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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-15-12, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by cstpeter
Schwinn is definitely hot.

My SS/fixed conversion:
Badly wrapped bars, slack chain, bad photo. Not.
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Originally Posted by ancker
The European standards is the right hand controls the front brake. Motorcycles are also this way since the the left hand is the clutch foot brake for the rear. Some people like it this way, (especially motorcyclists) or the owner might be European.
You're confusing European with British, I think.
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Old 01-15-12, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by cstpeter
Schwinn is definitely hot.

My SS/fixed conversion:

Chain looks fine to me, a little slack never hurt no one. Izzat a road ring, though? A little slack + road ring might hurt a little bit.

Bar tape gap is massive! Setup is screaming for leather bar tape.

Get a silver headset spacer.
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Old 01-15-12, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by cstpeter
Schwinn is definitely hot.

My SS/fixed conversion:

horrific
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Old 01-15-12, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
You're confusing European with British, I think.
Yeah, sorry. I knew the brits did it, thought it was a Europe thing too.
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Originally Posted by dgasmd
but I can tell you that one of my bikes is far faster than the others. I would have agreed with you had it not being the case with me.
Which one?
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My ride of choice today:

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Nice LeMond...Hot.
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Originally Posted by RJM
Nice LeMond...Hot.
+1 Hot LeMond
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My first post so be nice... 2012 Specialized Amira 48cm, Sram Red, Easton 90SLX.

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Old 01-15-12, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Jobuff
My first post so be nice... 2012 Specialized Amira 48cm, Sram Red, Easton 90SLX.
I like this quite a bit...HOT! I don't know if it's the photo angle but it seems like the bar could be rotated down a bit.
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Originally Posted by WHOOOSSHHH...
I'm suprised the MOD's haven' given you UCIMBZ a little corner time for doing your best to clog up this thread with your drivel.....now it had been me doing this crap, it would have been off to the pokey for the 3rd time. Now both of you go haunt another thread. This ain't the JS vs BZ laugh hour...two freds
Imagine if I had to start a new thread for every single bike that I have with pictures and all in outskairts of Sandiego. Might as well start three different threads for each as if they were all Rossettis. Now we are talking major clog up.
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Originally Posted by Jobuff
My first post so be nice... 2012 Specialized Amira 48cm, Sram Red, Easton 90SLX.
not - wheels don't help, wrong cog, rotate the bars down, to many spacer (slam it!), loose all the stickers.
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Originally Posted by RJM
I like this quite a bit...HOT! I don't know if it's the photo angle but it seems like the bar could be rotated down a bit.
Bar needs to be rotated forward AND levers are too high on bar.
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Old 01-15-12, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jobuff
My first post so be nice... 2012 Specialized Amira 48cm, Sram Red, Easton 90SLX.

You are Rob's wife. Welcome to the forum. Nice bike. Would look better on the S-WORKS you've just got.
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Old 01-15-12, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by sdrider
frozen.....
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Old 01-15-12, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by SDRider
HOT !!, but flip the stem.
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Originally Posted by WHOOOSSHHH...
frozen.....
Probably fun in the twisties but probably wouldn't get too much of a workout on it.
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Originally Posted by WHOOOSSHHH...
frozen.....
Come on... that's pure sex! And kind of the reason I've been off the bicycle for the last few years. But I'm getting back into cycling after a few year hiatus. I do love my Duc though.
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Originally Posted by SDRider
Needs more drop. And fenders are a not.
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Originally Posted by RJM
Probably fun in the twisties but probably wouldn't get too much of a workout on it.
It is and riding it is definitely physically demanding but in a completely different way than cycling. I've been cycling all my life, it is only in the last few years I've gotten into motorcycles. I don't think I'll ever be without either one for the remainder of my life.
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Here is a red Italian bike but without a motor



Please disregard the mountain bike pedals as my road shoes are on loan
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