[amol4184]

Just noticed that a spoke on rear wheel is broken right at the hook part. Nearest Decathlon is 100kms away. There are a few cycle shops here but I would like to do it at home... Tips? Or I should get it done professionally? Bike has run around 400kms, is it too premature for the spoke to break?

[ebonho]

Originally Posted by amol4184

Just noticed that a spoke on rear wheel is broken right at the hook part. Nearest Decathlon is 100kms away. There are a few cycle shops here but I would like to do it at home... Tips? Or I should get it done professionally? Bike has run around 400kms, is it too premature for the spoke to break?

A spoke breaking on a brand new bike means the wheel is not built (laced) properly. Get the spoke replace and the wheel properly tuned and balanced by a old school wheel man (the old-ish guys found in shops working on wheels). Somehow very few (if at all) new age "fancy cycle trained" mechanics are even a fraction as good. They know all the theory. And have all the fancy jigs and tools and gauges. But I've never had a good experience compared to the former.

[splitsecond]

Please suggest a entry level road bike with endurance geometry around 60k, this is for weekend rides under 100km need a bike which pickups up speed fast. Shortlisted Triban RC500, Polygon Strattos s2 and Scott speedster 40.
Which one among these will be more fun to ride.?

[shipnil]

Originally Posted by ebonho

I'm VERY tempted to now convert my ACT into a drop bar monsoon / everyday / every road / training bike with 28c or max 30c tyres.

Could you ask your store guy if he has any Ralsons (or other Indian make) in these sizes please?

Cheers, Doc

Doc, I checked with my store. He has only 35c and 25c.
I am not sure if Ralson has those other sizes as I was browsing their website and did not see them.

Guys, any of you use multitool? If yes, what is the feedback? Today I encountered chain breaking. I had a multitool that I ordered from AliExpress long back. It has chain tool. But while removing the pin of broken link, the tool got bent. Looks like poor material. I had used it earlier at home once and it did its job, but not today. Had to walk some 4 kms to a bike shop to get the chain fixed.

[amol4184]

Originally Posted by ebonho

A spoke breaking on a brand new bike means the wheel is not built (laced) properly. Get the spoke replace and the wheel properly tuned and balanced by a old school wheel man (the old-ish guys found in shops working on wheels). Somehow very few (if at all) new age "fancy cycle trained" mechanics are even a fraction as good. They know all the theory. And have all the fancy jigs and tools and gauges. But I've never had a good experience compared to the former.

Finding the exact matching spoke turned out to be a chore. Had to go almost all cycle shops here. Finally, an old school, like REALLY old cycle shop had it in silver color. I could not wait till I went to Pune to Decathlon for fixing the bike.
They also fixed the 'out' and tuned it well. All for Rs. 95.

[ebonho]

Originally Posted by amol4184

Finding the exact matching spoke turned out to be a chore. Had to go almost all cycle shops here. Finally, an old school, like REALLY old cycle shop had it in silver color. I could not wait till I went to Pune to Decathlon for fixing the bike.
They also fixed the 'out' and tuned it well. All for Rs. 95.

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Perfect. The young guy working on your wheel is the senior apprentice of the old man holding your tube. The old guy is keeping an eagle eye all the same

[prabuddhadg]

Originally Posted by ebonho

Lol I'm not having your old bones on my conscience. I have enough of my own.

I still maintain that 28 to 30 is enough rubber for the kind 0f photos of your rides you've been sharing. If you want to still feel really comfy and safe, go 32 or 35. All of these in smooth rolling non proud tread.

Both of the gents above were talking of proper roadie tyres, likely 23 or 25c's. Yes those can get dicey in the wet especially on fast descents.

Your call. Whatever you enjoy riding on. Those MTB tyres on tarmac are just plain effort sapping. They do nothing to enhance grip till you hit proper mud.

Cheers, Doc

You know what Doc? Like everyone else, I too had been riding 23's and 25's at 90-100 psi for years until the fat is also fast trend started.

Recently, I got some very nice Pirelli P Zero Velo 4s tires in 28c. Amazing grip and very smooth rolling. The best tires I have ridden so far. I then started experimenting with lower pressures. I have ridden on tarmac at even 60 psi, with no negative issues. I had no problem keeping up with ride partners who were still on 23's and carbon bikes. I ride steel.

Of course, all this was before the rains. I do not ride my road bike in the rain. I do ride my fixed gear with these tires and it is fine. However, 28's do not have that bomb proof feel of the 37's on my rain bike.

[ebonho]

Originally Posted by prabuddhadg

You know what Doc? Like everyone else, I too had been riding 23's and 25's at 90-100 psi for years until the fat is also fast trend started.

