Inspiration.

After all this weight talk.. I'm 5 9 and 155. Was the same height and 187 in February. I still think I'm fat, but last night my friend's mom told me not to lose any more weight. Pcad, I feel your pain.

talking about cocktail parties, how pretentious.

I would dread invites to wine bars. For god's sake, go to a pub. Wine bar my ass. Wine bars are where vacuous people loll around trying to look beautiful but just look cheap. Glad I go that off my chest. Enjoy your cocktails.

Now that the bars are lower, the elbow bend is unnatural.

Nope, I love my Kwings. Three road bikes, three sets of deep drop Kwings. They work for me.

I saw a cyclist even crazier than me today.

I was driving parallel to the interstate, facing traffic when I see a cyclist coming the other way. Well, due to the concrete barriers I couldn't actually see a bicycle, but I assume he was on one unless he was on a motorcyle going real slowly along the edge with no helmet and a backpack on his back.

I've ridden some crazy places, but never on the interstate. Thanks to the interstate layout we have thousands of 18-wheelers blowing through here every day.

That's because your bikes have, what was it, more spacers than a Grateful Dead Convention?

I tend to agree on the K-Wings. They've been excellent til now. The tops are super comfortable. Maybe it's time to move away from the deep drop ergo bend. Back to the trusty Deda 215 shallows. Or fork over the $$ for the shallow K-Wings.

At the end of the day, it's all unnecessary mental ************.

If ************ is so unnecessary, then why do so many people do it?

Because if you're doing it right, it's not 100% mental.

this is a disturbing direction this thread is heading.

Head over to the 33 if you want to observe the truly disturbed.

7,000+ posts later and you just noticed?

i'm going to bring this thread back on topic...unnecessary purchases.

I'm thinking of getting a replacement cycle computer for the one I lost which was a cheapo wireless one from the supermarket which served me very well. Now I want one that does heart rate, altimeter, cadence and I notice the Blackburn Delphi is so much cheaper than Polar. What am I missing?

And that's saying something here.

I made this up just to prevent this thread tempting pcad into saying too much about his "personal" habits with his right hand.






not really. I am really looking at computers.

Heck, why not also switch out the rear hub for a WI's ENO and have yourself very light single-speed or fixie? Minus all those cables, switch-y things, brakes, and cogs, the bike will look even better. (Much easier maintenance, too.)

The tall spacers are because the 56 frame size is borderline small for me in some ways. Very long legs, shorter torso. At any rate, this set up fits me like a glove. I like that look better than the angled stem with fewer spacers.

Hey look, this is BF. If I remove the spacers and turn the stem upside down to appease the spacer nazis, half the morons here will say 'flip it'. This way if I want to get the handlebars higher in the future, I have some fork steerer tube left to play with.

There's more than one kind of ************, and this thread addresses many of them.

mention ************ and razor shows up. who'da thunk it.

Pcad, I took 9th at my state RR championship. What was your best placing ?

10th as a 4 at the State RR in NJ c. 1994, in smaller races 2nd, 4th, a few top 10's.

I suck at this sport.

I bit the bullet this weekend and cut the steerer tube. Reynolds Ouzo Pro. Made me sad to do it for this reason, but it had to be done.

It's freaking amazing how slight, counter-intuitive adjustments can improve comfort. I always have some back pain after riding, usually lower back. After dropping a spacer and 150 miles this weekend, no back pain. Doesn't make sense, but I'll take it.

That sentence makes me laugh.

I will now think of myself as one place ahead of you in NJ state championships

my spiffy new fork removed a weight weenie disappointing 8 oz. Ok, more than that was stupidly optimistic. I need a cheeseburger.

I have big news which shall trigger a great rue across the land.

But I'll let you stew in suspense for a bit.

Meanwhile, I saw my second bizarre cycling sight of the day (the first being an apparent cyclist on the interstate).

This time I saw two adolescents riding down the sidewalk. No big deal. Except one of them had a rope on his bike and was towing a couch on rollers.

There's something about the first day of summer that's bringing the crazies out.