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Show me your BLACK bike!

Old 02-26-13, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by I <3 Robots
My black bike...


Girlfriend's black bike...
Do you guys ride the same frame size? Or is hers like a 50 and yours a 52?
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Old 02-26-13, 04:52 PM
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^ Cute team. I take it that you are the girlfriend's domestique?
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Old 02-26-13, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Do you guys ride the same frame size? Or is hers like a 50 and yours a 52?
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Old 02-26-13, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by dtrain
^ Cute team. I take it that you are the girlfriend's domestique?
Haha...we met in that very bike shop. I walked in with my S2 as she was buying hers. I took her out the next day on her very first road ride.

Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Do you guys ride the same frame size? Or is hers like a 50 and yours a 52?
Hers is a 51, mine is a 54.

Technically I could fit myself on her bike. I would have to ditch her -6/90 for a -6/120 stem and slam it.
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Old 02-27-13, 05:00 PM
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Very, very important question here...silver spokes or black spokes?

Building new wheels, generic 38mm carbon clinchers with black hubs, to be mounted on Parlee Z5 SLi done in all black, with a few odd D-A silver bits like chain and cassette and crank.

edit....after going back and looking at every picture in this thread, the decision is...black...(what a surprise)!

I'll add a couple of pictures while I'm at it, prior to getting the new wheels:





...and the black one she replaced:

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Old 02-28-13, 06:57 AM
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My Mercier Nano minivelo:

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Old 02-28-13, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Nagrom_
Done.
OMG this rig is SICK!!!!
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Old 02-28-13, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by VeloNewbie
OMG this rig is SICK!!!!
Really, how can you tell?
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Old 02-28-13, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by I <3 Robots
Haha...we met in that very bike shop. I walked in with my S2 as she was buying hers. I took her out the next day on her very first road ride.



Hers is a 51, mine is a 54.

Technically I could fit myself on her bike. I would have to ditch her -6/90 for a -6/120 stem and slam it.
Or just a -10/120 and leave it where it is. You do the math. Anyways, Definitely nice setups. I hope you appreciate having a partner in life to ride with as well as she appreciates having a dedicated hobby/sportsman/athlete willing to share the knowledge and time with them.
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Old 02-28-13, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Really, how can you tell?
that thing is so black it is absorbing shadows!
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Old 02-28-13, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by gc3
that thing is so black it is absorbing shadows!
Or casting them while sitting in one. As far is anyone knows it's generic carbon (nothing wrong with that) with unbranded wheels (also nothing wrong with that) with Sram Force and possibly not even all black as it looks. At the same rate it could be branded all over and we just can't see. It does look like a really nice bike, but it would be nice to see how nice.

It's just a little difficult to grade a bike you can't see. In this thread, the picture quality counts as much if not more than the bike. While it's a cool picture and a sweet shot artistically, it's not very usable on this thread. Not hating, just trying to envoke a better picture for gc's spank bank. (Trying to hook a brotha up GC3)
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Originally Posted by X-LinkedRider
Really, how can you tell?
Oh HAHA! LOL
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Old 02-28-13, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by gc3
that thing is so black it is absorbing shadows!
I laughed out loud at this!

DARKNESS everybody!(Rick James skit from the Chappelle Show)
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Old 02-28-13, 06:44 PM
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Here's a less dark photo, haha. It was a cool bike; I'm no longer the owner. It just wasn't what I was after.
Strange that it's randomly relevant again.
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Old 02-28-13, 07:12 PM
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1980 Andre Bertin Model C-132
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Old 02-28-13, 07:17 PM
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Nice resto on that Bertin! Handsome! And you've even got a Flickstand?! Primo!
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Awesome. I have definitely seen that thing on here before. Good stuff guys. Thanks for sharing the bike in the daylight nagrom. I actually didn't realize this wasn't the hot or not thread. lol. Been a long day, that's what happens. Enjoy the sweet arse ride Velo.
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long day, eh?
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Old 03-01-13, 08:20 PM
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I'd say this may have a place on here.

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^^^

definitely belongs...
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Old 03-01-13, 08:28 PM
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definitely belongs...
I just picked this up in the fall. I'll be adding black tires a black small chainring and maybe upgrading the wheels this year sometime. It is almost all original as it sits.
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Old 03-02-13, 01:17 PM
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Got out of work early and was looking forward to trying out the new wheelset. Unfortunately for me, it didn't happen because my campy-compatible Recon cassette wouldn't fit on 3T's "multi-sys" freehub. Apparently, the construction of Recon's 11 speed cassette is the reason why it won't fit. The additional guides inside the Recon cassette hits against the shim/sram splines on 3T's freehub body.

Recon-Campagnolo 11 speed cassette


Campagnolo OEM 11-speed cassette
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Old 03-02-13, 01:30 PM
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Primov, its like those wheels were made for that bike! BEAUTIFUL
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Originally Posted by bianchi10
Primov, its like those wheels were made for that bike! BEAUTIFUL
Thanks. These were actually New "demo wheels" that were never used; the retail version has only grey stripes. When I saw them, I already knew these were for the Merak.
A little elbow grease + goo-gone and I was able to remove the "demo wheel" decals that were located between the green stripe and 3T logos.

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