Do you have a meaningless bike?
10-26-15, 06:13 PM
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I really like that build. I'm hoping you finish it before I'm in a rest home, but if not, I'll always be able to ask "remember that bike that Chombi started?" The Line Seeker is a hard act to follow, for sure. When that disc rear/Cronometro front showed up, first thing I thought of was this bike....
10-26-15, 06:21 PM
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10-27-15, 10:56 AM
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Get off my lawn!
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I asked the misses, she said, "list them all"
10-27-15, 01:50 PM
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I got a 1949 or 1950 Claud Butler track frame, set it up with a SA 4-speed hub on Sun CR-18s (the frame was really built for tubulars and the CR-18s were really the best fit I could find). 
I completed it and sort of ran out of vision- a Bates caught my eye and seems like a better candidate for a 4-speed (I can put 27" wheels on it).
I completed it and sort of ran out of vision- a Bates caught my eye and seems like a better candidate for a 4-speed (I can put 27" wheels on it).
10-27-15, 02:24 PM
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Yeah, I have a Raleigh Twenty, and I've made various changes to it, and no matter what I do, it rides like crap.
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10-27-15, 02:39 PM
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Twenty some years ago, as triathlons were getting to be the rage, and triathletes were using regular road bikes with those new-fangled "aero-bars" and negative setback seat post to get that extreme "aero" position, I thought "anything those guys use to go faster I can use so I don't have to work so hard." So I threw this frame together out of a bunch of random tubes. 78° seat tube so I would get the same position without a backwards seat post. 74° head and 100cm wheelbase because that's what I liked. Built it up and it worked fine, but I was never going to ride it in a real triathlon. Aero bars are seldom welcome in group rides, so it didn't get ridden a whole lot, except on windy days.
Well, come this year my 25 year old daughter says she is looking for a road bike to augment the Raleigh Sports she usually rides (n+1
). I had her try my wife's bikes and some of my bikes but nothing felt right. Then I thought of the old "tri-bike" and repurposed it. First time she rode it, she came back saying "this is the first one that really feels good to me!" So now it has a new life:
Well, come this year my 25 year old daughter says she is looking for a road bike to augment the Raleigh Sports she usually rides (n+1
). I had her try my wife's bikes and some of my bikes but nothing felt right. Then I thought of the old "tri-bike" and repurposed it. First time she rode it, she came back saying "this is the first one that really feels good to me!" So now it has a new life:
10-27-15, 02:55 PM
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10-27-15, 03:17 PM
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10-27-15, 03:27 PM
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Nice job! Lucky she's so tall.
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10-28-15, 01:59 AM
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You obviously have not ridden it solo in the right places. Might I suggest a ride past a sidewalk cafe on a nice day? Call it trolling if you like, but I had an old yellow Schwinn Twinn and more than once was approached by sweet young things wanting to play stoker, at least for a little while.
10-28-15, 07:02 AM
#64
Keener splendor
10-28-15, 09:28 AM
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The Drive Side is Within
I've had a few:
Those are my first world problems du jour...
- Raleigh Wyoming that I shimergoed and decided it was too small, it was redundant in the fleet even at that time. Somehow the raleigh "555" tubing was never going to measure up to "531" in my mind, even if I had no possible way of drawing a comparison.
Those are my first world problems du jour...
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10-28-15, 12:49 PM
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10-28-15, 12:59 PM
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I have a $50 Craigslist special (early 90s Diamond Back mtb) that lives outside for riding with the kid. But I get rid of anything else that I don't really use or want anymore (there are several bikes that are effectively "retired" but I will never part with them).
10-28-15, 02:07 PM
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I bought mine (ugh did I admit ownership??) last month fully intact and basically unused. Great shape. Paid all of 2.50 for it. I cut the tires off and it's on display in my shop for it's absurd senseless design. Funniest part was the original owner had removed any decal that said Huffy including the headtube decal.
10-28-15, 03:45 PM
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I bought mine (ugh did I admit ownership??) last month fully intact and basically unused. Great shape. Paid all of 2.50 for it. I cut the tires off and it's on display in my shop for it's absurd senseless design. Funniest part was the original owner had removed any decal that said Huffy including the headtube decal.
I don't think most people could get those bikes going fast enough for the aero features to have any effect.
10-28-15, 09:21 PM
#73
No one cares
yes.
next question?
next question?
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10-29-15, 09:01 PM
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Surly LHT
Gunnar Crosshairs
Surly Crosscheck
All are heavier, less strong versions of a concept that the Cannondale ST just did better. I think it's criminal to spend more on a Surly build than could get you a 1986 ST800.
