[DPCandND]

Had to add something here....

I was walking Sal home from the office yesterday ( I am in downtown LA part time) and as we were walking down Flower St. from her bank, I spied a Masi Pista in a bike rack....I went over for a peek (which ALWAYS kinda pisses Sal off!) and saw that it was a steel late 60's Masi track bike, maybe a 54, drilled in the front fork for a brake. All Campy Record Track gruppo, with a pair of Arc-n-Ciel 36 hole rims and some generic sew ups badly glued on. Had a Campy Record sidepull brake on the front. Steel Cinelli track stem and bars...the sprinter type....woah! Had the round pista fork blades and was an authentic Masi from under the Vigorelli in Milan.
Pretty cool that some shlameezel messenger dude had this ride! Locked with a Kryptonite type Ubolt monster....I shoulda waited and offered the owner some cash for it.

[CAMPYBOB]

with a pair of Arc-n-Ciel 36 hole rims

old school awesome.

and some generic sew ups badly glued on.

messy glue jobs are 'the' sign of genius! hopefully the rims were smeared with sticky fingerprints.

Had a Campy Record sidepull brake on the front.

sissy! ok...he rides in a metro area...he's forgiven his transgression.

Steel Cinelli track stem and bars...the sprinter type....woah!

I run track sprint bars (alloy), but I'ld kill for an old steel stem to drop into my hands.

Had the round pista fork blades and was an authentic Masi from under the Vigorelli in Milan.

vigo, huh? i hope you genuflected thrice and said a hail mary. you were in the presence of god!

old skool track, because that's how we roll!

[adker]

Specialized Tarmac Pro- shown on top of Mnt over lake at sunrise (before the road opens) my favorite weekly ride If your ever in the area you can join me

This post has been edited by adker: 24 April 2009 - 11:45 AM

[N.B.O.L.]

Specialized Tarmac Pro- shown on top of Mnt over lake at sunrise (before the road opens) my favorite weekly ride (Usually no aerobars and tri saddle and post) If you ever in the area you can join me

The picture sounds nice, but doesn't show on my computer. When I posted my picture, I had to put it on Flicker first and link to it there. Please try again, I would really like to see it.

[Roadent]

Not to go all CampyBob on y'all, but here goes:

Merlin road (I've had the frame since 1991, one of the first few thousand built - but had the bottom bracket and the downtube replaced over the years, as well as being buffed up and re-decaled and re-headbadged) full Dura-Ace with Kyseriums - I've put lots and lots and lots of K's on this thing, but I find that I'm not riding it as much as my

Louis Garneau full carbon thingy (same frame that Jittery Joes rode - but mine is an ex-Jet Fuel racing team bike with the oh-so-cool Jet Fuel logo on the top tube, clear-coated...) Dura-Ace with FSA cranks; TRP carbon brakes (totally about the aesthetics - trying to throw as much carbonated action at this bike as I can...seatpost, stem etc. only thing I'm not doing is the bars - have a thing for Deda Newton bars...) Fulcrum Racing Ones, etc... By the way - this bike is a semi-generic-popped-out-of-a-mold Taiwanese-built frame from the same factory that builds everybody else (Specialized, and yes, I believe, Cervelo, as well) and it is by far the best riding bike I've ever owned (go figure - no magic handbuilt steel fairy dust or anything....)

Blue T-12 TT bike with SRAM (just waiting for the bar-end shifters) and HED 90's for doing du's.

Surly Cross-Check single-speed 'cross bike (as I've said before, my favourite bike...) built up with stuff that's sitting around (including a totally over-spec'd 9spd DA crank - well used, but does the job). I built a fixed-gear rear wheel for this, too, as my early season training bike, as well as my all-round citizen's enduro bike (nothing like blasting by weekend warriors on their $5G full-suspension rigs on a beaten-up steel single speed with a 39 X 18 )

Also have a sweet fillet-brazed '80's Santana tandem that I bought off eBay for super-cheap (27" wheels[?] - easy to convert to 700's, but I guess people don't know that) built it up with mid-range Shimano parts. I also put crank shorteners on the back so my kid can ride with us (doesn't want to even learn how to ride a bike - hmmm, guessing that anything dad does is, by default, not cool....).

Updates...

