Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

This place sometimes seems like an endless Whac-a-Mole. What draws them here?

for the record.. i learned to use a high cadence on a Schwinn stingray with a 36/18 Gear ratio... it had Knobbies front and rear a Decade before BMX bikes hit the market... and the Bars were a "butterfly" set borrowed from my Sears Dragster bike... the extra weight added stability in ruts and gravel.

PS..i used to hunt down people wearing spandex. compliment their expensive Italian frames and Campy parts, then sprint away at speed to make them feel inferior. Some gave chase, but none ever caught up. I wore old tennis shoes, cut-off Levis and an old rock concert tee-shirt while blowing off people that think extra money will make them somehow magically faster.

good luck ogling drivetrains online.. It won't help you go faster. The things i mentioned will, if you learn to listen.

PS.. my racing colors when i rode Dez and ISDE M/C events were white,. blue, and PINK... on a GREEN bike! :giver:

OK, this won't help you at all, but...

"the factory drivetrain, or is it upgraded" -- uh, I've modified just about every bike I've ever touched, and many of them weren't even mine. ;)

Anyway, just finished this and I think I posted a photo already on another topic... but I got back from a second shakedown ride and never got past 5th gear at 24mph on the flat. I need to look it up again but calculated that 8th is about 129 gear inches (50Tx16T? on a Nexus 8). What am I going to do with that? My 66 year old knees may file for divorce.


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Do you have any evidence that those people actually felt or thought that way, or are those just your unfounded assumptions about a few people you don't know at all?

If someone rolls up on me, compliments my bike, and then sprints away, the only things I think are that the person likes my bike and is doing some high-intensity intervals. It has zero effect on my self-esteem. However, your thought process about it makes it pretty much a d**k move on your part.

uh huh... sure... yep,... whatever...

Explain how your comments will help the OP.

I have already responded to the OPs request for drivetrain pics as well as providing additional information about each of the pics posted, in response to his question about them. Maybe he can learn something. Maybe not.

Maybe your tales of a bad attitude are just what he needs.

Another phantom racer to join beng and Larry. :roflmao:

Even LarrySellerz does not use one of these: TT RING SETS - Praxis Works (praxiscycles.com)

But LarrySellerz rides in SF, where there are hills; twogears should definitely upgrade to a 56/42 ring set.