Just got my road bike fixed up and ride ready. :beer:
05-18-07, 02:11 PM
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Just got my road bike fixed up and ride ready. :beer:
I brought my road bike out from winter retirement; cleaned the crusty black gunk from between the cogs, adjusted and oiled all the moving parts and slapped on some new handle bar tape and a cycling computer. As soon as this crappy New England weather let's up - I am looking forward to some 53-12 action and some serious ridage.. I'm pretty psyched, just thought I'd share the good news. 
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I've been lumbering my fat azz along on my CF poseur bike all winter, through rain, sleet, freezing rain, a little snow, and sub-freezing temperatures. I've already raced 8 times this season.
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Does lugged steel freeze below 50 degrees or something?
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Does lugged steel freeze below 50 degrees or something?
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Originally Posted by eippo1
What have you been riding then?
My fixed ride.
05-18-07, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ragboy
uh, glad your excited. But this is May, right?
It's still winter up here in New England. The leaves started to come out the first week of May this year, -then we had a week and a half of Summer weather, and now it's winter again.
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Originally Posted by DrPete
I've been lumbering my fat azz along on my CF poseur bike all winter, through rain, sleet, freezing rain, a little snow, and sub-freezing temperatures. I've already raced 8 times this season.
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Yeah, I don't like to ride my road bike through the snow/wet/ salty winter conditions. To many gears and moving parts to muck up with the mud and sand and salt. I actually road it for about two months during November and December - after having destroying my fixed gear frame trying to get out a stuck seat post, and in those two months of riding I managed to get the drivetrain and other parts thoroughly mucked up. From now on I'm just taking the road bike out it dry/good conditions.
Originally Posted by DrPete
Does lugged steel freeze below 50 degrees or something?
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Originally Posted by DrPete
I've been lumbering my fat azz along on my CF poseur bike all winter, through rain, sleet, freezing rain, a little snow, and sub-freezing temperatures. I've already raced 8 times this season.
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Does lugged steel freeze below 50 degrees or something?
Wow. In case I didn't feel silly about getting into that argument in your other thread, I sure as hell do now.
Does lugged steel freeze below 50 degrees or something?
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Originally Posted by red house
It's still winter up here in New England. The leaves started to come out the first week of May this year, -then we had a week and a half of Summer weather, and now it's winter again.
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Originally Posted by red house
I brought my road bike out from winter retirement; cleaned the crusty black gunk from between the cogs, adjusted and oiled all the moving parts and slapped on some new handle bar tape and a cycling computer. As soon as this crappy New England weather let's up - I am looking forward to some 53-12 action and some serious ridage.. I'm pretty psyched, just thought I'd share the good news.
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Originally Posted by blonduathlongrl
Im up in NE and I rode all winter and Im sure I wasnt the only one.
I geuss I just love my road bike a little more than most..?
05-18-07, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by red house
I geuss I just love my road bike a little more than most..?
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Well, my fixed gear bike needs some attention too.
