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Brand spankin new (i took the wheel reflectors off)
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 01:14 |
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 19:35 |
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 I'm now officially a convert to 29ers ; this bike is just so, so good. 
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 21:07 |
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New bike day (a week late). Focus Izalco Team 1.0. Picked up the frameset used for 650. Probably about 3 months use on it...not many miles at all. Full Ultegra build, running adapters for the crank, still considering Rotors or SiSl's. A23 wheels with Taiwan hubs. Still waiting on some new bars and a new seatpost. Probably should get some new tires too, Michelin Dynamic sports are horrid, roll terribly rough and grip is subpar. I guess that's what I get for ~$15 a tire. Bike is stiff as hell. It's weird not being able to flex the rear triangle. My old bike (2010 Argon 18 Krypton) would get a lot of rear end wobble when putting power down seated, such as when exiting a corner. Not on this bike. It's a bit less lively than my old bike, but that might just be me needing to get used to it more. It goes fast when I want it to, still getting used to it descending. Still need to figure out some positioning quibbles. Yes, I have a lot of drop. The rear end before me cut down the steerer a lot. Add my long legs into the equation, and it looks ridiculous, but I'm about 80% comfortable on it as is. 
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 04:22 |
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Zenaida posted:Please post lots of pics when you do, I'm thinking about getting some of those to replace the moustache bars on my Schwinn. The bars are pretty nice, but definitely give a very non-performance style of ride. It's a lot of fun though. I went with the Velo Orange city bike brake levers, and I've already ordered a set of the Dia-Compe inverse levers to replace them. The Velo Orange levers don't mount forward enough on the bars, so the fingers that do most of the work end up right up near the pivot, and my hands want to rest way back almost hanging off the back of the bars in order to have a better grip on the levers.   I made some leather bar tape out of an old welding apron. I think I'll re-use it with the inverse levers but put it on so that the suede-y side is out.
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 05:26 |
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I am usually the last guy who thinks a "normal" bike looks great. That, is a positively beautiful set of bars, quill, and looks to be a matching frame. I really like how you did the bar tape. Good use of the welding apron. This bike is (was?) owned by a goon. At least I sold it to one.  It's an old Schwinn World. I felt good fixing it up, and selling it to someone here. Edit: Anyone wanna bet when I run out of pictures of bikes that I own, or owned?
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 05:49 |
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Assembled this :  ...into this :  Lot of fun as a general playbike ,but lacking that responsive agility due to the rather slack headtube angle.
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 07:30 |
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Dog Case posted:The bars are pretty nice, but definitely give a very non-performance style of ride. It's a lot of fun though. Well done. Looks really nice. I think I decided I want something wider on my bike. The best option I've seen so far is the Nitto Bosco bars: http://www.rivbike.com/7-p/hb11.htm
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| # ? Jul 19, 2012 17:10 |
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Look who decided to cut down his steerer tube! It's me! I'm a big kid! edit: oh jesus, i'm gonna have to get that loving texas flag off my bike next alright, we cool now  god i love that ridiculous orange TenementFunster fucked around with this message at Jul 19, 2012 around 22:02 |
| # ? Jul 19, 2012 21:52 |
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 Sorry for the lovely angle, in an apartment and it's the only place I could get a clear/plain shot. Just got my the Litespeed CR3 with SRAM Rival. Major upgrade from the Hybrid I was using for training/racing before and was a huge pain in the rear end. Not the fanciest thing in the world but I love it.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 02:50 |
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Richman777 posted:
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 04:08 |
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Only waiting on... two more parts...  EDIT: gently caress just remembered I need skewers dammit.     
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 06:11 |
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TenementFunster posted:I'm guessing from the saddle that you picked that up from Competitive Cyclist. How does it ride? Rival can't be beat for the money. Yep. Was getting my rear end beat (not by other people...by the bike) on my other bike and they had a sale. Like I said, I'm pretty new to biking and I'm not looking to go to the olympics or anything but I'd like something that wasn't hurting me. My cousin trains triathletes for a living and has been doing it for..well since he's had a job so he helped fit me and find a bike. All i really have to compare it to is my specialized hybrid I had, which was a great bike but not like this. Little stiff but not terrible. The casette is a little tough on some of the bigger hills and I never use the lowest gear, even when I'm pushing as hard as I can so I'll be upgrading that next. Other than that, the components are great...and that's not the components per-say so much as the ones they spec'd out...but it gets the job done. I'd be lying if I said i didn't sometimes just stare at it for a few minutes.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 10:56 |
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glyph posted:Montauk.  Are you a Long Island goon? I also have a Fantom CX and am central-LI
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 11:50 |
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Horizontal Tree posted:
I live upstate in Ithaca. Was down there visiting family.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 12:07 |
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glyph posted:Montauk. I really like that bar tape on there. I may do the same to mine. (I think we are bike brothers  )
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 13:00 |
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Bike is about 2 weeks old. Stock kendas left me with 2 flats in a week so i picked up these marathons. Seem pretty decent so far.  
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 18:40 |
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Richman777 posted:My cousin trains triathletes for a living and has been doing it for..well since he's had a job so he helped fit me and find a bike.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 04:40 |
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Show us your bicycle (aerobars are the worst).
