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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 06-28-10 | 01:21 PM
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If this is indeed the case, why have you not turned pro?
I guess my memory was a little fuzzy, we only averaged 18.5. Still a good pace for 207mi.
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Old 06-28-10 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mike868y
I guess my memory was a little fuzzy.
Wait til you're my age kid.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:37 PM
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Wiggle just sent me an email asking me if I have Tour de France fever.






I do not.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:39 PM
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Wiggle just sent me an email asking me if I have Tour de France fever.




I do not.
I do have Mets Malaise, but that is an inherited chronic and incurable disease.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:43 PM
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am i a canny shopper or what? i just bought a computer with altimeter, heart rate and cadence for £65 compared to well over £100 for polar. then i read a whole bunch of bad reviews. oh well.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:49 PM
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What happened to your legs being your computer?
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:55 PM
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What happened to your legs being your computer?
Luddite.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:56 PM
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What happened to your legs being your computer?
They rebooted.
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Old 06-28-10 | 02:58 PM
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They rebooted.
Crashed, more likely.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:02 PM
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my legs became unreliable. i thought i was going slowly but it turned out i was flying!
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:04 PM
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See, boots go on feet, so ummm....., never mind....
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:04 PM
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i wish i got the cateye double wireless.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:04 PM
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See, boots go on feet, so ummm....., never mind....
what do you think this is? open mic night?
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:07 PM
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what do you think this is? open mic night?
Hey, I made me laugh, that's all that matters.

I'm hungry.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by coasting
i wish i got the cateye double wireless.
The only feature that really adds over my cheapo cateye is cadence.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:14 PM
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i just noticed a thread title about buyers remorse. what excellent timing.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:17 PM
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What doesn't the price of cycle computers drop like the cost of personal computers does?

I just looked at what I bought five years ago, and it costs more now than it did back then.
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Old 06-28-10 | 03:19 PM
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since i started cycling again in 2005, prices of stuff i bought has only gone up. massively in the last 2 years.
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Old 06-28-10 | 04:13 PM
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I don't know why. I don't see a massive spike in demand for performance-grade road bike gear with 10% unemployment and 1-2% economic growth, if that.
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Old 06-28-10 | 04:14 PM
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I wonder if new users ever find this thread to be helpful?
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Old 06-28-10 | 04:52 PM
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since i started cycling again in 2005, prices of stuff i bought has only gone up. massively in the last 2 years.
Speaking of prices, I was browsing nytro (so. cal. bike shop) at lunch today and they are taking pre-orders for the Cervelo R5ca frameset for $9,799.95, even comes with a crank, although I'm not sure if the BB is included or about s/h charges.

Aside from it looking totally boring yet being a cutting-edge Cervelo, does $9,799.95 seem excessive to anyone else besides me? Are we witnessing a bike-schwag bubble in real-time?
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Old 06-28-10 | 04:56 PM
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the Cervelo R5ca frameset for $9,799.95
No Cervelo for me.
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Old 06-28-10 | 05:00 PM
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yes. bubble. when i built up my bike last year, i got a 105 crankset for just under £60. Last time i looked it was going for nearer £120. 100% inflation. nice.

when this bubble bursts, all the poseurs will be left with over-valued unsellable assets.
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Old 06-28-10 | 05:05 PM
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I asked about tubes when I stopped by the bike shop on Friday.

I think he said they are $7 or $8.

Give me a break. I got a patch kit.
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Old 06-28-10 | 05:22 PM
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I would like a computer that makes me faster.

I wonder what Razor uses?
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