simple as a bottle cage bolt.

I nailed one by sawing my seatpost shorter.

Brendan Rigby said:

...is 1 year the lifetime of a saddle?  how sad

Did you swap with the GF's saddle?

The worst kind of creak; existential creak.

Random note about the flouro-orange helmets and why they look so "normal" in pictures...

A day or so ago, Peter was in a magazine photoshoot sporting a grey and flouro orange onsie. Looking at the pictures, I noticed that the orange stripes looked totally NOT fluorescent. I mentioned this to the photographer and he said, it's one area where digital photography has trouble. It just can't capture those kinds of colors very well and so the retouchers would have to go to work before the images were printed.

Marc Bertucco said:

Random note about the flouro-orange helmets and why they look so "normal" in pictures...

They look normal to the rest of us. 

This review sponsored by Ryan: http://www.artscyclery.com/reviews/RS260/RS260review.html

I think I found my next frame (should any tragedy befall my Spooky)......yes the welds are fat & ugly...but so are all of you !

CAAD10 at crazy club discount price not good enough for you Yacks? Or do you just like racing on ugly bikes?

He rejects Asian manufacturing.

I'm also considering a Rock Lob cx frame.  Heard great things and they're a lot less than other indie builders.

(Stearnsy on fuego)

Back to gear, I have a new rear wheel and I can't screw the lockring on with a spacer. That requires me to adjust my derailleur, which means my race wheel shifting will be all messed up. Is there a way to measure what I need in order to have my two wheels have the cassette in the same spot other than through trial and error? Why don't all hubs have the same offset on the free hub body? (Other than for 9, 10 speed reasons)

you could take the spacer off on your race wheel, too.

Correction: 1.76watts

1.76 watts is worth about 3cm a second.  Or 260m an hour.

I'm building up a track back next week and using the old set of wheels with the ancient tubulars from 1986 still glued onto them.

- After I take the old ones off, do I have to clean the inside of the rim?
- Glue or tape?
- What new tires do you recommend that don't cost $100+ each?