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08-18-04, 01:34 PM
Whats the ghetto'ist bike you ever had....while you considered yourself a true cyclist and trained/raced ect..
I think i may take the cake here for turning a murray baja (so called 10 speed mtb) into a time trial "looking" bike. i stripped that ***** down to the frame and krylon'd it with the paint scheme of a trek 2300 (green/black/yellow)...put some drop bars, friction shifters and 27" inch wheels from an old ross 10 speed I found in the garage, and changed the cassette from the 5 cog toy store special to a 6 cog road type. I even drilled out the frame in inner cabled all the wires..looked slick and i bet i fooled a least a couple of people. Even at probably 40-45 lbs..i trained on the bad boy and even toured with it . Later on I added some lemond clipon's....a homemade disc wheel for the back ..and of course I made my own clipless pedal system with the plastic platforms that come on all those toy bikes(altough I did fall over on occasion from being stuck in there but they DID WORK)..damn miss my road warrior lol
hmm wonder if any of you guys are thinking I remember passing that kid lol
I think i may take the cake here for turning a murray baja (so called 10 speed mtb) into a time trial "looking" bike. i stripped that ***** down to the frame and krylon'd it with the paint scheme of a trek 2300 (green/black/yellow)...put some drop bars, friction shifters and 27" inch wheels from an old ross 10 speed I found in the garage, and changed the cassette from the 5 cog toy store special to a 6 cog road type. I even drilled out the frame in inner cabled all the wires..looked slick and i bet i fooled a least a couple of people. Even at probably 40-45 lbs..i trained on the bad boy and even toured with it . Later on I added some lemond clipon's....a homemade disc wheel for the back ..and of course I made my own clipless pedal system with the plastic platforms that come on all those toy bikes(altough I did fall over on occasion from being stuck in there but they DID WORK)..damn miss my road warrior lol
hmm wonder if any of you guys are thinking I remember passing that kid lol