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seedsbelize 04-30-17 10:27 AM


Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 19548467)
Quiet!

Hey, Seeds, it's a '78 or '79 frame. You steel Luddite guys should be thrilled!

I know I am. I have a '78 frame set out on the porch that I can't bring myself to part with. The first model Schwinn imported from Giant. My '72 is the first model they inported from Panasonic. So a matched set. Neither of them have the S word anywhere on the bike. The '78 is what brought me to BF. It took four months to positively track down its provenance.

BillyD 04-30-17 10:32 AM

[MENTION=243]velo[/MENTION]_Vol Speaking of lawn mowing.

Velo Vol 04-30-17 10:33 AM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 19548297)
Somebody was having trouble locating Addiction II?

http://www.bikeforums.net/pcad-s-kin...iction-ii.html

Check out the thread description:


PCad's Kingdom: Mount Doom PCad's Pay Per View channel. He'll let you put it on account, though........
What happened to those?

seedsbelize 04-30-17 10:36 AM

My wife sent me out on my bike, for limes. She told me it would get my juices flowing. It did, and then she gave me two pictures to hang, as she was leaving for a beach day with her girlfriends. The young man I built the bike for dropped by just as I was returning from the test ride. He took it out on the same course and got a flat. I'll go ahead and fix that while the sap is still high, and then settle in for a cycling documentary or two.

Velo Vol 04-30-17 10:36 AM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19548559)
Check out the thread description:

What happened to those?

That's a subforum?

wut

Velo Vol 04-30-17 10:39 AM


Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19548557)
@velo_Vol Speaking of lawn mowing.

That references back to one of the first posts on the "Go ahead ask Pcad anything" thread.

I bet [MENTION=209428]seedsbelize[/MENTION] hasn't even seen that treasure trove.

seedsbelize 04-30-17 10:42 AM

I just successfully posted in that thread. Time warp time.

seedsbelize 04-30-17 10:44 AM

And somebody posted behind me.

BillyD 04-30-17 10:46 AM


Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19548492)
Good job, Mr. Historian. Why our search hamster has so much trouble finding it is beyond me.

However it may be where it is because of it's size. Just as I remembered, Addiction I was just a warm up for Addiction II which reached over 50 thousand posts, an average of 13k posts per month, 425 posts and 17 pages per day. Just crazy!

Forgot to mention one frequently overlooked statistic, Addiction II had over one million views. Compare that to contemporary threads.

Velo Vol 04-30-17 10:51 AM


Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19548581)
I just successfully posted in that thread. Time warp time.

It's locked! I wanted to post in my zombie thread. :crash:

rjones28 04-30-17 10:53 AM


Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19548492)
Good job, Mr. Historian. Why our search hamster has so much trouble finding it is beyond me.

However it may be where it is because of it's size. Just as I remembered, Addiction I was just a warm up for Addiction II which reached over 50 thousand posts, an average of 13k posts per month, 425 posts and 17 pages per day. Just crazy!

Advanced search. Searched on "addiction" "titles only". Went to the last page of results, since results are listed by newest first. Easy peasy.

BillyD 04-30-17 10:53 AM


Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19548581)
I just successfully posted in that thread. Time warp time.

Sorry Seeds and Vol, that's a zombie thread that should remain locked as a historical milestone, just like all the Addiction threads are locked. Hope you don't mind. :(

BillyD 04-30-17 10:55 AM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 19548620)
Advanced search. Searched on "addiction" "titles only". Went to the last page of results, since results are listed by newest first. Easy peasy.

I did that last night, it wasn't there. The search hamster must have been tired last night, because I too have found it in the past.

Bah Humbug 04-30-17 10:56 AM

https://www.strava.com/activities/964823929

Faster than the last one (pace) on a harder, longer (TWSS) course. But I fell again, so my hands are bandaged (again) and I think I'm done with this trail running nonsense - too slow, too much risk of falling, not applicable enough to road running. Will just go run Town Lake doubles on the weekend for now.

rjones28 04-30-17 10:59 AM


Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 19548498)
I had a pair but they are long gone. The only shoes that I kept until recently were a pair of Sidi's with leather soles and cleats that bolted on instead of nailed. I threw them away.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2928/3...d3546e28_c.jpgoldstuff by trsnrtr, on Flickr

:thumb:

He was wearing a pair of newish Sidis. He complained that they moved around too much, compared to his old straps. I looked at his feet. His new shoes seemed like they were a bit too large.

Velo Vol 04-30-17 11:05 AM


Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19548621)
Sorry seeds, that's a zombie thread that should remain locked as a historical milestone, just like all the Addiction threads are locked. Hope you don't mind. :(

How about apologizing to me as it's my thread?

BillyD 04-30-17 11:17 AM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19548644)
How about apologizing to me as it's my thread?

Fixed. :D

Just be happy it's considered a historical milestone.

seedsbelize 04-30-17 11:21 AM


Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19548621)
Sorry Seeds and Vol, that's a zombie thread that should remain locked as a historical milestone, just like all the Addiction threads are locked. Hope you don't mind. :(

Time travel is my lifelong goal. I had it momentarily, before it was snatched away.

rpenmanparker 04-30-17 11:27 AM

I see the Texans got a good QB prospect, Watson from Clemson. Finally.

rpenmanparker 04-30-17 11:51 AM

Dennis T, where did the painter get the decals for the Motta?

Trsnrtr 04-30-17 12:10 PM


Originally Posted by rpenmanparker (Post 19548527)
Just consider that after polishing it won't be anodized anymore...if it ever was. So it will be very prone to further oxidation and may get dull or worse very fast.

That's may thought, too. I've seen polished parts in the C&V section and they don't look like what I remember - too shiny. Campy hubs were always shiny but it seems like the other parts of that era were more of a satiny look. Later Campy groups were highly polished.

Trsnrtr 04-30-17 12:13 PM


Originally Posted by rpenmanparker (Post 19548737)
Dennis T, where did the painter get the decals for the Motta?

I bought them for him at VeloCals bicycle decals - Quality, Durable, Ultra-thin

I wish that I had a pic of my original Motta that I purchased in 1984. It was all Super Record and the frame was GM's Italian tricolor. I won several races on it before I got sponsored and had to ride team bikes. By the time I retired from racing, my Motta's parts had been by-passed by time and the frame was tired. I had it repainted and rode it a little bit until it developed a crack at the BB-ST junction. I don't even know what happened to it. :(

f4rrest 04-30-17 12:18 PM

Purty.

And no runs!

Bah Humbug 04-30-17 12:19 PM


Originally Posted by rpenmanparker (Post 19548691)
I see the Texans got a good QB prospect, Watson from Clemson. Finally.

"Prospect". No one considers him a "win-now" QB, and the rest of the team is "win-now".

Of course, there aren't many real options when you need a "win-now" QB. Probably someone drafted this year will do pretty well, but I don't think anyone honestly knows which.

Bah Humbug 04-30-17 12:21 PM

Oh, and the site had SUVs park in the ditch. Which was fun. Actually just about as deep as the GX could handle - exhaust almost got hit. And that would have seriously annoyed me.


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