TT Bike

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

That's better

[Jon H]

[quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]Can you get over to the Power section of the forum and stop hijacking this thread

[quote="Jon Hemming"][quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]Can you get over to the Power section of the forum and stop hijacking this thread

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="richv"]Can't remember what the shipping was I'm afraid. No problems with customs, they ship to the UK regularly and you're unlikely to be charged anything extra.

[Ivor]

Oooohhh fedex say mine have just arrived at home!
Wonder whereabouts snoop's ship is now.

[Paul H]

how about this one are HEDs any good?

[url]http://www.tritalk.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41950&sid=6739df2cd31a10fe30eed5cf9e3e5867[/url]

[Dominic]

Looks good to me Paul, If I had the money I'd be tempted myself!

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="orv"]Oooohhh fedex say mine have just arrived at home!
Wonder whereabouts snoop's ship is now.

[Andrew G]

Nice bike Paul. Don't know about the HED spoked wheels although the tri spokes seem well thought of. If they've been well looked after (and fitting ceramic bearings to the rear would suggest they have) then I'd have thought they'd be good wheels. If they are only used for TTs then they probably haven't had too much of a hard life. My bigger concern with 2nd hand carbon deep rims would be if they've been used for road racing as you don't know what abuse / potholes they've been through.

[Andrew G]

[quote]If they've been well looked after then I'd have thought they'd be good wheels.

[Paul H]

Still cant make my mind up. Thinking about buying one of these (wheels & Frameset £650 + postage + tax). It comes from the same factory as Planet X.

[img]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j116/fluro2au/Karbona.jpg[/img]

[Andrew G]

Stunning bike Paul. I looked in to Karbona wheels when I was browsing around as I found some that were cheaper than the Planet-X ones, didn't get them in the end as I got a great deal on 2nd hand unused P-Xs.

As you mention it's the same factory as Planet-X. What I discovered with my browsing that a lot of the more "budget" carbon equipment all comes from the same factory in Taiwan and is made by Gigantex Composite Technologies - Planet-X, Karbona, and a couple of others the names of which escape me at the mo - possibly Dalkiia as their TT frame looks the same. It's all the same/similar stuff just rebadged, although that Karbona frame is different from the P-X one (much closer front wheel clearance and different head tube) it's probably the same as another one rebadged by somone else. The wheels in the picture look like the P-X 82s with different transfers. I read somewhere that Cadel Evans' "Ridley" in the Tour last year was one from the same moulds as the P-X with new stickers on it.

Nice old oval "Eggring" in that pic . All to reduce the dead spot, combined with a lovely set of the wonderful PMP L shaped cranks and you should fly .
[img]http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/Italian/PMPcrnkL.jpg[/img]

[Ivor]

[quote]combined with a lovely set of the wonderful PMP L shaped cranks and you should fly .

[Andrew G]

[quote="orv"]urgh I feel ill just looking at them.

[quote="Andrew G"][quote="orv"]urgh I feel ill just looking at them.