Chuck
Maximum Pace
- Feb 7, 2011
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@stu_kawagoe Looking good. Still thinking of getting it painted?
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Thanks, Karl. It felt really nice to get the job done. Yeah, I'd still really like to get the bike painted. I haven't decided on a design, but I have been looking at a few (err lots of) different frames for inspiration. I still haven't been to Above Bike, yet, so I'll try to head out there and have a chat with them at some point. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some places that are a bit closer to me in Saitama that do specialist paint jobs. I just need to find them (might be a bit cheaper too). Maybe I aim to get it painted for my birthday at the end of November!@stu_kawagoe Looking good. Still thinking of getting it painted?
Not in my experience, we have plenty of potholes here, and I don't run them tubeless.Conti's site says max for the 700x28 is 116 psi. Recommended is 95 psi. I wondered if 80-85 might mean more danger of pinch flats, but it wasn't a problem. I might try 70-75 next outing.
The beauty is I have nothing to compare my bike to. TBH, I don't think I could fit a 25, though I'm getting a carbon front fork next month so maybe I'll have little more room to play with once I've fitted that@stu_kawagoe
You are still running on 23s? You seem to be a bit of a masochist
I sometimes run 100 psi on my 25s, when I am riding with my local "fast pack", though.
Ah, I see. And at least one of the big bike shops here in Sendai still has a lot of 23 mm tires on display (and not a single 28 mm tire, hmmm). Even going from 25 mm to 28 mm is another big step in terms of comfort if you decide to lower the tire pressure.The beauty is I have nothing to compare my bike to. TBH, I don't think I could fit a 25, though I'm getting a carbon front fork next month so maybe I'll have little more room to play with once I've fitted that