A Prince is Born
03-01-08 | 05:01 AM
#26
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as for the OP, great looking prince!
03-01-08 | 05:41 AM
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1.9lb/in
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From: Susquehanna shoreline
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Of course you could buy a certified pre-owned Lexus or Acura for quatruple the price, with twice the three-year depreciation rate and no one would think it spendthrift. People may even think you're cheap. But drop more than five grand on a bike and people talk.
As for the Prince, a bike that tries that hard to get noticed loses major cool points.
As for the Prince, a bike that tries that hard to get noticed loses major cool points.
03-01-08 | 05:48 AM
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There are good Dali paintings? Really? The NYU Art History Dept. they never showed us those slides.
03-01-08 | 05:50 AM
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03-01-08 | 06:51 AM
#30
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Great bike. I really like arnch. I'm not taken with the Zipps and white tires tho. But great bike, and I know what it's like to be the kid without the bike.
03-01-08 | 07:06 AM
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Nice start. Do NOT get those red cages though for your build wouldn't go good imho. I would shoot for something along the lines of the Bissell team bikes as an inspiration. You will LOVE the bike. I have both a prince and a bmc as everyone else says is also a dream bike and I can tell you that nothing touches the prince. It is the best I have ridden in carbon to date. Here are a few pics of mine:
-Mike
-Mike
03-01-08 | 07:19 AM
#32
Nice start. Do NOT get those red cages though for your build wouldn't go good imho. I would shoot for something along the lines of the Bissell team bikes as an inspiration. You will LOVE the bike. I have both a prince and a bmc as everyone else says is also a dream bike and I can tell you that nothing touches the prince. It is the best I have ridden in carbon to date. Here are a few pics of mine:
-Mike
-Mike
03-01-08 | 08:00 AM
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the Prince's are sweeeet!
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03-01-08 | 08:04 AM
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03-01-08 | 08:18 AM
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03-01-08 | 08:19 AM
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Sua Ku
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OP - nice bike. I had a "moment" 20+ years ago when I got a 10 speed Raleigh Olympus, my first road bike. I rode that thing like nothing else. I loved it and I still have the frame somewhere.
My Pro Machine comes close
You should listen to UT_Dude on this, I consider him the forum expert on max $ for min performance improvement
My Pro Machine comes close
03-01-08 | 08:25 AM
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Sua Ku
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03-01-08 | 08:47 AM
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Toughen the pluck up!
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Nice start. Do NOT get those red cages though for your build wouldn't go good imho. I would shoot for something along the lines of the Bissell team bikes as an inspiration. You will LOVE the bike. I have both a prince and a bmc as everyone else says is also a dream bike and I can tell you that nothing touches the prince. It is the best I have ridden in carbon to date. Here are a few pics of mine:
-Mike
-Mike
I was actually pretty close to getting another bike when I got a chance to ride a Prince. It was really pretty amazing and was in another league from the other bikes I looked at that will go nameless. It's not cheap but if you can afford one it is well worth the money.
I'm trying to figure out whether to go with a white stem. What kind of bars do you have? I looked at the MOst bars but did not like their shaping. I'll look at anything 'cause right now I have a fractured right wrist from a ride pile up and have some spare time. What kind of cages are those?
03-01-08 | 09:19 AM
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Great bike - nice Lightweights! I agree you need to post some more pix - even a garage door shot.
I was actually pretty close to getting another bike when I got a chance to ride a Prince. It was really pretty amazing and was in another league from the other bikes I looked at that will go nameless. It's not cheap but if you can afford one it is well worth the money.
I'm trying to figure out whether to go with a white stem. What kind of bars do you have? I looked at the MOst bars but did not like their shaping. I'll look at anything 'cause right now I have a fractured right wrist from a ride pile up and have some spare time. What kind of cages are those?
I was actually pretty close to getting another bike when I got a chance to ride a Prince. It was really pretty amazing and was in another league from the other bikes I looked at that will go nameless. It's not cheap but if you can afford one it is well worth the money.
I'm trying to figure out whether to go with a white stem. What kind of bars do you have? I looked at the MOst bars but did not like their shaping. I'll look at anything 'cause right now I have a fractured right wrist from a ride pile up and have some spare time. What kind of cages are those?
Thanks. I wish I could post more pics but right now I have a room full of parts to go on it as after tomorrows race it is being rebuilt. I am putting Sram RED on it. already have an fsa srm on, LEW Pro VT-1 instead of the lightweights, and a few other small accessories to top it off.
The bars are a reynolds quozo pro carbon and have an awesome shape/bend to them. However they do not make them anymore and they are too much $$ anyhow. I would suggest the new easton ec90slx3 and not the old easton. Have a similar bend. If you are to go a white stem you should either go for the new white fsa stem or just have an ea90 stem stripped and painted. I am using a bare ea90 stem and love it. Better then the syntace or fsa that I have had in the past.
Also the cages are BTP cages. Something like 9grams for each one. Pretty expensive but I figured they were worth it as they look great on the bike and believe me they also hold up good for racing.
-Mike
03-01-08 | 10:00 AM
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Translation: "I'm a goofy college student who really wishes I could buy a bike like that."
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03-01-08 | 10:02 AM
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From: Antioch, CA (SF Bay Area)
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It's funny how people think. One of my life defining moments was when I was 7 years old and it was my birthday. I was playing with a friend of mine in my front yard when the little truck from the bike store came down the street. I was of course estatic as the truck slowed down as it approached. Then just as it came it left. As it left you could see the high handlebars and sissy bar over the lift gate. What a cool bike some lucky kid was going to get. Too bad it wasn't going to be me.
I was crushed as it left my block. My heart having been torn from my body, I slinked back to the garage with my friend. Then, miracles of miracles, the truck from the bike shop reappeared. And this time it was headed right up my driveway. The bike was a beautiful purple and had a metallic gold banana seat. I was in heaven and spent the next three days on the bike showing it off to all of my friends and anyone else who might care to see it.
Have you ever had a moment like that? I hope so. This bike brings back some of that feeling.
And no, I never did figure out if they did the drive by on purpose but I'm sure they felt my joy.
I was crushed as it left my block. My heart having been torn from my body, I slinked back to the garage with my friend. Then, miracles of miracles, the truck from the bike shop reappeared. And this time it was headed right up my driveway. The bike was a beautiful purple and had a metallic gold banana seat. I was in heaven and spent the next three days on the bike showing it off to all of my friends and anyone else who might care to see it.
Have you ever had a moment like that? I hope so. This bike brings back some of that feeling.
And no, I never did figure out if they did the drive by on purpose but I'm sure they felt my joy.
And hey, that Prince is one sweet bike! Congrats
03-01-08 | 12:01 PM
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"Pinarellos look like bad Dali paintings."
Find me a bad Dali painting and I might agree. Now there are plenty of vieweres (including those from the vaunted NYU art hist. dept.) that just don't understand Dali, but there are no bad dali paintings.
Go to the Dali museum in St. Pete's (FL) and take the nickel tour, it might change even your curmudgeonly mind.
Find me a bad Dali painting and I might agree. Now there are plenty of vieweres (including those from the vaunted NYU art hist. dept.) that just don't understand Dali, but there are no bad dali paintings.
Go to the Dali museum in St. Pete's (FL) and take the nickel tour, it might change even your curmudgeonly mind.
03-01-08 | 12:18 PM
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I hope Easton paid you a lot to put their ugly size 9999 font logo on your rims there.
03-01-08 | 01:08 PM
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I want to group ride with people that have these fancy carbon bikes, so I can t-bone them with my steel fixie. See who's bike is ridable after that!
03-01-08 | 01:24 PM
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