Cactuskid

Picking up my new 2013 Tarmac tomorrow......can't wait!

giantcfr1

My 2004 Orbea Mitis 2 still serving me well...

Elduderino2412

That's a nice looking somewhat older Orbea, and nice rock garden

EnzoRWD

Looks like a Pulsion

craigcraigcraig

lol

giantcfr1

Thank you very much

agressor

WoW! That's sucks.
I'm glad i got aluminum bike.

Pantani98

Here's my 2013 Trek Madone 5.2. Just brought her home today. Only changes 'so far' are my Fizik Aliante saddle, Ultegra pedals, Conti GP4000s tires, Lizard Skins bar tape, Garmin mount, and DuoTrap. Of course, it's pouring outside so I haven't had a chance to adjust it or ride it. Down pour or not, I was going to pick the bike up today. Awww yeah!

Space Pope

^^ love that color scheme

thirdgenbird

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Slackerprince

Bought this brand-new:



2013 Cannondale Synapse 5 105

Mods-
Specialized Toupe+ Comp saddle
Continental Super Sport+ tires-23c
Specialized Rib Cage
Cateye lights and Micro Wireless computer
Look KEO Sprint pedals
Topeak Mini-Wedge

Rides nice. 20.4 pounds. Looked at several carbons in different brands, but no regrets on this alloy.
MSRP-$1550 + 7% Florida tax=$1659.50
I got it for 20% off. $1301 out the door.

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agressor

Nice looking road bike Slacker. I bet you like it. Ride safe!

Slackerprince

Thanks, agressor.
I see you have an Allez.
I sold mine and regretted it for a while, but the frame was a little too
big and I always felt too stretched-out on it. It was nice, though, and
I had it upgraded with all Ultegra Ice.
Here's a pic, probably, pre-upgrade:



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Gourley

First road bike build.

Mostly nashbar stuff to keep it on the cheap. Feeling out cycling before I go crazy on quality expensive parts.

Dead Roman

Yes they said they would swap em, but what a huge pain in the ass. Ive since realized most bikeshops are incompetent asses an taken it upon myself to true wheels. They have been straight for over 300mi, and i like to bunny hop curbs and do stoppie and wheelies.


F having a bikeshop touch your bike. Pompous ********.

Kingshead

Think this might have something to do with your wheels going out of true?

Martin

Dead Roman

Wheels with a 300lb weight limit shouldnt have any problem with a little bunny hop. Bottom line, 3 different lbs trued them, they went out of true almost immediately. I take the time to true them myseld, they have stayed true for months.

Kingshead

Hmmmm, lets see, rider 200lbs + bike 25lbs falling from 1' (bunny hop) according to Newtons law would approximate a weight of over 400lbs. Depending on whether you land on both tires or just one at a time might make all the difference. Doing a wheelie where the front tire is 5-6' off the ground might be triple these numbers depending how hard you bring the tire back down. As you seem to have solved the problem by trueing the wheels yourself why replace the wheels?

Note: I have absolutely no idea how much you weigh, only used 200lbs as an example.

Dead Roman

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Im talking about hopping up from flat to flat. Jumping up a curb to a side walk. I doubt ive ever dropped this bike down from more than 3-4 inches. And as far as wheelies, if you are slamming the feont down you arent doing it right. Gotta shift that weight. When does a front wheel eer get 5-6' off the geound(just ribbing i know you meant inches)


And im not going to return the wheels. I plan to beat the ever loving piss out of them untill thu fall apart and then im buying a set of flo's

Kingshead

Actually I was talking about 5-6' if your riding on the rear wheel the front tire would be considerably higher than 6" off the ground. And yes it would be best if bringing the front wheel down gently but as this is only a perfect case scenario and at times might not be so perfect you could in theory bring the front wheel down with quite excessive force and bend the rim in doing so. And riding up a curb might at times not time the hop perfectly and actually run into the curb as you hop and slam the wheel into the radius of the curb striking a very small surface area of the tire with excssive force and also knock the rim out of true or even do irreparable damage. I'm not saying this happened but it's definitely a possibility in the future if a continued practice.

Martin

ythe1300

Bugly, what frame is that / how's the build quality? I have been looking for a new frame and love the look of it.

Thanks in advance,
--phil

bugly64

This is a FLYXI 302 https://www.flyxii.com/products_1.asp?menuid=308&id=881
I think the build quality is great. If you want to learn more about these and more frames go to Road Review forum under Chinese Ebay 6.0.

Elduderino2412

Looks like a chinarello

cvall91

$300 for a carbon frame and fork.... I would never trust something that cheap.

SpeshulEd 

I'm not sure if the price really matters about trusting the bike or not, I'd have more issues trusting the quality control of the bike.

It's pretty clear its a Chinese Pinarello knockoff, probably from the same factory that makes real Pinarellos, however, you're not getting the same quality control for the frame.