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Forum: Touring
06-13-16, 08:35 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

ha! that's easy! it's about buying a $2K...

ha! that's easy! it's about buying a $2K adventure bike
with third-rate components and the inability of said
latte-grinder to navigate anything more technical than
the astroturf pathways at a...
Forum: Touring
03-10-16, 08:26 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

if you go back to the beginning of the thread,...

if you go back to the beginning of the thread, there were a couple links
to reviews of the bike. in the comments section there were multiple
reports of multiple spoke breakage on short moderately...
Forum: Touring
02-15-16, 08:51 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

guess i'm just annoyed at the...

guess i'm just annoyed at the marketing......taking your basic
riding on dirt/gravel roads and packaging it as something
breathtakingly new....and then convincing the customer to
pay twice as...
Forum: Touring
02-14-16, 11:26 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

sorry. i didn't understand. i keep reading...

sorry. i didn't understand. i keep reading about this newfangled "genre of cycling"
yet it's never been explained well enough for me, a lowly bicyclist, to fathom.

i was imagining in my...
Forum: Touring
02-14-16, 08:07 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

1. quoting the manufacturer's website? that...

1. quoting the manufacturer's website? that would be their marketing department reaching
out to you. read it with a 5-pound sack of salt.

2. don't know about the others.....i don't hate the...
Forum: Touring
02-12-16, 05:21 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

but why would you do this? why go to the expense...

but why would you do this? why go to the expense and trouble of finding the
perfect wheelsmith and source or custom-manufacture just the right components
from exotic materials? to what end?
...
Forum: Touring
02-12-16, 01:34 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

oh, cheese..........is that you squeezie?

oh, cheese..........is that you squeezie?
Forum: Touring
02-11-16, 08:27 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

dude, noone is trying to talk you out of...

dude, noone is trying to talk you out of anything. in fact, noone really cares what
you buy. bike folks is discussing bikes and components. you've been arguing
that one particular bike is better...
Forum: Touring
02-11-16, 08:10 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

cheese whiz! just buy a damn bike already! ...

cheese whiz! just buy a damn bike already!


might i suggest a surly troll?
Forum: Touring
02-11-16, 03:23 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

Melvin: uh, neville, have you finished the spec...

Melvin: uh, neville, have you finished the spec sheet on our new grrrravel grrrinder?
Neville: not quite yet, got a few more items. hey, what did our engineering team
recommend for wheels?...
Forum: Touring
02-10-16, 08:33 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

do these yahoos reviewing touring bikes have any...

do these yahoos reviewing touring bikes have any touring experience?


24 spokes on a touring bike?

"...This is a bike designed to be loaded down..."

and take that load uphill?

"The...
Forum: Touring
02-10-16, 01:06 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

oh, that's different! axed the salesman, and...

oh, that's different!

axed the salesman, and he said "don't worry, mate, our bikes be da
bestest!.......now about that undercoating..."


i am properly chastened. TFSM forbid i question...
Forum: Touring
02-08-16, 10:16 AM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

nah, don't need to ride it. not with over a...

nah, don't need to ride it. not with over a quarter million touring miles.
i know pretty much what i like and don't like.

too many negatives to the 920..........i'd have to change
brakes and...
Forum: Touring
02-07-16, 08:07 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

really? short, unloaded ride to test out a...

really? short, unloaded ride to test out a loaded touring bike vs. a "zombie killer"?
you dinna even strap a duffel bag with 25 pounds of ego on the rack?
that's like testing the winter handling...
Forum: Touring
01-04-16, 10:17 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

dunno. never looked at them closely. quick peek...

dunno. never looked at them closely. quick peek on the googles:

surly looks to be your basic classic normal standard road touring bike.
salsa appears to be grinder-ish although not necessarily...
Forum: Touring
01-03-16, 04:13 PM
Replies: 247
Views: 55,077
Posted By saddlesores

there's a lot of that going around. the new...

there's a lot of that going around. the new microsoft outlook email system, any
recent microsoft product, my brokerage's new website, this grrrravel grrrrrinder....

all apparently designed by...
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