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Bottom Liner posted:It looks cool, but it rides like crap. Way too much padding and thickness. Ah, that's terrible. I have a bright yellow concor, matching the yellow highlight on my frame, it's a good look. And I like the look.
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Yellow Concor pro team.   It's not a light saddle, but it's been very comfortable for me.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 05:53 |
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the sickest saddle. tomorrow, i'll take a pic. i ride to work every day, so i'll just take ashot tomorroe in the am.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 06:05 |
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Bottom Liner posted:I love my drat bike. Riding 240 miles in 2 days this weekend, weather permitting. Everyone hates on those 535 wheels, but mine never gave me any problems. Never noticed one with 16 in the back though. Cool bike. But what the crap is up with your left kneecap? I have a basic black concor (the superleggera one with the aluminum rails). They get a little up in your poo poo compared to other saddles because they flex so much, but they are drat comfy if you're prepared for it. glyph fucked around with this message at Aug 9, 2012 around 11:39 |
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I had 535s for awhile and never had any complaints until a spoke broke and the wheel immediately went out of true. I was only a half hour from home, luckily. Finding a replacement spoke was a bitch as well. They look cool though.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 14:55 |
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Finished last night. It's taken me way too long to put this together, but I'm relieved that it's done (except for cutting the steerer).     
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 15:11 |
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rope kid posted:Finished last night. It's taken me way too long to put this together, but I'm relieved that it's done (except for cutting the steerer). Damned nice. I really like the dual-color tape. On the fence about the cables.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 21:23 |
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Thanks. I couldn't find the right shade of green derailleur cable housing, so I decided to go with a white/green mix.
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| # ? Aug 9, 2012 21:43 |
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 gearing up....
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 02:21 |
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Today I went for a ride through a gigantic SCIENCE COMPLEX!  Fermi is home to some really cool architecture.  Here's Wilson Hall, also known as the Atari Logo Building.  Even the little utility sheds are cool, like this outbuilding in the shape of a logarithmic spiral.  Here's a magnet that's bigger than your first apartment.  Of course, not all of the lab is open to the public...  Let's plow on ahead and see what incredible secret projects they're working on!  Aha! It's the world's largest origami fortune-teller, capable of folding and unfolding the flaps at energies up to 150 GeV! In a booming robotic voice, it asked me my favorite color and then told me that my true love's name starts with the letter K.  The bike is my trusty '07 Bianchi. I've put over 18,000 miles on it now... and still haven't gotten around to getting a real stem for it.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 02:15 |
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  Since the last time I've posted my Lemond it has gotten 10-speed 105 shifters. Not bad for a 12 year old bike. Also: pink bartape.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 23:36 |
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FuzzyWuzzyBear posted:
Pink tape is awesome. Are you still in mainland Europe?
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Suicide Watch posted:Pink tape is awesome. Are you still in mainland Europe? Nope, that was taken in Connecticut, and I'm about a week away from moving to San Francisco since I got a job there. Southern France -> Bay Area...acceptable for cycling.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 03:07 |
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New bike day. A Whyte Charing Cross.
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 16:52 |
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Just picked up this little guy off Craigslist. 1989 Cannondale Crit (SR800?) Shimano 105 all around Campy wheels other Campy poo poo that the guy in the bike store was super jazzed about Put some new handlebar tape on, trued wheels, new Gatorskins, lube, and a fresh coat of wax and I'm ready for fall semester. edit: another pic  
GILF Hunter fucked around with this message at Aug 15, 2012 around 23:28 |
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If it's an '86, it's most likely an SR800 based on the colors available that year. Here's the 1986 Cannondale catalog: http://66.147.244.179/~vintagm8/year/1989/1989.pdf And here's how to decipher the serial number: http://www.vintagecannondale.com/info.html
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GILF Hunter posted:Just picked up this little guy off Craigslist. What's the deal with the seatstays hitting the chainstays way forward of the dropouts on those old cannondales?
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| # ? Aug 16, 2012 00:30 |
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Zenaida posted:What's the deal with the seatstays hitting the chainstays way forward of the dropouts on those old cannondales? They were called cantilever dropouts and they were designed so that Cannondale could utilize fat tubes on their seatstays and not worry about any interference with the cassette. Or so I have been told. Others have also mentioned that they tend to crack and fail, but I have yet to witness a cantilevered seatstay break.
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RadioPassive posted:If it's an '86, it's most likely an SR800 based on the colors available that year. According to the serial, it's an 89 (I guess). Manufacture date 12/15/88 anyway. Thanks for posting that catalog, that's awesome. Zenaida posted:What's the deal with the seatstays hitting the chainstays way forward of the dropouts on those old cannondales? I heard it was some weight reduction tactic, but I'm no bike wizard. GILF Hunter fucked around with this message at Aug 16, 2012 around 03:35 |
| # ? Aug 16, 2012 03:33 |
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I put together this little Hitachi Team Merckx for my girlfriend---ignore the long cables, I have to trim everything once I get the proper ferrules. The paint is rough but I think it looks pretty cool and it is really light as it is made from Reynolds 653 tubing. Does anyone know where I can get some race numbers? I have a bunch of bikes with the little number hanger braze-on underneath the top tube and I might as well use it for something. 
