Hey climbo, I read somewhere that arm warmers were recommended for FNWTR. Is that coz it's cold or because of the varnished landing pad?

it's freezing inside there, warm-up jacket a must also.... but it may save you some skin too.

no Campagnolo? :(

jock, your expertise is needed.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=129215

Roflmao

Are Cioccs frame any good?

what's a good condition, 2nd hand Ciocc Challenger (Dedacciai scandium aluminium), with carbon seat stays worth?

Bloody light: 1224g with no fork, no bolts, no nothin'......weighed it meself.
Is that too light for an 84g masher?

Back when I was a 70-something kg skinny tire enthusiast, I had a very nice Ciocc. Rode quite nicely too. I also had a Basso, and Duegi shoes. Hard to believe, I know.

Expat's dark secret past emerges from the closet :D

Did I mention the Trek 1200? The little caps with the small visor? I did keep one of those, plus a jersey. There are also some road bike bits hiding in the shed, just in case. Anyway, yes, I used to ride road bikes. Now I'm just fat and tired. I mean I ride fat tires. :D

Dude, how many second hand bikes you gunna buy that aren't as good as your Raleigh? :p

To be honest, my next roadie is probably going to be Scandium. I'm a bit fitter and stronger nowadays, and I have to confess, as a 90kg weakling-masher the steelie isn't as stiff as it could be.

I think the worst thing about the Ciocc is the name. How the heck do you pronounce that?! I think it's 'CH-eeOTCH' with a soft 'i' - somewhere between 'Church' and 'Chotch'. What a mind bender.

Anyway, 2.64lbs is pretty light. I had an Sc road frame for about a week back in the bad old days, and in my size is was 2.8lbs I think. It was frightening. So 2.65 sounds ballpark for your size.

As to how much it's worth, I have no idea. What are they new?

kee-oach, according to my Italian mate. But he makes it sound more like "coach" than anything.

molto, molto bello telai

my 1 year old daughter says that, she's hacking up a lung at the time but that's about what it sounds like.

Imagine if your Ciocc was kitted out with Campagnolo Croce d'Aune.....

doing the Homer drool about now... :)

Try de Reus on for size, Dutch (wots your rhyming slang for that?) that sounds
vaguely like de Roasch, only the R is more gutteral and the "eu" sounds like the
"o" in potatoes Rosti. . . sure. .
gimme a good easy name like Malvern Star.

y'all (texan for y'all) are now posting in Part 3.
Part 2 is stickied for ease of reference.

marty

You've done a nice job setting the new place up Marty. You've even managed to recreate the musty smell of sweaty training gear! :D

96,000+ views already, we must be popular :D

Wanna do Akuna Bay tomorrow morning? Good solid workout for you before the CD on Sunday :)

yeah well I had alot of editing, splitting, merging to do. . .

nah, surf is clean, swell rising to 3 or 4 foot today. I'll check it on the way home and be down there at 6am tomorrow. Plus I have to be home to babysit when my wife goes to work at 10:30.

no sticky for #3?

I think we're definitely stickworthy.


edit-that sounds a bit rude...:D

Hahahaha. A sticky for a thread that has absolutely no useful information, no relevance, and no decorum! I'd like to see that

It's happened before :)

even if not, I just subscribed to the thread, it is now the only thread I see when I go to the control panel, that page is bookmarked, straight to it now :)

If I need to find a my58vw thread for a laugh, I'll have to go back to the main board.

Purile?
nice Tigerboy, nice.

you got that right! Ed had his Merckx, and I've got my Raleigh :(

I saw a new Ciocc Challenger frame on special for $2700 at some shop in Adelaide, and I'm sure I can get this one for under $1000

Pronunciation??? I still can't even pronounce "Cervelo". It's still "Kervello" as fas as I'm concerned. I'll never forget the tosser at SBR who said: "don't you mean 'Sirvello'?"

What about "Ciombola"?? The guy who makes them wanted to deck me when I said "see-em-bowla". :p
I wasn't worthy of one of his frames.

eh, stuff that!! If I own one I'm calling it "Chee-ock", like all the closet bogans do :p

Yep. It was Cheeok at my place until I was "re-educated".

But it's not a word that comes up often these days.

For some reasons I've been pronouncing it "cock-sick" in my brain everytime I've seen the word. :rolleyes:

(Hey, I had to post something in this shiny new thread)