Chef151

Wow, so hawt.

GSmith

CAAD9 5, all 105 except for a new Ultegra 6700 chain.



Upgrades in the near future are Ultegra shifters, the seat (I loooooove that OEM San Marco, and it's a beautiful seat (works with the color scheme absolutely perfectly), even though I've heard bad things.. it's atrocious in anything other than cycling shorts, but I never ride it without them and I'm sure all low profile seats are like that. It's just taken a scrape or two and that's starting to bother me. That and the silver painted-on logo towards the front disintegrated within the first 400km. Recommendations for cleaning a white saddle in the mean time, and for a similar color/style saddle in a couple months? The shifters are next because I just had my 105 FD shifter die after about 2000km, which is very disappointing. I got lucky with the LBS and they replaced it 2 months after the end of the 1 year warranty.

Chef151

I use simple green spray to clean my white saddles and bar tape and it works great. I've heard good things about the magic erasers too.

pilechko

I just bought this new Fuji SL-1 Comp. I was previously riding a Specialized Allez. Not a very good picture, unfortunately, as I couldn't find my camera and had to use the cellphone to take it.

Paul.


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kandyredcoi

congrats...hows the switch from Alum to CF?

MWS

2010 Fisher Cronus

trobinson017

I've already posted my new bike pics and such. Here's the link:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...te!&highlight=

I LOVE THIS BIKE!!!

Tim

GDA

^ Tim

Nice bike. I am a huge fan of the fast all white bike too! Enjoy the ride and keep turning the cranks.

Greg

Scooterpilot

After looking at the pic's of the bikes, it won't hold a candle against most of the bikes you guys/girls ride; however, I really enjoy my Roubaix Expert.

Regards
Chuck

pilechko

Loving it Also loving the SRAM Rival shifters, it all feels so natural and intuitive.

RB1-luvr

It's taking me a long time to adapt to the Rival shifting after using Shimano brifters for 10+ years. I am still improving after almost a year on the Rivals.

Blackdays

That's a great look Roubaix.

a_phat_beat

i've posted this before, but i've changed so much on it that i think it warrants another post.

the build is as follows... 2002 merlin extralight frame, reynolds ouzo pro full carbon fork, dura ace 7800 crank (w/ ultegra big ring), brakes, RD, FD, shifters and cables, ultegra 12-27 cassette, 105 chain, miche supertype post, bontrager rxxxl stem, easton ea70 bars, specialized toupe 143 ti rails, speedplay zero pedals, easton ea90 slx wheels, bontrager rxl tires and deda tape. blackburn flea front and rear lights and bontrager rxl cages.

Yaniel

looks great with the orange accents. and that's an interesting seat post too

a_phat_beat

Thanks Yaniel,

you'd be surprised what I had to go through to find a decent post. I had issues with posts slipping no matter what i did, i first tried a bontrager rxl carbon post, no dice, in fact the slipping pretty much chewed off all the clearcoat from the post, i tried an american classic ti post, same deal, i used liquid torque on the carbon post and no help... i found this post (miche supertype) at some hipsterish sorta shop selling fixed gear bikes (predominantly) in brooklyn. it's on the heavy side @ a bit over 260 grams but not a single issue since i installed it.

i also tried a thomson post which was very harsh on my posterior. this, also being alloy is a bit more forgiving.

Midwest Ullrich

If I don't have any patients in the day plus the weather is warm and dry, I usually ride my Colnago for a few blocks and then sit down to enjoy a nice cup of coffee to recuperate. The other day I had a tight race with a Mongoose 26" ....boy that hurted. Had to call in my message theoropist that evening.

Yaniel

every now and then Colnago makes a really nice bike that doesn't have a color combination that makes me puke. Beautiful bike.

BOBSONATOR

Beauty

MitchL

Just recently got into to cycling again (for real this time though) and I've been riding a hybrid, but recently decided to fix up an old road bike my father-in-law bought me on the cheap a few years ago. As far as I can tell its a 1979 Motobecane Mirage. Nothing fancy, but its my first road bike and I love the feel of it.

This is also the first time I have worked on a bike more than adjusting the seatpost height. I did an overhaul on this one, and loved it. I took everything off except the BB and cleaned up all the rust. Overhauled the hubs. Regreased the headset bearings. Gave it new bar tape and all new cables and housing and tuned up the shifting.

I have new tires and pads for it, but I'm waiting for my new wheels to come in before I put them on.

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markrj

My first road bike. Picked it up two days ago. I was a 260+ lb clyde 3 months ago. I bought a TREK 7300 Hybrid and rode it for 950 miles and I have shed 30 lbs so far. I started doing longer rides. 30 miles is normal ride now. 40 on somedays and I even did my first half century a couple of weeks ago. Love the long distance calorie burning rides! Knew I would have to upgrade to a road bike and after much research and test rides I purchased this little beauty.









I am still a 230 lb clyde and after the first 30 mile ride on the 2.3 I experienced numbness in an area I had never experienced numbness before!

The stock saddle had to go! I got a fitting today and replaced the stem with a longer and slightly more upright one. Also replaced the saddle with an inexpensive Planet Bike a.r.s. gel. My 7300 had a small Serfas cruiser gel and I never had this problem with it so I decided to go big and comfy this time around. Once I loose another 45 lbs or so I will reevaluate the saddle.

I love this bike!

Flatballer

10 lbs a month for 3 months is seriously impressive.

Congratulations on the weight loss.

markrj

Thanks! It's a lot more work taking it off than it is putting it on! I absolutely fell in love with cycling this summer. I don't ever see myself not doing this. And I will never be fat again.

trobinson017

Markrj, way to go on the weight loss and discovery the joys of cycling!!! Keep it up!!! Cycling is the best!!!

Tim

hybae17

here is my baby.. for now... Look 585 with ultegra SL, Rolf elan aero ..
going after ruegamer ZEN .. hopely next year...

markrj

It does but the trip 4w is not compatible with Speedtrap.

I will get a compatible computer but probably not until oh, Christmas!