High On Fire is ok. Madball did the tour East of the Mississippi.

Welcome to clipless! It rules.

About ddamntime

Thanks guys. Im looking forward to riding with the new setup, too bad I won't have any time until Sunday and it's supposed to thunderstorm. :|

Me too. And I just bought a wool jersey from my shop, they make me feel so out of date and I love it.

I've really been missing having a steel bike that I really enjoy lately I've been looking at stanridge speed, geekhouse, and pelizzoli frames lately. do we have any members who own any of these?

Geekhouse and Marty make a pretty sweet ass bike.

Did 30 miles today, still have a 10 mile run this evening. Fun times.

What's wrong with your 722? Or you want a high end (tubing) steel frame?

eh me and the 722s never saw eye to eye, I basically only ride it now to run errands (and I did take it out of 'townie' mode to make it more practical). different strokes.

and yeah, I'd like better tubing + I feel like the Mash is destroying my body on these Houston streets. I'm hitting the track at the end of the month and if I have the same issues with it there that I do around here, I'll probably scrap them both just for one nicer steel frame.

NJS.



lol jk

I've always liked the feel of an older 80's columbus SL frame... pretty soft ride.

You want something that can fit wider tires for cruddy streets. Simply being steel doesn't mean it will be smooth and comfy. I have been primarily riding my steel frames because all three of them could fit up to 35mm tires. This is excellent for my commute which really has some crap road surfaces

^^^

Surly Cross-check builds are great... Though that probably isn't what you want considering you own a bolt. I'm assuming you want something fast but less jarring.

There is a guy who used to race keiren (sp?) races in Japan that builds track bikes in Houston now. For some reason I am blanking on his name but I'll find it. They are super nice and classy too.

Yeah Gigantor. I'm not replacing it because I want a comfortable commuter, I'm looking at getting a touring bike of some type for that eventually. had hoped to have a mid 80s one by the ms150 but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

nothing wrong with either bike on the streets, the leader feels fine, so don't let me sway anyone away from that (esp at their price point), but a guy my size on aluminum just never feels great after a few months. I had the same issue with my cannondale r300 (though moreso, probably the harshest frame I've ever been on).

Mash could fit 32 I bet if I tried to, the 28s were no problem, but I like going fassst, vroom vroom, so i run 24s

@craig: i'll look into that, thanks. I know that romic guy used to build here, didn't know there was a track guy

https://samuraicycleworks.com/

Just curious, how big are you? Perhaps I'm not feeling the jarring ride of the mash yet, but currently mine feels about as comfortable as any aluminum road bike.

6' ~210lbs.

It was something that I just noticed over time. Aluminum and me have never got along that well. I'm hoping it'll be fine on the track though and I'll shave some el bees

@hamfoh if you want a good to great build for cycling around town and touring I would check Bob Jackson. Their Audax frames are awesome and affordable, you can customize the bike a lot (reynolds tubing, threaded or threadless, chroming, paint, braze ons...).

https://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk

A friend of mine got a Bob Jackson touring bike a couple years ago. Incredibly nice.

I'm just going to leave this here

Yeah I've been intrigued with Bob Jackson frames, but I think I phrased myself wrong. I'm looking for a higher end steel track bike, the touring bike is something cheap I'm hoping to pick up on craigslist

Ah. Have you thought of Spicer?

Today I bought a new cog for my bike. This is the first new bike thing I've gotten in such a long time and I'm very excited haha.

Not but can I speak for stanridge speed. Amazing quality.