chris175

hey prolly, that is a beautiful bike. really, its perfect. i am an obsessed weirdo when it comes to bikes, italian steel only, but and of course, eddy merckx. he was taught framebuilding by the italians, so that counts. i have 3 merckxs, and admittedly, spend as much time staring at them, thinking about their history, the hard men of bicycle racing, as i do riding them. i ride my merckx track bike almost every day, near the ocean and on mellow car-free roads. i used to be an aggressive, confrontational, basically violent bike messenger. i rode a mercxk criteriuem frame w/a 53/16 freewheeel, i made more $$ w/the big freewheel gear than i did the fixed gear. cuz i am tall and bulky and don't/didn't spin well. and i was fast, made $$, well respected. but mostly i was angry and violent. w/the years has come a calm, a love for these steel bikes. i raced on steeel, despite my team's admonitions. and w/my age has come some calm gentle love. a love of track bikes. a love of italian steel. a love of the pain of cycling, because w/out the pain, you are making no progress. the pain lets you know that you are working, and getting stronger. i love evry bike on this forum, but i love more the interest, the passion, and the fact that sooooo many folks are discovering and mastering the beauty of a track bike or fixed gear. i never would have imagined it, when i was rigging up fixed gear flip flop hubs on old steel trek frames and messegerin on them, that the utility would reach so far. i am old compared to most of you, but if you ride steel, and fixed, or
geared up italian, i love you and thank you. don't think, just ride and ride and ride.

VT tallbike

Tldnr

thequickfix

It's actually a Yakima kiddie trailer that someone converted to a cargo trailer. I bought it through CL so that I could move to a new apartment mostly by bike. I'm not going to try strapping my box spring to that thing, though.

johnprolly

I have the Surly for that. Sniks. Not a fan. Especially for the pothole ridden cesspool I live in. Which is why I went Phil SLR - I'll never have to worry about them. I have 28h records to wolber tubies for the track.

coggs

This is my track/road fixie. Columbus steel frame originally custom built for me in 1983 by Giuseppe Marinoni as a team pursuit track bike. Set up with 26” front wheel, sloping top tube and aero (for it’s day) fork. After I quit track racing I converted it to a time trial bike. Rode it on the road a few times in the late 80's and then hung it up in the garage for over 15 years. I pulled it out after I started to ride again and have made a few upgrades. I still have the 32/28 DT bladed spoke track wheels with Campy High flange hubs, but as shown it is fitted with the original Corima rear disk and newer Crane Creek front aero wheel. I still consider the Campy Super Record cranks (175mm) among the prettiest cranksets ever made (so long as you were not a weight weenie and threw away the chromedust cap). The saddle, bars, and single front brake/lever were updated this year. They didn't have GPS in 1983 so the Garmin computer (GPS functions plus cadence & heart rate) is obviously new.

On a flat TT course this thing is still a rocket considering it's pushing a quarter century old! I'm tempted to throw it in the car and make a nostalgic road trip down to Trexlertown just for shi*ts and giggles.

Sorry about the image size. Photobucket refuses to resize a few of the photos for some reason.

Cynikal 

Very nice. I have a soft spot for Marinonis.

goldenskeletons

damn!

i'd love to see what you were riding in the 15 years you took off from that machine. marinoni's are absolutely beautiful and that one is no exception. very nice!

tspinning

Hello again all!

First, coggs- that is a thing of beauty!

Second, I know I was on here just a couple days ago, but I made changes!!



::edit::
It might help to mention said changes.... new MKS GR-9 pedals and Nitto RB021 bar!!!!!!!

coggs

A Marinoni road bike, what else? I'll post pictures in the road section when I get a chance. I've also got a 1974 Paramount which I've restored to near perfect condition which is worth some shots. Now O ride a Pinarello Prince and a Mercier Kilo for BD (Go ahead and flame me. It's my beater but really not a bad bike!).

DARTHVADER

you need to open your eyes if you think all thats good is italian or a merckx.

queerpunk

that poster didn't say that anything about only italian or merckx being good, but s/he said that s/he was obsessed with them and only rode them. so what? everybody's got preferences.

YoKev

Out for a bit in the woods today:

Tifore

My First Fixie.
Supposedly a Bridgestone Mile 112 Frame. (As told by the LBS).
Lots of random parts thrown together to make one hell of a fun bike.
Picked up the bike on Tuesday, went on Critical Mass Friday. SOOOO MUCH FUN.
***The blue bike is my buddies Nagasawa, completely NJS'd out***

paulwwalters

This is a bike that gets ridden. There's a certain beauty in that.

tynan

+1

johnprolly

thanks for the words guys. can't wait to rip it around the park this week!

scrub

cc700

nice... those horns at that angle can't be comfy, do you climb with them or what?

aekeroo

damn coggs, im rarely awed by a bike. that is f@cking nice. i'd love to see it in its original incarnation though (original parts). i love the new stuff too, it shows it gets ridden, the only thing sexier than a rad, pristine bike is a rad bike that gets ridden.

Legalize It

Just got a HED.

BTW Check out FLICKR. And search Oakland Scrape, to check out the latest alleycat in the Bay.

mangpress

pardon my ignorance legalizeit, but is that a tk2?
my lbs owner has a tk2 in the green and black colourway im just wondering if its the same frame.

scrub

They're pretty comfy, as always I think the camera angle exaggerates it too.

cc700

the bike with a hed3 is a felt tk2. i've never seen the green colorway, sounds nice!

octopus magic

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring bikes ahead



The bars have been tilted down since. Dura ace cranks/pedals, deda pista bars, etc...

It's too high geared, it's on 21mm tubulars, it needs brakes, and tri bars to make it into a time trial bike that it's going to become.

Plus I never really ride it in comparison to this pretty beastie which I got a few weeks ago:

cc700

damn i want an ftp. i don't want a look because i am not worthy.