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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 04-24-16, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
Kinda billboard-y but still hot. Deserves a nicer crankset than Gossamer.
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Old 04-24-16, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ckindt
irreversibly not. many rules broken too.
this is the thread with all the rules

https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycli...ot-thread.html
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Old 04-24-16, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
Hot.

What bars are those? I like the curve + drop, but the reach looks a little longer than what I need
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Old 04-24-16, 10:14 PM
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Looks like 3T Aeronova.
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Old 04-24-16, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by k_kibbler
Looks like 3T Aeronova.
that is what I suspected, and that would confirm my thought about the reach being too much for me. I wish TTT offered a shorter reach version.
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
Great looking bike. Hate the bar tape.
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Old 04-25-16, 02:30 PM
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This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.
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Old 04-25-16, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Beachbumer


This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.
what frameset is that?

Not "hot" , but not bad either.
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Originally Posted by Beachbumer


This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.
Distinctive and classy. Very warm.
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Originally Posted by the sci guy
Great looking bike, hate the wheels.
I vote to take the wheel decals off then it will look hot
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Old 04-25-16, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
Take wheel decals off
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Old 04-26-16, 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
Guess he didn't like the feedback.
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Originally Posted by Beachbumer


This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.
Saddle and bar tape color just don't go. Cold.
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Old 04-26-16, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by TenSpeedV2
Saddle and bar tape color just don't go. Cold.
Agree. I also don't care for the shape of the drops, but that might be personal preference.

I'd hate to say it but I think it could actually use some decals. Nothing huge or flashy, but the white parts just look bare.

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Originally Posted by Beachbumer


This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.
Very nice. Not easy to make the saddle and bar tape work, but Id say it def works here.
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Originally Posted by pinoy92231
Take wheel decals off
As a Wilier owner, what's so irritating about Wilier is their insistence on putting "wilier.it". While there was a remote chance that my 2010 vintage Wilier helped the Google-challenged find them on the web, it is 2016 now. I'd peel those off, but alas, it's under the clearcoat.
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Originally Posted by TenSpeedV2
Saddle and bar tape color just don't go. Cold.
Agree. Paint the frame matching brown. That ought to do it.
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Old 04-26-16, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by mpath
As a Wilier owner, what's so irritating about Wilier is their insistence on putting "wilier.it". While there was a remote chance that my 2010 vintage Wilier helped the Google-challenged find them on the web, it is 2016 now. I'd peel those off, but alas, it's under the clearcoat.
Unclickable links are a scourge that needs to be wiped out.

That and any words on the frame of a bike other than the name of the bike producer and the model. Bikes that have stuff like "modular transitional compliancy high modulus grommit" written on the chainstay or top tube need to just stop it.

Equally any bike that has "Shimano" written on it in big letters looks like a Wal-mart bike. I'm looking at you Trek Emonda ALR 5.
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Old 04-26-16, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Beachbumer


This is a new build so the seat, stem and bars will get adjusted a bit as I get comfortable. My first bike with Sram Force 22 and I like it. I also like the November wheels.


Shaped seat post topped by Brooks pushed forward with saddlebag tabs = C&V meets the 33
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Old 04-26-16, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by SpecializedOkie
It's not a moots or canyon, but I like it.


HOT. I like that you went with the red accents
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Originally Posted by Beachbumer
Not. Brooks leather doesn't go at all with the frame's paint scheme. Maybe if the frame was all black or all white, I could dig it, but as it stands it's hideous.
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Originally Posted by BaconSandwich
HOT. I would go with a white saddle to match the white bartape tho.
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Originally Posted by Monkey D.Luffy
Hot.. did you rotate the handlebars after the first pic?

edit.. oh, and you cut the stem.. edit again.. I meant the steerer tube..
Would moving the bars so that they're ground level (levers pointing straight down) not be comfortable?
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Originally Posted by Sy Reene
Hot.. did you rotate the handlebars after the first pic?

edit.. oh, and you cut the stem.. edit again.. I meant the steerer tube..
Would moving the bars so that they're ground level (levers pointing straight down) not be comfortable?
I think you're right. I thought the setup still looked funny. I'll try rotating the bars some (I'm not going to mess with the levers since the bartape is so new at the moment).

Here's how it was before this progression of pictures

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