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jet sanchEz posted:Does anyone know where I can get some race numbers? Enter a race.
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| # ? Aug 16, 2012 14:55 |
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RadioPassive posted:Enter a race. Hehe, I should have stated that I meant the older styled ones that have a punch hole in them. The new ones are usually attached with zip ties now. It is kind of a dumb question, I can probably make my own, forget I asked.
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| # ? Aug 16, 2012 14:59 |
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Blacknose posted:New bike day. A Whyte Charing Cross. Cool ride, but does it steer super slow? The website pics make the steer tube angle look incredibly low. 
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| # ? Aug 16, 2012 15:13 |
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2011 Scott CR1 Pro. Picked it up for $1k, 17.6lbs as pictured.  
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Listen, I didn't face ten long tours against the goddamn 'bots to come back home and lift baby weights.
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Dem Bones posted:2011 Scott CR1 Pro. Picked it up for $1k, 17.6lbs as pictured. That looks absolutely awesome. Along with that Wilier someone else got recently (can't remember who) it's one of the best looking bikes I've seen. Congratulations.
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SUPER IRAN-CONTRA posted:Cool ride, but does it steer super slow? The website pics make the steer tube angle look incredibly low. It's really slack, around 69.5 degrees I think. It isn't exactly super twitchy and responsive but coming from mountain bikes with 66-67 degree head angles it's working really well for me.
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So I've made some upgrades to the Kona King Kahuna Carbon 29er I bought last month... Tonight I threw on some Stan's Crest laced to Hope Pro 2 Evo hubs, went tubeless, and swapped on some ESI foam grips. Additionally I've swapped on: x.9 shifters loaded precision stem SDG i-Beam Carbon Seatpost + Bel Air Saddle Crank Brothers iodine 11 Carbon Handlebar Crank Brothers Candy 3 Pedals Sitting at 22lb now   
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Anjow posted:That looks absolutely awesome. Along with that Wilier someone else got recently (can't remember who) it's one of the best looking bikes I've seen. Congratulations.  deal with it
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slaphappynickname posted:Additionally I've swapped on: Keep an eye on that post - I had an aluminium one sheer clean off after about 3 months of hard riding. The design seems really flawed.
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| # ? Aug 17, 2012 08:15 |
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Cut the steerer already on that hot piece of carbon rear end!
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| # ? Aug 18, 2012 04:11 |
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I've been riding a lovely Mongoose mountain bike (probably something you'd get from Target for $100) and was getting tired of it. Friend of mine saw an ad on craigslist for this 1994 Schwinn 434 for $150. He told me to buy it, immediately, so I did. Guy said he had it hanging in his garage for about ~6 years. Friend checked out all the gears, chain, the whole shabang and told me it's a solid buy. I bought the pedals and lights. I would like to make it all black with black tape but I guess that may come later as that's just a cosmetic cost. This is my first road bike and while I do enjoy it, I have almost eaten it a few times while changing gears...I'm not really looking forward if/when it happens. 
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Russian Bear posted:Cut the steerer already on that hot piece of carbon rear end!
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 03:59 |
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Blacknose posted:Keep an eye on that post - I had an aluminium one sheer clean off after about 3 months of hard riding. The design seems really flawed. What do you mean by sheer? It seems that the weak point of the design are the "ridges" on the beam of the saddle itself, though so far so good on my less than hard xc rides.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 06:12 |
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This isn't my bike unfortunately. I love how cool trial bikes look. I wish they could be ideal for regular riding.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 06:17 |
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 Here is my old lady's commuter that I have sunk way too much time and money on after making a perfectly serviceable bike into a "project." Started life as a Raleigh Record 10 speed with a Heuret group set and friction stem shifters that I found on Craigslist for $100. I got some Velo Orange hammered fenders for it, and then it turns out, no bike newbie likes loving with stem mounted friction bullshit, so ~$80 went to a new mega range free wheel, Alivino rear dérailleur, new index hanger plate, and some Acera shifters to make a bar-shifting 14 speed. I was really happy when the Shimano shifter and the factory Heuret FD worked together. Add in costs for lights/reflectors, beer money for a friend to redish the rear wheel, streamers, the Wald rear rack and panieers, and it was about $250 all said and done for a grocery getter with a bit more flavor than a BD step through. It's a porker, but rides smoothly.
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slaphappynickname posted:What do you mean by sheer? It seems that the weak point of the design are the "ridges" on the beam of the saddle itself, though so far so good on my less than hard xc rides. I mean the entire head broke clean off of the post and the post then stabbed me in the thigh. Then I had to ride 10km back to my car with no seat and a huge wound on my leg.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 17:00 |
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Blacknose posted:I mean the entire head broke clean off of the post and the post then stabbed me in the thigh. Then I had to ride 10km back to my car with no seat and a huge wound on my leg. Oh, that's all?
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It wasn't the best, all told.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 20:13 |
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New MTB, first one in many years. Giant Reign 0. A hair under 30lbs in a size XL, could probably get 27 by replacing tires and that seatpost but I guess that's not really the point and the dropper post is cool. It's a good build kit (XT) and doesn't "need" anything but wider handlebars and better grips. Rides nice!     
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| # ? May 25, 2013 12:11 |
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Been a while, thread. I Like My Bike.
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