Bike Polo goes in the FGFS section. Thanks for stopping by.

You and me both...

Ahh. Was wondering why we didn't have a forum for it. Thanks.

3. I started wearing a helmet. Went and tried on a Lazer O2... wow. Tried on a lot of helmets in my day but they always hurt my head or felt funny. The O2 feels nice and comfy. Love the fit system. And now I get to ride faster

wat?

Haha what I mean is, I worry a lot less about "what if". So yeah, right or wrong, I ride faster when I have a helmet on and don't have to worry about my brains spilling all over the street. More confident, less worried. More faster. =P

Definitely buying a Nature Boy whenever I can afford a cross bike. Looks so gooooooood

Same. The worst part is I even have a frame, but no $$$ for the rest of the parts. Skipping cross season this year. :/

Today I thought I was gonna be hungover but I'm not. I think the key is I didn't do any shots last night. Perhaps I should take a lesson from this... but then that would mean no shots of Malört and that would be sad.

Today: work, shopping and hanging out with a friend, then chai/Indian sweets with another friend. Tomorrow, pick up my Riot Fest wristband. Thursday, watch football. Friday skip Riot Fest official show but use my wristband to see Alkaline Trio at Empty Bottle. Saturday-Sunday RIOT FEST all day all night. So excited.

Good call on alk3 at the bottle. I have a very old alk3 tattoo that gets mad shoutouts to this day.

I had a few shots of Malort recently. Started at Revolution (Malort, beers) then Handlebar (Malort, beers, bourbon)... then I threw up a Handlebar salad and mac'n'cheese all over my bathroom floor. =(

Post pics of your bike lesson learned so that we can evaluate your progress

haha alright. but i must warn you - this past month while i was away, i took a vow of silence and meditated and fasted at a dojo of Zen, high in the mountains, above the clouds, below the stars...

changes include... Velocity/Formula deepV's (MSW front), 700x25 Zaffiro Pros (not pictured), Tektro R539 front brake, Brooks B17N saddle.

Also Sugino RD2 Messenger arms (175mm). I forget if those were added before or after my ban.

Surprise visit from corporate head guys today. Very impressed with the general state of things. Good times.

Welcome back LL.

Kaz, why not just ride the Volpe like you did last year?

love mine. wish i'd just gotten the frameset though. i got a deal on a complete, but the stock build does nothing for such a great frame. pretty much everything will be swapped out by spring and what i can't get a few bucks for will go to the co-op.

Because it is all set up as my winter commuter and switching it back and forth every week last year was a giant, annoying, pain in the butt. Also, cross takes a lot out of my life. Dedicating all day every Sunday (half of my very precious weekend) to drive out to some far-flung suburb & spend all day there, plus practicing and training, plus I suck and am way out of shape right now and have fallen back into smoking (!!!) lately due to serious life suck, plus I just don't want to.

well it is a great build for around town, but yes... my frameset was built up a few different ways and getting nice stuff on it is very very worthwhile. it's heavy, but ****ing dialed in every way.

i raced on it sunday and honestly couldn't be happier. it's so ****ing quick yet stable, and stiff enough to respond to explosive efforts in the dirt.

the race was ****ing HARD and that picture of me falling was the FIRST corner. I got a great callup and had a fantastic ****ing start so i was likely one of the first 15 of 90 into the turn, but someone hit my wheel and sent me into the dirt. I got up and powered into what was probably my best race yet until i rolled a tubular after the barriers on the fourth lap. i glued them myself and just don't have a steady enough hand to glue well. plus my remount was on the short list of 'least smooth ever.' the tire came half off and i ran it a quarter of a lap to the pits where the neutral tech told me we could pull the tire back on but my race was over. i went at lazy/scared pace on an unglued tubie for the next lap and a half, enough to place and not DNF.

the results are TOTALLY ****ed up and they counted half the field as down one lap, so the results aren't really important. what i did learn is that 1: given a good start, if you have good position there is no 'pacing' yourself in sscx. you go all ****ing out and run damage control so you don't die and or break yourself. that's the only way to get faster and that's the only way to hold a good position, because the fast guys aren't holding anything back for any sprints. you just do it.
and 2. tubies are worthless if you can't glue them.

i was pretty bummed about rolling my tubular but all in all i was happy to just hear people cheering me on and know i was ahead of a lot of guys that i consider to be STUPID kinds of fast.

your masturb arm is CUT

i want that dude on the far left's SUCK IT jersey

theres actually a CX race here on the island coming up, only one in NYC
gonna check it out if i can make it that day, definitely dont have the goods to race but id love to watch and learn more about it

will be a good reason to actually use my camera.
my bike takes me lots of nice looking places but i just dont want to carry my camera around ever, this race is right down the road so id be able to suck it up for 2 miles

Today I said hello to fall. Wore a jacket for morning commute, eyes were crying the whole time and toes burned in the shower afterwards.

I was going for a bike ride, but I'm just going to watch World Cup qualifying all day.

Finished?
The level of carbon in the cockpit vs the rest of the bike is insufficient.

The level of cash in my wallet is also insufficient.
Also, I was looking at weights of carbon vs. alloy, and not much is saved in the cockpit area.


But nah, its not finished, there's about 6 inches of steerer tube sticking out that I photomagically left out, and all the cables aren't connected to their parts, and it's chainless as of now.

What were you looking at? There's actually bars & stems on the market that are actually aluminum wrapped in carbon with the carbon just being there for nothing more than aesthetics and supposed additional rigidity which I find to be a bit ambiguous considering the oriented discipline of cycling. And sneaky sellers not advertising as such especially in the lower end.

*Crosses fingers that this will have a shorter stack than the most expensive kilo.

The stack on this will be much shallower, no taller than it is pictured, perhaps lower.

Ill look more into the carbon later.

Today I put a new tube in my front tire during my lunch break for my daily after work ride. Then wasted the rest of it smoking a nice cigar with an RC Cola.