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| LanTAs United States. June 04 2012 06:27. Posts 1074 | Profile Blog # |
Hey fellow TLers! I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who bike work, bike to school, and all that kind of stuff, and I was surprised that there was no thread on bikes at all. Anyways, here is the bike i ride :'D
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SE Premium Ale 2009 Single Speed/Fixie
Its pretty nice for a $400, its pretty light and those sugino messengers feel really responsive, although i think I'm going to switch out the handle bars and the brake levers for another drop bar w/ ergo brake levers. For the last 3 months or so, I've been biking from and to school (a bit more than 8 miles one way) and also taking it on trips around San Francisco (biked to Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, that was a blast!).
So TL, what do you ride? |
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| Alabasern United States. June 04 2012 06:28. Posts 2815 | Profile Blog # |
I'm excited to get another road bike again. My first was stolen, and second became warped beyond repair...
I'll do some shopping within here. |
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| The KY United Kingdom. June 04 2012 06:40. Posts 6235 | Profile Blog # |
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Cycling = winning
I ride a Specialised Hardrock that I got from my insurance company after my old (old, old) bike got nicked. Really solid all around bike, if a little rigid.
Ride it to work every day (only about a mile) and also every few days I'll shove my ipod in and just cycle around the city for maybe 10 miles.
Bikes are cool and people should ride bikes more. Why spend untold hundreds on a car, or worse walk, when you can fly around like a boss. Last edit: 2012-06-04 19:31:40 |
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| FiWiFaKi Canada. June 04 2012 06:46. Posts 2437 | Profile Blog # |
I live in Calgary so there is lots of snow here pretty often...
However I was looking for a bike, and still am, but I have no idea what is good at what price range. I was looking to spend $800-$1000 for a road bike, but I have learned they are pretty expensive very quickly. |
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| Oxygen Canada. June 04 2012 06:51. Posts 3577 | Profile Blog # |
On June 04 2012 06:46 FiWiFaKi wrote:
I live in Calgary so there is lots of snow here pretty often...
However I was looking for a bike, and still am, but I have no idea what is good at what price range. I was looking to spend $800-$1000 for a road bike, but I have learned they are pretty expensive very quickly.
Dn't have much time to answer, but there are many excellent road bikes in the $800-1000 that are perfect for commuting around a place like Calgary, which, if I remember, has good streets. Trek 1000 comes to mind, other Trek variants, some mid-range Cannondales. If you've never had a road bike before, though, I would get a cheap one for a while until you can appreciate the huge huge huge difference 
also does anyone know of alarm/GPS systems for bicycles? my bike recently got stolen and I am bitter now. I love cycling but it just doesn't make sense to have a good bike in Montreal unless you only use it for riding and never commute with it, and keep it inside your home. |
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| lac29 United States. June 04 2012 06:53. Posts 1407 | Profile Blog # |
I ride a 2010 IRO Mark V very similar to this: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/580615093_26173957f6.jpg
Just take out the Deep Vs and put on some Mavic Open Pros, and add flatbars and velcro pedal straps. Also fenders ... need fenders.
Edit: You can get a perfectly good road bike for $1000 ...Last edit: 2012-06-04 06:55:30 |
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| LanTAs United States. June 04 2012 07:08. Posts 1074 | Profile Blog # |
On June 04 2012 06:53 lac29 wrote:I ride a 2010 IRO Mark V very similar to this: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1111/580615093_26173957f6.jpg Just take out the Deep Vs and put on some Mavic Open Pros, and add flatbars and velcro pedal straps. Also fenders ... need fenders. Edit: You can get a perfectly good road bike for $1000 ...
I never really understood why people like flat bars on their fixies, what are the advantages of it or is it just personal preference? |
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| lac29 United States. June 04 2012 07:25. Posts 1407 | Profile Blog # |
On June 04 2012 07:08 LanTAs wrote:I never really understood why people like flat bars on their fixies, what are the advantages of it or is it just personal preference?
Personal preference. I have a set of bullhorns, but I've grown up using flatbars that I'm just too lazy to switch. I plan on making an effort this summer to switch them out though. I also feel like you need TT brake levers on bullhorns or drops. The flat brake levers just seem useless on either.
