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01-18-05 | 04:09 PM
#26
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From: London
Originally Posted by ink1373
i kind of wonder if my (aspide) saddle would look carbony and cool llike that if i ripped the cover and padding off. the shell is CF...shouldn't it be similar underneath?
any plasitic
01-18-05 | 05:21 PM
#27
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Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Philadelphia
Bikes: Fbm Night Train, Fixed Club Fuji(so sexy).
Originally Posted by Devolution
That sure looks like a photoshop job. Funny for you to point out that it isn't, without anyone even asking.
How'd you get your bike to hover there? And how'd you light up just your bike to make it so much brighter than the others? Looks like it was dropped out of a white background, like the other pics, and pasted atop that pile.
Maybe its just me.
-brad
How'd you get your bike to hover there? And how'd you light up just your bike to make it so much brighter than the others? Looks like it was dropped out of a white background, like the other pics, and pasted atop that pile.
Maybe its just me.
-brad
01-19-05 | 04:51 AM
#28
Thread Starter
welk soort fiets is dat?
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 88
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pie...
not photoshopped, i swear.
•nitto stem and pista drops with soyo keirin grips
•campag headset
•28 h phil wood front, 32 h phil wood rear laced to mavic (CXP 14, CXP 33) rims
•campag 165 record cranks, 49 tooth chainring
•crankbrothers' eggbeaters/mks royal nuevo pedals
•campag chorus titanium seatpost
•selle san marco aspide carbon saddle
•izumi track chain
•16 tooth EAI cog
a little more about bike theft in amsterdam: in all honesty, i feel WAAAY more sketch leaving my bike locked up in new york... junkies in amsterdam are interested in turning around bikes as fast and as easily as they can. it's not interesting for them to rack someone's high-end road or track bike when they can move a typical 'everyday' bike much, much faster. a proper kryptonite chain and american lock, AND locking up to something means that you'll more than likely find your ride exactly where you left it. the bikes i've had stolen here were locked up with cheap locks, or bikes that i hadn't bothered to lock to something... i've also managed to keep bikes locked up 365-days-a-year on the street for 3 to 4 years! the real danger here is that some drunk/stoned hater kicks in your wheels or otherwise messes with things. that said, i NEVER leave any of the bikes i care about on the street longer than need be...
laters.
not photoshopped, i swear.
•nitto stem and pista drops with soyo keirin grips
•campag headset
•28 h phil wood front, 32 h phil wood rear laced to mavic (CXP 14, CXP 33) rims
•campag 165 record cranks, 49 tooth chainring
•crankbrothers' eggbeaters/mks royal nuevo pedals
•campag chorus titanium seatpost
•selle san marco aspide carbon saddle
•izumi track chain
•16 tooth EAI cog
a little more about bike theft in amsterdam: in all honesty, i feel WAAAY more sketch leaving my bike locked up in new york... junkies in amsterdam are interested in turning around bikes as fast and as easily as they can. it's not interesting for them to rack someone's high-end road or track bike when they can move a typical 'everyday' bike much, much faster. a proper kryptonite chain and american lock, AND locking up to something means that you'll more than likely find your ride exactly where you left it. the bikes i've had stolen here were locked up with cheap locks, or bikes that i hadn't bothered to lock to something... i've also managed to keep bikes locked up 365-days-a-year on the street for 3 to 4 years! the real danger here is that some drunk/stoned hater kicks in your wheels or otherwise messes with things. that said, i NEVER leave any of the bikes i care about on the street longer than need be...
laters.
01-19-05 | 12:33 PM
#32
Coasting makes you grumpy
Joined: Oct 2003
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From: Indiana
Bikes: Specialized Stumpjumper M2Comp; Habanero Ti-Team; Slingshot Road; 1962 converted Raliegh fixer aka: The Beast
Two different type of carbon on the seats. The covered seats are carbon, but it's not the "decorative" carbon as you see on forks/bars/etc. The decorative is a layer over the top of the bland stuff.
01-19-05 | 10:15 PM
#33
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Joined: Oct 2003
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From: Wherever good bikes are sold
Bikes: Thylacines...only Thylacines.
Believe it or not, most 'carbon' has a decorative fiberglass top layer dyed black to look like carbon. It helps prevent the carbon reacting with any metal it my come in contact with.
The word 'carbon' in a bike context can be very misleading. Sometimes it just means Nylon based Industrial plastic (with a bit of carbon in it.) aka some saddles and pedals.
The word 'carbon' in a bike context can be very misleading. Sometimes it just means Nylon based Industrial plastic (with a bit of carbon in it.) aka some saddles and pedals.
