Perhaps this has already been asked but being new guy here:
09-26-08, 06:00 PM
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gone ride'n
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My MTB is an aluminum Gary Fischer hard tail with a front shock - it is my commuter. My sprinter/climber is a Carbon Fiber Specialized Tarmac Expert but my real love and the bike I ride if I am going distance is my steel Somoncini - classic lugged Columbus SLX tubing. I just put a whole new Chorus group on the Simoncini, it is approximately 14 years old - that should tell you something.
If I hade to sell bikes I would ditch the Tarmac first - I just bought it last year.
If I hade to sell bikes I would ditch the Tarmac first - I just bought it last year.
09-26-08, 06:28 PM
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Pretend Racer
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Interesting...I came to cycling rather late, having spent a lot of years running (no, I didn't switch because my knees gave out..). I own four bikes now, all aluminum frames and I'm happy with all of them.
09-26-08, 08:04 PM
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Randomhead
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I bought my newest bike in '85, so they're all steel. I pretty much got over my desire for anything other than steel when I went through 3 teledyne titan Ti frames back in the '70s. Light weight is nice, but not really all that essential.
09-26-08, 10:39 PM
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I ride old ('86 Univega) and new ('07 LeMond) steel. If I ever get another bike it will be steel. I'm sold.
09-26-08, 10:48 PM
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The Davidson in my signature line is Titanium. The rest are steel.
N+1 will be steel.
N+2 might be carbon fiber.
N+1 will be steel.
N+2 might be carbon fiber.
09-27-08, 12:08 AM
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His Brain is Gone!
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The Redline 925 is already up for sale?
There must be a story to tell.
There must be a story to tell.
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There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
09-27-08, 07:31 AM
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Pete Penseyeres used them in RAAM one year. He said whenever the topic came up, everyone would ask "Where did yours break?"
09-27-08, 07:56 AM
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Prefers Cicero
Steel all the way. Almost all my adult bikes are bought used. When I started commuting in 1992, I got a beater because I live in a city with high bike theft, although less now apparently, with Igor out of the business. After wearing out my first $80 purchase in my first year of commuting, I rode a used Panasonic sport tour bike for about 12 years and then "upgraded" by buying a 20 year old Trek tour bike. I've also had a couple of old steel mountain bikes over the same period. Last year I bought a new Bike Friday, but of course it is steel as well.
