roy5000x2

The owner of my LBS that I bought the bike at would chew my head off if I did that. I pulled it off of my Bonty selects and he went absolutely crazy. Couldn't really understand why though.

skin flute

[QUOTE=Yogurt;5954025]1996 Lemond Maillot Jaune. Full 8-Speed Chorus and my newest love...unfortunately due to incredibly sucky financial situations I might have to say goodbye to it soon. Any ideas on how much I should ask? (Pedals have been removed since!)

I'd be surprised if you got more than $700 for it. Not that it isn't a nice bike, it's the fact that it's 12 years old, and unless they're a collector of retro gear, or simply have a hard-on for old Lemond's, most people wouldn't pay much for a bike so long in the tooth. Then again, I could be wrong. I have no experience selling/buying mid-90's road bikes.

dirtyphotons

maybe because he lacks confidence in his mechanics' ability to set limit screws. if your derailleur's properly adjusted it's not necessary, but its not hurting anything either.

i say leave it, once you start making changes on your bike based soley on appearance its a slippery slope.

natbla

THis is my budget based build up of an OCR3 frame. It is promarily used parts, Tiagra shifter, 105 derailers, FSA compact gossemer cranks - 50-36, Specialized Alien saddle, Reynolds Alta Race/areo comps wheels, ritchey bars. Only truly new parts are the Bottom bracket, the saddle, and the 11-28 SRAM cassette.

Luwin1026

New wheels mounted up - 2006 S-Works Tarmac - I had posted the build up somewhere in here earlier this year -

skin flute

Hubba Hubba!

Timo

Extra pic and specs list. Thinking about a few changes in the near future. I do not have separate weights for all parts:

Frame: Kinesis Extralight cyclocross ; 56 cm (black anodized)
Fork: Advance cyclocross full carbon
Headset: Chris King Ahead ; 1 1/8" (black) w/titanium bolt and carbon cap
Stem: Syntace F99 ; Ø 26.0 w/titanium kit
Handlebar: Syntace Racelite ; 440 mm ; Ø 26.0 ; shortened
Shifters: Campagnolo Chorus Ergopower 10-speed (right) / non-Ergo Campagnolo Record (left)
Ribbon: Fy'zik ; white
Cables: Campagnolo (black)
Front derailleur: -
Rear derailleur: Campagnolo Chorus 10-speed (short cage)
Chain: Campagnolo C-10
Cassette: Campagnolo Record 12-25
Crankset: Storck Powerarms; 172.5 mm w/ TA Hexoa 42t (black) and Stronglight carbon guards
Bottom bracket: Shimano Dura-Ace JIS ; 113 mm
Brakes: Spooky carbon cantilevers w/alu bolts, BBB cartridges and Lightweight rubber
Pedals: Time Atac XS carbon/titanium
Hubs: Lightweight w/Tune skewers (black)
Spokes: Lightweight
Rims: Lightweight
Tubes: Gommitalia, 30 mm
Seatpost:Thomson Elite masterpiece; 330 mm ; Ø 27.2 mm (black)
Saddle: Selle Italia SLR (special edition)
Seat clamp: Nishiki (black) w/titanium bolt

Weight (digital hanger scale in my bike shop): 7297 grams

JasonJ

Some might find this blasphemous, but I think your bike gives every Soloist SLC-SL posted here a run for it's money. Sweet ride.

JJ

Spanky

Christmas Presents finally installed.


Deda Newton shallows
Thomson X2
Ksyrium Es's
Kinda fugly with the greyish Pro Race 2s, but whatever.
No white door, as it's -10 and snowing right now
Chain filthy from riding trainer for last month 1/2.

john224

Nice ride, how do you like the zipp with that bike?

fujiroad73

Wow!! now thats a beautiful bike.

Luwin1026

Absolutely love the Zipps - had Fulcrum Racing 5 Evo's on it previously and had no issues with them - but the Zipps seem to roll on and it seems easier to maintain speed once I get up to the high teens/20's. Quite frankly, though - I just love the way they look on the bike.

Thanks for the nice comments, everyone. Plan for this year if I don't somehow sway myself into getting another bike is to slowly upgrade components to Record . . . slowly being the operative word.

Cleave

Hi Luwin,

I know that a lot of BFers don't like all the decals on wheels but I really like the total look of your bike with the red accents on the wheels.

BTW, I lived through the era where everything was pantographed (engraved) with names and logos and I like the current decal "craze" better.

theweatherman

Really nice. C
Congrats on your bike decal and all!
(Decals are okay when the colors are well coordinated like yours. )

nescafe

here's mine. 08 ridley excalibur and 08 campy centaur carbon. i lurvvvv this baby...

ok hope the pic attaches fine!

clichty

^^Now that is a nice bike!

Frunkin

nescafe, how do you like the solitudes?

nescafe

i really like em; faultless. smooth and light. good value too for wheels at a similar price point.

that said, i'm a pretty light rider at 140 lbs, so i dont really punish kit the way others probably could.

Europe Rider

Here are the bikes that I ride. I have never entered a race and ride mostly for the love of the ride. The T800 is my commuter for above 40 degree days (I'm not hardcore enough to commute in freezing temps) and the black synapse is my dress up in spandex and pretend I'm Lance for four hours bike. Bottom line...just like my kids; I love 'em both equally!

free2move

shakeNbake

Nice!

If I ever went back to live in Indonesia, I'll definitely look into soul bikes.

sacul_reklaw

i cant imaging you can still reproduce after riding this thing.

is there such thing as a larger seat to stem difference

nescafe

haha! you're not the first to say that. the angle of the pic actually makes the saddle-to-stem drop look crazy huge (i too wondered when i saw the preview) , but in reality, it's a lot lot less aggressive!

parabellum

I am glad to finally be joining this thread.

I don't have pics yet, but I am riding a Cannondale R1000 (CAAD3 frame), Ultegras, CF slice fork.

Its been great so far.

Geoff326

hey we have the same last name but you have a much much better bike