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06-30-11, 12:11 PM
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)Stop frikkin' hoarding them already (especially if they're a size 57cm)! I'll probably see you in some eBay bidding war on one of those frames at some point.
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06-30-11, 12:20 PM
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06-30-11, 12:25 PM
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I really like the look of your Peleton.
06-30-11, 12:46 PM
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06-30-11, 01:07 PM
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06-30-11, 01:34 PM
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My buddy caught the bug from me and has an '85 Peloton and Madison track.
06-30-11, 02:35 PM
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You'd better have children and leave the bike to them in your will, because you won't be able to make it explode. I still have my '86 Peloton, and despite being in many, many crit crashes, and having beef-jerky slabs of scabs from ankle-to-hip during most of my highschool years, I was never able to knock the thing crooked.
06-30-11, 04:24 PM
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06-30-11, 05:21 PM
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No exaggeration! I crashed badly enough to bend wheels, snap derailleurs, bend bars, even busted a Giro helmet once hard enough that a shower of styrofoam balls spilled from the lycra cover, and lost many square feet of legskin, but that frame always checked out dead-true afterward. Gives new meaning to the term "diamond frame".
07-01-11, 01:19 AM
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07-01-11, 01:21 AM
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07-01-11, 01:26 AM
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07-01-11, 09:51 AM
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07-01-11, 10:42 AM
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When I saw that paint can, first thought was "are you serious? this is going to be a train wreck!" Then I was really surprised, and impressed with the results. Good looking rig there! I know when I was younger, we would buy these crappy cars for under $100 and race them at a track in an even called "Spectacular Spectators". We would use house paint & rollers to paint the cars. My brother pulled out an orbital sander, wetted it down, and went to town. We were impressed with the results and had the nicest looking paint job in seriously 30 minutes than any other car out there
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