The "What don't you like about my bike" thread
11-07-09, 08:05 AM
#3052
Your cog is slipping.
11-07-09, 03:52 PM
#3053
curmudgeon
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11-09-09, 02:12 AM
#3054
the new old guy
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First post so have at it. You can't really see but it has a beautiful white/blue sparkle in the yellow. Found the frame out in the trash in the street last year. Paint job on cranks/risers is kinda ghetto, Sugino/Nitto on the menu soon as I find the time. Rides like a beast all the same.
11-09-09, 03:39 AM
#3056
I just wanna ride
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with a different stem and bars I think it's a sweet bike. Great trash find. Also the seat angle is a little forward
11-09-09, 09:52 PM
#3058
Your cog is slipping.
I was just thinking that same thing. You really found that in the trash???
11-09-09, 10:59 PM
#3060
the new old guy
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Straight up, in the trash, pretty dirty, headset was shot but it was still...a non-dinged Reminton in the trash. Was riding my C'dale BBoy at the time and rode home with the Reminton in hand, no way I was going to risk going back for it. Not so much these days but 15 years ago there used to be CRAZY trash stories here, you could basically pick up anything you need/furnish an apt. from the trash. Found a Roland Space Echo tape delay unit 4 or 5 years back, synths, all kindsa stuff.
Go figure...I ain't complaining tho.
Go figure...I ain't complaining tho.
11-10-09, 12:13 AM
#3062
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not feeling that stem, but seriously, who ever threw that frame out is mental.
i thought i should post my bike.
awaiting criticism...
i thought i should post my bike.
awaiting criticism...
11-10-09, 06:48 AM
#3064
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First post so have at it. You can't really see but it has a beautiful white/blue sparkle in the yellow. Found the frame out in the trash in the street last year. Paint job on cranks/risers is kinda ghetto, Sugino/Nitto on the menu soon as I find the time. Rides like a beast all the same.
Other than that, I like it.
11-10-09, 09:17 AM
#3066
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11-10-09, 02:18 PM
#3068
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Straight up, in the trash, pretty dirty, headset was shot but it was still...a non-dinged Reminton in the trash. Was riding my C'dale BBoy at the time and rode home with the Reminton in hand, no way I was going to risk going back for it. Not so much these days but 15 years ago there used to be CRAZY trash stories here, you could basically pick up anything you need/furnish an apt. from the trash. Found a Roland Space Echo tape delay unit 4 or 5 years back, synths, all kindsa stuff.
Go figure...I ain't complaining tho.
Go figure...I ain't complaining tho.
11-10-09, 05:46 PM
#3070
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Wheels are flip-flop and black, seemed like a good idea but never even bought a freewheel. Stem is Nitto, risers Ghetto...stem esp. slightly dictated by 26.8 tube size and being a bit skint at the time. Open to any ideas for sure.
Abs. not 'ganked', welcome to Tokyo garbage > some rich-kid/part-timer/older person moving apt. etc must have binned it, it happens here. People compensate for tiny living space and hell job-life by buying stuff they don't really need so feel less attached to it I guess.
Saddle's Selle Italia eXplorer, deadstock, leather with some kind of funky mini-suspension dealie going on under there.
Abs. not 'ganked', welcome to Tokyo garbage > some rich-kid/part-timer/older person moving apt. etc must have binned it, it happens here. People compensate for tiny living space and hell job-life by buying stuff they don't really need so feel less attached to it I guess.
Saddle's Selle Italia eXplorer, deadstock, leather with some kind of funky mini-suspension dealie going on under there.
Last edited by charibancho; 11-10-09 at 05:56 PM.
11-10-09, 08:30 PM
#3071
Gimme back my gears!
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Lets get this party started again!
11-10-09, 08:54 PM
#3073
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Seriously. I don't like that the only response I can muster to that is "what the hell, man?"
