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today i wanted to bike the whole day and found i had zero ways to sup sqrls without

I went on my posted ride and no one showed up. :/ my rides now have a 50% no-show probability

Today was the same as yesterday... except tonight I got to take my folder out on a shake down ride as I finished all the frame work today and put everything together.

It may very well be the most highly modified Twenty on the planet and has inspired me to build another one... from scratch.

Will be looking at a high performance version instead of a touring model... not that the bike is lacking in the go fast department.

today I tried leather bar tape for the first time. it looks sooooo good, but I can't get it to cover as much ground I want (42cm), even after a second attempt and some compromises in spacing in other areas :/ Apparently you can pull the crap out of it (you know, since it's leather), but this Brooks stuff is stitched together ever so often and I was afraid I'd rip them out.

And I got it on clearance for $30 or whatever at Ben's because they were missing bar plugs, before anyone freaks out about me paying $60 for bar tape. And they ended up coming with bar plugs anyway.


also mapped a new route to campus using gmaps. was wondering how I had never thought of this route before...

This morning I got barked at by some fool coming out of a side street who got hot & bothered because he had to actually stop at a stop sign as I rode by. He caught up to me and yelled that I should "learn how to ride that thing". I was riding fast and just said "Thanks for the tip!" and he continued riding next to me, yelling something inaudible then saying "I should take you out to teach you a lesson!" as he swerved toward me and came really close to running me into a curb. I slowed down and began having words with him and he went through the typical run of "Get off your bike, I'll kick your ass and bla bla blabbity bla!" I said "You're a fat pice of **** in a beige mini van! What are you going to do besides get killed?" and he sped off.

damn Scrod

Today I rode to campus at a turtle like pace, but as I turned around to head back another rider was going my way. So I rode "with" him the entire way, semi competitively (though he was riding against traffic heh) but also super casually, if that makes any sense. At one point I swerved to miss a pothole and got honked at, an actual justified honk that was my bad. Such a rare thing that you deserve those but I did.

Passed by a delicious bakery on the way home and didn't go inside, that was definitely the hardest part of the ride.

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or

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The first bike I got once I started riding again as an adult was a Trek hybrid with a step-through frame. I quickly grew to hate it, party because the fat aluminum tubes and the step-through frame meant there was only one set of brazeons for a bottle cage. So I used hose clamps to attach a second bottle cage on the top tube (& protected the frame with some old tubing) and it worked great. Did a decent amount of touring on that bike with that setup.

Nice! I got that bar tape a bit recently as well and it smells so nice on my hands after a ride AND they look hot.
How far are you spacing the tape when you overlap anyways? When I wrapped my bullhorns, I spaced it to show about two rows of those perforation holes which would probably be about half an inch. I had just the right amount of tape when doing that and I found that if i stretched the tape too much, I ended up with a bit too much when it came to the center.

today i got to work and had a box from Retrogression sitting on my desk. thnx Scrod.

last nite i waited until after dark to ride. it was still 100 degrees at nine pm.

thoroughly enjoyed that

Just got a call from my LBS back home that the 2012 pinarello dogma 2 is out; and shortly thereafter got an email from competitive cyclist about it. Upgrade time woo!!!

wow how much one of those cost?

Got my box of Vitamin C and L-Carnatine from Puritans Pride. I am excited.

woke up too late to ride to work :(

Yippee! Which groupset? (please say Red...)

I definitely appreciate running. I work nights, so sometimes I get home and get the hankering for a good workout but don't have the time for a 20 mile sprint on the bike. 30 minutes in the running shoes and I'm off to bed. I feel like it gives me a more intense cardio workout than a bike as well.

Of course, as with everything I do, I researched running extensively before I started doing it. Got myself a pair of flexible, low-profile, low-support shoes and I run on my forefoot. You can really, really feel it in the calves, the high cadence is good for cardio, and you're not jarring your body off of your heels.

I found that it was nearly impossible to keep a good "pose" at first. Half a mile in and all sense of form went to ****. I'm just now getting to the point where I'm relaxed and the pose/forefoot method comes naturally.

Today I wonder when my package from Dave will get here!

My aunt also came to visit for a week from Chicago, IL.

You bet. The plan is to swap over the group and parts from my current orbea orca through.
I still have to go over it with my wife of when I can get it; considering we just bought her a pista via condotti ($875 out the door w/ lifetime service; not to mention the upgrades I bought for it already)and the fact that just the frameset alone runs up the cost of about 7 via condotti's.

Probably the hardest part for me in my opinion is choosing which colorway to buy. Poo. :bang:

i would love me an orca or a dogma.

a lobular road would be more than enough. gotta keep looking for one in my size, though.

Can you fit a 54?

What are the options? If it was available I would just get it murdered out like the new SuperSix Evos :innocent:

http://www.competitivecyclist.com/fr...a-2-10121.html

Click on the large picture at the top and scroll. Lusting the black/ black but it might look too similar to the knock off chinese eebay carbon frames with the squiggly fork and stays.

I agree, the all black looks like the eBay knock offs. I like the white/black/gray personally.

Today I called 3 LBS's asking for a 26.0-31.8 handlebar shim and none of them had it. I've lost what little faith I had in LBS's. :(

Funny when i was calling up shops for a shim for my 002's, I had a LBS worker ask "what's a shim?" I just hung up on that one.

Anyway I might have to go to abaxo for a black one because problem solvers only sells a raw one and I'm pretty sure a layer of spray paint would jeopardize the fit.

Yea, this was supposed to be for my 002's, too.

I don't think a layer of spraypaint would affect the fit that much. Manufacturing tolerances probably aren't that tight.

I thought that at first but when I considered the primary function of shims, I thought differently.

Yea, I did that too and still don't think differently.

Oh yea, and one guy on the phone told me it was a bad idea to shim 26.0 to 31.8. Herp/derp. So glad I called before I biked over in this heat.

today I got my wheelset in, but without the FSAxle axle :( but I did get two lockrings sent with it, yay. was only expecting the one. Also see it's suggested I don't use Surly or Euro-Asia cogs - glad I read that looking for an axle before installing one.

The h+son rims I got also do not fit veloplugs unfortunately :/