People who have been riding or racing for a while usually have another bike squirreled away somewhere that is their "B" bike. This isn't the bike you usually ride, or should be riding, it is ...the other bike.:eek:
When I lived on the left coast is was considered bad form to show up to a winter group ride without fenders (and a cut in half water bottle tacked onto the end of those!). That was your rain bike. It was ok to ride that one. Your good bike actually appreciated it.
This is a bike of a different kind. This is the bike you are supposed to ride if your 'good' bike is down. An emergency, back-up kind of bike. This isn't the bike people expect to see you with nor is it the bike that you talk about. In fact, maybe only a few close friends have ever even seen this bike.
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=65152&d=1203150775
What happens when you start to have more fun with this bike than you do with your regular bike. Is it just a fleeting thing? Is it that yearning that most men have for what ever bike they are not currently riding? Is it resentment for the fact that there is an expectation, on the part of those in your local cycling community, that you ride such and such a bike ONLY? It's as if they think you aren't good enough to have another bike set-up somewhere that you ride when they are not around.
In the interest of being open and honest about what I ride and when, here are some pics of my other bike. Join me. Keep it a secret no longer. Liberate yourself and show the world your other bike!
stevesurf
02-16-08, 01:37 AM
it came up as a bad link, fyi
Bob Dopolina
02-16-08, 03:26 AM
it came up as a bad link, fyi
Yeah, I was editing the pics. Can't figure out how to super-size them like I've seen others do.
It's at my mom's house, just 'cause I don't have room here in my place in Chicago. Running 8-speed STI on the rear, downtube front shifting, with Ultegra/OP wheels. Nothing fancy, but it's a fast ride and has never let me down.
UT_Dude
02-16-08, 07:53 AM
I just finished my "other" bike a day or two ago. One of the Group Buy Le Roi's and the old kit off of my first CR1. It needs black wheels, but otherwise, I think it's getting it's inaugural ride tomorrow in what could be the rain. I hate the Red on my CR1, so I think I may end up liking the 'other' bike more... Uh-oh...
+1. My only bike is worse then most all of your "B" bikes.
jrennie
02-16-08, 09:16 AM
after monday this gets some different bars/stem, aluminum chorus shifters and is my B bike:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/jrennie/000_0326_edited.jpg
Indyv8a
02-16-08, 09:17 AM
My good bike isn't as nice as some of these "other" bikes. Of course, the engine isn't as good either.
carlfreddy
02-16-08, 09:19 AM
+1. My only bike is worse then most all of your "B" bikes.
+2
But my current bike will become my B bike in April, when my new bike arrives.
Enthalpic
02-16-08, 10:01 AM
Yeah, I was editing the pics. Can't figure out how to super-size them like I've seen others do.
Put [Img] tags around the web location of the picture.
RockyMtnMerlin
02-16-08, 10:47 AM
What "other" bike?
+1.
waterrockets
02-16-08, 12:01 PM
Sold mine to pad this season's budget :D
toucci
02-17-08, 11:03 PM
I picked this up a couple of days ago to train on. I got tired of cleaning the white '95 :p
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=65325&d=1203314588
But honestly, I think I like it more. Don't tell anyone!
voltman
02-17-08, 11:06 PM
I just finished my "other" bike a day or two ago. One of the Group Buy Le Roi's and the old kit off of my first CR1. It needs black wheels, but otherwise, I think it's getting it's inaugural ride tomorrow in what could be the rain. I hate the Red on my CR1, so I think I may end up liking the 'other' bike more... Uh-oh...
Though my CF bike is on the other side of an ocean at the moment, so this is my primary bike for all but TT's.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mans1210/photos/extras/mybike2.jpg
after monday this gets some different bars/stem, aluminum chorus shifters and is my B bike:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/jrennie/000_0326_edited.jpg
To see the benefits of the Transformers Big Wheels, click here: http://www.maj.com/gallery/JINZONINGEN73/JINZO/TRANSFORMERS/NONTOY/powercycle.gif
My brother had a Transformers Big Wheels when we were little. One day, I was out front riding it without asking him. My friends stopped by, I got off the Big Wheels to go play some two hand touch. I left it by the garbage cans, which hadn't been picked up yet. When I came back the Big Wheels was gone, and the garbage cans were empty. It was a sad day.
garysol1
02-18-08, 06:53 PM
Here is mine. It gets ridden through all the crap that the Ohio winter can throw at her.