Your Ideal/Dream Ride
03-25-05 | 03:39 PM
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From: New Hampshire
Bikes: Fuji Roubaix
Your Ideal/Dream Ride
After coming off the first ride of the 2005 season, which wasn't bad to say the least, I was inspiried with making up this thread.
Imagine...Close your eyes
If you could have any bike, any setting, any weather conditions, any dream bike partners and anything else you ever dreamed about. What would that ride be?
Imagine...Close your eyes
If you could have any bike, any setting, any weather conditions, any dream bike partners and anything else you ever dreamed about. What would that ride be?
03-25-05 | 04:11 PM
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Tour de DFW
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Texas
Bikes: '05 Cervelo Soloist
Felt F1C
California coast
probably.. 72 degrees, sunny with light clouds
Partner?
I dunno.. my incredibly gorgeous supermodel girlfriend.. of course.
No traffic either.
And it would rain gumdrops
California coast
probably.. 72 degrees, sunny with light clouds
Partner?
I dunno.. my incredibly gorgeous supermodel girlfriend.. of course.
No traffic either.
And it would rain gumdrops
03-25-05 | 04:16 PM
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Meow!
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Riverside, California
Bikes: Trek 2100 Road Bike, Full DA10, Cervelo P2K TT bike, Full DA10, Giant Boulder Steel Commuter
Sevn Elium Race (Ti/CF), full record, zipp 404 wheelset
Place - Somewhere along the Calfornia coast
People - all the people that I ride with every week...
Place - Somewhere along the Calfornia coast
People - all the people that I ride with every week...
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Just your average club rider... :)
03-25-05 | 05:13 PM
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Mad bike riding scientist
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From: Denver, CO
Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones
1. Bicycling the Great Divide Trail in September, when the aspen are changing color.
2. Bicycling the Highlands of Scotland again. No schedule but my own.
2. Bicycling the Highlands of Scotland again. No schedule but my own.
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Stuart Black
Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
03-25-05 | 05:57 PM
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Old School Rad
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From: The old Mountains
Bikes: Blur LT
Santa Cruz Bullit/Fox 36 fork.
1 week at Whistler, sunny and 75f
Riding with my son who's 12.
That would be a good time.
1 week at Whistler, sunny and 75f
Riding with my son who's 12.
That would be a good time.
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03-25-05 | 06:47 PM
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Studs Terkel
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From: Dubai, UAE
Bikes: Pinarello Paris; Avanti Blade Comp; Tommasini X-Fire; Merckx San Remo 76.
This is my dream bike.
I wouldn't ride it though, I'd hang it on my wall so everyone could admire it.
I wouldn't ride it though, I'd hang it on my wall so everyone could admire it.
03-25-05 | 06:55 PM
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From: New Hampshire
Bikes: Fuji Roubaix
My dream ride will be taking place this summer on the Kangamangus Highway, right here in New Hampshire. The highway consists of a 32 mile stretch along the Kangamangus River along the White Mountains/Great Woods of New Hampshire. Hoping the weather is nice, somewhere in the 70's, plentiful sunshine, and I will be using my Fuji Roubaix.
Just an idea what the river and scenery look like
Just an idea what the river and scenery look like
03-25-05 | 07:49 PM
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Back to granite
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From: Boston
Bikes: '02 C'dale Jekyll 700, '04 C'dale R1000 Double
Great choice, I love that stretch of road. Just have to get far enough away from Conway to avoid the mobs.
I'd have to say right now I'd love to ride Fruita on a SC Blur. For the road, I'll stick with my new r1000 riding the Massachusetts coast south of Boston.
I'd have to say right now I'd love to ride Fruita on a SC Blur. For the road, I'll stick with my new r1000 riding the Massachusetts coast south of Boston.
03-25-05 | 08:09 PM
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In Memory of One Cool Cat
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From: Charlottesville, VA
Bikes: Lemond Victoire, Cannondale.Mountain Bike, two 1980s lugged steel Treks, ancient 1980-something Giant mountain bike converted into a slick tired commuter with mustache handlebars, 1960-something Raleigh Sports
Crete. Beautiful, mysterious, wonderful Crete.
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03-25-05 | 08:20 PM
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Wood Licker
Joined: Apr 2002
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From: Whistler,BC
Bikes: Trek Fuel EX 8 27.5 +, 2002 Transition Dirtbag, Kona Roast 2002
Deep in the woods on top of a mountain in a rainforest early morning with some fog. 2 of my favorite riding buddies and me on a transition preston. Climb for 3 hours descent for 1 hour. Nothing around me, no contrete just absolutely massive trees, soaked as a natural affect from being a rain forest.
