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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 12-09-21, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Boomers gonna boomer.
First I click and click...

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Porsche ass of the day. For sale locally edition.
Been parked since 2015.
Not sure if I wanna bring a trailer...

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Map of the day.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Map of the day.
No.
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Old 12-09-21, 07:43 PM
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Here's one for you nostalgic Boomer pie lovers.


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
machines/robots > Addiction amateurs
If only there were a bot for handlebar wrapping.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
machines/robots > Addiction amateurs
I've been paid to build wheels.
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Old 12-09-21, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Porsche ass of the day. For sale locally edition.
Been parked since 2015.
Not sure if I wanna bring a trailer...

Looks rough.
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Old 12-09-21, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by abshipp
Not yet. These wheels wouldn't exist if I didn't build them:

650b, 36°, fixed/fixed bolt on 120mm rear; 36° bolt on 100mm front


Also another vote for buying the Fulcrums.

I'm going to be replacing the rims on the Holdsworth. I'm kind of nervous doing the work since they are 20°F/24°R. I've never built anything with that low spoke count before.
it's just faster. I just finished rebuilding the carbon wheel that failed on me. Once I was able to retrieve the nipple that fell inside the rim, it took like 20 minutes. I kept thinking, you missed something... you had to, that was too fast.

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Old 12-09-21, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
machines/robots > Addiction amateurs
That may be true with amateurs but a hand built wheel done by a competent builder will be superior to a machine built wheel.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
No.
Yes.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Looks rough.
And that's its good side

#ilikeitrough
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Originally Posted by abshipp

I'm going to be replacing the rims on the Holdsworth. I'm kind of nervous doing the work since they are 20°F/24°R. I've never built anything with that low spoke count before.
It's funny, after all the wheels I've destroyed I had 20/24 spoke Cole wheels on the Seven when I bought it and the rims didn't crack. Broke a couple spokes but kept riding them until I broke the freehub body. If I could find a freehub body I would like to use them as back-up wheels, despite the low spoke count.
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YESSSS! I'm back on Zwift! Did the calibration and 30 minutes. Felt easier somehow. Graphics are improved. Cooling system is better also, fan is now in front of the stand.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
If only there were a bot for handlebar wrapping.
There should be. If there was a Henry Ford to automate bicycle manufacturing, prices would be more reasonable.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Porsche ass of the day. For sale locally edition.
Been parked since 2015.
Not sure if I wanna bring a trailer...

No
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
Many of my bicycle related ideas, including wheel building and riding steel bikes, are directly related to my pay grade.
Nothing wrong with that.
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Old 12-09-21, 08:24 PM
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OMG it's raining cats and dogs out there!

And just after it started I remembered I'd left the window open on minivan #2 the other day. And I had a battery charging in the garage and a mostly dead battery in the car. I was cursing as I put on a flannel and my rain shell imagining lugging batteries to and fro, and dealing with the PITA side mount terminals because I don't have a ratcheting 8mm end wrench.

I got lucky though because the dead battery in the van had just enough juice to sloooowly roll the window up.
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Old 12-09-21, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Porsche ass of the day. For sale locally edition.
Been parked since 2015.
Not sure if I wanna bring a trailer...

how much is a restored, lightly used and regularly serviced one going for? buy that not the parked porker. it'll be cheaper in the long run.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
OMG it's raining cats and dogs out there!
First rain in two months?
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Originally Posted by gnome
how much is a restored, lightly used and regularly serviced one going for? buy that not the parked porker. it'll be cheaper in the long run.
You can usually get a runner that's not very pretty for $3000-3500.

This one's asking 2500, has a battered fender, so not all that interested, bit still mildly, maybe if he'll take $1000...
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I dunno, LesterOfPuppets - that win by a FG isn't lookin' too good right now.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I dunno, LesterOfPuppets - that win by a FG isn't lookin' too good right now.
I know, total domination so far!!!
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Too bad RUOkie isn't still around to see it.

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