Isn't that what campy is all about?

What's wrong with riding a mid level Scott? And why would anyone ride an overpriced foo foo bike like the one in that stupid picture? I only know one guy who actually races on Lightweight wheels. One.

I don't get it.

Maybe because I actually ride the bikes I post about, even with all my bloviating here, more than I post about them, if you can imagine that. Listen kid, my problem is that I'm too secure, even if I have every reason to be insecure. I have discovered that somewhere around age 48, your give a shlit factor for other people's opinions drops to zero point zero. I can only imagine how far it drops after age 60. Which does explain the old folks shuffling around in public in their bathrobes. They really don't care what you think.

Effin A.

I like your bike pcad. But my new one is better, and I'm way poorer than you. Ultegra? Step it up man!

Worthless without pics.

And derail your thread? Nah, I'll put 'em up in the 33 when I get the race wheels in.

Yeah WR is the only one with Trek cracks.....

Exactly what I was thinking.

Sadly, he is NOT alone.

I'm on pace to reach that years earlier.

I knew there was something I liked about you Gomer.

That is a masterpiece.

I remember when I was younger, I could not get over how old folks were allowed to say or do whatever the hell they wanted.

I am now that old bastage.

And if you're not, you will be.

Geezer is not an age, it is an attitude. I was a geezer long before I was an old bastage. Now we walk hand in hand.

how much does weight savings help?
 

Wondering if someone could answer my query! My road bike weighs 20lbs, how much of an advantage would I gain on a 3 mile climb that gains 1500ft, if I had a fancy bike that was only 15lbs? Picking up a 5lb weight, I'm thinking I would NOT want to carry that up that climb with me... so how much do these weight savings effect a rider on a climb?

Lose the 5 lbs from the bike, take a healthy 2lb dump before the climb and watch yourself zoom up!

Your question really deserves it's own thread. This thread isn't for serious questions or answers. In fact, it's just not to be taken seriously at all.

Fail

There's really no point to this thread at all, which is the point. Just another Pcad thread. The black hole of BF threads. Embrace the nothingness.

Yes, but embracing nothingness can be meaningless if it weren't for something being meaningful to embrace.

Man i don't know about your life and income but I purchased a nice bike pro-level bike because I wanted to. I don't of the ability/engine of a pro but I am happy with my purchase. I hope you are happy with steel bike and someday you might be able to buy the Madone you spoke about. In the mean time time you can tell your self and everyone else that your current bike is really better (what nonsense).

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Will you STFU with this tired stupid line?

Just because you spend a few grand on a bicycle does't mean you have any delusions that you'll ride like a pro, and it doesn't make you a poser. I'd argue that people who spend $3K-$10K on a bicycle and actually ride it are getting far more benefit than most people who spend similar money in other hobbies. And somebody who's highest tech bicycle is a throwback steel bike is hardly in a position to comment on the performance characteristics of modern CF bicycles. Offering up a 'Madone 6.9 test ride' as your extensive exposure to modern racing bicycles is rather silly. The impressions I form on those short test rides are often contradicted by my feeling about the bike after I've ridden it for weeks. I've had that experience a number of times over the past five years, a period during which I've actually purchased three new high end road bicycles and test rode at least a dozen.
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Man I don't know where your reading abilities are but there sure weren't here tonight. I rode the Madone because a friend of mine wanted me to test ride it, so I did, I didn't want to buy it but also I didn't want it and I wasn't thrilled enough to be swooned. And I also said it's your money you can spend it anyway you see necessary to fill the hole in your life...ok, I didn't say it that way you can reread it to get the exact rendering, but essentially that's the deal. And part of that hole in your life is thinking that if someone doesn't have a bike or car or house or whatever as good as what you have then they must be poor miserable souls and maybe someday they can rise to your level. I can tell from reading your post I don't want to be anywhere near your level! For me to spend $6,000 for a bike that I could never make it go the way Lance does is not a wise expenditure of money when a steel or even a less expensive bike that weighs the same as the Madone would be a better purchase. Personally I have a gripe against CF bicycles but that's a debate that has raged wars here and I'm not going to enter into that. I have other investments that I pour my money into and a bike is not an investment in the true sense of the word which is the use of money for future profit...and a Madone is not that.

I am a throwback, I like things that are throwbacks, why? Because their made better. Oops did I say that? Oh boy here comes the war; I'll just sit back on my old rocking chair and laugh like a silly little school girl while reading the replies and listening to Led Zeppelin that was also better then modern rock bands...crap there I go again!

Nobody cares but you.

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