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Wwyd?
I’m allowing myself to buy one “thing” soon. One option is a frame on a deep discount ($2k+), the other option is a complete Di2 bike from Ribble ($1.8k). The frame will get built slowly in winter/spring if I go with the frame.
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
#427
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Soulless Plastic Project update.
I am going to start my search here https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...930896896.html
Not exactly what I want and won’t be warranteed, but it is new, approximate the right size, under budget, and doesn’t have throwaway wheels. If I get as far as a test ride, it will be my first time on a carbon bike.
I am going to start my search here https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...930896896.html
Not exactly what I want and won’t be warranteed, but it is new, approximate the right size, under budget, and doesn’t have throwaway wheels. If I get as far as a test ride, it will be my first time on a carbon bike.
#428
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I’m allowing myself to buy one “thing” soon. One option is a frame on a deep discount ($2k+), the other option is a complete Di2 bike from Ribble ($1.8k). The frame will get built slowly in winter/spring if I go with the frame.
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
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#429
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Soulless Plastic Project update.
I am going to start my search here https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...930896896.html
Not exactly what I want and won’t be warranteed, but it is new, approximate the right size, under budget, and doesn’t have throwaway wheels. If I get as far as a test ride, it will be my first time on a carbon bike.
I am going to start my search here https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...930896896.html
Not exactly what I want and won’t be warranteed, but it is new, approximate the right size, under budget, and doesn’t have throwaway wheels. If I get as far as a test ride, it will be my first time on a carbon bike.
Or...
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
#430
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Soulless includes electrical bits. Of course, that can always be done later.
Or...
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
Or...
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
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Yeah, option c is not preferable even though that’s what I’d like to do . Not knowing how much a press fit tool costs, I may have to get the bottom bracket installed at the LBS, but I can I install the rest.
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Went for a fast group ride. With a new group of guys, from a local bike shop. Having a great ride until, I went to take a left to go home. While sitting at the stoplight, a driver left hooked, head on into me. A lovely ambulance ride, three broken ribs, a concussion, a large bruise and cuts on my left leg, and several other scrapes and bumps and bruises. Lovely one night stay in the hospital, but I’m home now.
Now I’ll just have to be patient and healed up.
Now I’ll just have to be patient and healed up.
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Usually china. actually I have no idea where the raw carbon fibre cloth that is used in bike frames is originally manufactured. Technically, as MoAlpha a carbon frame (or anything) is a Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (or Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic) frame. It is just so much easier to just abreviate it to carbon frame. It's just like the metal frames are actually alloys but it is easier to call them by the main metal in the alloy: steel, aluminium and titanium.
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google may or may not be your friend. hint: don't google that on your work computer and you may want to not image search that.
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Soulless includes electrical bits. Of course, that can always be done later.
Or...
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
Or...
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
https://www.excelsports.com/main.asp...jor=1&minor=35
#438
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Usually china. actually I have no idea where the raw carbon fibre cloth that is used in bike frames is originally manufactured. Technically, as MoAlpha a carbon frame (or anything) is a Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (or Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic) frame. It is just so much easier to just abreviate it to carbon frame. It's just like the metal frames are actually alloys but it is easier to call them by the main metal in the alloy: steel, aluminium and titanium.
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#440
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The R5 looks like a good deal, but do I want old SRAM? The R3 has Aksiums, which would have to come right off and I don’t need them for anything. The Craigslist bike, by comparison, has decent wheels, which I can use elsewhere if I want to upgrade, and that’s almost the cost of adding Di2 right there.
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#442
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#443
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Went for a fast group ride. With a new group of guys, from a local bike shop. Having a great ride until, I went to take a left to go home. While sitting at the stoplight, a driver left hooked, head on into me. A lovely ambulance ride, three broken ribs, a concussion, a large bruise and cuts on my left leg, and several other scrapes and bumps and bruises. Lovely one night stay in the hospital, but I’m home now.
Now I’ll just have to be patient and healed up.
Now I’ll just have to be patient and healed up.
Hope you heal quickly.
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#445
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I’m allowing myself to buy one “thing” soon. One option is a frame on a deep discount ($2k+), the other option is a complete Di2 bike from Ribble ($1.8k). The frame will get built slowly in winter/spring if I go with the frame.
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
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Getting a little sorer now that whatever they shot my leg up with is wearing off.
On a side note, a man in one of the beds next to me was rattling off all the Rx meds he is on to a nurse. Se had a list and was asking him when the last time he took each one. There had to be at least a dozen, including two types of insulin. He couldn't even remember what some of them were for.
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I'm getting ready to ride my ugly, soulless, modern, reinforced plastic, road bike this morning with my retired racing group.
Considering half of the guys are 70+, it's a a safe bet that we be taking any KOMs.
Considering half of the guys are 70+, it's a a safe bet that we be taking any KOMs.
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