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.

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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

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.

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

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!

96,000+ views already, we must be popular

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...

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.