The New Mercier Kilo TT Pictures Thread (2011 & 2012)
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carleton rules because he says what everyone with sense is thinking.
will you still appreciate it when you sell it in six months and move on to whatever else?
will you still appreciate it when you sell it in six months and move on to whatever else?
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Why would I sell it? I love this bike. I will have my around town bike (kilo) and my weekend workout bike (super pista). I am perfectly fine with my purchases.
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did i stutter? you own a kilo tt, a kilo stripper, and a super pista. are they all three built with dp18s and whatever other origin8 parts you got from j and b? money wasted is money wasted. it doesnt matter. you still own three versions of the same bike.
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Seriously, $600 is a great start towards a nice used road bike.
For example:
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst...830309303.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...822003564.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...789738281.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...788417425.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827758342.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827734269.html
I think all of those are less than $600.
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Your cog is slipping.
Not sure what you're reading but he's got a Kilo and a Super Pista. By the version of simple math I learned in grade school, that adds up to two bikes.
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If you love this bike, maybe keep it as is and put that $600 towards a new bike as it has been proven my math guys that the optiumum number of bikes is n+1 (n being the number of bikes you currently own).
Seriously, $600 is a great start towards a nice used road bike.
For example:
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst...830309303.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...822003564.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...789738281.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...788417425.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827758342.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827734269.html
I think all of those are less than $600.
Seriously, $600 is a great start towards a nice used road bike.
For example:
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst...830309303.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...822003564.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...789738281.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...788417425.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827758342.html
- https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...827734269.html
I think all of those are less than $600.
Unfortunately, all stickers have been removed from the bike. Still have one on my tool box though!
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Hey Guys,
Long time lurker, new to actually posting. I'm looking to buy a Kilo TT but I'm not really sure what size I should get. I'm 5' 6.5" tall, have about a 30.5" inseam. I've attached a photo of my bike measurements from the fit calculator
It seems like I'm closest to a 50, but it's a little bit too big. Do you think I should go for the 50 or the 47? I'm just afraid of getting the 50 and having the seat slammed onto the frame. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Long time lurker, new to actually posting. I'm looking to buy a Kilo TT but I'm not really sure what size I should get. I'm 5' 6.5" tall, have about a 30.5" inseam. I've attached a photo of my bike measurements from the fit calculator
It seems like I'm closest to a 50, but it's a little bit too big. Do you think I should go for the 50 or the 47? I'm just afraid of getting the 50 and having the seat slammed onto the frame. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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Im 5'8.5 with a 29-30 inseam and i ordered a 50cm which is really a 53cm. You should be ok with a 50cm and youll probably work just fine with a 47cm as well in my opinion. Alot of these guys on this site will know alot more then I will though lol
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You've got a full 2" in height on me. Assuming you have a proportional upper body and you've got a 50cm, this makes me worried; I think I should probably go with a 47 and I can always add some stem and seatpost. Can anybody else offer any help?
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Whether tis nobler in the velodrome to suffer the slings and arrows of 1" headsets, or take quill stems, and by adapters, not use them? to tarck; to skid; no brakes; and by brakeless sweet fixays we ride through dank alleyways and through a thousand gentrified burbs to bars and to house parties; tis a street cred steezy to be wished. To tarck, to skid; to skid: perchance to whip- aye, there's the needless rubbing of your tires against the road. For in that whip, what car mirrors and pedestrians may be tapped when we have broken all the traffic laws and angered all the roadies to trackstand at a light: there's the precarious position that displays our huge balls twitching over kashimax.
For who would bear the whipskids and roadie scorn all the time,
The police's tickets, the bike thieves gall,
The stripped threads of lockring'd hubs, the hospital bills, the road rash burns of cars careless cutoff curbhops done wrong, when we ourselves can just ****ing ride a road bike and cease this sillyness? That we could join the mass lances and don race kit and not sweat in our 511s for eternities under midday sun, but for the fear that we won't look cool enough to sup the utmost of squirrels, puzzles the boutique patrons and makes us rather turn ungodly high ratios than try to figure out which ratio will give us a good cadence?
Thus fixed gears doth make cowards of us all; and thus the cadence of hillclimb gradients is beset with struggling torque of pantsshat exertion, and knees take a beating fantastic, with loads from too high gears for the climb. Fixed and not free, Soft, my tender ego, for the squirrels do know my bike better than i!
err, i mean... kilo.
get the kilo.
For who would bear the whipskids and roadie scorn all the time,
The police's tickets, the bike thieves gall,
The stripped threads of lockring'd hubs, the hospital bills, the road rash burns of cars careless cutoff curbhops done wrong, when we ourselves can just ****ing ride a road bike and cease this sillyness? That we could join the mass lances and don race kit and not sweat in our 511s for eternities under midday sun, but for the fear that we won't look cool enough to sup the utmost of squirrels, puzzles the boutique patrons and makes us rather turn ungodly high ratios than try to figure out which ratio will give us a good cadence?
Thus fixed gears doth make cowards of us all; and thus the cadence of hillclimb gradients is beset with struggling torque of pantsshat exertion, and knees take a beating fantastic, with loads from too high gears for the climb. Fixed and not free, Soft, my tender ego, for the squirrels do know my bike better than i!
err, i mean... kilo.
get the kilo.
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^^ BOOM. That just happened.