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 04:51 |
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 More or less finished. Hoping to get to the local velodrome with some buddies in the next couple of weeks so she'll get properly inaugurated then. Brake is for street riding (which is unspeakably awful with track drops, as you'd expect, but at least now I can safely ride to the 'drome without having to carry spare bars). I'll be building some tubulars for at some point, but not for a few months probably. PS - Front valve isn't lined up with the tyre logo. Only noticed after taking the photo. I installed them straight so I can only assume wheeling it to my LBS this morning with a front flat must have caused the tyre to rotate on the rim. Oh well. I'm anal-retentive so I'll be fixing that soon.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 13:10 |
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 Just got back from a trip riding up Sweden. It was great!
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 13:58 |
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So I bought this thing on Friday. 2012 Kona King Kahuna Carbon 29er Had them throw on some x.9 shifters, and I'll probably be ordering a new wheelset in a couple of weeks. Already obliterating my previous strava best times by 5-10%, though technical areas are a bit harder than they were on the 26" FSR Stumpjumper. My goal is to hit 22lb w/ pedals after wheelset/handlebar/seatpost/saddle and a few other little things   
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 17:11 |
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Me and my friend wenton a night ride, headed down to the OKC bombing memorial. I've got a Motobecane Fantom Cross PRO with Nashbar Panniers and a stem that's too long, he's got an old 1970s Schwinn that he bought from some shady dude off Craigslist with cloth bar tape held on by peeling electrical tape, MKS pedals+cages with no straps, and a chain that needs to be replaced. we ride hard 
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 17:41 |
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TenementFunster posted:that explains the aero bars, I guess. when are you taking those off? har har har - I'm really only using it for triathlons....hence why my cousin helped me pick my bike out... I suck at them so there's no way I'm buying a dedicated tri-bike. Plus, like you said, I could take them off and have a normal commuter.
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 12:51 |
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Yaaaay! My Dawes Galaxy is repaired resprayed and finally reassembled: It's so hard to find nice 5-speed freewheels... they all make the worst loving noise. Not many original parts on this frame to tell the truth  And my new beater. Got very lucky to find this 
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 17:27 |
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How much did you pick up that trek for?
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 17:32 |
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£110 from a bike charity (excluding rack, saddle and fenders). It's a 2003 with sharkteeth chainring and worn bearings in the aheadset but I'm going to ride it into the ground
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 17:56 |
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There's no way that you fit both of those bikes. They look like a his and hers pair. That said, enjoy the trek and the dawes looks amazing.
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 19:40 |
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Cheers! The Dawes is a perfect fit for me, so I probably shouldn't ride the Trek but with seat and stem extended it fits only 1 inch smaller than the Dawes, comparing crank to seat and seat to bars on each. I just have no luck finding 65cm frames second-hand and I am exceptionally cheap. Despite that the trek is very very fast and handles corners and crappy roads like a beast (surprisingly so for aluminium on lugano tyres). Dawes V1: 
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 21:23 |
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You need some SPDs for that bad boy.  Not my pic but this was my fella 'till it got nicked, a few days after I picked up my custom wheels. Fuji fixie went not too long after. 2 Kryptonites later I learned not to freelock my bikes.
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 21:56 |
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Assplant posted:2 [Bikes] later I learned not to freelock my bikes. It took you two?  This bike was free. I found it in the trash. My profit on it was pretty good. :-)
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 22:00 |
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What does "freelock" mean? Never heard that before.
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 22:04 |
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Locking the bike to itself, like the wheel to the frame. Quick and easy if you're inside for a minute, but then someone can easily just run off with it. Twice.Nerobro posted:It took you two? Used to be a courier and generally freelocked to save time around banks/cctv monitored places. Silly habit stuck with me. On my 3rd Kryptonite, so far so good.. Nerobro posted:This bike was free. I found it in the trash. Assplant fucked around with this message at Jul 25, 2012 around 22:16 |
| # ? Jul 25, 2012 22:07 |
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2011 Surly LHT (featuring dork disk and stack-o'-spacers)
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| # ? Jul 25, 2012 23:00 |
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Horizontal Tree posted:
Illinois is so boring, but at least there's some pretty good scenery. 
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| # ? Jul 26, 2012 07:03 |
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This is my do everything go everywhere bike when I was living in London. I had an 86 raleigh europa that I was slowly building up, but it was stolen, so I got a guy at my local bikeshop to build this up. I love it so much I shipped it home to Australia, just couldn't be parted from it.  I'm touring Spain at the moment for 3 months, I'll upload a pic of the Royal beast soon.
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 10:51 |
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A friend of mine runs a scrap yard and he sometimes keeps bikes aside for me if they are in good shape. This little mixte looks like it was ridden once and then put into storage for 30 years. I gave my friend $20 and it is now my mom's new bike. 
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 15:34 |
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Interesting brake cable routing there. Nice find, looks like it's in stupidly good shape.
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 17:25 |
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Yeah, it is weird how it loops around and under like that, it was coming very close to the chain but I adjusted it a little bit and it is fine now. Just got a cool little Team Hitachi Merckx Corsa Extra from Belgium, I think it will be a good fit for my girlfriend. It is a former team bike but I have no idea who rode it. These frames were made out of Reynolds 653 tubing and were outfitted with Mavic SSC road groups but I think it will be built up with Campy, that vintage Mavic stuff is damned expensive now. I want to build it up before Sunday, there is a vintage bike show here in Toronto----it is in Trinity Bellwoods park this Sunday afternoon if any Toronto goons want to check it out. 
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 17:54 |
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My new wonderful beauty. I love her ever so much. Needs new bar wrapping though.... I torqued it too much during hill repeats today..
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