What road bike do you have?
03-30-12, 10:02 AM
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woah...holy stem...i am sorry, but if does seem to defeat the purpose...otherwise, it's a nice fuji!
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Originally Posted by hamongle
Got it yesterday, Fuji 2011, Women Supreme 1.0, 53cm, changed stem to raise the handle bar
Originally Posted by UCIMBZ
Nice going girl!
Originally Posted by adriano
if you buy a frame and set it up not as it was intended, it will not function as it was intended or as you wanted. should have gone with a really nice hybrid.
Originally Posted by Flatballer
What a waste of a bike.
Originally Posted by eduardo76
woah...holy stem...i am sorry, but if does seem to defeat the purpose...otherwise, it's a nice fuji!
03-30-12, 11:27 AM
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it is still a road frame, but it will not handle well or as it was designed. a hybrid would meet her needs better, but as long as merriment is being had, its all good.
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Sounds like somebody is jeaslous
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Originally Posted by Flatballer
Yeah, not really. A nice road bike with a saddle slammed down and bars slammed up is just stupid. They make road bikes that have that kind of geometry, and are made for riding instead of racing, but that isn't one of them. That's a race bike. Even from Fuji they have a women's road bike that would've been more appropriate, much less aggressive seat tube and head tube angles, much more stack, shorter seat tube, etc.
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Originally Posted by hamongle
Got it yesterday, Fuji 2011, Women Supreme 1.0, 53cm, changed stem to raise the handle bar
Oh for f#$@ sake!
03-30-12, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by hamongle
...Got it yesterday, Fuji 2011, Women Supreme 1.0, 53cm, changed stem to raise the handle bar
The comments here (and I agree) indicate some concern that you were perhaps oversold on the bike.
Were you looking more for this...
than this...
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
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That's why she raised the bars and didn't change them to flatbars. She wanted a road bike and still has one. Your disapproval of their handlebar height has no baring on whether or not it's a road bike. It's a road bike and a hybrid would still be a road bike if it were setup exactly the same way. ....
That's why she raised the bars and didn't change them to flatbars. She wanted a road bike and still has one. Your disapproval of their handlebar height has no baring on whether or not it's a road bike. It's a road bike and a hybrid would still be a road bike if it were setup exactly the same way. ....
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Originally Posted by adriano
this is not about aesthetics, yall.
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Originally Posted by hamongle
Got it yesterday, Fuji 2011, Women Supreme 1.0, 53cm, changed stem to raise the handle bar
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Nice Merlin Timo. What is that saddle made out of?
So you guys are just assuming that is where the fit is going to stay? I guess every Corvette/Porsche Owner should have a Momo steering wheel and 5 pt seat belts or else they were oversold on the accord they actually wanted? This is not the racing forums and certainly not the hot or not thread. I see many assumptions of (she doesn't know what she is doing and got tricked into a bike) when she very well could (know what she is doing, have a medical issue and will be changing her position as she gets more familiar with it. Once again, why should she have gotten a hybrid that leaves her no room for expanding to road bike unless she buys a new road bike, since Lord knows what would be incorrect on a drop bar conversion according you guys. I have still not been sold on the idea that she doesn't know what she's doing. Until there are some real answers, speculation as to what she wanted is just that.
So you guys are just assuming that is where the fit is going to stay? I guess every Corvette/Porsche Owner should have a Momo steering wheel and 5 pt seat belts or else they were oversold on the accord they actually wanted? This is not the racing forums and certainly not the hot or not thread. I see many assumptions of (she doesn't know what she is doing and got tricked into a bike) when she very well could (know what she is doing, have a medical issue and will be changing her position as she gets more familiar with it. Once again, why should she have gotten a hybrid that leaves her no room for expanding to road bike unless she buys a new road bike, since Lord knows what would be incorrect on a drop bar conversion according you guys. I have still not been sold on the idea that she doesn't know what she's doing. Until there are some real answers, speculation as to what she wanted is just that.
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Nice Merlin Timo. What is that saddle made out of?
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
...So you guys are just assuming that is where the fit is going to stay? I guess every Corvette/Porsche Owner should have a Momo steering wheel and 5 pt seat belts or else they were oversold on the accord they actually wanted? ....
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Originally Posted by rufvelo
No assumptions at all, which is why I'm asking her what her objective was, in a previous post. As for your inaccurate analogy, you would be oversold by the dealer if you wanted the Honda Accord, but came back with a Porsche with an Accord engine 'swapped in for now while you got comfortable' with the car. Different machine, build for a different application, the ridiculously raised stem on the thing doesn't solve any problems.
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Nice Merlin Timo. What is that saddle made out of?
So you guys are just assuming that is where the fit is going to stay? I guess every Corvette/Porsche Owner should have a Momo steering wheel and 5 pt seat belts or else they were oversold on the accord they actually wanted? This is not the racing forums and certainly not the hot or not thread. I see many assumptions of (she doesn't know what she is doing and got tricked into a bike) when she very well could (know what she is doing, have a medical issue and will be changing her position as she gets more familiar with it. Once again, why should she have gotten a hybrid that leaves her no room for expanding to road bike unless she buys a new road bike, since Lord knows what would be incorrect on a drop bar conversion according you guys. I have still not been sold on the idea that she doesn't know what she's doing. Until there are some real answers, speculation as to what she wanted is just that.
So you guys are just assuming that is where the fit is going to stay? I guess every Corvette/Porsche Owner should have a Momo steering wheel and 5 pt seat belts or else they were oversold on the accord they actually wanted? This is not the racing forums and certainly not the hot or not thread. I see many assumptions of (she doesn't know what she is doing and got tricked into a bike) when she very well could (know what she is doing, have a medical issue and will be changing her position as she gets more familiar with it. Once again, why should she have gotten a hybrid that leaves her no room for expanding to road bike unless she buys a new road bike, since Lord knows what would be incorrect on a drop bar conversion according you guys. I have still not been sold on the idea that she doesn't know what she's doing. Until there are some real answers, speculation as to what she wanted is just that.
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Originally Posted by UCIMBZ
Did you just compare an engine to a stem? No you didn't!
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Originally Posted by cubex
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Apparently he did. I guess you no longer have to pedal a bike anymore. As long as you have a negative setup zip stem your bike wins.
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Originally Posted by Timo
Still some problems with Murphy's Law but this build is almost complete now...
