better photos to come when it gets light again.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
fantastic
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
*gazes longily*
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
*and longingly*
ed that is hottt
a bike shop in the next suburb is a BMC dealer, has a 2010 team machine on the floor - almost too thin and spindly for my liking tbh, would still accept grudgingly if given one
― Bike Snrub ILX (haitch), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I live in a cramped first-floor flat. One bike is on a rack at the bottom of the stairs by the front door, balanced above a push chair and assorted bits and pieces, the other was on a rack hanging above the really steep stairs leading down from our kitchen to our half-a-garden, dangling above various buckets and things. This set up was started when I bought my winter bike last October: the heavy winter bike was on the sturdy rack by the front door (for easy access for winter rides) and the lightweight racer was on the difficult-to-access back stairs, sitting out the winter.
Earlier this month, with spring finally here and the racing season well under way, I swapped the bikes over. Within a few days the rack on the back stairs revealed it couldn't handle the weight of the winter bike. There was a loud crashing sound and I discovered this:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/4561020762_281233a5a8.jpgThe wall is too crumbly to support a rack that will take the bike. I tried this as a temporary storage solution:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/4560392521_449095bd5c.jpgbut unsurprsingly that wasn't very convenient.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i40.tinypic.com/w4uib.jpg
yet to ride a thing tbh
http://i43.tinypic.com/1z4juhu.jpg
― wilter, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i didnt realise the cateye wireless computer would be so chunky and ridiculous looking. why oh why didnt I just get a gps thingy...
― wilter, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet
white shoes = A++
― the Henry Tarkus Review (haitch), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ha yeah they old. Should not have just ridden hills though. Legs felt not too horrible buy I spewed up in my a little bit ~srsly unfit :/
― wilter, Friday, 7 May 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
*mouth
dope. i have yet to see a Kona I didn't like. also most dudes who ride them are stealth punishers ime.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda want to build up one of these if i can find anyone stocking the frame:
http://www.konaworld.com/bike.cfm?content=kapu
― erotic geometry (haitch), Friday, 7 May 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
epic lugwork
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 May 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yep v v pretty frame.
I'm finding this bike of mine to be hellof nice to ride, don't think I'll bother w/carbon seatpost imo
― wilter, Friday, 7 May 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
It is the first picture of Me and My Bike!!
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs311.ash1/27707_10100110001008979_8829370_53866025_1625488_n.jpg
197something Ross Eurosport complete with FFS (Front Freewheel System; the pedals freewheel while the chain/back gear stay completely still--so weird!) and a license sticker expiring in August 1975. Also it weighs like 40 thousand pounds.
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
You've got something stuck in your spokes there, Steve. Cute bike though!
― Mark C, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
nice
was sure I'd posted my road bike itthttp://img.skitch.com/20100526-tg32pj4ia1jhfnrkibi6khsrxf.jpg
― cozen, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
clean those back rims! for shame....
;-P
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/4728934994_4534bc445c_b.jpg
― flapjackin (gbx), Monday, 28 June 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
saddle pointed skywards
― cutty, Monday, 28 June 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
cam angle + leather saddle = nose up
deal with it
― flapjackin (gbx), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4227/dealv.gif
― jaxon, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
XD
― flapjackin (gbx), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Some overexposed shots of the new bike:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/bikess/005_20A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/bikess/003_22A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/bikess/002_23A.jpg
― naus, Monday, 5 July 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
And one of the old bike:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/bikess/011_14A.jpg
(BTW does anybody here know how to braze a steel frame?)
― naus, Monday, 5 July 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
sweet man!
― cutty, Monday, 5 July 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
niiiiice
tho why do ppl have such tipped up cockpits like that
― fresno's wet (gbx), Monday, 5 July 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
flip flop stem imo
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 July 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
just picked up one of these for the gfhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/2911553541_c67806475e_z.jpgit rides pretty nicely actually. being a noob I googled the bike and found this thread. would an upgrade from the stock wheels improve the ride a lot?
― cozen, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
That's great. David!
― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/5079267076_6bf7f59ca8_b.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it has so many....parts
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
EXCELLENT. what was the last word on the lost bike, just sol?
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
SOL indeed. Didn't turn up on CL or eBay, pittsburgh's finest didn't find it.
Most of those parts need to go back on E's bike.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
wait wasn't it stolen in chicago? i m confused
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I was in chicago when it was stolen.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i m dum
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, it's ready in time for local bike club's cross 101 evening tomorrow. Hoping it is a club of nice people with spare space on the bike racks. Really want to do more group stuff.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/uy6w5.jpg
near home, the 'gateway to melbourne' (lol)
http://i52.tinypic.com/343p6vp.jpg
self-portrait
― for all, in tents and porpoises (haitch), Sunday, 24 October 2010 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
nice. Still cold in Melbs?
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 24 October 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
fine and 17 today, it was a treat!
― for all, in tents and porpoises (haitch), Sunday, 24 October 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it was about 28 today in Brisbane and starting to get humid! can't wait for summer tbh
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 24 October 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5205910328_111e867a5c_z.jpg
lol minnesota
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
back from being coupled, new group, some heavyish wheels i borrowed from a friend to try out for a while. tale of the scale: 17 lbs 3 oz as you see it. too bad my riding time is nil.
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/DEAN.jpg
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
niiiice
really want a coupled bike. what'd it run you if you dont mind me asking?
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
retrofit was $750 on special i think. i sent it at thanksgiving, only got it back last week. guys at b1l3nky are very nice tho, and i tried not to bug them. i didn't need it for the winter. the s&s case and accessories cost though. the transaction made no sense if not for my theoretical 10 year time horizon, and then...no it still didn't make sense. i'm taking it to sc on vacation though, so i'll start trying to get some value out of it.
took it for a shakedown ride, feels exactly the same as before, but the little cable splitter on the rear brake pings on the top tube and is utterly intolerable. gonna try to relocate it further forward to see if that works. it's that or like, wrap it in felt.
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm. at that price I'd rather roll it into the cost of a new bike.
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
retrofitting steel is like $450, if that makes a difference. i tried to find a used ritchey breakaway, but i couldn't seem to find one for a reasonable amount. plus, their luggage is not truly airline baggage compliant in size. i think someone on a smaller ritchey frame could use a compliant s&s case thought- you're on a 54ish?
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Friday, 11 March 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"though"
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Friday, 11 March 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link