Recently, I got some very nice Pirelli P Zero Velo 4s tires in 28c. Amazing grip and very smooth rolling. The best tires I have ridden so far. I then started experimenting with lower pressures. I have ridden on tarmac at even 60 psi, with no negative issues. I had no problem keeping up with ride partners who were still on 23's and carbon bikes. I ride steel.

Of course, all this was before the rains. I do not ride my road bike in the rain. I do ride my fixed gear with these tires and it is fine. However, 28's do not have that bomb proof feel of the 37's on my rain bike.

I ride an aluminium Cannondale CAAD8, and like all pre 2016 road bikes, it has clearance for a maximum tyre width of 25c only. I mean I don't deny that 28 is the new 25, but I do ride with a ton of senior riders once in a way who have raced on 19 mm tyres for their entire racing careers, and for them 21 or 23c's were equivalent to gravel or training or wet road tyres. So like brakes it's all relative. Wgat Durianrider in the case of old pros like Valverde calls the "reptile brain" ... the one you subconsciously and instinctively revert too through years of a conditioned reflex. I've till date only ridden on 23c's. In the wet too, though like you I too prefer only my ACT for wet duties. The next set I buy (I have a set of Kendas and Gatorskins to go through first) I will try a pair of 25c's. I run 60/55 psi rear/front on my ACT 35c's. At 85 kilos I don't think I could go lower for tarmac. On 23c's I've run a lowest of 100 psi on my GRL tyres (which were rated for 100 psi). But the Gatorskins I've run 110 psi front and rear. I don't mind a bit of road feedback as a result but I really don't want a puncture and this pressure tends to knock and flick free away most sharp road debris without giving it any "give" to pierce and then lodge inside the rubber. The fat is fast trend comes with a caveat which most guys don't talk about. Which is that fat is fast at a lower pressure than the same lower pressures for thinner tyres. And especially so on iffy surfaces where higher pressures cause thinner contact patches to jump and lose watts. Most guys I know just blindly go with the fatter is faster when they see my 23c blades. Lol I listen, smile, and ride on.

[Jaguar]

Originally Posted by JJay

Introducing my 2 years old tough and dependable ride, a four-digit drop bar hybrid "BLACK TIGER"

Yours is a cycle made by Tata Stryder https://stryderbikes.com
But look at https://tatacycle.in/. Probably a scam site, going by the prices.

[JJay]

Originally Posted by Jaguar

Yours is a cycle made by Tata Stryder https://stryderbikes.com

Correct, Mine is this particular model

https://stryderbikes.com/product/700c-hyb-100/

Purchased from a local shop for 7800rs in Sept-2019. Since then added drops, 16-T freewheel, 14-T freewheel, and finally Touney TZ. Even after adding and removing these stuffs cost has not touched 10k yet, hence mentioned it as four-digit hybrid.

Originally Posted by Jaguar

But look at https://tatacycle.in/. Probably a scam site, going by the prices.

Definitely appears like a fraud site but apart from unrealistic prices and
insane discounts being offered, it has surprising amount of details for products .

[shipnil]

Originally Posted by Jaguar

But look at https://tatacycle.in/. Probably a scam site, going by the prices.

Originally Posted by JJay

Definitely appears like a fraud site but apart from unrealistic prices and
insane discounts being offered, it has surprising amount of details for products .

Exactly my thought. Just yesterday I stumbled on that website and looking at the prices I got a feeling that it is probably a fake site to scam people.

Doc, the site lists the address in Kothrud, Pune which happens to be an area closer to you. Any idea about authenticity of the store? Have you visited it?

[ebonho]

Originally Posted by shipnil

Exactly my thought. Just yesterday I stumbled on that website and looking at the prices I got a feeling that it is probably a fake site to scam people.

Doc, the site lists the address in Kothrud, Pune which happens to be an area closer to you. Any idea about authenticity of the store? Have you visited it?

No I have not. More than the prices it's the availability.

However, being Tata it might very well not have been updated since before the pandemic. Lol

Kothrud is like another city for me man ...

Cheers, Doc

[Fillmore]

Originally Posted by shipnil

Exactly my thought. Just yesterday I stumbled on that website and looking at the prices I got a feeling that it is probably a fake site to scam people.

I was just checking this morning i.e. 7am IST.
Looks like the site is taken down.

[amvj]

One help / suggestion. I have ordered Bicycle handlebar stem from Decathlon and I find it is missing one screw. Since I am in my hometown, the nearby Decathlon store is 60 and 100KM away. Are these screws universal? Can I get one from local cycle shops?







p.s sorry for the shaky photos

[abhijit 2284]

take a sample to your local hardware shop . They will have it in stock. Any shop that sells unbrako allen screws