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...just finished this up and test rode it for an hour or so. Note the subtly timtak'd stem. :) With a steel steerer, I laugh at the skinnies. :lol:

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You need a track stem to timtak it!

That's a nice bike, [MENTION=209177]3alarmer[/MENTION]. The handlebar angle seems odd.

Trying to fight off a cold, but I think today's short ride helped a little. Increase in heart rate and breathing usually helps me clear nasal congestion.

SAT test today, I only needed to guess on one of the math questions. Which is pretty good, hoping for 750/800.

...yeah. I think it's a combination of the timtak'd stem, which has about an inch more reach than I usually ride (in combination with this top tube length), and some camera distortion from the angle I took that shot. Kinda the same thing that makes all those forks look bent. I might drop the tops a little, to further emulate [MENTION=106129]timtak[/MENTION] and Lance. I am pretty stretched at this point if I want to ride the hoods. :) I could not pass on that stem, though. A Cinelli in the 22.0 required for these stooopid French steerer diameters does not come along all that often.

...face it. We can only emulate the greatest of the riders. As mere mortals, there are limits.

This is the bike I rode all through high school. Someday I want to find another just...well...because.

...wow, you had a MotoGR in high school ? :thumb: I can't remember whether I still had the Dunelt 3 speed or had by then graduated to an Aztec lugged UO-8. :lol:

Yes I did...In that color scheme and everything. I miss that bike, but it's probably just because of the time of life that it represents.

Nice stuff, [MENTION=378092]Bunyanderman[/MENTION]. I hope the test scores are what you hope.

The Alize©® may ride like a truck, but it's comfy enough to crack off a 200K.

I forget about all the weird dimensions old steel tends to have.

That moto reminded me of the red black and gold mixte Moto we got in the shop once. So hot!

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Loved the DA cranks with the guard and the sweet old Shimano BMX pedals!

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Yeah, and the slopey ramp bars. Might as well just wrap 'em up to the hoods and ride drops the whole time.

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i hate everything about that bike.

I have coffee to help with that.

...how can you hate Paris ? :(

I love Paris in the Spring time.

[MENTION=378092]Bunyanderman[/MENTION] hope it went well. My son just took ACT.

We celebrated by stuffing him with sushi. Yum.

Lazy Sunday morning. Rain rolling through. Going to the gym later, then on with the day.

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So long and thanks for all the cf?

I ask because I don't know - doesn't it always do that if it's an attachment? If you use the hot-linked IMG tags it should show properly in quoted posts, at least for externally-stored images.

Brings to mind the Aeschylus quote "Even as we sleep, pain that cannot forget ..."

Maybe something from the second book:

FORD:
I mean it’s so black! You can hardly even make out its shape. Light just falls into it.

ZAPHOD:
And feel this surface.

FORD:
Yeah! … Hey, hey you can’t!

ZAPHOD:
See? It’s totally frictionless. Oh this must be one mother of a mover. I bet even the cigar lighter’s on photon drive, well whadda ya reckon Ford?

I always upload JPEGs and thought the pictures did show up in quotations of my posts. Maybe not. No big deal.

It's an acquired taste. First you have to warm up to the Flying Gate, then take it to the next level

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