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#6302
So it is
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#6303
Super Modest
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Habitual User
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After seeing somebody's thread on a Saeco Cannondale from the late 90s, I remembered just how much I wanted one of those BITD. I did a quick search of Craigs List, and there's one just 5 miles away, for $400. Looks like it's got all the bits, too, right down to the yellow Flite saddle. Including the Spinergy Rev-X wheels, those cool-looking CF ones with the 4 pairs of bladed spokes. "Hmmmmm..... I wonder if those things are safe?" I thought.
So I looked it up online. "Oh," I thought, "Not so much." I mean, apparently I'm sitting AT the weight limit they had WHEN NEW, 23 years ago.
Hard pass.
So I looked it up online. "Oh," I thought, "Not so much." I mean, apparently I'm sitting AT the weight limit they had WHEN NEW, 23 years ago.
Hard pass.
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After seeing somebody's thread on a Saeco Cannondale from the late 90s, I remembered just how much I wanted one of those BITD. I did a quick search of Craigs List, and there's one just 5 miles away, for $400. Looks like it's got all the bits, too, right down to the yellow Flite saddle. Including the Spinergy Rev-X wheels, those cool-looking CF ones with the 4 pairs of bladed spokes. "Hmmmmm..... I wonder if those things are safe?" I thought.
So I looked it up online. "Oh," I thought, "Not so much." I mean, apparently I'm sitting AT the weight limit they had WHEN NEW, 23 years ago.
Hard pass.
So I looked it up online. "Oh," I thought, "Not so much." I mean, apparently I'm sitting AT the weight limit they had WHEN NEW, 23 years ago.
Hard pass.
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#6306
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Right. I'd have to price in a new wheelset, which would bring the total to >600. Throw in the requisite new cables and cabling, bar tape, tires, brake pads, you're talking close to $800 for a $400 bike.
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#6307
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Yep. It only makes sense if you want that Saeco frame $800 bad enough.
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#6308
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I did notice a HUGE improvement in my Cannondale 3.0 switching to 25s and running them at 90/95. I feel like I can still read the printing on manhole covers with my ass, but small bumps no longer toss me out of the saddle.
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Keep talking, guys. It's almost out of my system.
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You're to the point of nearly tripling the initial investment (which is probably realistic). You've gotta REALLY want it to go that deep. I suppose you could recoup a small amount by selling those blender-blade wheels to someone dumb enough to buy them.
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Also, I don't think I could bring myself to sell a set of wheels I'd be afraid to ride on.
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I think I got mine in 2001. There were only 3 size 63 frames in bike shops throughout L.A. There was a black one, a stars and stripes one, and the Saeco red one I bought for $600.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
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#6314
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Looks like I underestimated the cost of a Dura Ace-hubbed wheelset. They're all $300 and up on Ebay. And that doesn't include shipping
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#6315
VFL For Life
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#6316
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I think I got mine in 2001. There were only 3 size 63 frames in bike shops throughout L.A. There was a black one, a stars and stripes one, and the Saeco red one I bought for $600.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
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#6317
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#6318
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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It will never rain again.
Seems that way anyways
Seems that way anyways
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I came close to eating a few on today's ride. I've found they leave an ugly smudge on my tight 'n' stretchies when I hit them too. I also cannot express how disturbing the growing pile of nymph shells, corpses, body parts, and living bugs, at the bottom of my basement stairway is. We are filling trash bags with them.
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VFL For Life
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2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires
YOLO.
There aren't any near the Velo Vol Estates. But, where I went Tuesday for my swimming activity, they're buzzing all over the trees. It's madness.
#6324
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I think I got mine in 2001. There were only 3 size 63 frames in bike shops throughout L.A. There was a black one, a stars and stripes one, and the Saeco red one I bought for $600.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
I did an organized ride and there was a guy on a star and stripes CAAD and he would pull a wheelie every time there was a camera nearby.
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Hey, he's got a whole "look" going on. I don't know the status of his hair, I don't know him. We just talked bikes that day.
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