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Test bike cube hpc elite ... my new bike in four laps (and a half!)
long considerations give birth after a tour of the blessed, in that yesterday's Paola Pezzo, finished at the spa in there!
then the bike, (as his wife) when it is new, it's always good, and it praises galore .. then all of a sudden do the ad in the newspaper and can not wait to get rid of it!
for his wife far from the subject ...
sure you spend less to change a bike ...
then of course my bike will be a test to be "in love! Basically see only where roses and violets
... .. maybe we should do two tests when you buy and when you sell! -
back to us .. but
only changes made, a beautiful white SMP saddle is dan pan with vibrant colors Cube teamline copied from Mondrian and a lot like a L'Oreal shampoo, no modification or adaptation to those who were the "settings" of the previous owner (well yes .. un'adeguatina sag!) and so on with carbon tubular wheels event.
I get in the saddle .. is fantastic! I seem to be exactly on my bds cube, perhaps more convenient, but in all cases the same setting.
even touched the boat - even thought to change or modify the height of the pipe itself (it would be impossible .. ed)
change X0 ram fantastic! Virtually neurocerebral .. and you think the gears are inserted, the neuron the carbon cage, with the chain in sight!
then start pedaling, and perhaps an accomplice the wind behind .. I like a splinter-free of the hardships that you get used to the fat wheels on tarmac, virtually the same speed bds .. or so ..!
guys .. is the enthusiasm and excitement that makes live these feelings ... it's just a matter of time, and then you jump out of the neck and around the corollary that follows -
but let's move on .. floodplains of the dirt road begins from our own, that I thought was dry ....
now feeling great, the fork fox seems to be really soft at the beginning and then very gradually, but perhaps it is also the question of the little air tubes thrown in, you can almost touch the ground with the fingertips, and at the same time be on a water bed (something reminds me of my ex legendary hydropneumatic sospesioni fabulous citroen ..) then begin
pozzangheroni, the mud quicksand, that would be there waiting for since last winter, the flood .. thaw earlier and never re-absorbed and .. my tuff packaging is beautiful, the bike goes where you want ... and above all it is mud ... you immerda packaging ... and I thought to keep it immaculate long as I had been delivered!
grudgingly I proceed and I think that nothing will ever be ...
making quick starts to piovviginare around the bike and start the return ... and fatigue .. fatigue! - but then cycling is always hard? is to see that I had the wind behind Hazza begins ... also hurt his back .. and start to rethink their initial feelings of comfort ... come home aching to find out who had loosened the saddle, and had slipped all the way back .. that's why!
second round and first round seriously : from Puianello to Canossa route called the Coast
convenient parking Puianello cemetery with a panoramic view and equipped with every comfort .. .. peace and quiet water on tap! Quick setup the flaming jewel, cleaned of the sludge swamp low Po, gonfiatina approximate, due to too short valve that does not hang well from the circle carbonic acid, and hill start. The colt winds that race is a beauty, tires and suspension I reset all the roughness of the sturdy "costs" which is a path well exposed to the sun being always precisely in "costs." The lightness of the new bike is evident from the 12 kg of my former reaction (misurati..) Is quite another to go, feel the difference immediately, also the driving position is much improved, and wonderful control of the vehicle, and leg that works which is a beauty. Saxon on the coast my Tufo tires are glued and linearized everything! I go where I want .. and the bike does everything I ask. You know immediately that there un'abisso with the previous gate. The day is beautiful, we enjoy such as quail, climbing up the hills of Reggio Emilia, which also seems to be well beyond, for peace and views that are offered to vista.Quindi Votigno and how to break spiritual obligatory pilgrimage to the Castle of Canossa with slow supply of holy water (and you know why the slow! ..) will not be refreshed after a wonderful fig tree generously offered by the Emilia-Romagna road.E on the right and then start the descent! First, with a slight hesitation, and then more firmly .. it goes down to Cane! Here you see that the range is amazing (Fox), the handle allows a very wide fantastic, and away you go! faster and faster ever decided you no longer have time to think .. just pure adrenaline! under any form of tea stones of all kinds Pietroni alternate faster and faster .. sometimes Finzi gently but more than anything else you care to keep the float direction .. .. cheap! ! .. you feel like a buddha! nothing can happen more and then blow dry PAM!! tratratra you stop and shit ..... I have clothes that I care what the can .. I think.
