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diff_lock2

01-22-07, 12:33 PM

I see it twice a week. Same spot.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/diff_lock_cr-v_awd/Bikewhatz/Image016.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/diff_lock_cr-v_awd/Bikewhatz/Image017.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/diff_lock_cr-v_awd/Bikewhatz/Image018.jpg

Igneous Faction

01-22-07, 01:04 PM

You Finns sure are trusting. Though sometimes I forget that there are places in the world where people respect one another and their things.

mihlbach

01-22-07, 01:08 PM

lymbzero

01-22-07, 01:27 PM

Hey that looks like my bike!

http://closednode.net/images/bicycles/bianchi/IMGP3272.JPG

wroomwroomoops

01-22-07, 01:35 PM

It ain't mine, even though, for a brief moment, I thought it could have been: I pull out my FG red MTB about twice a week. Whereabouts are you? I am in Helsinki, Malminkartano.

mihlbach

01-22-07, 01:37 PM

Hey that looks like my bike!

http://closednode.net/images/bicycles/bianchi/IMGP3272.JPG

Dude...that chainring would look so nice on my conversion...what is it?

to the OP...sorry I was being sort of a dick with my last post.

lymbzero

01-22-07, 01:51 PM

Dude...that chainring would look so nice on my conversion...what is it?

The chainring made by Blackspire, a Canadian company.
They make excellent parts, you may have heard of them before,
It's a Track 144/46 1/8 inch.

wroomwroomoops

01-22-07, 02:03 PM

aw.... the only Finland-centric thread on the whole freaking BF, and it's already derailed.. :p

diff_lock2

01-22-07, 02:10 PM

Why would you post a photo of the whole bike then post equally crappy shots of the front part and the back part, from the same side, but not really significantly closer, so they don't reveal any additional details?

just askin....

Its at a higher angle, and it IS a lot closer...
And yes the noise is delicious.

I live in Turku, same place were if found the bike!

how you you lock that bike, with only that lock?
i normally just lock my rear wheel to the rear triangle... with a 1$ cable lock.

i was going to buy a pista from Helsinki but they didn't have my size, so i got a 20" wide for my machine lol.

jet sanchEz

01-22-07, 02:11 PM

Hey that looks like my bike!

http://closednode.net/images/bicycles/bianchi/IMGP3272.JPG

Hrm, what an odd coinincidink, my SS winter commuter looks a lot like your conversion. Weird that we haven't bumped into each other.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j103/jetsanchEz/GT116.jpg

wroomwroomoops

01-22-07, 02:20 PM

I live in Turku, same place were if found the bike!

Never been to Turku, yet. I do have it in my plans for the near future.

As for FG in Finland: I did meet a dude on a FG at the beginning of last summer. Had a short chat - he actually gave me a bit of an incouragement to try it myself.

Expecially because he was faster than me on our way downtown, even though I had gears, and I didn't think his leg muscles looked impressive compared to mine.

Igneous Faction

01-22-07, 02:22 PM

In the states, it's pretty important to lock your bike to something other than itself... people will take it otherwise.

filtersweep

01-22-07, 03:07 PM

At work I use two locks for my bike--- while half the people who work in my building don't lock their bikes up at all.... craziness.

In the states, it's pretty important to lock your bike to something other than itself... people will take it otherwise.