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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 03-29-10, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
You know what I'll say about it.

Why that stem, by the way?
Thanks again. THe stem is a Zipp sl145. Super beefy looking + really light.
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Old 03-29-10, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by mike868y
Thanks again. THe stem is a Zipp sl145. Super beefy looking + really light.
It was more of a why did you choose that over any more.. conventional stem. Weight and beefy I guess?
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
It was more of a why did you choose that over any more.. conventional stem. Weight and beefy I guess?
Oh, sorry I misread your post. It came on the bike - I bought it build up as is. If I was building it from a frameset, I probably would have stuck w/ conventional alu bars + stem.
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Hmm, that's not the specialized assigned stem is it? LBS switched it out?
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Old 03-29-10, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
Hmm, that's not the specialized assigned stem is it? LBS switched it out?
I didn't buy it from an LBS.
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Finished updating for spring a little while ago, finally got around to taking a picture. What do you guys think?
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Originally Posted by go4gr8
How about this?

Hawt. I love the look of that frame. I wish there was a local dealer for me to get on one of those.
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Originally Posted by instigator
Here is my humble submission.

Super hot.
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Originally Posted by ninjaman
[IMG]FORTFORTFORT[/IMG]

Finished updating for spring a little while ago, finally got around to taking a picture. What do you guys think?
Hot.
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Originally Posted by ninjaman


Finished updating for spring a little while ago, finally got around to taking a picture. What do you guys think?
Pretty damn sexy!!
Is that the right seat-post setup for that bike?
It looks a little funny, but other than that...
HOT.

.. but i just got a bike fit about a month ago, and upgraded a few parts.

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Originally Posted by jetbike
Super hot.
Hot for sure, but WHY are you it the big ring and that gear on the cassette???? Your rear derailure is NOT happy.
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Originally Posted by swak
Pretty damn sexy!!
Is that the right seat-post setup for that bike?
It looks a little funny, but other than that...
HOT.

.. but i just got a bike fit about a month ago, and upgraded a few parts.

HOT! By the way, what did you mean specifically? The angle? I prefer the nose tilted very slightly up, p.s. I'm mostly legs.
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Tape is ugly.
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Originally Posted by NathanC
Tape is ugly.
+1
That tape is awful, nice bike tho
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Originally Posted by lemak
that bike is hot!!!!!!
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Like the bike, like the components, but the white wheels are a little too far. maybe a black saddle and black tape would help a little.
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Originally Posted by WCroadie
+1
That tape is awful, nice bike tho
Very fussy about my bar tape ahaha... (and to be honest, this is the comfiest tape ive ever had - ugly or not)
Im not a huge fan of the look either, but have grown accustom to it.
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Originally Posted by ninjaman
HOT! By the way, what did you mean specifically? The angle? I prefer the nose tilted very slightly up, p.s. I'm mostly legs.
No, the seat tube to the seat post looks off.
Looks like you should have a wider seat post.
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Originally Posted by swak
Very fussy about my bar tape ahaha... (and to be honest, this is the comfiest tape ive ever had - ugly or not)
Im not a huge fan of the look either, but have grown accustom to it.
If you like it that's all that counts, I don't like any two-tone tape not just picking on yours.
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Originally Posted by swak
No, the seat tube to the seat post looks off.
Looks like you should have a wider seat post.
Oh, that's because it's an aero seat tube, but it runs a standard 27.2 seatpost.
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Don't know about the bike but today was HOT!


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You know it's hot.










Outside.

The bike is too
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Originally Posted by rollin
Don't know about the bike but today was HOT!
BMC = hot in my book.
PS: I envy your weather. It's in the 70s here (we consider that "warm") but definitely no palm trees.
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The BMC is pretty hawt. Okay, here's yesss... my Mongoose...

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