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12-15-11, 01:15 AM
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Your rims, pedals and cranks are probably lighter too than mine. The rest of my "bits" may be comparable to yours.
12-25-11, 03:11 AM
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Yay for Christmas...I got new bling bits...
New bling bolts
New bling stem cap
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My Road bike got bling too...
And my wife's MTB got pink water bottle cages...
Sadly no undies or socks.
New bling bolts
New bling stem cap
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My Road bike got bling too...
And my wife's MTB got pink water bottle cages...
Sadly no undies or socks.
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12-25-11, 03:47 AM
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Hmm lets see, there's new bolts a stem cap, seatpost frog light is recent maybe a few more dots "not enough though" Hmm am I missing anything else.
Well anyway it looks good as usual Santa likes you.
Well anyway it looks good as usual Santa likes you.
Well thats just too much now I didnt get anywhere like that much for christmas.
12-25-11, 04:02 AM
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12-25-11, 04:05 AM
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12-26-11, 11:50 AM
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The VW SE Trek I bought and restored in order to help myself get into shape and lose weight...
12-27-11, 02:41 AM
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12-27-11, 02:42 AM
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12-28-11, 01:09 PM
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Picked up an 2011 KHS Vitamin A, for my wife for her, "commuter/back up" bicycle. The angle of the photo makes the bar ends look "really" tall, LOL.
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12-28-11, 01:30 PM
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Nice KHS. Good thing you mentioned the angle because I was going to mention the Steer/horns coming off the front of that thing... Lol
12-28-11, 01:40 PM
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Your barends look really tall and your frame looks really small,
but as long as you like to ride it ... what matters that is all. (forced it to rhyme there
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but as long as you like to ride it ... what matters that is all. (forced it to rhyme there
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12-29-11, 11:01 AM
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12-29-11, 11:48 AM
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12-29-11, 06:10 PM
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Hi folks, still pretty new to this forum, so i thought i'd share some pics of my hybrid. Its a K2 escape that I got for fathers day, and its a pretty solid bike thats gotten me to do a lot more riding. I put in an 8 speed cassette (from a 7 speed freewheel), Shimano bar-ends and a drop bar. I know when I was doing research and asking around, a lot of people tried to shy me away from doing the conversion, but it rides just the way I like.
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12-30-11, 12:53 AM
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No road bike yet...i have put a Full Suspension Bike on Lay Away until i pay it off. Then i will start researching a road bike. Got any recommendations? Thinking about the $1k range.
01-01-12, 09:05 PM
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I finally committed to a bike build. I got caught up in the Rivendell philosophy and my original plan was to build this bike up with a very upright riding position (check out the bars still on it!) and fat tires. After riding it a bit that way I've decided to make the bike more aggressive. I'm not really into casually riding around, I like to push it and go hard and fast!
I plan to change the 700 x 38c tires to something in the low 30's, replace the ridiculous rise handlebars with something in the 30-50 mm range of rise and maybe replace the Ergons with the variety that have bar-ends attached. Long-term, I will have a custom wheel set built (I'm a super clydesdale), replace the 7-speed cartridge with an 8 or 9 speed, finally decide on shifters (using cheap friction thumb shifters for now) and get the frame powdercoated. Unless I get bit by the distance bug, this will probably be my only bike for years to come.
I plan to change the 700 x 38c tires to something in the low 30's, replace the ridiculous rise handlebars with something in the 30-50 mm range of rise and maybe replace the Ergons with the variety that have bar-ends attached. Long-term, I will have a custom wheel set built (I'm a super clydesdale), replace the 7-speed cartridge with an 8 or 9 speed, finally decide on shifters (using cheap friction thumb shifters for now) and get the frame powdercoated. Unless I get bit by the distance bug, this will probably be my only bike for years to come.
01-02-12, 09:00 AM
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01-02-12, 09:02 AM
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Hi folks, still pretty new to this forum, so i thought i'd share some pics of my hybrid. Its a K2 escape that I got for fathers day, and its a pretty solid bike thats gotten me to do a lot more riding. I put in an 8 speed cassette (from a 7 speed freewheel), Shimano bar-ends and a drop bar. I know when I was doing research and asking around, a lot of people tried to shy me away from doing the conversion, but it rides just the way I like.
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01-02-12, 09:12 AM
#3275
You gonna eat that?
I thought I posted this but maybe not..... this was from a ride a week before Christmas, 44 miles of (mostly) unpaved roads.
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