Har Farken har har ya evil barrrrrrstid

My bike is about 8.8kgs. The only thing I bought for it that was superlight are the wheels, which are sub 1400g - everything else is scrounged or budget driven. With Keo's, 10sp DA, Zero Gravity brakes, actual non-tandem forks, no strips of inner tube under the bar tape to fatten them up ( ) etc. etc., I could drop close to a Kg easy.

A Tephra Ti in Hitchys size would be about 1350g, a Ti SL would be about 1200g, and a steel version would be about 1500g. ( My frame, size 'extra huge' is 1750g )

Good to see the classics haven't been messed with

Thank you!! I get the money

Ah, but I bet you didin't get that I had an extra 100g of inner tube under my bar tape and 500g tandem forks!

Ah, no....I would've assumed it was 373g, like the Alpha Q on Weight Weenies

I wish....nah the commuter is a POS alu avanti...(actually, i quite like it!).......

Hitchy

Ok, so you guys don't think much of the titanium chain. My frame is titanium, the bars, crank bolts, and cassette are all titanium, and it still weighs about 16kg. It's a mountain bike. A tandem at that. But there's no Tandem MTB American Married To Aussie Chook thread, so I gotta read yours to see what's going on. I could have bought my brother's Campy equipped Litespeed for under US$1000 before I moved. Maybe then I'd fit in? I can always steal it from him on my next trip overseas if it's worth anything here. Ok, I'll shut up now.

I felt like I was in that show "Land of the Giants"

Hey 531....you wont believe this.....
I went for a ride on Sunday morning and coming back from Mordy i caught up with one of the Omara Boys. He was actually an ok dude....happy to have a chat I think thats the first Bike shop boy i have spoken too since I started riding!!

Impressive. Are your tooth fillings Ti too? Ti chains on a tandem would cost more than a Litespeed!

Impressive description even though you forgot the hyphens and

Don't mentioned Litespeed in front of slvoid and ultra-g. Especially the price. A sore point, Hitchy and I believe.

You know, some dude was at the start of one of our cycleways a few weeks ago posing on a Litespeed. I had the courtesy to stop and say "Litespeed! Hmmm." (or more like, Yummmmm). I think he looked at my Fuji Touring with some disdain, then said: "Yeah, it is. It's nice", then went back to looking into the middle distance through his fancy shades. Must have been some wanky tourist from the mainland waiting for his inferior ride partner to catch up.

WOW!!! A bike shop boy actually chatted to someone with hairy legs

I used to work at the gym with one of them, whose name is Jason -- he rides that TREK, i think a 2003 1500, with Ultegra

He had a Paconi.....2000 or 2002 model from memory...grey colour.......I did not get his name.

Hey have you seen the "Pix of my huge Viner!!" thread....that is one big fkn bike

was it Wokka? covered in freckles and knees going out the the sides on each pedal stroke??

Arnold, Lou, Franco, Dave and Serge can't be wrong.....

I log onto cyclingnews.com for an update this morning.....and there's Aaron Lee staring back at me. Fer fark's sake....

It's going to be one of those days. My only easy ride for the week (E1/E2) was spoiled by a howling fargin norwester. Who needs gale force wind at 4am??

I've already had to bite my tongue in another thread to prevent an international incident of some magnitude. It took quite some time for the good and bad angels on each shoulder to sort it out for me. I nearly pressed the post button a couple of times, but in the end sanity prevailed. I hate when that happens. It's poor form for a professional ***** stirrer.

post the link....

LOL......welcome to my world!.......when the best thing the mods can say to you is "we're monitoring your behaviour on the forums"....then you've got problems.......LOL

Hitchy

There's nothing in it since I decided not to vent my spleen on some stupid seppo. I hate how they always bring up 9/11 as a crutch for everything. Sanctomonious @#@%*s.

I guess we monitor you behaviour too, it's a fargin riot! Guess some ppl have no sense of humour when it comes to earning a dollar off a site sponsor whose moral standing is not as liberal as your own!!

The forum Gestapo are onto you Hitchy.

Damn, I didn't know Ti fillings were available! Seriously though, I feel bad that the prices here are so high, it's a big ripoff. From what I can see, it's the fault of "exclusive distributors", not your local LBS. But I import all my stuff myself, and that saves me heaps. I'm sure now that the AU$ is so high, we'll see a drop in prices. Not. You guys would make fun of my brother and his shiny bike, hey? That's fine. We only went with Ti for the tandem because that's what the builder uses. It's got couplers like S&S makes so we can take it apart when we travel. If the builder worked in steel, we would have gotten that instead. I'm just too big for a skinny tire road bike on Newcastle's poor roads. I hope you guys don't me having a sticky at this forum.

Just saw it.....what a garden gate. Almost 6 foot 5 he says!!

We'll take a vote on it later...

Cricket Please ,please end it !!
wat a joke !