Purty.

How...achingly...beautiful.

Absntr--that bike is a beaut. You'll be prowling the streets of Chi in high style on that sexy thing. Glad to hear you're healing up OK. Post a trackstanding pic when you get a chance.

One thing comes to mind.

Pink makes the whole thing living.

Bravo.

the pink accents on the lettering and the headset spacers make the whole thing cohesive, too. not like it needs it with those hubs, though. sweet hebus.

First of all, when does the pink Chris headset arrive? That's the gold leaf on top of the iced cake. Second, you beat me to building my dream bike, I'm going to take a second to weep for the Sophia I'll never have. The world should now revolve around you, or more specifically, your wheels. Rip it up man!

Damn nothin sez welcome back to the land of the living like a sweet ass new bike. Live it up baby!!

HAUTE HAUTE HAUTE! you deserve it

the only way to build muscle is to tear 'em..

Good to hear that you're back on a bike, with a sweet new ride no less. Sophia is really a looker.

Do you know what Marcus' policy is about non-local orders? Think he'd be willing to lace up a set of wheels and ship them out of state? There's no one local that I'd trust with anything better than some junk I pulled out of Goodwill, so I'm looking for someone good to do an eventual wheel build for me.

Again, it's real good to hear that you're back riding.

Peep: saw "Gabrielle" on Mlwke Ave yesterday.

holy crap.

definitely has to be the nicest soma i've seen. nice job naz.

Pretty good. I really didn't want to go all out and get the Sugino BB to match or the Dura Ace track BB with 109 as well. I believe I asked Marcus to put on a 107 - before I ran a 110. Both seem to work according to various people on the forums.


I'm pretty sure Marcus would do a non-local order. He does wheels good. Many of the Chicago brethren get their wheels from Marcus. He does the whole pride in wheelbuilding thing - bring em back after the spokes break in and so on, etc. That's why I wanted a wheelset from him - it's a craft. Just ask [165] who's had like what? 5 sets built up now? With another on the way...

the older you get the more you value your good health and your time to appreciate the beauty of that bicycle.

A salute to your return

a pause for Torrin

Saw it rollin' on the lakefront path last night. Beautiful.

monkey - was that you in the blue track jacket and the blue Chrome?

Chicagoans - DCC ride, 2pm, north end of Wicker Park on Damen (the corner closest to Penny's/Damen Blue Line, etc). We'll congregate, shoot the crap and ride.

Ya. Should've stopped, but I was so hung over I couldn't talk. If the DCC is out, stop by Pie Eyed Pizzeria - 1111 W. Chicago around 5. Check out the Gios Torino track and slices on me.

dont forget sunday dcc ride - lakefront path just before shedd aquarium (from the north) at 8 in tha morn.

if I meet up with the crew can we make the Water Tower at 3:00 pm part of the ride?
I've got to meet rusholme so she can check out my Brooks.

Ryan, call me, maybe we can ride into the city, say oneish.

HELLAYEAH

Mayo - we could probably do that.

Pizza? who said pizza? Monkey, we're there!

Whoops, forgot, gotta see a Gios track. So nice.

> I asked him if a helmet would have helped (since that's been debated, as it always does) \
> and he said no. I had a haemorhage and bruising on the brain just above my right eyebrow - an
> area not usually covered by a helmet.

You might want to look at BMX helmets- I run with one fall-winter-spring. They cover a lot more of the head than roadie-style helmets. I've got a pryme xl, and it runs from the nape of my neck to just above my eyebrows.

Too damn hot for summer, alas. I'm trying to find last years giro xen on sale somewhere.

fatbat.

mayo, i'm thinkin i'm gonna skip work so i can ride. so i'll see you at 2pm. and everyone forget how vegan i am when i buy this brooks.

Allan is vegan and yet he owns two brooks. It's pretty hard to find a long-lasting quality saddle that's not in leather. And a company like Brooks isn't a mass-slaughtering production like food industries are. Or maybe they are. Either way, if it lasts you're doing better than to buy wasteful plastic/synthetic products that have to be replaced continuously over time. My take on the whole vegan (as a lifestyle not a diet) thing.

no i know. it was in reference to the thread a long time ago about brooks and vegans.

i posted on the vegan side (and i'm not even vegan!). hee hee.

and now, back to sophia...

Naz, where to find the words for that bike? Stunning. Beautiful. Amazing. Wow.

Glad to hear that the riding ban is lifted and that you can spend some time withthe new girl. You know it's bad when you get a grin on your face when someone else gets a new ride. You deserve it.