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#151
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Location: Northern San Diego
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Bikes: mid 1980s De Rosa SL, 1985 Tommasini Super Prestige all Campy SR, 1992 Paramount PDG Series 7, 1997 Lemond Zurich, 1998 Trek Y-foil, 2006 Schwinn Super Sport GS, 2006 Specialized Hardrock Sport
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FYI - the enter/return key is on the right hand side of your keyboard, roughly in the center. You can use it to break up monotonous blocks of unreadable text, like that above.
You can also use the enter/return key to create things called paragraphs. A paragraph leads with a sentence that states what the paragraph is about, and is then supported and expounded upon by a few additional sentences. Typically 4-6 sentences comprise these things called paragraphs.
You can also use the enter/return key to create things called paragraphs. A paragraph leads with a sentence that states what the paragraph is about, and is then supported and expounded upon by a few additional sentences. Typically 4-6 sentences comprise these things called paragraphs.
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#152
Fat Guy on a Little Bike
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I really like @gomango's laconic posting style.
short statements with many linebreaks.
cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.
short statements with many linebreaks.
cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.
#154
Shifting is fun!
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#155
Hopelessly addicted...
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Location: Central Maryland
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Bikes: 1949 Hercules Kestrel, 1950 Norman Rapide, 1970 Schwinn Collegiate, 1972 Peugeot UE-8, 1976 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Jack Taylor Tandem, 1984 Davidson Tandem, 2010 Bilenky "BQ" 650B Constructeur Tandem, 2011 Linus Mixte
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#156
Bicycle Repair Man !!!
@noglider was the community biking advocate and the one man bike coop in Madison before he and Carol moved to the Big Apple.
In many cases I also direct people to the coop where they can work for $2.00 / hr and benefit from the expert volunteers we have.
#157
Wherever I may roam....
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I bought both the Trek and the Tommasini when they were current new bikes - the Trek in 1980 and the Tommasini in 1986. From the mid 1970s to the late 1980s, I was a serious rider - including having ridden across the U.S. in the summer of 1979 - and I bought the Trek with contribution from my parents to celebrate having crossed that item off of the bucket list, as my first build from a frame set, and since I really beat the crap out of my bike, a Rolls, on my cross-country trip. I bought the Tommasini to celebrate my first really good paying professional job which gave me plenty of disposable income - and it was also built for performance, whereas the Trek was built up for touring, including mountains, while loaded with gear - although it's still a pretty responsive frame, but not as fast as the Tommasini, and the componentry is entirely different on both, being optimized for very different purposes. Then, less than a couple of years after I got the Tommasini, of course, I got caught up in a career that involved long hours, and life in general intervened, and in the course of chasing rats in the rat race, I stopped riding, and put on well over 100 pounds over 25 years or so, going from 150 up to 284. I really didn't get on either of those bikes for more than 10 minutes at a time, maybe a dozen times, over the next 25 years. But I still had them. Well, about a year and a half ago, as I was maxing out the meds for Type II Diabetes, my doctor told me that my next choices were bariatric surgery or insulin, so I got serious about losing weight. Initially through diet alone, I dropped about 30 pounds. Then I started swimming regularly, and along with diet, I dropped another 25. Well, with the weather getting colder, and my favorite lap pools all outdoors, I figured that I was now in decent enough shape to get back on the bikes, and that was less than 2 months ago. I put both bikes back into riding trim, and I'm down to 205 now. But the reality is, I'm not hung up on bikes, it's biking that I'm interested in. I only would buy a bike if I actually had a need for the bike. The Trek and the Tommasini, being set up quite differently for different terrain and purpose, really would be all of the road bikes I need - except, as I said, I spend a lot of time doing stuff for my elderly parents at their house, which is 25 miles away from mine, and I wanted to have a bike to leave there - but I didn't want to not have my Trek here at my house, because I'm using it here, for things my Tommasini can't do, like very steep lengthy hills - of which there are plenty around my house, and carrying stuff like groceries. So that's the rationale for the Cannondale - to have a bike to leave at my parents house. And I also wanted something with a different frame material than steel which I'm very familiar with, and with 130mm rear spacing that could take a modern drivetrain without cold-setting my Trek frame. And really, other than maybe a fat-tire mountain bike for off-road trail riding, I couldn't see getting another one. The reality is, I'm pretty expert on bikes and components and bike technology up to 25 years ago - just not the current stuff - since I have a 25 year gap in my bicycling activity. But I have no desire to collect bikes that I don't actually have a need and a genuine use for. My initial inquiries in this thread did not start out as trolling - I was genuinely curious as to why people would have dozens of bikes that they obviously were not using the majority of. I do admit that when I started getting attacked for asking the questions, rather than getting genuine, non-defensive answers, I ramped up the aggressiveness of my responses.