Thats my ideal world...gotta be in the mountains.
Thats my ideal world...gotta be in the mountains.
03-25-05 | 08:21 PM
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From: Whistler,BC
Bikes: Trek Fuel EX 8 27.5 +, 2002 Transition Dirtbag, Kona Roast 2002
Originally Posted by mtnbiker66
Santa Cruz Bullit/Fox 36 fork.
1 week at Whistler, sunny and 75f
Riding with my son who's 12.
That would be a good time.
1 week at Whistler, sunny and 75f
Riding with my son who's 12.
That would be a good time.
03-25-05 | 10:21 PM
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Interocitor Command
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From: The adult video section
Bikes: 3 Road Bikes, 2 Hybrids
Originally Posted by KevinmH9
... If you could have any bike, any setting, any weather conditions, any dream bike partners and anything else you ever dreamed about. What would that ride be?
If I were to get a dream bike it would be a Specialized Roubaix Elite or a Giant OCR Composit 2. Both bikes would need different wheelsets though. Again, I'm pretty easy to please.
03-26-05 | 06:00 AM
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From: Rhode Island
Bikes: Lemond, Cannondale
I can't wait to get to the White Mountains this summer
https://nbwclub.org/events/2005-NBWchallengetour.html
03-26-05 | 09:09 AM
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Former Hoarder
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From: Portland & Yachats, OR
Bikes: Steve Rex, Seven Axiom, Felt Z1, Dave Moulton Fuso
My dream ride isn't a route but a set of conditions. Starting with great weather for every ride and pre-set, never to be broken time frames set aside specifically for riding. Mix in a choice of friends of varying abilities to mix hard and easier days, some smooth roads and great scenery.
And a Vanilla bike to boot.
That's why it's called a dream.
55/Rad
And a Vanilla bike to boot.
That's why it's called a dream.
55/Rad
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03-26-05 | 09:18 AM
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My ideal ride looks something like this, only on a sunny day with any of my bikejournal.com friends on my 05 Jamis Quest:
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03-26-05 | 10:34 AM
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Beausage is Beautiful
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From: Saitama, Japan
Bikes: Nabiis Alchemy
Put me on a Felt TK2 set up with cutoff bullhorns and Eggbeaters, and put me in Shinjuku at midnight in the summer rain.
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03-26-05 | 04:21 PM
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From: Kitchener, Ontario
Bikes: Rebel Cycles Trike, Trek 7500FX
Mountains, or perhaps a coastal area
21 degrees C
sunny
my wife and a few of my friends
a nice, smooth paved road with NO CARS
And, my brand new Trek.
21 degrees C
sunny
my wife and a few of my friends
a nice, smooth paved road with NO CARS
And, my brand new Trek.
03-28-05 | 03:33 PM
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From: Maplewood, NJ
Bikes: EPX 303 (You probably never heard of it)
[https://www.softride.com/product.asp?p=20]
I would RAAM on a SoftRide. I have never ridden one, but would love to try out. I love the rad design and the RAAM speaks for itself.
I would RAAM on a SoftRide. I have never ridden one, but would love to try out. I love the rad design and the RAAM speaks for itself.
03-28-05 | 03:53 PM
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genec
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From: West Coast
Bikes: custom built, sannino, beachbike, giant trance x2
Originally Posted by The Fixer
some more of this.....regardless of bike
I saw two posters mention the CA coast... I've done it... and frankly the tour down Baja was far far better... much less traffic, beautiful views, and wide open wilderness. Essentially no cities.
I'd like to repeat that ride, but without having to carry my gear... I want a supported tour down the length of Baja, and just to add to the fun, I want gourmet meals at all the stops.
But as long as we are talking "wishes;" how about all along the western coast with no vehicles... no cars on the road what so ever. The road is just open for bikes. Now that would be a Dream Ride.
03-28-05 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by genec
But as long as we are talking "wishes;" how about all along the western coast with no vehicles... no cars on the road what so ever. The road is just open for bikes. Now that would be a Dream Ride.
Every car is a little sweeping blessing to the road cyclist...
03-28-05 | 07:49 PM
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Iowa. Last week of July with 10,000 or so of my closest friends. Any bike in the basement. No headwinds, 75 and sunny, 55 at night. Not very many gravel miles. No place runs out of pies; and no lines at Pastafari. Anybody coming along?