Today I came home to a huge scratch across my TET's top tube through the powdercoat. Cool, guys. Thanks for ruining my 3 month old powdercoat that I bought solely to protect my raw steel frame.

how do you like those?

They're nice. Only took them on a shake down ride yesterday, but will be doing 22 miles tonight with them.

the clearcoat on my steamrollr gets scratched up all the time... super fragile.

if you post pics of them on yo' bike... well- i'd be interested.

@jdgesus checkedoutyourlinks in the sig...

fun. i work at a mastering studio as well.

;(

my powder coat is all messed up too from other peoples bikes on racks, this is why we can't have nice things, or at least lock up nice things on bike racks

Today I looked at a most excellent office/warehouse space for Retrogression. More room than we even know what to do with.

Looks like we're moving again........

Today I am prepping my bike and packing for the Ye Olde Century (as I've dubbed it - riding 50mi each way to/from the Ren Faire). Just cleaned and lubed the chain, adjusted the front derailleur, and pumped up the tires.

Pumped up the tires on my fixed gear while I was at it, and they were down to 30psi. Lulz.

P.S. It sounds so funny to say I have a fixed gear! Yay, flip flop hub. And BFSSFG for giving me the courage to try it.

I've put over 100 miles on my rb002's and they are great. Good hand positions and the reach isn't all that long.

On another note: today I painted the rear machined sidewall on a wheelset I got on the cheap. It came out great but only time will tell how well it will hold up...

congrats bro!

Today I just came back from the gym and feel ****ing great. I'm also going to be putting in a pretty nice order in at retrogression.

Very cool! Congrats! Is it in MA?

today some guys waited at my bike outside of a five guys to tell me it was cool

got my chainring tight then halfway into my ride the clicking returns! come home and its the same one, loose again. it's gotta be stripped or something. time to swallow my pride and head to my lbs

Yea man. My clearcoat doesn't even chip off like it does on production bikes. It's kinda like a layer of super glue and scratches off. Touched up with clear nail polish, hope I don't get too much H2O seepage... but the FTP is going to be the rainy day bike anyways luls.

I just posted a picture in the picture sticky... check it out!

Did you grease them?

Indoor velodrome.

probably not and the flimsy feeling alloy sure didn't take too kindly to my frustration. now the trick will be removing it is my guess

This is smart.

new business idea - rooftop velodrome/bikeshop/local fair trade coffee house/designer clothing store. Located in downtown Portland.

We're sitting on a goldmine people.

I've found that a light coat of grease on the threads helps me get them tight so they'll stay put.

I'll try that. I'm thinking after messing with these a few times that I should just grab some steel chainring bolts for it anyway, these things feel like total pieces of ****.

plus it'll give me a good excuse to get an all black, odd count, chainring. I heard someone recently got rid of their 47t...

Yea steel is real dude.

Got hit by a car :/
But only a few cuts and scrapes, but the car got dented, so hopefully all turns out well. gonna stick to the bike paths for a few weeks.

did they rear end you or what?

if you stick to the paths the motorist have won!

sucks