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View Poll Results: What's your Clyde-Ride?
Mountain Bike
30.94%
Hybrid Bike
15.35%
Comfort Bike
3.96%
Road Bike
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Recumbent Bike
3.47%
Other (please describe)
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Old 10-27-06, 08:13 PM
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Sorry, that is a 96 raleigh M60 - not M90. It has been through a lot of hard trails and deserves to named correctly.......
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Old Cannondale M300 soon to be a SS

and an almosy completed custom Bianchi Giro
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I've got 2 -- a JTS cross bike and a Rockhopper comp hardtail MTB. I didn't know which to vote for...
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Hi all

Adam here, 103kgs and ride a Cervelo Carbon Soloist. A bit on the stiff side (esp on long trips) but I love the performance, reaction of the frame. Spec'd up with Record, Ksyrium ESs (as trainers) - got Boras for "racing". ITM stem/bars, Look carbon pedals....


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Old 11-13-06, 05:49 PM
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Diamondback Wildwood, It's my Va creeper trail rider, haven't rode it much since santa wife got me my Felt F90 for Christmas this past year. Just got done doing a wheels off polish job, it sits on the treadmill in my office, the others are in the mower building, oh yeah, there's a vintage steel 10 speed Takara in there also. Also I'm 6'0", 215 lb, a clyde.
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Old 11-13-06, 06:57 PM
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2006 KHS Alite 150

I'll throw more onto it in the spring to make it more road-ey.
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Old 11-16-06, 07:14 PM
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Hybrid is my main ride:
Gary Fisher Utopia 2002
Kinda like this one: https://gf.cyklokatalog.cz/utopia.jpg
Changed the saddle, clipless pedals, cartrige brakes, bar ends, cyclocomputer etc...
Been very reliable and strong since new, no broken parts whatsoever.

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I ride an EZ Sport AX. That's a long wheel base recumbent, with an aluminum frame. Very nice bikle and sturdy as hell. /aince I have reworked a few things for better fit, it's really comfortable. bk
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Old 11-18-06, 04:07 PM
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The "Red Ryder" a fixed suspension mtb converted to a commuter with drop bars and bar end shifters.

My hands don't get numb anymore.


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Old 11-18-06, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by WillisB
The "Red Ryder" a fixed suspension mtb converted to a commuter with drop bars and bar end shifters.

My hands don't get numb anymore.


Be a nice touring rig!
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Old 11-18-06, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Stormcrowe
Be a nice touring rig!

Can't say that it hasn't crossed my mind!
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Old 11-19-06, 11:00 PM
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5' 11', 230lbs...very much a clyde. Absolutely love my Trek Pilot 2.1. Hit a deer on it 10 days ago. The deer won. Bike is fine. Ribs are not. No broken bones.
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Old 11-20-06, 03:32 AM
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this and numerous bmxs

and for the guy wondering whether the lht would hold up, i dunno about the downtube, but the headtube on this sucker is a beast. and as for steerer length that's how it is uncut on my 54.
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Old 11-20-06, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by grasshutmedia
5' 11', 230lbs...very much a clyde. Absolutely love my Trek Pilot 2.1. Hit a deer on it 10 days ago. The deer won. Bike is fine. Ribs are not. No broken bones.
You hit a deer on your BIKE!!! Holy moly, what were the details behind that?
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Old 11-20-06, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by deputyjones
You hit a deer on your BIKE!!! Holy moly, what were the details behind that?
To spare those not interested, I posted my DEER vs. BIKE story last week on the following thread:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=245061

Turns out, I'm not alone.
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Old 11-20-06, 04:16 PM
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5'9", 200lbs. My long time partner is an '85 Raleigh Wyoming tourer. Just recently had to replace the front wheel. Rear is still original and going strong. I'd love to have a semi-custom new touring bike or recumbent, but the wallet won't allow it just yet. Maybe next year.
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6'3", 220lbs. After significant reading and test rides, fitting and some more fitting, settlled on an '06 Specialized Tarmac Comp. Absolutely incredible ride... full stock bike... I even like the seat! Also have an '04 Trek 7300 hybrid that I use to ride around with the kiddies.
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Old 11-28-06, 10:54 AM
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6'2" 215 lb Clyde here hailing from sunny Southeast Florida. My main ride is an '06 Specialized Tarmac Comp and my ride for tooling around with the kiddies is an '04 Trek 7300 Multitrack.
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Originally Posted by johnileo61
6'2" 215 lb Clyde here hailing from sunny Southeast Florida. My main ride is an '06 Specialized Tarmac Comp and my ride for tooling around with the kiddies is an '04 Trek 7300 Multitrack.
I am a local clyde, maybe we can meet up for a ride sometime. I am 6'5" and somewhere between 218 and 230 on any given day.
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Old 12-02-06, 12:27 AM
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As for the bikes.

2003 Bianchi Giro (under construction)
199? Cannondale M300 (about to go under the knife for a SS conversion)
2007 PF RS (being delivered sometime in early March)

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