Biker395 

Wow ... that's great! I think the lightest I've been in the last 5 years is about 152 ... and that was for only a short time. I feel really lucky to keep it under 160.

Rick@OCRR

I was stuck at 160-162 for a couple of years but finally got into the 155 bracket . . . which fluxuates a couple lb. up or down but is fairly stable now.

My long term goal is 150. No promises but slowly working in that direction. And yes, it is just amazing how much it improves my climbing speed each time I lose a lb. or two!

Rick / OCRR

Condorita

A birthday ride is just that: a ride on your birthday. It can be any distance. An age ride is a ride in which the distance is your age in miles or kilometers, and can be completed at any point between this birthday and the next. This is good, because some of us have winter birthdays.

Camilo

Not being unreasonable. But, if the colored trim items you have are ones you bought after market, then I'd say it's not really their problem. If they were stock w/ the bike, they should include similar color-coordinated items with the new frame.

"Resale value" is irrelevant. I don't believe anyone would think a difference in a single year from one frame to the next is relevant at all. Maybe in the very first year. But 2-3.... years down the line: nobody cares if a 5 year old bike is a year older or younger than another. You'd base value strictly on the quality, series, and condition of the components. Don't consider "resale" one whit unless you plan to sell the bike next year.

pdlamb

I've been riding bicycles since before some veleaucrats decided more rules were needed to keep too many people from having so much fun. My grandfathered rule is that a birthday ride is on your birthday or as soon after as possible, covering your age in miles or kilometers. Since it wasn't possible for the OP to complete a ride on his birthday, he gets a deferral until his bike is replaced.

It's too bad the velomunati don't give out medals so they can refuse to award them to people. If they did, they'd have something besides yelling to contribute.

FBinNY 

Is that according to the OED or Webster's.

A birthday ride is whatever anyone wants it to be, somehow related to a birthday. I miss the days when bicycling attracted those folks who tended not to make or believe in rules.

msujmccorm

Well the new frame came in but the LBS said the bottom bracket was stuck in the cracked frame so they have ordered a new bottom bracket. It should be in Wednesday. Kind of hard to believe a Trek dealer didn't have a bottom bracket for a Trek bike in stock.

FBinNY 

Not any more. Used to be that replacement parts were fairly generic, and a dealer could cover all the bases with a few derailleurs, BBs etc. However there's been an explosion not only of SKUs for every part, but in frame fit interfaces, so that there are now dozens of [permutations of just about everything, and it's nearly impossible for dealers to have full breadth of inventory.

It's fairly likely the dealer had A bottom bracket for your frame, but I'm not surprised that he didn't have the bottom bracket.

I was a wholesaler in the bike business for decades and remember (longingly) when dealers would order 10 or 50 of an item such as a specific workhorse derailleur for repairs. Those days ended long ago, and it's rare to see an order for 5 of anything except the most generic items like blinky taillights.

This proliferation of SKUs and interfaces is one of the major challenges to local shops that simply don't have the sales base to stock even one of each permutation, let alone have any depth. Add to that the fact that bike parts have become like ladies shoes, not only are there multiple permutations, but styles/models change rapidly ensuring that it will be impossible to achieve any sell through of the entire stock.

msujmccorm

Thanks, that makes sense.

Condorita

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Why TRAP people into thinking that Age Rides can only be done as a Birthday Ride? That's what's going on here. I'm trying to help newbies (like people with your post count) realize they're NOT trapped into "Birthday Ride automatically means you MUST ride your Age Ride on that day." The older I get (I was in 5th grade when JFK was assassinated; you do the math), the harder it is to get the Age Ride done as a Birthday Ride. So if the weather cooperates, I go for a Birthday Ride on my birthday; my Age Ride is done in the summer. Grouch.

FBinNY 

I guess you misread my post.

I'm not the one with rules and definitions, you are. I said and meant that one can call a ride whatever they want, ride it whenever they want, and for whatever distance they want. Why arbitrarily say what a ride should be or what it should be called?

Fred Smedley

Does that mean I can ride the Lambert Death ride on my Bianchi? TIC

FBinNY 

If you want to call it that it's your business.

msujmccorm

Between Trek and the LBS we got it all worked out and I have my ride back. New frame and bottom bracket from Trek and LBS rebuilt using all the parts from the original bike. Trek supplied black parts to replace the orange ones from the original bike and I removed the orange decals from the wheels. I kind of like the black, white, and green combination. The only expense to me was new bar tape and it was time for that anyway.