ozzguRR

What a beauty !

powermatt99

It's mostly likely a '92. I don't know if you got ripped off but $350 is a lot for a soon-to-be 20 year old bike.

mrvile

This bike is beautiful.

jeepseahawk

My first road bike, just picked up and road once yesterday. Not the color preferred but LBS enticed me to change mind.

NikiMae31

I have a Giant OCR 3 that I bought a couple weeks ago. I just recently got into biking again (haven't owned a bike since middle school) and I started out with a purchase of a vintage road bike, but found out about a week later my friend's mom had the OCR for sale. She just wanted to get it out of her garage. She bought it new a couple years ago for much more than I paid for it. For $50 I got the bike, gloves, padded shorts, jersey, back rack and a nice little tool kit with all the essentials that fit in the saddle bag. Not bad if I say so myself, and I LOVE the bike. I know it is a men's bike, but I don't care, it fits perfectly and runs so smoothly.

Here she is!

LemondFanForeve

Nice! I wouldve went with blue, or black myself.

AlexZ

Didn't that dealer explain to you that Red is Fast? And don't scratch it up with that anchor chain!

jeepseahawk

I preferred black and white, and this is faster than my cannondale bad boy(actually a F4) with 700c's, just have to get used to road bike position. My palms are sore, may have to lengthen the stem a tad, flip it, or play with the spacers. Seat and pedal position are right on. That boat anchor serves two purposes, tire and bike, mostly tire because I don't like to leave bike unattended. The tire was ripped off once before.

CanyonChaser

Why do you hate your chain and derailleur? You should never ride in the big/big sprocket, and never park the derailleur in such the position. It'll ruin chains and components.

You want to keep your chain running in a straight line for the bike to ride smoothly. You do that by using certain combinations of gears and avoiding others. For example, when you are in the small chainring, you will want to use the biggest cogs. When you are in the big chainring, you should stick with the smallest cogs. This will keep your chain in a fairly straight line.

If you use extreme gear combinations, such as the small ring and the smallest cog or the big ring and the biggest cog, that’s called cross chaining. This puts the chain at too much of an angle, which makes the chain wear out extra fast. (You’ll usually hear some sort of grinding noise coming from the chain if you do this.) It also makes it more likely that the chain will fall off the bike.

dp

rankin116

Hogwash. Take a closer look anyway, it's not big/big. The combo he's in now is perfectly fine.

ColinL

He appears to be on his 2 largest cog which is a pretty reasonable place to stop riding. Stopping on your 11 tooth would make it a tad hard to get started again.

CanyonChaser

I'd never park there, with the derailleur stretched like that. But you can do whatever you like. I typically always park in the small front and mid-to large rear. But thats just me.

jeepseahawk

Let me help all you out, this photo is actually pre-first ride, directly from bike shop. And yes, I do know about cross chaining, in the photo it is actually big and 3rd from big on rear. Last person on bike was a 2 time California hill climb champion, guess he didn't know.

LowCel 

My newly built backup bike.

Biscayne05

2011 Motobecane Vent Noir

Everything stock except saddle, pedals and my super-duper aero bottle cage











I'll try to keep everything stock so I can appreciate my first road bike. I'm looking to upgrade next year (or probably keep this Moto as well if there's space). And yes, the upgrade will be in Noir again

cyc4fun

This is my new bike the Cannondale Synapse carbon 5 2012

meingewehr

My main ride:


Kestrel 500 EMS w/2011 Campy Super Record

My alternate ride:


ALAN R30 Alu LS w/2011 Campy Chorus

Exchanged this for a Mavic Helium wheelset:


My early 70s Masi Gran Criterium with the original Campagnolo Record/Nuovo Record components.

A friend gave this to me in pretty sad shape with a mix of low end Dia Compe and Shimano parts, replaced with Dura Ace 7 spd, a friend that paints race cars emptied his partial paint cans on it


My 80s Nishiki Linear

My first mountain bike, taking all the components off and putting them onto a new carbon hard-tail.


My late 90s Klein Mantra Comp

Trying to recapture my childhood, had a Chopper mark 2 back then. This one has under a mile on it.


My Raleigh USA Chopper Mark III

Gone but not forgotten:

Late 70s Legnano, forgot model but it was Columbus steel, no eyelets, full Shimano 600, Mavic rims, Cinelli Campione Del Mondo bar/ Cinelli stem.

1985 Cannondale R300 - the purple people eater.

Last year of the Schwinn Paramount, lugged steel, metallic blue.

m.libre10

2009 Time Speeder



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Product Features
·Frame: Full carbon
·Fork: Pilot Safe+2 carbon
·Fork Blade Type: Carbon straight blade
·Steer Tube Type: Carbon
·Drop Type: Carbon Matrix Technology (CMT)
·Headset: Quickset (included)
·Headset Type: Aluminum
·Head Tube Material: Carbon
·Head Tube Diameter: 31.8
·Bottom Bracket Type: English
·Bottom Bracket Thread Material: English
·Bottom Bracket Shell Width: 68mm
·Seat Tube Diameter: 31.6
·Seat Collar: Non-QR
·Front Derailleur Type: Clamp on
·Front Derailleur Clamp Diameter:
·Pull Type: Bottom
·Rear End Spacing: 130mm
·Rear Derailleur Hanger: Replaceable
·Frame Weight: [M] 3lb 8oz (1583g)
·Fork Weight:
·Extras: Headset included
·Recommended Use: Training, racing


Component Parts;
2011 SRAM Red PC-1091R Chain
2011 SRAM Red 10 Speed Dual Tap STI Shifters
2011 SRAM Red OG1090 10 Speed 11-26T Cassette
2011 SRAM Red 10 Speed Front Deraileur
2011 SRAM Red 10 Speed Rear Deraileur
2011 Sram Red/Black 53-39T with 165mm Arm Carbon Crank set
2011 SRAM Red/Black Ceramic Bottom Bracket
2010 Black Ciamillo Ti Zero G Gravity Brake Calipers with Zipp F1 Brake Pads
2011 Black Time Carboflex Carbon pedals
2011 (2) Stradalli Carbon Bottle Cage
2012 Stardalli Ergo Integrated Handle Bar 31.8mmx90mmx42cm
2011 Black/Red Fi'zi'k Dual Microtex Bar Tape
2010 Blace Cat Eye 400 Wireless Strada Speedometer
2011 White Specialized S Works Toupe Limited Edition Carbon Fiber saddle
2011 FSA SLK seat post
2011 Thomson Masterpiece Carbon 31.6 Seat post clamp
2009 Zipp 303 Carbon Tubular Wheelset and Skewers with 2011 Continental Gatorskin Sprinter tires (F/R)
2011 Red and Black Jagwire cable housing
2011 Jagwire Cable
Designed in France (Made in China)
Color: Red, White and Black combination
Weight in at 14.52Lbs One awesome ride!

Young Version

BIG EYE

Just picked up a "new" 2009 Tarmac Pro.

ColinL

Congrats. I was following that thread and I would've bought it in your shoes.

Farmer Dave

There she be.


On a more serious note...

info

Nice clean build here .... Great job

Vicelord

Saw this on Vortex too.

Cool bike!

BIG EYE

Thanks! And thanks for your input on my other thread! Took it for its first ride yesterday which assured me I made the right decision

Thanks!