And honestly, before I actually ride the thing, who knows if I'll keep the Cannondale or flip it, but I'd only flip it if it turns out I don't like riding an Aluminum frame bike.
And honestly, before I actually ride the thing, who knows if I'll keep the Cannondale or flip it, but I'd only flip it if it turns out I don't like riding an Aluminum frame bike.
Glad you're taking steps to better your health. Keep it up
#158
Rides Majestic
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Exercise equipment overrun by bikes? Usually it's laundry, right? . Actually, I'll clear it out shortly, I ride in the warmer months for exercise anyway. The bikes will go in the garage which is unheated and not usable in winter. BTW, don't call it a Barbie ATV. It's Dora, thank you very much!
#160
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I really like @gomango's laconic posting style.
short statements with many linebreaks.
cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.
short statements with many linebreaks.
cuts the bull, tells you what you need to know.
I stole the style from forum member Too Many Bikes when he stopped posting on this board.
My eyes were/are getting tired from many years of over-use (way too many books) and this style makes it easier for me to see on a smaller device.
#161
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#162
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I hear ya, you laconic sumbuck, you. I recently enlarged the type on my emails. I think it irks some folks but, I need to be able to read what I write.
#163
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Helps having teenagers around.
FWIW I am going to use this thread as a source of inspiration to get my act together in my workshop.
I built a bike last Sunday for a friend and it was a pain in the rear.
Stuff everywhere.
Tools nowhere to be found.
Neat bike though.
#170
Bianchi Goddess
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Bikes and workstand are in the living room.
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“One morning you wake up, the girl is gone, the bikes are gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old tires and a tube of tubular glue, all squeezed out"
Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk
“One morning you wake up, the girl is gone, the bikes are gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old tires and a tube of tubular glue, all squeezed out"
Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk
#171
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Location: Queens NYC
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Bikes: Colnago Super, Basso Gap, Pogliaghi, Fabio Barecci, Torelli Pista, Miyata 1400A
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It's the one and only reason I bought my Colnago from you!
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It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond
#172
Hopelessly addicted...
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#174
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It's the thriving metropolis of Lagunitas, (population 600) ancestral home to the Lagunitas Brewing Company and gateway to Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
Brent
#175
No one cares
Thanks! It is a fine place to putter with bikes and forget about accomplishing anything "important." The squirrels are my role models.
There's a man who knows his Bay Area Geography!
It's the thriving metropolis of Lagunitas, (population 600) ancestral home to the Lagunitas Brewing Company and gateway to Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
Brent
There's a man who knows his Bay Area Geography!
It's the thriving metropolis of Lagunitas, (population 600) ancestral home to the Lagunitas Brewing Company and gateway to Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
Brent
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I prefer emails to private messages - holiday76@gmail.com
Jack Taylor Super Tourer Tandem (FOR SALE), Jack Taylor Tour of Britain, Px-10, Carlton Flyer, Fuji The Finest, Salsa Fargo, Santa Cruz Tallboy, Carver All-Road .
I prefer emails to private messages - holiday76@gmail.com
Jack Taylor Super Tourer Tandem (FOR SALE), Jack Taylor Tour of Britain, Px-10, Carlton Flyer, Fuji The Finest, Salsa Fargo, Santa Cruz Tallboy, Carver All-Road .