drool...

David Martin said:

Popped in to the LBS on my way up to the hospital for a meeting..

Chap in there having a new bike set up.

Black carbon OCLV, carbon bontrager wheels, carbon bontrager crank.
Tribar setup.

Looked very very nice.

Sounds bloody uncomfortable to me... ;-)

Pete.
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Peter Clinch came up with the following;:

Quoted message said:

David Martin said:

Popped in to the LBS on my way up to the hospital for a meeting..

Chap in there having a new bike set up.

Black carbon OCLV, carbon bontrager wheels, carbon bontrager crank.
Tribar setup.

Looked very very nice.

Sounds bloody uncomfortable to me... ;-)

So uncomfortable, in fact, that you feel it only right, and 'for his own
good', that you ride it for him perchance?

😉

--
Paul ...
(8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!!

David Martin said:

Black carbon OCLV, carbon bontrager wheels, carbon bontrager crank.
Tribar setup.

Saw something like that in my lbs, weighed in at 5.7kg, made me wonder
what you could get the weight down to if you dumped all those
extraneous gears, derailers, brakes and cables, and made it a fixie?

Paul - censored said:

So uncomfortable, in fact, that you feel it only right, and 'for his own
good', that you ride it for him perchance?

I suspect Pete would only be interested in riding it if he could fit an
armchair to it instead of a saddle. ;-)

d.

davek said:

Paul - censored said:

So uncomfortable, in fact, that you feel it only right, and 'for his own
good', that you ride it for him perchance?

I suspect Pete would only be interested in riding it if he could fit an
armchair to it instead of a saddle. ;-)

Chappie was wanting it for triathlon. Looked like it could be
relatively comfortable compared to his previous bike (ie you don't have
to sit on it for so long ;-).

...d

davek said:

I suspect Pete would only be interested in riding it if he could fit an
armchair to it instead of a saddle. ;-)

Exactly! Carbon fibre armchair quite acceptable, natch! ;-)

Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

sothach said:

David Martin said:

Black carbon OCLV, carbon bontrager wheels, carbon bontrager crank.
Tribar setup.

Saw something like that in my lbs, weighed in at 5.7kg, made me wonder
what you could get the weight down to if you dumped all those
extraneous gears, derailers, brakes and cables, and made it a fixie?

Hmm. I wonder what the lower weight limit for a road
time trial fixed is.

Short event fixed (e.g. track bikes) need to be strong
because of the high acceleration forces.

BugBear

Peter Clinch said:

davek said:

I suspect Pete would only be interested in riding it if he could fit an
armchair to it instead of a saddle. ;-)

Exactly! Carbon fibre armchair quite acceptable, natch! ;-)

Speaking of carbon fibre seats, the bike shop near where my parents
live had a road bike - think it was a top-end Colnago - on display the
other week with an all-carbon saddle. Tapping the top of it resulted in
a distinctly "plastic" sound, so clearly not an ounce of padding in it.
Probably just about bearable for very short TTs, but otherwise,
ouch....and then some :-(

David Belcher

In article <[email hidden]>, David

E. Belcher () said:

Speaking of carbon fibre seats, the bike shop near where my parents
live had a road bike - think it was a top-end Colnago - on display the
other week with an all-carbon saddle. Tapping the top of it resulted in
a distinctly "plastic" sound, so clearly not an ounce of padding in it.
Probably just about bearable for very short TTs, but otherwise,
ouch....and then some :-(

I saw a carbon saddle on a tandem in Switzerland in 1994. It was
competing in a 98 km road race. The OTHER crew member had a B17 :-)

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
And then there was light and He thought it was good, so He threw the
receipt away.

David E. Belcher said:

Peter Clinch said:

davek said:

I suspect Pete would only be interested in riding it if he could fit an
armchair to it instead of a saddle. ;-)

Exactly! Carbon fibre armchair quite acceptable, natch! ;-)

Speaking of carbon fibre seats, the bike shop near where my parents
live had a road bike - think it was a top-end Colnago - on display the
other week with an all-carbon saddle. Tapping the top of it resulted in
a distinctly "plastic" sound, so clearly not an ounce of padding in it.
Probably just about bearable for very short TTs, but otherwise,
ouch....and then some :-(

David Belcher

Club mate of mine had one of these a couple of years ago when we did
the Duo Normand together. It was so uncomfortable he ended up wearing
two pairs of shorts for the race and kept complaining that it still
felt like it was slicing his nadgers off. He then sold it to another
club mate who rode it in a 25 last sunday and is replacing it this week 🙂

Stan Cox