The Official DMF Bicycle Thread

[Fresh Pants]

Woo hoo!

Nice. Maybe nicer than the last one methinks.

Congratulations!

[triangleforge]

From one beauty in its own right, to another.   

Lord help me, they make an amazing bike...   

[triangleforge]

Cokey -- I'll amend my earlier thoughts: You're very quickly approaching a point where spending money on the old RUnion is going to get ridiculous -- just to run the wheels you're looking at (even if they're a bargain) means you need to buy a new rear cassette, new shifter(s), a new rear derailleur, a new chain, new chainrings and might as well re-do the whole drivetrain when you're in that deep. The rear axle on an 8-10 speed requires a slightly wider spacing than your 7, so you'd really want to bring it to a bike shop that can spread the rear triangle and re-align the rear dropouts. Add in the fork & front end upgrades you're talking about, and you've long since shot past the price of a decent, all-new road bike. A while back I recall you were thinking of a singlespeed -- this bike would be a good candidate for a low-budget SS build; hell, it's already got the Brooklyn camo athletic tape...

And get out a bubble level and make that new seat horizontal -- it's painful to think of putting miles on it at that angle!

[cokey]

Yea I'm going ss with this bike..

[stateprez]

From one beauty in its own right, to another.    

Damn, I was looking for a King that color to match my electric blue Blunts....

Congrats on the new ride.  I have one of its cousins on my wall- Schwinn Homegrown built by Yeti.

[Randimus Maximus]

Anyone interested in a gently used Cateye Strada Wireless bike computer? 

You'll need new zipties to attach it to the fork, but it's in great shape otherwise.

[Stella]

Lord help me, they make an amazing bike...   

Maiden voyage tonight.  It was epic. 

Was even asked "who do you race for?" 


And I am grandma slow.  No clue why they asked that. 
But I'm taking that question and running w/it.


Just like "what newspaper are you with?"   (refer to the DIMBY 2010 thread for that one).

[Randimus Maximus]

Wow.

I've not been on my mountain bike in quite a while.  Too long, actually.

A couple guys at my office were talking about riding after work, so I thought, "what the heck, I haven't been on the MTB for a while, should be fun."

That may have been the toughest 7 mile MTB ride I've ever been on.  There was 1,400ft of downhill, but also 1,400ft of uphill.

Ouch.

[cokey]

Clcnher wheel.. educate me..  I know can be used with clincher tires but can it be used qitha reg tire and inner tube set up?   If usi g a clincher tire, how do you repair flats?   

[Randimus Maximus]

A clincher would be a "regular" wheel.

The other setup is a tubular tire, which is glued to the rim.

[aaronb]

good stuff

http://surlybikes.com/blog/2514/

[stateprez]

good stuff

http://surlybikes.com/blog/2514/

I'm going to print this on a t-shirt:

Your bikeshop is not trying to screw you. They’re trying to stay open.

This too....for people who constantly complain about sandbaggers:

Really fast people are frustrating, but they make you faster. When you get faster, you might frustrate someone else.

[Randimus Maximus]

good stuff

http://surlybikes.com/blog/2514/

[Stella]

A few pics from yesterday's ride on a trail that I never would have found had AJ not been lurking around our fine state.  
Thanks AJ!!!

Rampart Range Reservoir (cell phone images, sorry they're not better)

Pikes Peak view:


Numerous Stonehenge-type rock formations all over the shore like the one you can barely see here:












Another view of Pikes Peak:






Directly west of the Air Force Academy

[the_Journeyman]

Reading this thread makes me wonder what having a real bike is like.  I've got the steel-framed Wal-Mart Mongoose I use for my workout riding.  I have a Trek 6500, but it stays on the hooks in the garage unless I'm hitting a trail.  Currently though, it needs some help.

JM