Well I do ride what I feel will get me to and fro safely day in and day out. Can even toss some fun in there while I'm at it. Hail knobbies!!!!! :lol: Yes winter for me is MTB time. What are you lads doin' for the winter?

I had the Ciocc powder-coated black and it is now my single-speed with some 23s on the rear and 20s on the front....pretty quick and it should slice through the snow nicely. I had it as my winter ride last year too but the gears kept getting bogged down with salt and ice so I thought I'd try it as SS this year and build it up with a 9-speed 105 kit in the spring. I also have been tooling around on that little Razesa lately and it is nice but no room at all for fenders which makes it a no-go for the winter.

When/if the snow gets really gnarly, I have my old GT Karokoram set up with fenders and thin knobbies, but I doubt it will get that bad this year...10 degrees isn't really winter, is it?

Not even close .... I didn't have my lower legs covered when I rode in just after noon today @ 4 degrees.
Still need my booties though, STILL can't find them.....I MAY have to buy another pair.

I've oft heard of the skinny wheel set sayin' the slicing tyre gets right to the road, though I haven't been brave enough to do it myself. I like my knobbies in the crud. No worries about salt and a nice road frame?

Not after it was powder-coated, no. This stuff is tough and doesn't even scratch, it just kinda indents, so I think I will be okay, at least for one more winter.

When I got the frame/fork, the paint was shot to hell and it had to be re-done anyways so I elected to powder-coat it. To be honest, I am not really happy with the job that was done; many of the nice details around the lugs were lost as well as the "CIOCC" emobossed on the seat-cluster area is sort of filled-in, so I will probably spray it myself in the spring. There are a couple of guys in the Classics/Vintage section who've done great jobs painting their own frames and posted the results, so I think I can do a fair to middling job on my own. Maybe a nice lavender or dusty pink, just to keep the bike firmly entrenched in the '80s ;)

What is the width and drop on them?


Here is my winter steed
http://static.flickr.com/108/259583186_2895553371.jpg
more pics here.

Very nice winter ride,,,,,,,,,, how's the Fuji**********?

I've got two frames, MTB and 58 cm road. I'm haven't decided which one to go with for my winter-beater. I'll likely just bum-bike a rear wheel for the winter as I won't have to worry about spinning of a cog in the goo; Loc-tite and rota-fix will do fine. My Suzue basic is slowly pooching out or I'd use that for a rear hub. The cones are shot and I don't know what kind of joy I'll have finding new ones. Harris cyclery has the odd-ball 3/16 side, I'd just need to find a 1/4" one and I'm rockin'. I think Wheels manufacturing makes ones that will fit at 1/4", but I still have some lookin' into it to do.

I may actually build both up anyway. It would be kind of nice to have the option of going wide or not depending on the road conditions.

no

the Fuji is sweet, I want some new bullhorns for it because the bars on it now have too much of a drop and those Syntace bars look pretty comfy.

How's the Pinarello?

You can have these.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...uy/bike007.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...uy/bike005.jpg

Cost is a large coffee with 2 cream, no sugar.

I have a 120mm cheap sovas you can have for a small donation. Bought it before I realized (make that knew the difference) my frame needs a 135 hub. Let me know.

Hola all - been a while since I posted. Moved out west to go tree planting back in April, and have ended up living out in Vancouver. I'm back in Toronto for about the next week getting ready to ship a bunch of my stuff out west, and I'm selling one of my two bikes - with the cost of shipping, and limited space on the other end, I need to get rid of one of my rides.

In any case, it's a 49cm 1984 Columbus SLX Ciocc road frame converted to fixed. I've got it posted with more details over on Craigslist, but thought I'd toss a heads-up onto the forums in case anyone here is interested :)

here's the link: http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/238422063.html

I'm also selling a tubular wheelset on Mavic rims and Miche hubs, also on craigslist.

Have a good one,
-T

Thanks for the offer but I'm pretty set on the Syntace bars as they still have a bit of a drop to them.

the Profile Design bullhorns I have now just have too much of a drop and get pretty uncomfortable on longer rides.

nice to read about the relative success of the program.

How much drop did your profiles have?

First of all, it's not winter yet! I refuse to submit (I must admit, the weekend rides are getting slightly uncomfortable though). I'm going to roll road slicks until it gets stupid, then maybe I'll toss on my worn out CX tires.

I threw the 37c conti travel contact tires on my cross bike last night. For some reason I decided to do it all without tire levers. My hands got so sore. I had to take the vittoria cross tires off my track wheels, the GP 3000's off my cross wheels, mount the travel contacts on the cross wheels and remount the GP 3000's on my track wheels. It was hard enough getting the GP 3000's off the rim of the cross wheels, but then putting a 37c tire on them was ridiculous. The rims are open pros so they are VERY narrow, and the tires were VERY wide (like 4-5 times wider than the rim) and stiff. It was like mounting car tires to the rim it was so hard but I eventually managed. Every time I would almost get the second bead mounted it would just pop out completely and make me groan. I'm just on the cusp of having tires too fat for the frame and fenders (Soma reports you can fit 38c tires with fenders, but they must mean slick 38c tires with low profile fenders). Oh yeah at one point when I was trying to pull the tires off I punched myself in the nose by mistake and it really hurt! I thought my nose was going to bleed for sure! haha

I have yet to change the tires on my commuter. At the moment its got some 23c kenda slicks on it and I want to change them to my 32c Conti City Ride tires but I have a feeling my frame won't take them, let alone with fenders. Anyone know any good tires ~25c with some inverted tread and knobbies on the outside? I'm not going to worry about it until the roads get snowy, but I saw people scraping their cars today so it seems like it may be close.

you should go to cycle solutions and watch Makie take off tires by hand , unbelievable how fast he can take them off and put them back on ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, lot's of frost here to first thing in the morning but I am lucky it dissapears before I go to work,,,,,,,, we had a nice drive by shooting at my work last night

I'm usually pretty good at it, its just that the GP 3000s are very tight in combination with my mavic rims, and the touring tires were incredibly wide for the rim. By the time I got to the second tire of each wheel though I had figured out the particular technique for each, so I guess its just practice. Still, compressing a brand new fat tire laterally and pulling it around the rim so it stays put at the same time is pretty tough. If I had an extra hand it would probably be quite a bit easier.

hahahahha! That is totally something I would do (and *have* done, as a matter of fact).

They have about a 7-8 cm drop center to center.
http://members.cox.net/derekrihc2/bikes/Profile2.jpg

those look like my mavic bullhorns. The sloping shoulder part is kind of useless as far as hand positioning goes.

I do have the bars you’re looking for on my bike now & i like em. They also come flat with all the bends & curves as well.
Evil bay
Cheers

Excellent....I'm not the only one who sleeps with bicycle parts.

There is a couple different versions of the stratos. The one I had was like 1-2inch drop.

Edit: Someone should make a wheel completely out of fiberfix spokes.

Hi all,

Did any of you guys respond to this CL post?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/238534954.html

Hey Rob

I think digital calipers were on the Bike Chain wish list: http://busybeetools.ca/cgi-bin/pictu...0&NTITEM=B1966

Nope, why, did you write it? I guess a flea market might be nice because there would be a sense of community but really, all that anybody wants to do is get rid of the stuff that they cannot use for a fair price. I think CL is already serving that purpose.

I did! :) (edit: no I didn't.. I assumed it was a link to your bike.. hehehe)

Nope, I didn't post it... It is an interesting concept though.

Who's CM'ing on Friday?