OK, sold the Merlin on eBay - just wasn't riding it - Zen thing, too: don't get too attached to material things, etc....

Just picked up an used SRM (whoo boy, gettin' serious....) from a Canuck pro - it's SRAM carbon so, of course, I had to change my drivetrain and shifters over to Force (Red was too much $). Bike looks pretty serious, (and light) but no new frame this year - money went into to the training device (which is the right thing to do, I guess...). Was really jonesing for a Scott carbon-teamy-red thing, until I found out that the wholesale price (I know the agent for Canada) wasn't really materially different from the retail price, and in both cases, was well, well, beyond any kind of rationalization (even selling my car would only pay for about 70% of it...). Even the frame would have meant selling off appliances (and we need a new stove) - I'll wait for more team cast-offs at the end of the season.

Still have the TT bike - no need to be changing/upgrading that for the 10 or 12 times a year I ride it.

The Surly is still rockin' - two weeks until the 15th edition of our local Paris-Roubaix homage enduro - fiddling a bit - 38X17 this year (hope it's not too muddy...): I even did an 8hr mountain bike race on it last summer (so not recommended, especially with no specific training and the wrong gearing - won a lot of hero points from other riders, but didn't make up for the pain.... Doesn't stop me from doing again this year, though - I'll bought a 20 tooth freewheel and fatter tires - try to beat some more of those pesky MTBer's....

Sold the Santana (kid thinks it's not cool anymore....) but I might have a line on a Bike Friday tandem that could be just the tick for the whole family.

Maybe I'll post a pic of the Garneau.....

[il_hombre]

Road - Trek OCLV vintage 2000.

Mountain - Klein Attitude Race hardtail

Cross - Kona Major Jake (I do a fair amount of Cross racing, somewhat respectably)

Track - Trek T1 bought used (I'm a real amatuer in the fixed gear world)

Commute - Felt SR-71 (basically a road bike with flat bars) - my favorite bike. Have commuted almost 7000 miles in last 3 years.

Around town - old, old Specialized Rock Hopper (completely rigid) that I've turned into a single speed with the help of a Surly Singulator.

Road - Specialized. Very basic model that I do not even care to mention. 1k Euro price tag from new but I love it. I ride it only 4 months per year and each time pretend I am Bugno ... and each time I am winning the TdF and beating Rolf Jaermann for Amstel goddammit !

Mountain - No mountains where I live ... but I have seen pictures of them

Cross - I run (Shoes: ASICS. Tried just about all other brands but will probably never change now.)

Track - Never in a million years ... but I like to whatch

Commute - Toyota Avensis (Yawn)

Around town - I walk

[MrHarm]

Have to add to this thread seeing as I finally got around to buying a proper road bike on Friday.

I now ride a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 (the Shimano 105 model with all the standard equipment). An "entry level" road bike to be sure, but it certainly looks good.



I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I bought it with a frame that just might be one size too large, as I could not find it in the proper celeste colour in any other size. So a shorter stem might be needed

[Mark]

Here's mine:



Giant TCR Advanced 1. Mine differs from the picture slightly in that I have SRAM wheels instead of Mavics.

[bodomaniac]

MrHarm, on 11 April 2011 - 07:32 AM, said:

Have to add to this thread seeing as I finally got around to buying a proper road bike on Friday.

I now ride a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 (the Shimano 105 model with all the standard equipment). An "entry level" road bike to be sure, but it certainly looks good.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I bought it with a frame that just might be one size too large, as I could not find it in the proper celeste colour in any other size. So a shorter stem might be needed

Beautiful looking bike! A Bianchi road bike in any other color but Celeste is not a Bianchi, IMHO. Almost bought one years ago as one of my first road bikes, but didn't care for the dealer selling them at the time.

This post has been edited by bodomaniac: 12 April 2011 - 08:01 PM

[bodomaniac]

Mark, on 12 April 2011 - 04:33 PM, said:

Here's mine:

Giant TCR Advanced 1. Mine differs from the picture slightly in that I have SRAM wheels instead of Mavics.

Another great looking bike. Hope you enjoy it for many years, Mark! Glad to see some of these older threads come back to life.

