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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 05-05-10 | 05:27 PM
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I actually weighed myself this AM.



Big mistake. Don't worry, it won't happen again.


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Old 05-05-10 | 05:45 PM
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So glad I switched back to the Aliante. Was like going to first class seating... Junk approved.
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Old 05-05-10 | 05:53 PM
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Switched back from what? Are you selling it? Although my toupe is not bad, I think I can find better.
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:18 PM
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just popping in to say hey ... so "hey"
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:18 PM
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I am on the look out for saddles. I am trying to find "the one"

Mzeffex, a lot is wear, but when the light hits shorts just right I think just about all of them are translucent. Black seems to be worst for the "just right lighting" situations, but then again white is risky from the "wet" persepective.

Here are the better pictures of my bike (and my old one) just because

old (an old picutre as well R700 crank on there now and different fit



New (still playing with the adjustments)







No I don't care that I already posted in the BMC thread. I need to catch up to Pcad needlessly posting pictures of his bikes.
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:21 PM
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BMC =
Fuji = ok.

And okay about the shorts. I tried to not be in front of cyclists or cars today, I didn't want to flash them.
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:31 PM
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LADIES AND FREDS, I GIVE YOU YOUR 2010 State of confusion road riding champion... roadiejorge!
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:32 PM
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The geometry is actually very similar even though the fuji is a "58" and the BMC is a "55" No part is more than 6 mm or .5 degrees off. I may need a longer stem with the shorter handle bars though. I actually might consider a real fitting now that I have a bike I consider worthy
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex

And okay about the shorts. I tried to not be in front of cyclists or cars today, I didn't want to flash them.
If you are worried about such things you are not riding hard enough

Pcad, a guy crashed in my group ride today, thank God he didn't bring down my new bike. Do you ever worry about such things?
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:37 PM
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Heeeeeyyyyyy,girl.
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
And okay about the shorts. I tried to not be in front of cyclists or cars today, I didn't want to flash them.
Originally Posted by heckler
If you are worried about such things you are not riding hard enough
There's a joke in there, somewhere, but must...

keep...

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the OBVIOUS!
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
Switched back from what? Are you selling it? Although my toupe is not bad, I think I can find better.
It was this one: https://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...s.php?id=24918 I'll pm ya.
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Old 05-05-10 | 07:00 PM
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Yes.
damn.

A few weeks back I saw a heavy lady (at least 250-300) on a flatbar converted road bike.... Cervelo R3 frame, Lightweight wheels, and she was wearing a tri helmet. No joke.


In BF tradition of user R600 (or whatever his name was) I dialed it up to 400w and passed her without looking back. I could tell she was suffering even though my legs felt as snappy as they did when I started 100 miles ago.
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Old 05-05-10 | 07:10 PM
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Ha! I got dropped by a group today, I was trying to keep up with about 6 or 7 members of the same team. I couldn't. It's amazing what a pack can do that a single rider can't.
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Old 05-05-10 | 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
Switched back from what? Are you selling it? Although my toupe is not bad, I think I can find better.
Same here. I love my toupe but I've been reading up on the Romin and Im dying to try one now. The back arches up which is supposed to help out for those of us that are less than flexible.
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Old 05-05-10 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Yaniel
Same here. I love my toupe but I've been reading up on the Romin and Im dying to try one now. The back arches up which is supposed to help out for those of us that are less than flexible.
I don't have that issue. I was in the drops for most of my ride today and was okay. Fingers on the ground, not palms though.

The issue I have is my sit bones hurt after a long while, not near as bad as my old saddle that burned thank god.
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Old 05-05-10 | 08:13 PM
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FINALLY, someone at CNN woke up. Anderson Cooper admits they dropped the ball and will be broadcasting from Nashville tomorrow--five days after the flood.
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Old 05-05-10 | 08:28 PM
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Anyone looking to rid themselves of a toupe...it is on my list of saddles to try I perfer black, but now white and red can work will pay a fair sum.

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Old 05-05-10 | 08:47 PM
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Hey Holly,

Where have you been? I saw another rollerblader the other day (the first one this year). I thought you should know.
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Old 05-06-10 | 04:46 AM
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Hey Gomer, they shut down the RFK Bridge last night (formerly called the Triborough Bridge) because there was an abandoned U-Haul truck that smelled of gasoline. Turned out to be an abandoned U-Haul truck with a leaky gas fill pipe.

I can assure you that the resulting cluster fark from closing such a major artery in a city like NY is considerable.

Sooner or later (sooner I suspect) the rat bastards will pull it off in a major American city, it probably will be NY, and dozens or scores of innocent people will die. If we're lucky. If they pull it off the way they really want to, thousands will die. At that point nobody will be talking about flooding in Nashville.
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Old 05-06-10 | 04:49 AM
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But back to cycling. I applied that FSA compound to my slipping CF TT bike aerobars last night. Hoping they stop moving around now. I will take out for a test flight today.
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Old 05-06-10 | 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Holly
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I suppose since they killed the 'ask anything' threads you're homeless on BF now.
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Old 05-06-10 | 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
I don't have that issue. I was in the drops for most of my ride today and was okay. Fingers on the ground, not palms though.

The issue I have is my sit bones hurt after a long while, not near as bad as my old saddle that burned thank god.
i can spent hours with my back flat on the hoods, and below flat in the drops. i can barely pass my knees though on a toe touch. I just think the romin can help me even more.
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Old 05-06-10 | 10:05 AM
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Sooner or later (sooner I suspect) the rat bastards will pull it off in a major American city, it probably will be NY, and dozens or scores of innocent people will die.
If/when that happens it will be sad, especially for those people. Meanwhile, millions of people die from causes other than terrorism, yet for the most part the media doesn't try to scare the crap out of us about that every night.
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Old 05-06-10 | 10:19 AM
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