Before you die...
12-08-05 | 04:57 PM
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From: POS Tennessee
Bikes: Gary Fisher Simple City 8, Litespeed Obed
Before you die...
...what kind of bike do you want to own? Mine's a Litespeed Blue Ridge with full Ultegra. Well, one of them anyway.
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Originally Posted by Bikeforums
Your rights end where another poster's feelings begin.
12-08-05 | 05:39 PM
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From: Absecon, NJ
Bikes: Puch Luzern, Puch Mistral SLE, Bianchi Pista, Motobecane Grand Touring, Austro-Daimler Ultima, Legnano, Raleigh MountainTour, Cannondale SM600
Just about any of the bikes on Ray Dobbin's site, but if push came to shove, I'd have to go with this beauty:
Photo source:
https://www.raydobbins.com/bottecchia/index.html
Photo source:
https://www.raydobbins.com/bottecchia/index.html
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12-08-05 | 05:41 PM
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From: Riverside, California
Bikes: Trek 2100 Road Bike, Full DA10, Cervelo P2K TT bike, Full DA10, Giant Boulder Steel Commuter
A 21 speed Huffy... because I would DIE riding it!
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Just your average club rider... :)
Just your average club rider... :)
12-08-05 | 05:48 PM
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From: POS Tennessee
Bikes: Gary Fisher Simple City 8, Litespeed Obed
Nick Burns, as always, excellent taste! 
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Originally Posted by Bikeforums
Your rights end where another poster's feelings begin.
12-08-05 | 06:24 PM
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From: POS Tennessee
Bikes: Gary Fisher Simple City 8, Litespeed Obed
Choose as many as you like, I was just wondering what everyone was fantasizing about.
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Originally Posted by Bikeforums
Your rights end where another poster's feelings begin.
12-08-05 | 07:00 PM
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From: POS Tennessee
Bikes: Gary Fisher Simple City 8, Litespeed Obed
Originally Posted by BostonFixed
I already have my dream bike. Does that mean that I'm going to die? 
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Originally Posted by Bikeforums
Your rights end where another poster's feelings begin.
12-08-05 | 09:12 PM
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From: NYC
Bikes: 04' Specialized Hardrock Sport, 03' Giant OCR2 (SOLD!), 04' Litespeed Firenze, 04' Giant OCR Touring, 07' Specialized Langster Comp
Originally Posted by krispistoferson
Yes, but you know, you'll die anyway...
12-10-05 | 10:15 AM
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From: Eastern PA
Bikes: Croll 531c/Campagnolo and Schwinn City Bike
Since I'm turning 50 in a few weeks, the thread title caught my attention (tick, tock).
I would want to have my old 1974 Raleigh Professional back again.
When I left my 15 year employment to start my own business, I went through a few hard-times along the way (as many do, of course). I had to sell my trusted and true ride (among several other items at the time) to put food on the table for a family of five, keep bills being paid, and keep a junker car running.
I've since posted in several places, including craigslist in phila, trying to find the owner to make a very generous offer to buy it back, and bring it back home. I know it's out there somewhere.
After so many hard and trying times building a business, it would be the thrill of my life to have it back home, and to hoist it onto the roof of my now Mercedes Sport Kompressor.
I would want to have my old 1974 Raleigh Professional back again.
When I left my 15 year employment to start my own business, I went through a few hard-times along the way (as many do, of course). I had to sell my trusted and true ride (among several other items at the time) to put food on the table for a family of five, keep bills being paid, and keep a junker car running.
I've since posted in several places, including craigslist in phila, trying to find the owner to make a very generous offer to buy it back, and bring it back home. I know it's out there somewhere.
After so many hard and trying times building a business, it would be the thrill of my life to have it back home, and to hoist it onto the roof of my now Mercedes Sport Kompressor.
12-10-05 | 11:07 AM
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From: Directly above the center of the earth
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A carbon fiber low-racer. Preferably with a Rohloff (sp?) hub and front wheel drive!
12-10-05 | 11:41 AM
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My old mid 60's Schwinn Varsity. Blue with white bar tape, Brooks saddle and rear rack.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
12-10-05 | 11:46 AM
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From: New Orleans
Bikes: Surly LHT x2, Raleigh Supercorse, DL1, Twenty
Nuff said! Trek Portland
Urban assault bike! Trek Session 77 If I could have either of these bikes I would die of joy!
Urban assault bike! Trek Session 77 If I could have either of these bikes I would die of joy!
12-10-05 | 03:49 PM
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From: Middle of da Mitten
Bikes: Trek 7500, RANS V-Rex, Optima Baron, Velokraft NoCom, M-5 Carbon Highracer, Bacchetta Quattro, Catrike Speed
Originally Posted by FarHorizon
A carbon fiber low-racer. Preferably with a Rohloff (sp?) hub and front wheel drive!
12-10-05 | 05:23 PM
#21
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From: Asheville, NC
Bikes: 2001 Litespeed Vortex - Shimano Ultegra, Jamis Dakar XC- Shimano XT, Diamond Back Axis TT- rigid with drop bars and bar end shifters
A custom fitted, handmade Italian bike, steel, with full Campy Record, sprinkled with just the right amounts of carbon fiber and ti.
12-10-05 | 05:26 PM
#22
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From: Directly above the center of the earth
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Originally Posted by BlazingPedals
Sounds like a CobraBike Lowracer.
