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TRaffic Jammer 11-17-06 03:05 PM

DAmn it ....it's such a nice frame I'll MAKE it fit!!!!

shapelike 11-17-06 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
it looks like just extra spacers on a long steer tube, rivendell style.

you still have that camera?

Oui.

pyze-guy 11-17-06 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shiznaz
Hey some people are just too big for their dreams.... check the jacked up seatpost.

I like a smaller frame myself, feel like I can whip it around more. And the fact I ride bikes I find or are given and figure out a way to make it work.

Offhoff 11-17-06 03:55 PM

I'm the exact opposite I've always had to ride a frame slightly too big for me. I dream of one day buying a bike that was the perfect fit. Maybe the next one...

pyze-guy 11-17-06 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
why is it always the skinniest guys who are the mouthiest?


Cooked some good eats the other night for a catering. Included in the yumminess were poached apples stuffed with cured fois gras...orgasmicly good. Melted in an explosion of flavour. $50 cost for 10 though. But hey, not my party.

operator 11-17-06 07:06 PM

Slightly big frames blow. Can't get the handlebars low enough, seat has no seatpost showing and you feel too stretched out.

People are paying $2800 for a ps3 email address from yahoo? Thus proving that people can't read.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/playstation-3-ema...QQcmdZViewItem

cavit8 11-17-06 07:27 PM

2800? Try $43000 CAD... insanity...

operator 11-17-06 07:40 PM

I think it's safe to say they're not going to be paying that amount. 0 Feedback user anyways. Probably using it to raise the sellers accounts feedback under mutual agreement.

STEEKER 11-17-06 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
why is it always the skinniest guys who are the mouthiest?

it has something to do with thier little tiny balls/

sr20det 11-17-06 11:14 PM

man. is that picture of the colnago taken in Toronto?

The only current video game system I own is Sega Master System which I got for 30 bucks in grade 4 off my cousins.
Altered Beast and Shinobi!

I'm actually interested in testing out a frame thats too small for me. Just to see how it feels and rides.
and yea, big frames blow chunks.

jet sanchEz 11-17-06 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shapelike
Please tell me that's not a stem extender on the Colnago ...

You know what? I think it is! I have never noticed that before, weird. Now the frame looks totally whacked and non-fitting.

The photo is from FGG that I saved ages ago but it could be Toronto, I dunno.

I just got a great bike that is a bit too small for me but wow, it is fast! I haven't ridden a smaller frame in years and this one is a 56cm and it is made out of Columbus SLX so it is super-rigid and tight. I forgot about the agility you get with a smaller frame. I love it so far, the thing is gorgeous and I've only been out on it a few times but I've received a ton of compliments....the lugs on it are sweet and have some nice details to them. I should post a pic but it isn't fixed ;)

jeremywhitehorn 11-18-06 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jet sanchEz
You know what? I think it is! I have never noticed that before, weird. Now the frame looks totally whacked and non-fitting.

The photo is from FGG that I saved ages ago but it could be Toronto, I dunno.

I just got a great bike that is a bit too small for me but wow, it is fast! I haven't ridden a smaller frame in years and this one is a 56cm and it is made out of Columbus SLX so it is super-rigid and tight. I forgot about the agility you get with a smaller frame. I love it so far, the thing is gorgeous and I've only been out on it a few times but I've received a ton of compliments....the lugs on it are sweet and have some nice details to them. I should post a pic but it isn't fixed ;)

post a pic of it anyway...

don't get me started on the "smaller frames are more rigid and fast" debate.

as a 6+ footer with ostrich legs it's been a life long dream of mine to get a frame big enough. i've rode my share of too-small frames. IMO, they aren't faster, they just make my back ache.

jet sanchEz 11-18-06 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
post a pic of it anyway...

I am terrible with my camera, sorry. This might be a bit old school for some of you but this bike is just how I like it, nice and simple. The bars are set up funny and I don't like where the shifters are, I think the previous owner had weird posture or something. I like the wheels on it right now (105 hubs with Wolber GTX anodized box rims) but I might swap them out for some hard anodized Ambrosias aeros that I have laced to some 105 hubs, we'll see. Razesa is a Spanish bike company that made Zues' higher end frames.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Razesa001.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Razesa009.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Razesa012.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Razesa011.jpg

Shiznaz 11-18-06 10:29 AM

Very nice ride. Do you actually like where those brake levers are set up though? looks awkward.

jet sanchEz 11-18-06 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shiznaz
Very nice ride. Do you actually like where those brake levers are set up though? looks awkward.

Thanks. Yeah, it is very awkward, I cannot ride on the hoods at all. I am just getting started on changing that this afternoon. You can also see from the pics that it really needs a good scrubbing too, something else I have to do today.

lymbzero 11-18-06 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sr20det
man. is that picture of the colnago taken in Toronto?

The only current video game system I own is Sega Master System which I got for 30 bucks in grade 4 off my cousins.
Altered Beast and Shinobi!

I'm actually interested in testing out a frame thats too small for me. Just to see how it feels and rides.
and yea, big frames blow chunks.


Rise from your grave!

+1 to big frames sucking. I actually have 3 too many - 56cm mediocre frames.. Anyone wanna trade?!?!!

jet sanchEz 11-18-06 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lymbzero
Rise from your grave!

+1 to big frames sucking. I actually have 3 too many - 56cm mediocre frames.. Anyone wanna trade?!?!!

How mediocre? What size do you need?

I_bRAD 11-18-06 04:45 PM

So, I went with 46X16 and it seems just about right. I've taken it for a couple of test rides, maybe 40-50k and it feels pretty good. Had to get out of the saddle to get up the hill on Greenwood heading North to Danforth but otherwise it seems to be a pretty good comprimise between top speed and useability. :)

Now I have to sort out the bars, get a new rear wheel so I can go fixed, and get used to the geometry. I discovered today that it doesn't handle (or stop!) quite as fast as my road bike... and the guy in the Saturn I bounced off of will attest to that :o

Thanks for the advice!

STEEKER 11-18-06 08:20 PM

driving the pinarello down Woodbine Ave today and I did a slow rolling cross on Queen Street with the intent on facing east on Queen just in time for the light change with a track stand and I fell over in front of all the cars feet still straped to the peddels laying on the road ******** nasty :lol: . I jumped up and carried my bike to the sidewalk, straightend up the handle bars and continued home

cavit8 11-18-06 09:27 PM

Waaa!!!! why does stuff like this come up when I have no bread?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/236870109.html

STEEKER 11-18-06 09:31 PM

I have the cash for that :-P ....EDIT now I don't, got a ticket( don't ask):mad:

jet sanchEz 11-19-06 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cavit8
Waaa!!!! why does stuff like this come up when I have no bread?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/236870109.html

Is that Pini the same one from the MEC swapmeet? Nice looking bike, I will try the number tomorrow but I am sure it is gone. It would fit me perfectly!

TRaffic Jammer 11-19-06 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I_bRAD
... and the guy in the Saturn I bounced off of will attest to that :o

Word to polymer body panels!!!!! wooohooo glad it was just a bounce.

I_bRAD 11-19-06 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
Word to polymer body panels!!!!! wooohooo glad it was just a bounce.

Unfortunately I bounced onto the ground! Woohoo to fall clothes=no road rash though :)

TRaffic Jammer 11-19-06 11:58 AM

Yay to no rash then, glad you rode away.


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