Thanks Mazdaspeed! It would be nice to be 50+ and cool, but with two teenagers I have no more illusions. :-)

Let's cut out the insults and personal attacks. A little fun is fine but keep up the name calling and the thread will be closed and infractions will be handed out.

Thanks Captain :-) I bought my first real road bike a Vitus 979 back around 1983 and have been in love with cycling ever since. But maybe these guys are right, maybe the Ridley's frame and geometry is all wrong for me, after all 20mph was SO much easier on my Vitus...

Can't agree more. Almost everything was SO much easier back in 83.

Everybody fits a bike a little differently, the only thing that matter is how you preform and how you feel when you are done. Don't listen to these clowns....
The Bike is Hot

The thing is, i also post my own bikes and new pictures, not the same one as last year (unless it is to compare). I can handle the criticism. So you guys caught him posting the "TYPE" of bike he just bought instead of the actual bike. He has already mentioned that that was a mistake. He then followed up with the actual pic. Not a big deal. Definitely not as big as you hawks are making it out to be. He still has a point which is UCI has been posting the same picture of each bike for the passed year and a half now. I honestly don't care who owns what bikes, but if you're going to bowl, you can't keep talking about the 300 you had once. Post some new scores or get off the team.

Once again, all 3 of my bikes have been posted in this thread about a half a dozen times, in a different setup EVERY TIME. UCI keeps posting the same shi*t (albeit beautiful) over and over. Just saying at least JSS is posting new stuff. I can google all 5 pictures of UCIs bikes but no other ones.

In the end, ironic or not (for me still posting here?? lol) we are still in the hot or not thread. Please tell me in all of those aside from (Now that ownership is established - not hot) where you guys are managing to stay on the thread rules, why should anybody else?


Edit: I finished reading the thread posts after I was typing this. Looks like he posted some updated pic. For that. OK UCI. I wrote all that ramble before I saw a new picture.

Now that is HOT HOT HOT!!!
MOAR PICS NEEDED

Have always like Ridley Noahs, horizontal and bent top tubes. This in particular, HOT!!!

Ol' skool' HOT!!!

The frameset alone is HOT. Overall build, HOT!!!

jss > ucimzyq.

Hot.

Repost for the fishy
 

Ok here is a repost

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/...n/DSC_0255.jpg

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/...n/DSC_0256.jpg

Found this on on WW.com
 

I don't think even UCIMBZ can fault this one

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/.../dsc0068ge.jpg

Really? I can see where some would think "muscular," but I just see "chunky" - that frame doesn't look particularly graceful to me, in that size. Not my cuppa.

Those hoods and that steerer tube nipple poking through could be changed.

Not with the brake hoods sitting taller than the saddle.

--The Stem Nazi

Hot. Can you pm or give me a link to more pics with details of the build?

i dont mind a steerer nipple.

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The Look = win

Nice bike, not diggin the stem though.

AMAZING BIKE!!! If I was to get another bike I would get this...except I am a 16 year old kid with no job, so that's not happening anytime soon...

Hot, would look better in a smaller size.

its been mentioned before, but the proprietary Look stem and cranks are adjustable. so you can change the length and angle of the stem and the length of the crank arms.

thats why the stem looks funky. being able to adjust easily is a HOT function for me.

This is the only other pic that I have, with it's kissing cousin:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...Large%2529.JPG

Frame is a Waterford RS-22 with an original Sram Rival group. Nitto post, stem and bars. King headset. Soma saddle and tape. Wheels in pic and are some Velocity Razor rims on their hubs (Formula) but they have been since changed to A23/White industry handbuilts.

Gadabout I can agree with you 100% on the photographic esthetics of having the seat further back, so I will keep that in mind when posting images, but here is a shot with a plumb line:

http://www.pbase.com/kingfisher/imag...9/original.jpg

The plum line is 5mm ahead in front of the pedal axel, so we're talking 1/5th of an inch. That has to be irrelevant. The hoods are a different story. Just switched from round to oval handle bars and tried to estimate the brifter position based on the old handlebars. Even ran it on the trainer for an hour before cutting all the cables and wrapping it all up. When I finally got it outdoors for a 3 hour ride (in January) I realized the handle bars needed to be rotated back to be more comfortable, but that of course threw the hoods off. And since it's internal cabling it's not a five minute job to redo everything. But thanks for your feedback :-)

Hope this isn't too off track. And I guess since I have not shaved my legs no one is going to think they are hot :-)