Just put the first real miles on the KinLins.

Wow factor.

today i did 70 miles, enjoyed the **** out of it. feels great to ride a bike that just feels like air and not a 30 pound blob of steel

pr'ed a section i pass through on my commute home and i obliterated my previous speed of ~17 mph with 22.2 mph

also 5th on a roadie cycling club segment, the A level ("fast" speed) ride

Rode 31 miles in the wind. The first 20 miles or so were with a friend who is really new to riding, so we took it a bit slower. And just a few hundred feet from the entrance to my apt complex, i came really close to getting in an accident. **** about gave me a ****ing heart attack.

broke my mtb

your Kona?

http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/moar-ecstasy--10342


the kona was just a demo, i don't have one. yet. :devil:

inner parallelogram bent to ****... yeah i rode the lower section of trail back to the car like this:
http://www.pedalroom.com/p/moar-ecstasy-10342_2.jpg

Oh. Now you have a reason to go buy one. :thumb:

yeah... i'm having a hard time pulling that trigger though.

What happened cc?

Fun times all around yesterday but I failed at getting on the bike this weekend. It's 90 and sunny right now, but the sunburn I got yesterday is making me want to avoid the sun today.

today I got sick of my ugly saddle bag and did this with a pedal strap and a Thomson seat post bag:

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/2012-moto...ir-6158_12.jpg

Fancy idea, but it looks like it can still slide forward.

Went on a 55 mile bumpy ride today and it doesn't budge. Just gotta pull the straps tight. I use a double strap so it's more secure

Today I got a decent amount of miles in, then I learned what all the parts of a bike are named.
http://i.imgur.com/l78u0Sr.jpg

Today me and my sqrlfriend helped my grandma paint her kitchen. Then we all watched Skyfall and ate pasta.

Lol'd @ "???"

today my elbow joints hurt after that ride

whats that about?

Do you ride with elbows locked?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_500wt_1378

Finally getting a "new" saddle. My current SLR leather upper is held on by electrical tape.

nevar, though i was trying to ride in the drops more than usual so that could be a contributing factor

aparently i also got sunburnt like a mother****

lol at hangy jawn


my derailleur got sucked up on a gripless ride downhill at tiger mt.

luckily it stayed out of the wheel.

btw when the grips slipped off i nearly impaled myself under the chin on the exposed handlebar end when the bike hit the ground. scariest thing that's ever happened to me on a bike. never, ever again... it seriously was about 6 inches from my throat. lock on grips or no mtbing for me from this day forward.

Today I had to launch a hard acceleration in order to get by a fred who was riding fairly erratically.

Today I rode with my sqrls dad for a bit. Not usually the most lively ride. We averaged 15 over 25miles. I small ringed the whole ride.

The small ring is cool. I'm gonna start using it more. Spinny.

Scary! Hairspray or spraypaint while mounting grips are other options.

service removable was important here, as it was my first ever bike with gripshifts and i was only trying them out. also, budget was the name of the game, so cutting them off to remove the shifters wasn't something i was willing to try.

Hairsprayed on ones don't require cutting off, just a little squirt of something in there will get 'em free.

I also like to leave about 1/4-3/8" gap from shifter to brake lever clamp in order to make cable change without grip removal possible on gripshifts that require a bit of pulling apart for cable change.

Also I plug the bars before I put grips on, it helps the bars from cutting the end of the grip like a cookie cutter. And I just wet the inside of my grips with a tiny bit of water