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| nalgene Canada. June 04 2012 07:33. Posts 2145 | Profile # |
| Do you guys use those 200-300mm suspensions? |
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| Mordanis United States. June 04 2012 07:44. Posts 716 | Profile Blog # |
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Benotto Modello 3000. AWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAAAAH! Well, mines not in this good of condition or gold-plated, but it is set up for racing a bit better. The previous owner used it for about 10 years of racing so there is zero slack in the braking wires (to save probably 3 grams :D), the gears are all ridiculously tall (I can go 14 mph ezpz in my shortest gear), and it certainly draws the eyes of anyone who was into bicycle racing ~20 years ago. Now, I feel the need to tell the two stories of crashing on this bike. The first time, I was riding with my family and they all felt that it would be a good idea to go do some more hills after we had already done more than we had planned. I'm about 6'4" and 210, so I'm not the best climber, so I decided not to. My dad decided to accompany part way so that we could have a little sprint. We always have a sprint on the ~200 yard straightaway leading up to our house, but my dad didn't want to go all the way home. So he decided to have the sprint end at some arbitrary point. I mauled him in the sprint, easily 2 seconds ahead. But, he didn't tell me that there was a big turn right after the "finish line". So, as I saw the turn, I freaked out. It's one of those turns that look like you're practically going to have to make a U-turn, but it isn't nearly that bad. In my panic, I jammed on my brakes. For anyone who isn't familiar with bicycle or car (or other) racing, if you brake too hard or accelerate too hard in a corner, your rear wheel slips. This is shitty when you're in a car, but when you are sitting literally above the rear wheel and there's nothing to catch you, you're going to go down. As I did. I slid about 20 feet on asphalt, on my ass. The worst part- my dad stayed around to make sure that I could make it home, and then went back to climb more hills. So I had to ride on my own, with my spandex completely torn to shreds, back to my house and then had to clean out the road burn in our pool. Right after it had been freshly chlorinated. The second worst part- The only scar I have is a few streaks of road grime where the sun don't shine. Not exactly a great way to start conversations.
The second time I crashed was on RAGBRAI, the Ride Across Iowa, which has about 10,000 riders. This equates to about 9,750 idiots. Again, I was with my family, this time in a quasi-paceline (Most of the riders go about 12 mph, so you can't go very fast at all). Some woman had been having a great time drinking all day. Which is just plain dumb normally, but it was about 92 degrees and about 85% humidity. And one of the few things she hadn't been drinking was water. So when the inevitable happened, and she started to pass out from dehydration, she started cutting across the road at about a 30 degree angle. Let me just say that I have never seen anything scarier in my life than some random woman coming out of a crowd of cyclists directly at me, and having nowhere to go to avoid the collision. Let me preface this next bit with a little word of caution: I hit my head decently hard, so I don't actually remember what happened. I can however make out a pretty good picture of what happened based on the stuff before and after. So what I think happened is that she hit toward the front of my bike. I think this because my brother-in-law, who was right in front of me, said she just missed him, and because I definitely went over my handlebars. Now I think that while I was in the air, I must have tried to block my head with my right arm unsuccessfully, and my left arm flopped wildly. This I think because I can't remember the accident and my sunglasses had slammed into my eyebrows hard enough to draw blood, implying that my head hit the ground pretty hard. I'm pretty sure I tried to block with my right arm because I got some weird little fracture that didn't hurt that was apparently caused by a twisting motion. And my left arm, god knows what happened there. All I know is that I got really deep road burn just below my middle knuckle (on the back of my hand), which hurt more than anything else. The first thing I remember is turning myself over and being afraid that I had become a eunuch because some of the spandex down... there was torn. It quickly became apparent that the damage there was minimal and non-permanent. but when I sat up a little bit a good little ribbon of blood flowed out of my eyebrow, making me think that I had some really bad type of head injury. Anyways, after this crash, I was taken to Mercy Hospital in an ambulance. On the way, the medical woman in there kept saying things like "Oh the hospital won't give you very good painkillers, so I'll give you a bit more". But I was never in much pain at all. The road burn on my left hand hurt, but aside from that my right elbow just wasn't fully extending or contracting. Really, not much pain. And then, when I got to the Hospital, the ER doc gave me morphine, a tuna sandwich, and a coke. I have never felt so content in my life. |
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