50 outside 34 inside, what do you have?

53 and 39. It's such a big jump that 1-2mm won't work. That was my main issue to start with adjusting. The "standard" doesn't work on mine.

39 seems like a waste to me. I'd like it to be larger. I might use it more. I like to feel the pedal, people tell me runners like to spin faster than most, but not me...I want that slow and painful gear climb.

My bike is geared for going fast!! The girl I bought it from told me that....I didn't know what she meant at first. Until I started looking at other bikes.

Yeah I'd never really paid attention to what mine was, I'd looked at it, and seen the numbers. I just knew if I wanted to go faster I had to pedal faster haha.

I knew what compact cranksets were, I just never put 2 and 2 together that, that's what I had since I'd always been told people who ride hilly areas, that's what they have, and it's not hilly here...

I haven't quite figured out how the different bottom brackets, and cranksets all work together, especially with what I have. I think I'd like to step up to a 54/39, but that means getting more than just bigger chainrings.

It's all over my head, I won't lie. Wish I had a buddy who had time to go over the bike front to back and teach me...but that one buddy who knows all this is the bike mechanic at the shop and he likes his job. LOL! He needs us coming in for this stuff. He's a straight shooter, if you want something that isn't right or needed, he says "why do you want to do that!". LOL! Cracks us up!!

I think I'm figuring it out. I've replaced crank arms on both my mountain bike, and old road bike, so I know how to do it, just a little more intimidating on this one, and more room for error it seems. Maybe when a bearing goes out on this bike, I'll look at going to an external BB and upgrading the whole thing. I'd like to have areo chainrings on it.

So this is what happens when you order a new chainring for you bike and don't pay attention to 110 vs 130 BCD. Apparently my bike is 110, and new chainring is 130. Thankfully I've got this thing here that looked like a good candidate for a 54T aero ring. It had a 53. I've started riding this thing around in the hood alot more, now that the bigger little one is wanting to ride his Strider out of the back yard. He's getting FAST, and is starting to put the miles on it, literally.!



Component wise on this thing, my plan is, as my fast bike gets new parts, what can, will trickle down to this. Really just want the wheels/tires/cassette & brakes and probably put a new chain on it. My MIL's boy friend owns a powder coating company, thinking about hitting him up to coat this, and having a bad A little fart around bike.

Well, I think I've built this thing into what I'd call a pretty solid race bike. As it sits in this picture it's weighing in at 17.65lbs on the Rapala fish scale so whatever that's worth is where we're at.

Felt F6
SRAM Force 22 brakeset with Flash Pro pads, front dr is Force 22, and the rear is an older Force. Just waiting on crimps & furrels now.
Seat - fi'zik Aliante VS
Changed the stem to a shorter 100mm Oval Concepts R900 Carbon stem. I should probably be on a 56, this bike is a 58 and going 10mm shorter made a world of difference.
Bontrager RXL carbon bottle cages
Tires - Continental Sprinter
Wheels - Dura-Ace WH-7850 Carbon Tubulars

Looks good! Now go ride it!!

I need to! I would today except I have to mow this afternoon, and most of this week is already booked up. Probably be some trainer rides this week.

I haven't "ridden" it since I put the newer brakes on it, and only once with the wheels & shorter stem. But it's wicked quick, and smooth now. The picture doesn't do it justice IMO. What's crazy is the difference those wheels make. Riding the other day with my buddy, he'd literally have to keep pedaling when I'd coast or if we both were at the same time, I'd instantly pull away. He commented about it and I said it's just that I've got 50lbs on you.


I'm done with upgrades for a while now, I'll have to replace the bar tape and tires this summer but other than that, I'm thrilled with it. I think with a steady tailwind, you could cruise in the upper 20's pretty easy. Put a bigger crankset on it, and might get into the 30's.

Upgrade to a "mountain bike"?

Just teasing...

...go ride something!

Have you watched the video on aero by the aerodynamic specialists? You might be surprised by the research they did.

You have a link?

Not the video I want to find, but a good one.

This video I am looking for went over the data from loose clothing vs tight clothing. Wheels, helmets, ect. It was tested in a wind tunnel. I will continue to look. It was a lengthy video.

Another good one, but still not the one I want. The one I was looking for gave data numbers to all these top ten points.

https://breakingmuscle.com/learn/the-accumulation-of-marginal-gains-gear-tips-for-cycling-faster

Basically they took this data (video I am looking for) and made a video out of explaining it.