This post has been edited by bodomaniac: 12 April 2011 - 08:02 PM

[Jayhawk]

bodomaniac, on 12 April 2011 - 08:00 PM, said:

Beautiful looking bike! A Bianchi road bike in any other color but Celeste is not a Bianchi, IMHO.

How true!

I'm shopping for an upgrade. My old LeMond is getting rusty in the rivets after seven years.

[MrHarm]

bodomaniac, on 12 April 2011 - 08:00 PM, said:

A Bianchi road bike in any other color but Celeste is not a Bianchi, IMHO.

That's the spirit!

[N.B.O.L.]

Jayhawk, on 13 April 2011 - 02:07 PM, said:

How true!

I'm shopping for an upgrade. My old LeMond is getting rusty in the rivets after seven years.

Yes it is really too bad that you can't buy a new LeMond. Not sure what I'm going to do when it is time to replace mine.

[bodomaniac]

N.B.O.L., on 14 April 2011 - 04:29 AM, said:

Yes it is really too bad that you can't buy a new LeMond. Not sure what I'm going to do when it is time to replace mine.

Do you have a Lemond Tete de Course? That was and is still a great bike.

[N.B.O.L.]

bodomaniac, on 14 April 2011 - 02:00 PM, said:

Do you have a Lemond Tete de Course? That was and is still a great bike.

Yes, there is a picture of it in Post #3 of this thread. Since I took the picture, I have put white HandleBra leather handlebar wrap on it, and switched the seat and post. I love the Geometry and the bike in general. I am not aware of another bike that is available with top of the line components, but with that relaxed a geometry. The only thing I don't like is how the dropouts and non-replaceable rear derailleur hanger are glued into the carbon. If you bang them up, you are for all practical purposes SOL.

[ZigZagged]

N.B.O.L., on 21 March 2008 - 05:56 PM, said:

A Lemond.

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2350436036_fd394702ec_o.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

I'm still upset you never bought the volcanic wheelset.

[ZigZagged]

Mark, on 12 April 2011 - 04:33 PM, said:

Here's mine:



Giant TCR Advanced 1. Mine differs from the picture slightly in that I have SRAM wheels instead of Mavics.

Mechanic in my bike shop had a Rabobank Team SL. He really liked it, but he switches bikes every year or so, not sure what he's on now. I'm a Cannondale guy but I'm intrigued by Giant for some reason. And his SL was SWEET. What's your history on bikes and how would you describe the Giant?

[N.B.O.L.]

ZigZagged, on 28 May 2011 - 01:35 AM, said:

I'm still upset you never bought the volcanic wheelset.

After some research on the interwebs, I found several threads on different forums, without hardly anyone who had a good thing to say about them. It sounds like it is a single person company and about everybody who had dealt with him thought he was a jerk. I figured maybe I would find something else to spend my money on. By the way, you never did post pictures of the new Cannondale you were building after you finished it.

This post has been edited by N.B.O.L.: 28 May 2011 - 02:03 AM

[ZigZagged]

I just gotta tweak it. It's close, but not beautiful enough to post at the moment. I should have posted it a year ago, but now there are aesthetic issues with the tires and crank that give me pause.
Wonder if anybody uses moon-rocks as part of a wheel? I need some new hoops. I'll look into it, though I expect I'll end up with good ol' Mavics or something similarly solid yet unexciting. Campy makes some alu wheels I like.

[buddy]

I just helped a mate refit his Pinarello with some new Campagnolo record 11 speed.

How sweet is that gear?

Looks like my 10 speed record gear is going to have to shift to the training bike sometime soon. Better start saving.

I have recently purchased a pair of Campagnolo Nuetron Ultra's. Before that had used the plain neutrons. Very nice and reasonably light wheels for clinchers that you can get quite cheaply now.

I am looking to get a pair of Zipp 303 or 404 tubulars. I haven't used tubulars since 1985 when I was a younger buck and could race really fast. I am starting to race fast again as an old codger andthe weight of the 303's or 404 tubulars is hard to go passed. They seem to get a great wrap too. Pity about the price. But hey you usually get what you pay for.

Not sure about the wider body on the 303's though. You have to use a 23+mm tire. That takes out a lot of good tires from the selection choice. I guess I would be looking at the Vitoria evo cx as the first choice. They were sweet back in 1985 and I am sure they are even better now.

Thanks,

Buddy