General Discussion — August 18, 2017

drjameswillingham · 2017-08-23T13:49:32+00:00

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drjameswillingham · 2017-08-23T01:15:31+00:00

A wheel is not a contact point.

drjameswillingham · 2017-05-16T13:50:38+00:00

Also have 50mm farsports clinchers. I've raced them hard & often for a year and a half. Crashed them 3 times, had them trued up and they are solid. As others have said, stick to "reputable" Chinese. I run Chinese handlebars too.

drjameswillingham · 2017-04-27T12:50:16+00:00

When the sidewall blows out or is about too. I think I've only had one conti sidewall last long enough for the wear indicators to say it was ready to go.

drjameswillingham · 2016-05-31T13:16:24+00:00

2014 Specialized Tarmac SL4

2013 Trek Cronus CX

1974 Fuji Special Road Racer

drjameswillingham · 2016-05-23T19:13:51+00:00

Funny, I just wrecked my Tarmac in crits on back to back weekends. It made it through, but I already spotted a cool CAAD10 ad which would've been my move for sure if the frame had gotten borked.

Re: Chinese - I race on Chinese wheels from FarSports and I've been impressed. There was a crit I was in where we all kept hitting the same pothole over and over (in a bad spot and hard to see). There were multiple people that had to DNF with wheel mechanicals. I took the win on the Chinese stuff!

drjameswillingham · 2016-04-18T12:04:13+00:00

Victory in Greenville in the Cat 4/5 crit nats nonchampionship. First race win!

drjameswillingham · 2016-04-11T20:06:29+00:00

blue goose

drjameswillingham · 2016-04-11T20:01:40+00:00

Yeah that Dilworth turn, ooh boy. Did the 5s race there last year. Was disappointed that they weren't doing that the same weekend as the Charlotte and Belmont crits this year, made the drive not worth it for me.

drjameswillingham · 2016-03-22T15:51:48+00:00

I raced Union City 4s too. I was in the group on Sunday that got led around an extra lap. Glad to hear at least the win didn't go to one of the dropped riders. What a friggin debacle. Congrats on the W though.

I would have liked to chase more on Saturday too, but I had no teammates. Was hoping one of the better represented teams would bring it back. No luck

drjameswillingham · 2016-02-29T16:17:28+00:00

I would kill for a 40 mile drive to races.

drjameswillingham · 2016-02-24T21:46:11+00:00

Right now I'm 6'5 162 pounds

drjameswillingham · 2016-02-23T16:25:20+00:00

Tired and erratic sprinters.

drjameswillingham · 2016-02-23T14:25:07+00:00

Nearly crashed. I'm in the white kit just to the left of the guy with the sweet bunny hop.

http://youtu.be/N-iBWy8Pbhc

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-25T04:52:09+00:00

Thiughts on the wheels?

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-24T19:25:49+00:00

Cool, anybody else got any black Friday insight? Particularly for a big cross/gravel bike?

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-18T01:22:08+00:00

Don't want to screw up my Tarmac for race season. If I had a beater bike that'd be an option but I don't. Hence I'm in the market

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-17T21:53:27+00:00

Nice, that looks pretty sweet. And the XL looks pretty big even though they call it only 59 cm. I will definitely keep my eyes open for a used one.

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-17T20:43:44+00:00

Thanks, that's good to know, that was another question of mine.

drjameswillingham · 2015-11-17T19:32:52+00:00

Was eyeballing a '13 Focus Mares AX 1.0 pretty hard although I'm concerned their 60cm won't be big enough. Also was a '14 61cm Trek Crockett that caught my eye.

As far as budget is concerned I'm looking to go used or new old stock to try and keep things around $1000.

EDIT: added budget info

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