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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Tica is on the way! Apr 16^th, 2007, 8:40pm Should arrive by next Friday, presuming the planets align just right! It will be without wheel covers and carbon boom, but I can live with that for now....
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Bud_Bent Moderator Posts: 3311	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #1 - Apr 16^th, 2007, 9:00pm That's great! You gonna install some rollers on your elbows for the test rides?
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #2 - Apr 16^th, 2007, 10:12pm naaah, just wrap a mattress around the bike. Who cares If I break a few bones, so long as the titanium doesn't get scratched!
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Richard rbent member Posts: 480	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #3 - Apr 17^th, 2007, 11:47am Take a bunch of picures so we can see the beast.
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #4 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 12:42pm stupid flatlanders! The tica is going to come with a - get this - 12-25 rear cassette. Bud, which cassette were you thinking of getting for your corsa? The best thing I can find is a shimano cs-m970. 200 bucks, but it seems to be a decent range.. 11-13-15-17-20-23-26-30-34
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Reply #5 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 1:58pm

Quote from aikigreg on Apr 18^th, 2007, 12:42pm:

stupid flatlanders! The tica is going to come with a - get this - 12-25 rear cassette. Bud, which cassette were you thinking of getting for your corsa?
The best thing I can find is a shimano cs-m970. 200 bucks, but it seems to be a decent range..

11-13-15-17-20-23-26-30-34

That's an MTB cassette, Greg. You should get the road version. It will still be an 11-34, but the big end will be 34 - 28 - 24 and the small end will finish with 12 - 11. That works better on a road bike, giving you a smaller shift in the high gears you run most often (like the 12-25 does). The giant 6 tooth difference in the 34 - 28 shift will only come into play when you're going very slow (climbing), and you'll usually be in the granny gear up front, so that big shift won't bother you.

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Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 2:34pm

If you need a 10 speed cassette, you can get an 11-34 from IRD http://www.interlocracing.com/cassettes_steel.html
at a very reasonable price, not as light as the XTR but you can't get an XTR in 10 speed. Or you could get Action Tec from this URL: http://www.actiontec.us/prices.htm and use the spacers from the IRD cassette to make a 10 speed Ti 11-34 if you want total overkill. FYI Action Tec is now making a 40 tooth ShimaNo freehub compatible cog for that "impossible" hill and a 24 tooth Ti, 74mmBCD granny gear to go with it. That works out to a 16" granny low for my Stratus, or 15.75" for a racing bike with 700x23c tires. I already have a sub-19" granny on my Stratus, but the 40 might be useful as a stepup gear on a mid drive.

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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #7 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 4:02pm Im rpety sure it'll only be a 9-speed, since it's coming with 105 components.
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #8 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:26pm you're right, bud. So it looks like I want 11-12 on the small cog end, nd 28-34 as my biggest two cogs. Anything like that out there before I do a custom job?
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Bud_Bent Moderator Posts: 3311	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #9 - Apr 18^th, 2007, 9:19pm Quote from aikigreg on Apr 18^th, 2007, 6:26pm: you're right, bud. So it looks like I want 11-12 on the small cog end, nd 28-34 as my biggest two cogs. Anything like that out there before I do a custom job? Here's one on ebay.
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #10 - Apr 19^th, 2007, 1:11pm Garrie brought up an interesting point. He says the rear der. may not have enough oomph to take up the slack in the big ring/small cog combo. Guess I might have to do an 11-32 after all, and perhaps change out the smallest front chainring to a 26 or a 28, if the derailleur can handle that much drop from a 39 middle.
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Reply #11 - Apr 19^th, 2007, 2:04pm

Quote from aikigreg on Apr 19^th, 2007, 1:11pm:

Garrie brought up an interesting point. He says the rear der. may not have enough oomph to take up the slack in the big ring/small cog combo. Guess I might have to do an 11-32 after all, and perhaps change out the smallest front chainring to a 26 or a 28, if the derailleur can handle that much drop from a 39 middle.

Yeah, that's a consideration. Do you have a triple crank? Most bikes with triple cranks have the long derailler arm which will handle an 11-34 fine. Look at double crank road bikes and you'll see a really short rear derailler arm which won't handle as much slack.

Lots of riders still call the short arm deraillers road derailler and the long arm deraillers mtb deraillers, but that really isn't valid any more with so many triples on road bikes.

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Reply #12 - Apr 23^rd, 2007, 12:39pm

Im running SRAM PG-970 cassettes. Its one of the nicest cassettes I could find that has individual rings. This allows me the opportunity to swap out the rings and create a custom cassette range. For example I want to cluster the rings in a low range for speed (like a road bike has) but jump to a few large rings like a 30T for a bail-out gears. The high-end cassettes are lighter only because they use fixed ring-cages instead on individual rings to save weight. What I did is purchase a road version and a mountain bike version to have a range of cassette rings too pick and choose rings from.

Greg let me know if your interested in this route. Its easy to swap out the cassettes.
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #13 - Apr 23^rd, 2007, 1:24pm that would be a pretty good way to go, since they're cheap enough. I'm going to ride it this weekend, swap on the Q-rings I bought on impulse from Dana, and then see what I think I need.
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Tica is on the way! Reply #14 - Apr 23^rd, 2007, 10:19pm It's in Garrie's possession even now....should be here Friday!
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