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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 02-18-15, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by TACTIC
Late afternoon sun here in the PNW.

It could be hot, but taking a picture with a background the same color as the chainrings sure doesn't do it justice.
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Originally Posted by kbarch
Do they all come with red bar end plugs, or did you do that? Nice touch in any event.
They all come with red bar end plugs.
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Originally Posted by dudemanppl
Didn't you find CAADs to be too tall and too harsh?
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Originally Posted by kbarch
No. Looks like so many dull old bits of plastic and metal thrown up against a wall. Could just be the photo/lighting, though.
Bummer! You’re comment reminds me of the Taylor Swift lyrics “…and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

One of the reasons I called out the "Late afternoon sun here in the PNW".
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Originally Posted by LAJ
It could be hot, but taking a picture with a background the same color as the chainrings sure doesn't do it justice.
Good point! I didn’t even think about that. I was trying to use the light - unfortunately low - to bring out the carbon.

My location is surrounded by hills and this was the most neutral wall I had available at the time I took the picture.
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Old 02-19-15, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by TACTIC
Bummer! You’re comment reminds me of the Taylor Swift lyrics “…and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

One of the reasons I called out the "Late afternoon sun here in the PNW".
No hate, just disappointment.
Sure the lighting highlights the CF. but I'm not so sure that makes it look better.
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Originally Posted by Fiery
Didn't you find CAADs to be too tall and too harsh?
They are. But this is purely a race bike and I wanted the cockpit slightly higher so I could constantly be in the drops.
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Old 02-19-15, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by kbarch
No hate, just disappointment.
Sure the lighting highlights the CF. but I'm not so sure that makes it look better.
I agree. It takes something away from the big picture…
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Originally Posted by dudemanppl
No cabling, no bar tape. Looks like it's cooking, but not hot yet.
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Originally Posted by cycledogg
No cabling, no bar tape. Looks like it's cooking, but not hot yet.
Cooking, perhaps, and about as hot as it's ever going to get at that. Like the oatmeal on the stove cooking now.
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The caad9 would be better with shallower drop bars. For a 48/50 frame full size bars are huge. And the lever reach is probably a bit far for small hands. (Sort of like the bmc with the bars as low as the rim)

Is the seat at the right height for your stature, Or is the stem correctly sized? The overall reach seems disproportionate to the stack

i love the bike.
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They're compact drops though. The CAAD 9 is actually shorter than I'd like. 703mm is correct saddle height. 130mm stem is correct (for me).
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Originally Posted by dudemanppl
They're compact drops though. The CAAD 9 is actually shorter than I'd like. 703mm is correct saddle height. 130mm stem is correct (for me).
Cool. It is all about fit. (On both ends of the sizing scale the proportions look "off" when components are standard sizes.)
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I'm definitely comfortable in the drops on the BMC though. I might switch the bars out now that the CAAD... exists. Gonna be my race bike.
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Wish we had the jerk of old on this thread...

https://weightweenies.starbike.com/fo...2859&mode=view
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so, we're just going to decide that to be considered hot, we eschew bar tape and cables entirely?
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NOT on all the unfinished bikes. There's no partial credit.
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Old 02-23-15, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by milkbaby
NOT on all the unfinished bikes. There's no partial credit.
Agree.
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I couldn't help myself.
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Originally Posted by velociraptor

That saddle is hot...
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Originally Posted by Sufferage
That saddle is hot...
Is that pure silicon?
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I couldn't help myself.
14kg of hot mess
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Originally Posted by Dalzhel
Hot like cinnamon candy, maybe (though I much prefer this bike over cinnamon candy).
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Originally Posted by velociraptor






I couldn't help myself.
Yes, you could. What the heck is that supposed to be?
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