adriano 

ive had a titanium but had a picture with the stock dimensions uploaded. [jeremyclarkson] until now. [/jezza]

hairnet

I just patched my last patch-free tube of about 15 tubes. I am usually all for patching tubes until you have to patch a patch, but something in back of my mind is now thinking about exploding tubes at 50mph downhill

EpicSchwinn

I'm thinking about getting rollers for winter already. The thought of being confined to my 29er for three months is unsettling even though I like the bike (Spokane usually has snow on the ground for 3 months). I want to use this winter to train up and be even faster for next season.

redpear

I know people work hard to buy nice bikes, but I can't help but feel some negative jealousy toward people who have nice bikes and aren't as strong of riders.

It's pretty jackass of me, and I don't say anything, but the thoughts remain. Sucks being a broke college student...

mashtofu

Bump 'cause I like this thread.

Also, a confession- I've never opened the "great deal/sale" sticky because I am scared to lose all my money. I probably won't ever look at it.

max5480

yeah no doubt man
i've always thought it would be cool if bike shops charged you on how fast a rider you were. if you could go up a canyon in a certain amount of time, then you'd get a percentage off or something.
Granted, I got a really nice bike... but there are some even nicer ones out there ridden by total snails - what's the point?

Leukybear 

Riding alongside them, preferably uphill, at the same slow pace that they're struggling at while you're doing it at ease, teasing away as they do it and then dropping them with ease when you think they had enough.

onezerozeroone

I know a guy, complete roadie, who had something similar to this happen to him this summer. but I don't know if it counts because it was Lance that dropped him.

anyway, I confess that I kind of want to try fgfs or street bmx. it looks...kind of fun.

seau grateau

I want a Surly Pugsley really bad. I would be able to ride through ANYTHING.

jimmytango

Idk about fgfs as I haven't done it, but I used to ride bmx street when I was younger. It's a blast man.

Decepticondc5

I regret buying Thickslicks.

BigglyPuff

The thoughts are natural. But everything we do is going to bother someone else in the same way. It's almost a certainty that someone will look at your bike and think it's crap, while someone else will think they'd kill to have a bike like that.

camashtorcal

I completely understand your feeling. I come from a running background, so I do have some mixed feelings about some cyclist. Generally it seems, when people want to be faster than their riding buddies, they run to a bike shop and declare that their bike is not good enough. But if you're a runner, the mentality is improving your training or diet, adjusting shoe fit etc.

Too many casual riders on either hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of equipment when a cheap shopping bicycle or at most a hybrid bicycle would actually suffice for them. I miss running but now my body is too broken to do so as I once did. But I love biking, just not everything about it. It's also a mixed bag because running was never, "cool." But biking now is very fashionable/marketable etc, and many have started biking recently as solely a fashion statement, so you get a lot of the extra garbage that comes with that, i.e. poorly setup histograms/kageros/cervelos/carbon kalavinkas. Those that seemingly at times represent us all, but in actuality they are only a small portion of us.

Already long story short, I know you can do whatever you want with your money, but should you?

My confession is that I'm thinking of Pedalroom as the new and improved FixedGearGallery, just the grainier south-east Asian version.

jimmytango

I'm too much of a ***** to ride in the winter. Also, I think skidding is dumb, but I do it here and there and I don't remember the last time I used my brake. I think I enjoy working on my bike as much as I like riding it. I've stripped a bike clean and sold the parts before. It was there for six months before I did it, and the day I did it the cops had tagged it for removal, so I don't feel as bad about it, but still.

camashtorcal

I wonder if the logic applies to someone's broken down car that's illegally parked on a street that's tagged with warnings that it will be towed and on the day of towing, you break the glass and "take" the radio. It's one thing if you found it in the trash but at very least if you're not a bike thief you may be a crackhead. "take" = stole.

jimmytango

As I said in the thread I made asking advice about it, I posted a note on it asking the owner to call me if he no longer wanted it. I also contacted a friend who is a cop about the matter. The owner hadn't contacted me after two weeks, and my cop friend said that if I took the bike or any parts from it it would not be illegal due to it being considered abandoned by the PD. I kind.of feel bad, but not really. Three months later, the frame is still there.

EpicSchwinn

What kind of bike was it that got your attention so badly?

camashtorcal

Ok, I remember that thread. You are "that guy."

I guess I just don't like when people start making the assumption that they are entitled to someone else's property, just because they don't like how the owner is using it. Because if that's the case there are a ton of homes I would love to break into and "rescue" the bikes, that I feel are being misused as wall art/bar bikes/photo props. But telling someone, "Hey, I'm going to `take` your stuff in 2 weeks, if you don't stop me," seems a little bit sketchy. I also wouldn't reply to someone who was threatening to steal my stuff. "rescue" and "take" = steal.

to EpicSchwinn, I think it was a Bianchi Pista, but I'm not sure.

jimmytango

The frame was some old no-name conversion. The parts are what was nice. The only thing I didn't take were pedals (because I didn't want them) and cranks (because I didn't have a tool with me) and the thing is still there, still has the police note on it, and hasn't moved. It's abandoned. Get off of your high horse.

Edit: I was within the letter of the law, and had Scrod's approval, so I feel ok about it.

Dannihilator

My confession: Lately I have had absolutely no desire to ride the 930 and have had all the attention on the DJ bike. Today's ride on the 930 was forced by myself.

sharmaji

-- I salmoned home for 20 blocks in Brooklyn this eve (east NY to Crown Heights). felt like a jackass but saw no other cyclists and rode as safe as possible. still--stupid.

--when i'm not on the bike, working in the studio, i incessantly look up upgrade parts for the bike on ebay/CL/all the shops as a mental break. when i'm actually riding, if everything's working, i just don't care.

jimmytango

???

If salmoning means what I think, "as safe as possible" is still pretty damned dangerous.

EpicSchwinn

Necro thread bump.

I want to spend at least a day abusing the crap out of a FGFS bike. My balance and coordination has improved a ton - I've pretty much got the backwards circle and no hands track stands down now. I just don't wanna eff up my delicate biek.

hank0604

Yeah, don't worry about that. I manage apartment buildings, and we did annual to semi-annual cleanouts of the building bike rooms. People move, and it's easier for them to just buy a new bike than to try to move a $100 bike with a broken <insert part here>. We donated the bikes to Working Bikes, but before we did I always looked them over for anything useful: fenders, lights, brake pads. When a bike is abandoned, it's abandoned, and it's obvious.

Further, I've actually had this same experience two different times with cars. Someone moved and just left their non-running vehicle in the parking garage. A couple weeks later we'd call them about it and they'd say, "just tow it away, I can't afford to fix it and don't need it."

Only in America.

Nagrom_

Theres an old Nishiki Maxima in my condo's bike garage that hasn't moved for at least 5 years.... My truck is parked right next to the bike cage, so i have to be tempted by it every day. It needs a deserving home... lol