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#501
Should Be More Popular
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Malvern, PA (20 miles West of Philly)
Posts: 43,634
Bikes: 1986 Alpine (steel road bike), 2009 Ti Habenero, 2013 Specialized Roubaix
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#502
Should Be More Popular
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Malvern, PA (20 miles West of Philly)
Posts: 43,634
Bikes: 1986 Alpine (steel road bike), 2009 Ti Habenero, 2013 Specialized Roubaix
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Back from being not banned but still without permission to access the 41. Exactly what happens during a ban. What was I to think?
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.
#503
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 46,002
Bikes: everywhere
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I dunno if an olde Nova would be my first vehicle choice for this trip
#504
Farmer tan
I've been visiting/calling LBSs and I'm finding that no one carries bladed, straight-pull spokes in stock, not even one LBS that's owned by a wheel builder. Meanwhile, I've looked more closely at the nipple still hanging from the rim... yeah, turns out that I didn't break the spoke - I broke a nipple and, in my frustration last night, I tossed the perfectly good, hard-to-find spoke somewhere along the road.
#505
Farmer tan
Back from being not banned but still without permission to access the 41. Exactly what happens during a ban. What was I to think?
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.
#506
dot dash
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Land of Pleasant Living
Posts: 12,568
Bikes: Shmikes
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3,320 Posts
#507
dot dash
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Land of Pleasant Living
Posts: 12,568
Bikes: Shmikes
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#510
smelling the roses
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tixkokob, Yucatán, México
Posts: 15,320
Bikes: 79 Trek 930, 80 Trek 414, 84 Schwinn Letour Luxe (coupled), 92 Schwinn Paramount PDG 5
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#511
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TC, MN
Posts: 39,521
Bikes: R3 Disc, Haanjo
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#512
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 1,439
Bikes: Yes please
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Look at www.workswellbikes.com. For under $500 you can get a very fine carbon frame.
By by the way, I remember seeing comments Ribble R872 frame was similar to one of workswell frames but I can’t remember which.
I've been visiting/calling LBSs and I'm finding that no one carries bladed, straight-pull spokes in stock, not even one LBS that's owned by a wheel builder. Meanwhile, I've looked more closely at the nipple still hanging from the rim... yeah, turns out that I didn't break the spoke - I broke a nipple and, in my frustration last night, I tossed the perfectly good, hard-to-find spoke somewhere along the road.
#513
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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#514
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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#515
So it is
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Westminster, CO
Posts: 21,860
Bikes: Luzerne, 684, Boreas, Wheelhouse, Alize©®, Bayamo, Cayo
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Learning that way reinforces the lessons.
#516
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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My brother had a few Novas from that era. Drove one of them across country (twice) in the 90s. His had the 250ci straight six with the Powerglide transmission. Bullet proof.
#517
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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#518
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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#519
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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#521
Administrator
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posts: 33,384
Bikes: Merlin Cyrene '04; Bridgestone RB-1 '92
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Nobody on staff knows what you’re talking about, THIS is part of the 41 and you’re here, aren’t you? If you thought you were banned why didn’t you reach out to the staff and inquire why? And let’s not pretend you don’t know what happens during a ban, you’ve been banned before (which you also made sure the entire forum was aware of) so you should have clearly known you were not banned this time.
Shall we continue this conversation in public or shall we take it to the private messages? Your choice.
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#522
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 46,002
Bikes: everywhere
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#523
shaken, not stirred.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Shaky Isles.
Posts: 5,302
Bikes: I've lost count.
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Slightly excessive. Athough well done on upselling to him.
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#525
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At Large
Posts: 57,064
Bikes: Have two wheels
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