what's the best bike you ever rode. . .?
03-30-06, 12:34 PM
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what's the best bike you ever rode. . .?
other than your own--fixed, road, mtb, etc.?
i rode a friend's steel seven road bike. ****in' sweet!
i rode a friend's steel seven road bike. ****in' sweet!
03-30-06, 12:38 PM
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i hopped on rob's coast, and it was lovely.
03-30-06, 12:46 PM
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i think the best bike i've ever ridden is my friend's groundup cyclocross bike:
it fits me perfectly and handles and sprints amazingly.... plus record 10 never hurt no one no how!
i've also ridden a full suspension 29" willets that owned earth... oh, and this sweet ti blacksheep hardtail single speed. amazing almost intuitive bikes. plus, all three were built in the great rectangle!!
it fits me perfectly and handles and sprints amazingly.... plus record 10 never hurt no one no how!
i've also ridden a full suspension 29" willets that owned earth... oh, and this sweet ti blacksheep hardtail single speed. amazing almost intuitive bikes. plus, all three were built in the great rectangle!!
03-30-06, 12:49 PM
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a corima
took it for a few laps of the local velo.
sweet ride, obviously. I was so nervous though. didn't want to crash. that thing's worth more than everything I own.
took it for a few laps of the local velo.
sweet ride, obviously. I was so nervous though. didn't want to crash. that thing's worth more than everything I own.
03-30-06, 12:56 PM
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believe it or not, i rode a surly pugsley yesterday and it was purty dang fun!
03-30-06, 01:08 PM
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Hmm. The most memorable bike I've ever ridden was a Klein Quantum, full Ultegra, pre-Trek buyout. Klein took all the good things about aluminum (stiffness, lightness) and none of the bad things (early Cannondale over-stiffness, crap looking welds.)
That was the bike that really got me into road riding. I still pine for one.
That was the bike that really got me into road riding. I still pine for one.
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03-30-06, 01:14 PM
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Naz's Colnago Super Track, aka Greta.
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I pedaled around my pal's Intense Uzzi. 30 lbs. with 6 inches of travel, front and rear. I was invincible, I tell you, INVINCIBLE!
03-30-06, 01:16 PM
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my buddy jon's battaglin track bike. its been with him in portland for two years, sadly!
03-30-06, 01:16 PM
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schloe moe's Carlton.
03-30-06, 01:22 PM
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dam this is fun !
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The best bike I rode was when I was on Newjersy on holiday as a kid on Bright golden bike with a huge white bannana seat big sissy bars, My Dad was beside me as I rode the bike down the road and next thing I know Dad gone and I was riding for the first time with out help and I have never stoped nor forgoten that Golden bike
03-30-06, 01:25 PM
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i just thought of another amazing bike... my friend with the groundup also has this ss 29" niner. this thing, complete with pedals, weighs 20 pounds. it's amazing:
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03-30-06, 01:27 PM
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i'll never forget my first bike.
we were poor so things like bikes didn't come easy.
for my 10th birthday my uncle and aunt bought me a barbie bicycle w/training wheels
it had streamers. and it was more white than pink (i went through a pink refusal stage from 7-16)
it had big white wheels and barbie on the front. i wasn't much of a girly girl growing up but when it came to barbie's they were like my children - all always looking nice and such.
i had it until september (my bday is in july) when i got off the school bus and saw my brother riding it around the driveway while louie tried to hit him with rocks and a baseball bat. that was the end of my bike.
later on that year he got his own bike which he threw in the river to see if he could get his out faster than louie's. alex's bike never came back.
at that point my parents vowed neither of us would be allowed to have bikes anymore because alex would break them.
i didn't get another bike until a little under a year ago as a graduation present.
we were poor so things like bikes didn't come easy.
for my 10th birthday my uncle and aunt bought me a barbie bicycle w/training wheels
it had streamers. and it was more white than pink (i went through a pink refusal stage from 7-16)
it had big white wheels and barbie on the front. i wasn't much of a girly girl growing up but when it came to barbie's they were like my children - all always looking nice and such.
i had it until september (my bday is in july) when i got off the school bus and saw my brother riding it around the driveway while louie tried to hit him with rocks and a baseball bat. that was the end of my bike.
later on that year he got his own bike which he threw in the river to see if he could get his out faster than louie's. alex's bike never came back.
at that point my parents vowed neither of us would be allowed to have bikes anymore because alex would break them.
i didn't get another bike until a little under a year ago as a graduation present.
03-30-06, 01:37 PM
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Colnago C-40 I have sold for my friend on eBay.
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I had a robinson BMX bike when I was about 13. I loved that thing. Light, comfortable to ride, handled really nice. Unfortunately, at 6'1", bmx bikes aren't all that comfortable anymore.
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03-30-06, 01:48 PM
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Colnago C50. They decidedly come with a stigma from the typical owner but damn, they have a fantastic ride.
03-30-06, 02:05 PM
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My lady friend's birthday present of a late 602 Huffy Sun Country three-speed. In full tuxedo. To the Bike Church. To help my friend build his wheelset. Before the formal dance.
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i am with monkey, Gios Torino Pista.
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