Whistle colleague and start the repair, not without a little thought ....- the can does not make us a whistle and the white liquid and appicicoso jumps out from all ... Then I look at are cock- the circle and makes me cry ... draft ...--- stramerda carbon on the side ... I have all the time 12km still to be done on foot .... I had to think that the carbon rims in the tubular mtb bike .... NO NO, while that my colleague just to do a street passarsela bit 'of repeated back and forth .. (he iron rims and inner tubes ..) - Perhaps if we had just put a little' more air in those circles .. heck would not have happened, I then realized that maybe I could also have a pressure at 1.5 to 1.6, the problem was that the pump could not be a good pinch valve, and also the latex in the valve tube packaging and sometimes even the gauges, pumps and then later I became a specialist in the control dito.Poi in reality everything is adjusted the bump on the rim .. has not the slightest compromise, and the only evil was to replace the tube (75 eurini .. including recording wheel-) Oh well 12 km of meditation, perhaps on the downhill trails tubular type is not the most appropriate .. (in Indeed I wanted to mount the wheels with tubeless ... but then ... you know how! a-bit 'hurry a bit' the desire to try the tubes .. and the wheels event-
third round-the ascent : from Zrece Rogla with a span of snow above 1100 meters altitude and sliding paths in the woods (too bad the snow clouds, fog and wet gogo) This time Tufo tubular beautiful and full of air path uphill on asphalt. As mentioned above, the geometries This bike is particularly apt with my body type and comfort is total, then the climb is a cinch, unless the meteorological time .. has just stopped raining, it makes a cold Barbini, windy and there's fog and then the snow well above the 1100mt! -In short, a bad day, but the enthusiasm has driven the cold, the trails are beautiful downhill, dirt roads with signs everywhere .. succeed only problem with your finger to pull the brake lever to the cold! But then coming down to share the situation migliora.I tubular bars on dirt roads are impassable, excellent stability and high speed routes scorrevolezza.Ottimi deserve to be redone in better weather conditions.
Thermobike Fourth round: In the Footsteps of Paola Pezzo - and finalone in there to soak in hot springs hot wheels Geax Annex 1.9 - The routes close to the Monte Baldo are always beautiful, even the day after is flood-Saxon Pietroni some stretches a bit 'challenging and sometimes it is necessary to get off the bike (like the pilgrim's path ..) Here the text at the bottom of the bike even if you do not, I was a bit' hesitant to shell I say too narrow (a 2.25 you enjoyed most) but all in all, 1.9 Annex also behaved with dignity, you decide where to go, and they will portano.Sottobosco very wet and lots of leaves but no problem, well at various intersections of which are chain specialist, and in one case the chain is engaged and has not "slipped" down on my pack pignoni.A say the Annex should be very bad on wet cement, so there, it becomes easy to lose grip- On this occasion it was the first time I tested the tubeless and then I still apprezzato.In fact, it took me a year to figure it out, but the low pressures greatly helps in many many situations, and reduce the least pure speed, due to the fact that most feel can improve the overall performance -back thanks anyway!
forgot a turn bitumen (but can be considered?) With the road racer and Geax Annex beautiful swollen -50 km 38.5 kmh media ... I have not dared to do the sprint, also because the language was hanging by a bit '.. Perhaps if I had access to the Tufo, we escaped the sprint! The short-biciclone can also be used at all on asphalt ...
then following technical considerations ..
· first: the SRAM .. beautiful to see, beautiful levers, the fine details of the exchange rate adjustments, but very long levers to operate (perhaps to American big toe?) Descent works just push (or push and pull xt ago to get out of gear)-the top proven precision not always reflected, with the chain drive in the very much-changed suffer and feel the noise! Some changed their wrong-in the sense that the chain is not engaged (!) It is said that as you touch the descent of the sprockets is very fast, and if by chance you give three touches to repeat .. set of three-pinions
· brakes: curb that is not bad, I would say that just works great ... but in the meantime it's not clear peche sometimes you must feel the affection that buzzes .. zinzinzinzin, then disappears for a while ..! Note negative the pads are very small or very minimal ..! xt of those were far more spacious and with a lot of material in more friction and therefore higher margins of clearance between the disc and calipers. However exploited under (almost) extreme did not give rise to any inaccuracy or defect, only semba less pasty and adaptable to my previous XT. The levers have no adjustments, xt levers instead of yes ... but sevono? Fact perfettamete are placed for my hands, so no adjustment is necessary
· the frame, exactly as I expected -perfect for my needs.
· the SMP saddle: your ass I used to, I seem to be in a chair, I also cried with good ass for leverage in addressing the long climbs.
· handle: perfect! I used to cut one too close, this is perhaps the opposite is too large, but allows a breathing and a greater control of the bike much easier, I'd say it changed everything! -Folds I have yet to figure out if I need them or not.
Conclusions:
the bike is a horse race ... not the lightest frame (the damage to 1250gr) and in fact was overtaken by the cube itself which this year has brought on much lighter and more flexible successor. The geometries for me and as far as I understand they are perfect for my needs, I am there by Buddha. I really like the graphics as they will not be the most original seen on this earth. Must be considered that you choose Cube maybe not so much blind faith, but in consideration of the money and the five-year warranty of the frame .. The group Sram after a moment of delusion, I do not think in terms of functional upper year-shimano, most certainly satisfy the view .- brakes R1mag not drive me crazy, but holding back just fine and are still very belli.La I say range is excellent, I compare it with a rebarace u-turn is too complex to be adjusted (positive air Negative air rebound gate-I've never understood ..) with Fox-sets only sag, properly inflated, - I feel much more sensitive and much softer and progressive, and-most important thing for a road racer, when the block is locked-in fact almost forgot the cable to the remote reba has never worked and never will work, being exposed to both departure or arrival to the weather and dirt, which then drags the sheath. With Fox, the remote is completely sealed anaologo! But you know how many times in the race, I happened to not be able to unlock the fork could not remove your hands from the handlebars and then give me the fork locked down? Madonna and down!
I think and I hope I will enjoy this hpc
to further improve and change may need to throw everything technology ... twenty-nine inches?? boh see Zanardi (seagate!) what gives me the next year .... Meanwhile pedal ..-------
serghei@magnetika.it
