Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
You should rebuild the bike. I am sick of Trek, Specialized and Cannondale. People ask me why I spent so much on my old bikes or why am I riding what I am riding of instead of Bike X. Well, because I do not want the same flat black, disc braked, CF or faux CF (aluminum) Chinese box factory bike they have. I so love passing folks on CF bikes. They obsess over grams on their bikes and most of them could loose 40 pounds from the engine, which do you think will make the bigger difference in performance?
Go old, go steel or some nice 6061T6 vintage aluminum. Sorry, the brifters need to go.
You have a nice bicycle there, enjoy it, upgrade, cherish that it is not part of the herd.
Looks like a 56 or 58 size frame, you could not be that big huh?
Good luck with your weight loss, not something I ever had to deal with but I applaud your efforts to not be a part of the 90% obese population. Be different, get skinny. Anyone can be overweight and ride a CF Trek. Not everyone has a nice, old finely honed Jake the Snake!
Good luck with your program.
It's nice to hear (read) something other than: "Eww! Old bike! Buy new Bike!"
This is a 60cm frame, and I'm 6'4" tall. I ride a 62 or 63 on road bikes with the lower BB heights.
I was poking around, looking at new, upgrade parts for this bike, but then... in line with what you said... there's nothing really wrong with the way I have it set up now. I have toyed with the idea of swapping the brifters for bar-ends (with which I'm pretty comfortable), and building a new front wheel (I have the parts now, A23 rim, LX hub, DB spokes) and riding Jake into the sunset.