If it "had to be" one bike for the rest of your life...
11-11-11, 01:40 PM
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If it "had to be" one bike for the rest of your life...
If it "had to be" one bike for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
11-11-11, 01:41 PM
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My Super Grand Prix Raleigh C
It fits I ride it all the time and it is the bike I always go back to...
I have spares for everything and several sets of wheels
functional beautiful and fast
It fits I ride it all the time and it is the bike I always go back to...
I have spares for everything and several sets of wheels
functional beautiful and fast
11-11-11, 01:43 PM
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Oh Yeah the SGP C always makes me smile even when it is sitting in my living room and it make my wife sile as well she even said one day where is the bike so I brought it back inside the living room THATS the coolest bike ever
11-11-11, 01:48 PM
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If it had to last the rest of my life with me getting older it would probably be a Lynskey Helix.
11-11-11, 01:52 PM
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A cyclocross bike because it is versatile for multiple uses- off road, road, commuting, etc.
11-11-11, 01:55 PM
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Cause it's hawt, that's why.
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11-11-11, 02:00 PM
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Not a very "Road Cycling" answer, but it's true. Superlight rigid steel MTB if I could only have one bike. Why? Pretty good on the trails and pretty good on the road. I'd have to think long and hard between this and a CX, but I think I'd go rigid MTB with at least two sets of wheels.
Forum-fitting answer? I'm pretty stoked with my Pinarello. To the grave! Why? because I like it.
Pinarello at Turtle Park by Lester Of Puppets, on Flickr
Forum-fitting answer? I'm pretty stoked with my Pinarello. To the grave! Why? because I like it.
Pinarello at Turtle Park by Lester Of Puppets, on Flickr
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11-11-11, 02:09 PM
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A lot of metal here.
If it had to be a "forever" bike,
I think it'd have to be steel or titanium.
"We are just men, not gods, not giants, just men.
And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery.
You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline,
for no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts...
This you can trust."
(Mordec)
https://www.anyclip.com/movies/conan-the-barbarian/the-secret-of-steel/
If it had to be a "forever" bike,
I think it'd have to be steel or titanium.
"We are just men, not gods, not giants, just men.
And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery.
You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline,
for no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts...
This you can trust."
(Mordec)
https://www.anyclip.com/movies/conan-the-barbarian/the-secret-of-steel/
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11-11-11, 02:23 PM
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The 78 Colnago Super I had. If I could get it back, I wouldn't let go of it again. The only reason I don't pine over it more, is because I enjoy riding so much that I can get by with my cheap bikes for the next few years. They are good, but they are no Colnago. Lesson learned. When I upgrade, I will buy a totl CF race bike, and I might keep that forever.
11-11-11, 02:34 PM
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Salsa Vaya....got to love a bike you can run 23c road tires one minute and then 700X42 All Terrains the next. I've done road rides dirt roads, gravel and even single track. I've even toured on it...
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11-11-11, 02:48 PM
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My R3, some kind of CX bike for a commuter/utility machine, and a mountain bike.
11-11-11, 03:00 PM
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I havent ridden that many bikes, but if i had to pick one I've ridden, it would be a Torelli Countach
https://www.torelli.com/frames/torell.../countach.html
crazy light for steel and it felt amazing on the road
https://www.torelli.com/frames/torell.../countach.html
crazy light for steel and it felt amazing on the road
11-11-11, 03:04 PM
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It would be a steel bike. I love the performance of my new Scott Addict R1 and I love the way it looks - absolutely love it, but I grew up riding/racing steel. Something about steel is timeless and classical. There's a romance, for lack of a better word, that steel has that carbon fiber doesn't. Steel is the beautiful wife, Carbon the hot mistress.
11-11-11, 03:07 PM
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11-11-11, 03:08 PM
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under what circumstances would you have to have only one bike ?What about n+1?
Need good road bike. Need good mountain bike. Maybe we could say what if you could only have one bike of a category?
Then it'd be a sunny weather roadie, a rain bike, a moab style mtn bike, a mud fest mtn bike, a tri bike, a tt bike, a TdF bike and one for the occasional friend who likes to come along, and we're back to where we are today with n+1 bikes and all is good. Feel free to add categories...
Need good road bike. Need good mountain bike. Maybe we could say what if you could only have one bike of a category?
Then it'd be a sunny weather roadie, a rain bike, a moab style mtn bike, a mud fest mtn bike, a tri bike, a tt bike, a TdF bike and one for the occasional friend who likes to come along, and we're back to where we are today with n+1 bikes and all is good. Feel free to add categories...
11-11-11, 03:10 PM
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11-11-11, 04:00 PM
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Throw the stick!!!!
I would probably have another Ti IF Crown Jewel built.
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