What road bike do you have?
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I love the fact you can lock the bike to nothing, with a shoelace and you're all good.
Dunno, it would be kinda cool seeing that anime disc spinning... getting tired of all the sponsor decals.
Dunno, it would be kinda cool seeing that anime disc spinning... getting tired of all the sponsor decals.
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This is what we call an Otaku Bike here in Japan. Otaku are guys with no social skills and live in a world based on Comic books. They fantasize over female characters in comics, and usually have lots of money because, as I said, they have no social life. Notice carbon frame and electronic ultegra etc.

This is what we call an Otaku Bike here in Japan. Otaku are guys with no social skills and live in a world based on Comic books. They fantasize over female characters in comics, and usually have lots of money because, as I said, they have no social life. Notice carbon frame and electronic ultegra etc.

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Here's what I've got. 2003 Giant OCR3. It's nothing fancy, but it's my first road bike.

Sorry about the mess in the background. The picture was taken at my boyfriend's apartment and he doesn't really do this thing we call cleaning too often.
Sorry about the mess in the background. The picture was taken at my boyfriend's apartment and he doesn't really do this thing we call cleaning too often.

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NOT MINE!!!
This is what we call an Otaku Bike here in Japan. Otaku are guys with no social skills and live in a world based on Comic books. They fantasize over female characters in comics, and usually have lots of money because, as I said, they have no social life. Notice carbon frame and electronic ultegra etc.
<snip>Chuu-2 disc bike picture</snip>
This is what we call an Otaku Bike here in Japan. Otaku are guys with no social skills and live in a world based on Comic books. They fantasize over female characters in comics, and usually have lots of money because, as I said, they have no social life. Notice carbon frame and electronic ultegra etc.
<snip>Chuu-2 disc bike picture</snip>

Thanks for the idea, I'm definitely going to have to do something similar to my disc one of these days.

Oh I can't wait to show up at a local TT with one of those.
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I saw the guy riding it yesterday and I have to say the colours looked fantastic on the fly. The guy really does look like an Otaku. Over size brown jeans, grey hoodie, no helmet and big black plastic specticals. Sensational! (^-^)v
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This. Everything else is C&V or at least 17 years old. Heck, this is 9 going on 10 years old.



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That Bottecchia is so sweet, I crave a C&V Botty like I had in 1972 and 1973, yours is carrying on the fine traditions.
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Just ticked over 100mi on my new CAAD10 this week. What a fantastic bike!

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thanks, I loved it the moment I saw it and just had to buy it 
I have a nice steel framed Bottecchia in the garage too, which used to be mine but got passed on to my father when I got the carbon frame urge a few years ago. I will try to add some pics of that too soon

I have a nice steel framed Bottecchia in the garage too, which used to be mine but got passed on to my father when I got the carbon frame urge a few years ago. I will try to add some pics of that too soon
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Made by Horse Cycles
Columbus Max tubing
Reverse Bi-laminate head tube
Wishbone stays with a seat tube collar
Throwback paint job to the early 90s Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra Team Weinmann
SRAM Force, ROL Wheels, Phil Wood, Deda, Thomson, Cane Creek, Selle SMP
photos by Eric Baumann
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