Your bucket list bike? What's yours?
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I've never really fantasized or romanticized the frame too much over time. I really do like the mass produced carbony goodness that all of the big guys slather all over. That being said i have seen some good ones that gave me a tiny bit of envy.
Boo cross bike...but then my women's team manager bought one so I get to see it often and it's not as much of an untouchable object of desire that it once was.
So....I would love a moots. All around roadie build.
Sachs. Not because I have any special affinity for steel bikes but Richard is a good guy. Actually a helluva good guy. Great for the sport and a real straight shooter for the industry. His passion for what he does is no secret. He has personally helped so many of my racers, friends, etc.
I know this thread is supposed to be about stuff to lust after while stuck at your desk looking for anything else to do except what you have to do to get paid but...Sachs. He's a good dude.
Boo cross bike...but then my women's team manager bought one so I get to see it often and it's not as much of an untouchable object of desire that it once was.
So....I would love a moots. All around roadie build.
Sachs. Not because I have any special affinity for steel bikes but Richard is a good guy. Actually a helluva good guy. Great for the sport and a real straight shooter for the industry. His passion for what he does is no secret. He has personally helped so many of my racers, friends, etc.
I know this thread is supposed to be about stuff to lust after while stuck at your desk looking for anything else to do except what you have to do to get paid but...Sachs. He's a good dude.
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Nothing came to mind, until I read @bmthom.gis comment about how "it would be nice to have S&S couplers so I could take it traveling with me," which reminded me of this.
It's interesting to explore the boundaries of the possible - the highest, best and most beautiful and all that - but I don't really like the idea of finding things to covet, and find so much talk about "bucket lists" tiresome. Nevertheless, there are times I think of a more ideal life I might lead, and in that life, I'd have a bike like this.
It's interesting to explore the boundaries of the possible - the highest, best and most beautiful and all that - but I don't really like the idea of finding things to covet, and find so much talk about "bucket lists" tiresome. Nevertheless, there are times I think of a more ideal life I might lead, and in that life, I'd have a bike like this.
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I have one of my bucket list bikes, i havent ridden it yet tho.
S Works Tarmac with Campy Super Record.
The next one will be a colnago master with SR as well.
S Works Tarmac with Campy Super Record.
The next one will be a colnago master with SR as well.
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So many possible responses to this comment running through my head right now, but all of them have the potential to be misinterpreted by you and/or Mr. Sachs
I will say that, having just taken delivery of my Sachs ~4 weeks ago, the notion of another bucket list bike is almost laughable.
...almost.
I guess it's not too hard to dream of a Crumpton SL with internal Di2 and Lightweight tubulars as my next bucket list bike.
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I'd like to try a Tarmac Pro? I mean, I'm sure all of those higher end bikes are nice. I don't think I'd have to really pick JUST ONE brand or one specific bike.. more like get me to 15lbs, carbon, di2... not sure what else you're really going to pick up on from a 5k to 12k bike?
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A simple mountain bike so I can ride some of the trails near my house.
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not a lot of imagination here, in fact you guys are damn boring...
Lets try to spice this thread up with some dreamy bikes... here re a few im saving my pennies for one day... cuz when you dream, you gotta dream big.
[IMG]Beautiful Bicycle: BAUM Cycles Corretto Road by John watson, on Flickr[/IMG]
Maybe some fireflyFF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]FF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]
Lets try to spice this thread up with some dreamy bikes... here re a few im saving my pennies for one day... cuz when you dream, you gotta dream big.
[IMG]Beautiful Bicycle: BAUM Cycles Corretto Road by John watson, on Flickr[/IMG]
Maybe some fireflyFF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]FF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]
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I'm kinda lusting after mountain bikes now so those are taking up spaces on the bucket list, but I would really like a Trek Emonda SLR project one with Dura Ace di2 and nice stiff carbon wheels.
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A Pegoretti with disc's (which I am not even sure he would so). Or an incredibly high end Ti with discs (Seven, Moots, Ericksen, Firefly, etc), and a full Campy EPS with hydro discs. I know they aren't out yet, and I do not know if they will be as good as Shimano (unlikely, unfortunately, as Shimano has the best disc brakes I have ever used), but that would be really cool. Wide clearance so it can run gravel tires, geometry similar to a Lynskey R230. That would be a bucket list bike for sure.
