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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 10-03-15, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Yes to all, and Trek has the Domane.
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Originally Posted by 3alarmer
...I take it geometry is not a requirement in your engineering specialty ?
Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Yes to all, and Trek has the Domane.
I'm looking for geometry to avoid.

A Chicago retailer has some nice close out prices on other than Giant bicycle cycles.
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Sounds like mine this morning, but it was a little warmer, 54º.
That's about what we had at the finish. Winter is coming...
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That's about what we had at the finish. Winter is coming...
Tomorrow and the rest of the week look better. The rest of the month isn't bad. After that, I think it is trainer riding with sporadic real road rides.
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Does she know this?
We've been married long enough that she expects it and would be disappointed if I didn't.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to Ford:

Not enough black.
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So what happens when you give Ford adderall?? You get a Ford Focus!
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
In the Giant bike line, the Defy is the "Endurance" or more upright version of their performance road bike.

I have two questions.

In the Cannondale line is that geometry the Synapse?

In the Specialized line is that geometry the Roubaix?

Okay, three questions...

If I am incorrect on either of those, what is the "endurance'' geometry for each of those.
Roubaix is one of Specialized's endurance bikes. The Diverge is the other.

Roubaix geometry. Specialized Bicycle Components
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Roubaix is one of Specialized's endurance bikes. The Diverge is the other.

Roubaix geometry. Specialized Bicycle Components
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Just committed to two weeks in Majorca for some training in the mountains in March.

Need to start training for training starting right after this beer... or maybe the one after this one.
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I'm feeling lazy this afternoon.

Besides, the lovely Mrs. Doug28450 wants to go out to dinner and I'm focusing on a nice place to take her.

No, she's not looking over my shoulder.
...if she ever gets wise and dumps you, check my sexual preference and relationship status on Facebook at that time. I might actually have an account by then, and you sound dreamy.
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Originally Posted by datlas
So what happens when you give Ford adderall?? You get a Ford Focus!
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...disc roadie with Di2 for under ten grand. #smokindeal
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Damn, I miss my lockring spanner. I musta left it at the shop I was working at...
...I have one of these:



It is quite possibly the swellest olde bicycle tool I have, and if I left it somewhere, I would be distraught.
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New 140mm rear disc rotor mounted. Van loaded. Ready for adventure.
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...if she ever gets wise and dumps you, check my sexual preference and relationship status on Facebook at that time. I might actually have an account by then, and you sound dreamy.
I try not to go overboard. I try to keep stringing her along. So far, so good.
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New 140mm rear disc rotor mounted. Van loaded. Ready for adventure.
Do well.
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
Just committed to two weeks in Majorca for some training in the mountains in March.

Need to start training for training starting right after this beer... or maybe the one after this one.
That sounds fun, in a painful sort of way.
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Do well.
I need to get up at something like 4:30am. Oof.
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Why do adventures have to start so early in the morning?
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Why do adventures have to start so early in the morning?
To make it a longer adventure.....
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Why do adventures have to start so early in the morning?
Helps make you cross??
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I ride by this school a couple times a week and I'm not sure what to make of this sign. Are they worried about vampires?

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Originally Posted by rjones28
I need to get up at something like 4:30am. Oof.
...I wake these days at 4:30 and can't go back to sleep, so I get up and read. They say reading is an adventure.
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