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12-04-12, 02:39 AM
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Sweet frame, Aaron, glad you found your grail bike. she will just purr with a nice Rohloff hub and butterfly bars. Are you going to replace that tacky tramp stamp tattoo rose on the headtube with another sweet custom badge? 
12-04-12, 06:12 AM
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Heh - if I can deal with my wife's tacky tramp stamp, I can deal with the red rose petals.
12-04-12, 06:25 AM
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12-04-12, 06:31 AM
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I'm damned near speechless...
12-04-12, 06:35 AM
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No one's perfect 
I f you had told me 4 years ago that I would love a woman with a tramp stamp into 90s R&B, I would have laughed at you. Now I can appreciate Beyonce and sing along to TLC.
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12-04-12, 07:18 AM
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Aaron, I am really starting to worry about you.
Pink deep Vs and a IGH, and singing along with TLC!
What going on here?
Pink deep Vs and a IGH, and singing along with TLC!
What going on here?
12-04-12, 08:07 AM
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So, this is a little large, and you're going to keep it?
It will never see the light of day. It will be behind all the other bikes that aren't ridden in your basement. Perhaps a vintage Ted Williams would be more appropriate for your riding style?
The headbadge resembles Georgia O'Keefe's art like I resemble Georgia O'Keefe.
It looks more like the Rose Bowl Parade emblem:
It will never see the light of day. It will be behind all the other bikes that aren't ridden in your basement. Perhaps a vintage Ted Williams would be more appropriate for your riding style?
The headbadge resembles Georgia O'Keefe's art like I resemble Georgia O'Keefe.
It looks more like the Rose Bowl Parade emblem:
12-04-12, 08:12 AM
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It's in my size range, but on the small side. Can I recommend a reading assistance program? Sorry, but I feel no need to justify what bikes I own or ride to you. Shove it, I'll ride the ones I want, when I want. Don't like it? Buy them yourself 
FYI - it's
Georgia O'Keeffe
Snide posts with misspellings make you look foolish and undercut the sophisticated, aloof sarcasm you attempted.
FYI - it's
Georgia O'Keeffe
Snide posts with misspellings make you look foolish and undercut the sophisticated, aloof sarcasm you attempted.
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12-04-12, 08:25 AM
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I'm curious...why would someone feel the need to crap on someone else's new acquisition? Is wittle Timmy upset that no one cares about his bike? Are you having a bad day? I had a wide smile on my face riding my Cinelli this morning...the weather was lovely!
I especially like how you took the time to reference my Sachs...I suppose it's easier to do when the person has a bike worth remembering. I wonder why you're taking the time to attack my bikes on a thread that I started when I don't recall having ever wasted a second on you or yours? In fact I don't recall having ever spoken with you...yet I'm important enough for you to attack and insult when you've never met me or interacted with me.
I know that the internet provides a place for you to be an ass anonymously, but we're real people - and we might know some of the same people. It's not far fetched to think you might have ridden with me, or met me...but instead you acted like an ass to someone you don't know. Why? What does that gain you? I might have had a part you could use...I might have helped you to facilitate a bike. Instead, now you made an enemy of someone. I hope it was worth it.
I especially like how you took the time to reference my Sachs...I suppose it's easier to do when the person has a bike worth remembering. I wonder why you're taking the time to attack my bikes on a thread that I started when I don't recall having ever wasted a second on you or yours? In fact I don't recall having ever spoken with you...yet I'm important enough for you to attack and insult when you've never met me or interacted with me.
I know that the internet provides a place for you to be an ass anonymously, but we're real people - and we might know some of the same people. It's not far fetched to think you might have ridden with me, or met me...but instead you acted like an ass to someone you don't know. Why? What does that gain you? I might have had a part you could use...I might have helped you to facilitate a bike. Instead, now you made an enemy of someone. I hope it was worth it.
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12-04-12, 08:39 AM
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12-04-12, 08:41 AM
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Isn't it funny when you realize all the things that you thought mattered, don't? Heck - it's better to be with someone completely different from you...it expands your horizons and gives you personal space.
12-04-12, 08:59 AM
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So you will have to give a ride report. I have never seen a derosa with pink wheels and a IGH!
But I guess thats what being different is all about!
12-04-12, 09:18 AM
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Speaking of pink and different, Jen Green is working on a head badge for my wife's daily bike. Different definitely applies!
What's the t-minus to the Spectrum?
12-04-12, 09:23 AM
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Park it next to the Retrodirect Colnago, the shellac-and-twine Cervelo and the 650B/coaster brake conversion Confente.
12-04-12, 09:24 AM
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Less than a week.
TK and Jeff also built me a custom S/S front rack around a berthound front bag, which was was packed with the bike!
Should be wonderful. It will fit fenders, yet I am not sure I want to put them on.
12-04-12, 09:25 AM
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Very nice. A build with lots of alloy components and red bar tape would be the bee's knees.
Quick question for whomever: I have a couple of bikes with those deep cuts into the bottom of the BB as well, is there any way to prevent this? A small piece of housing, perhaps?
Quick question for whomever: I have a couple of bikes with those deep cuts into the bottom of the BB as well, is there any way to prevent this? A small piece of housing, perhaps?
12-04-12, 09:26 AM
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Shipped out on Monday. So however long it takes to get here from about where you live.
Less than a week.
TK and Jeff also built me a custom S/S front rack around a berthound front bag, which was was packed with the bike!
Should be wonderful. It will fit fenders, yet I am not sure I want to put them on.
Less than a week.
TK and Jeff also built me a custom S/S front rack around a berthound front bag, which was was packed with the bike!
Should be wonderful. It will fit fenders, yet I am not sure I want to put them on.
Very nice. A build with lots of alloy components and red bar tape would be the bee's knees.
Quick question for whomever: I have a couple of bikes with those deep cuts into the bottom of the BB as well, is there any way to prevent this? A small piece of housing, perhaps?
Quick question for whomever: I have a couple of bikes with those deep cuts into the bottom of the BB as well, is there any way to prevent this? A small piece of housing, perhaps?
As far as the build - it's getting pretty close to original. I have most of the c-record bits hanging on another bike and I have one of the correct panto covers. I don't have the correct panto 3ttt stem, the 3ttt bars, the wheels (I think originally Campy Sigma) or the c-record rear derailleur. I have a Cinelli panto stem that's the perfect length for this, a chorus rear derailleur, which I think worked better anyway, and record hubs. CdM might be able to assist me in having the other delta cover engraved.
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12-04-12, 09:38 AM
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Unusual is good! My favorite bikes to ride are the weird ones.
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