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theres more too:
Kualis
[IMG]DSC_0712 by KUALIS, on Flickr[/IMG]
Eriksen
[IMG]NAHBS 2012 by BLUE LUG, on Flickr[/IMG]
Kualis
[IMG]DSC_0712 by KUALIS, on Flickr[/IMG]
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[IMG]NAHBS 2012 by BLUE LUG, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Lots of Ti in this thread... which is my dream bike sitting at home right now. Not to start a frame material war, but the seemless welds, raw metallic finish of a quality Ti road bike are timeless. My 01 victoire is as sexy today as it was 15 years ago and doesn't look that different from these bikes. She may like a new 2106 groupset, but as do we all.
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not a lot of imagination here, in fact you guys are damn boring...
Lets try to spice this thread up with some dreamy bikes... here re a few im saving my pennies for one day... cuz when you dream, you gotta dream big.
[IMG]Beautiful Bicycle: BAUM Cycles Corretto Road by John watson, on Flickr[/IMG]
Maybe some fireflyFF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]FF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]
Lets try to spice this thread up with some dreamy bikes... here re a few im saving my pennies for one day... cuz when you dream, you gotta dream big.
[IMG]Beautiful Bicycle: BAUM Cycles Corretto Road by John watson, on Flickr[/IMG]
Maybe some fireflyFF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]FF-524-Studio-1 by Firefly Bicycles, on Flickr[/IMG]
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I think I'd like the highest level of the Jamis Renegade, but I'd want to put Sram Force 1X on it...and maybe sram's new 12 speed cassette/Derrailer to go with it.
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bizarre
i have now a de rosa in faema red very very similar to the classic sachs frame in colorway and aesthetics.
paying for and then receiving things gives a human sense of gratification. cant fathom committing on anything consumer/material in the world with a payoff gulf that long...not for a car, not for a house, not for some life-changing-but-yet-to-know technology... certainly not for a bicycle
(but congrats on yours. looks fantastic)
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My dream bike at the moment is a cutom painted wyndymilla Foo Fighter with Sram Etap.
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I'm always torn about these. The problem is I'm sure I don't have a single bucket list bike.
I'd love something like Baum Ti frame with painted accents on a satin or matte frame.
There's something special about the Colnago name and especially the paint.
But can those really compete with the latest uber-frames from Cannon/Spesh/Trek?
Thus the dilemma. I'm too much of a tech geek to never get wanderlust about the next uber-bike (damn you Speciallissma!).
I'd love something like Baum Ti frame with painted accents on a satin or matte frame.
There's something special about the Colnago name and especially the paint.
But can those really compete with the latest uber-frames from Cannon/Spesh/Trek?
Thus the dilemma. I'm too much of a tech geek to never get wanderlust about the next uber-bike (damn you Speciallissma!).
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a few years back the EVO had some of the best paint schemes ever. a di2 of one of the variants with red accents would be excellent
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I'm always torn about these. The problem is I'm sure I don't have a single bucket list bike.
I'd love something like Baum Ti frame with painted accents on a satin or matte frame.
There's something special about the Colnago name and especially the paint.
But can those really compete with the latest uber-frames from Cannon/Spesh/Trek?
Thus the dilemma. I'm too much of a tech geek to never get wanderlust about the next uber-bike (damn you Speciallissma!).
I'd love something like Baum Ti frame with painted accents on a satin or matte frame.
There's something special about the Colnago name and especially the paint.
But can those really compete with the latest uber-frames from Cannon/Spesh/Trek?
Thus the dilemma. I'm too much of a tech geek to never get wanderlust about the next uber-bike (damn you Speciallissma!).
now, i've not owned all the superbikes to compare, so...i could be nuts!
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For me, it will be Ti with a SRAM Force group. No interest in carbon here. I have local dealers for Seven and Moots, right now I'm leaning towards a plain Moots Vamoots. Nothing too fancy, just a solid bike that will last for quite some time and allow me to run different component groups if I feel the need for something different.
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For me, I just want to own three bikes: one Italian (well, European...), one Japanese, and one American, built with components from that country so I can see what they have to offer. Built with steel, unique paint jobs, and shiny components, all brand new. I own the Italian, a De Rosa Nuovo Classico with Athena 11 that drops jaws. I've just found the Japanese frame and components I want and will order that soon, but American I'm drawing a blank on. SRAM only makes things in black which I'm not a fan of, and the American frame builders I've looked in to don't really impress me, especially with the exorbitant amount they charge. I'll keep digging, though.
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I'd like to try a Tarmac Pro? I mean, I'm sure all of those higher end bikes are nice. I don't think I'd have to really pick JUST ONE brand or one specific bike.. more like get me to 15lbs, carbon, di2... not sure what else you're really going to pick up on from a 5k to 12k bike?
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I've got mine - Moots with Chris King all around, Ultegra 6800, Stans with triple butted Sapim spokes and Vittoria tires, and Enve fork.