rubbish heap two
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Now that's a deal!
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just bought this today.
said it before, say it again: fork looks bent/cooked.
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shit
i have a cracked (barely) BMC frame+fork that i'm sure i could fixie-ize and flip.
however, i could never do such a thing in good conscience.
I recall Joker trying to do the exact same thing and not finding a buyer.
Probably would have flew when fixed gears were hitting a peak in like '08, not sure now.
Did you crack your fancy race bike? Or is this a different BMC? :(
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too long of a reach so he had to bring the saddle forward to compensate? if thats wrong, whats going on?
Butt soreness is something that will go away.
Basically, if you're fitting a bike properly you arrive at seat position (height and fore-aft) totally separate from stem length and reach. If someone is pushing their saddle forward to compensate for a longer stem, that's like newbie mistake 101 shit.
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On that black and gold one: dude should get a shorter stem so he doesnt have to slam his saddle forward. *shakes head*
i'm shaking my head at you for thinking that stem length somehow affects where the saddle should be. get educated.
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rubbish!
how'd everything go?
bummed i missed out -- been too busy.
Choc, SSCXWC weekend was awesome and probably the most fun I've had in the bay area yet.
Friday was the East Bay MTB ride and I finally got out to those trails off of Skyline/Joaquin Miller. Pretty damn sick on an SSCX bike, especially climbing up Tunnel in one gear with the fast guys. On one downhill section in the trails there was a rock garden and I (always riding in the drops, naturally) had way too much weight over the front coming into it and went over the bars to land on my feet/walk down the rocks, while my bike went aiming towards a ravine but stopped via a well placed tree branch. Other than that, awesome trail ride and good to explore more East Bay stuff.
Saturday was the qualifier in SF. First checkpoint: coffee and beer stop at a bike shop on Market. Second checkpoint... race from the bottom to the top of California St., in traffic, while Mike @ MASH filmed you from a motorcycle. Awesome. Had mad vertigo at the top... that hill starts steep and gets steeper. Other notables included sprinting up Lion's Street Hill to the 500+ stair set, then shouldering the bike and running up the stairs to the top. Me and another PDX guy tag teamed for the 1/2 there, as the first two people to the bottom were also the first to the top (passing is nearly impossible because of the narrowness involved).
Saturday night was Pixie Cross... racing in a basement parking garage on kid's bikes in a homemade cross course setup complete with a pallet table top. By the time my heat was up, the kid's bikes were so thrashed as to be barely rideable, so I spent the majority of my 'race' fucking with the guy in front of me, throwing knees and elbows, putting my front tire into his rear and all around being a real turd :D
Sunday was race day. I did the SSEAW race in the morning and led out the field, but flatted about halfway into the first lap and continued riding that flat out on a course I didn't really preview. Coming near the finish I asked the crowd (and by asked, I mean screamed) where the pit was, but no one really knew and I never found it so I pulled out.
Repairing the flat was a piece of cake (just had to pump some air into the tire and let the tubeless sealant wash into the puncture), so I got ready for SSCXWC by heckling racers and doing beer/cider handups.
SSCXWC was a real shit show, much like the big SS fields at our local Cross Crusade series in PDX. The course was "among the muddiest I've ever seen" (according to an SF friend I stayed with), but mostly standard fare for the PNWers among us. Good, slippery, light mud; none of that thick peanut butter shit. The start was Le Mans style and at the bottom of the longest, steepest, most slippery run up on the course. The result of this, of course, was a chaotic stampede where even if you fell forward or backward on the runup, the momentum of the crowd would carry you upright. Totally awesome. Finding my bike was a hassle as some heckling spectators apparently fucked with some of our shit while we were at the bottom of the run up: if you watch closely at this video, you can see me running forward and then turning around against the crowd to find my shit:
The race itself was super fun, and the course at Golden Gate park was in my top 3 favorite ever. As far as results, I passed plenty of people but only finished around 70/150 racers, which is cool but could probably have done a bit better via a better start.
One more race this weekend, then the season's done :(
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word. i'll hit you up when i get to the bay, although i'll be staying in the City this time around.
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SSCXWC weekend!
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Famous Amos, I raced SS and A's...
A's race wasn't too bad but I dropped a chain between my frame and chain-catcher with about 2 laps to go in the race. Fuck. Couldn't adjust it without a tool, so DNF'd it as a result.
Borrowed a friend's Surly Karate Monkey to do the SS race. Pros: wide risers, 130mm stem, disc brakes. Cons: bike didn't really fit me at all, pip-squeak gear ratio, 25+ pounds heavy. It worked great on the twisty-turny stuff, but bad in the mud and horrible on the straightaways where I usually make up the majority of my time racing SS. Also, my lower back gave out about halfway through. For some reason, the lower the bars, the better my bike feels during races. Confirmed this on multiple race setups... my cross bike would be almost as at home doing crit laps as it is grinding mud the way I have it set up.
Anyways, I laid the bike down multiple times in SS... these things happen when you're on someone else's bike, so it's all good. I also had snot all over my face and it was pissing rain. I felt like I could have done a lot better... by the time there was 2 to go, I just wanted it to be over and there wasn't even the luxury of having a drum line making half of the race epic as fuck anymore. The nice thing about cross is the next weekend is always totally different than the last. Bring on SSCXWC in SF :D I'm just gonna run my race bike SS for the rest of the season after, so it should be good times. Can't wait to strip that pound or so of weight off tomorrow...
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Race report:
Soul crushing.
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Love moots too, but, what's up with the setback on all those seat posts?
You'd think they'd clean those up for show
cuz setback is PRO!
I need a jacket that's waterproof but isn't cooking me when it's 50 degrees out. Anyone have one?i'm having super good luck with my patagonia windbreaker. not sure the model cuz i got it used, but it's their "H2NO" waterproofing, fwiw. the pit vents are top notch, the fit is nice and tight around the torso for wind cutting, and i can use it for everything: commuting, training, and as a "warm up jacket" to get my body heat up before shedding it for cross races. just looked at all the tags and i can't find a model name on their though, so i guess my recommendation is just shop patagonia windbreakers :o
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i like that.
ordering a -17 130mm thomson for my carbon road bike, which has been sitting around as a naked frameset for like 3 months now.
fucking cross. so fun, but such a money pit!
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40cm bars on nearly all my bikes... 39 or 38cm on my street track bike.
As a general rule of thumb: use your road width as a benchmark and go one size up for cross, one size down for track. Preferences vary. You can also measure your shoulders from the center of each bump to get a ballpark range of what width would work best for you - try to aim for 1-2cm within where your shoulders measure at.
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Just the fact that ergos are the ugliest bars ever made and point towards a weird era in cycling componentry turns me way off haha.
Chocula you been doing the outlaw east bay CX stuff?
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Compact drops on most my bikes. Ergos are the worst. I have shallow track drops (B125's) in my street track bike but compacts on my actual track racer - go figure.
I really like PRO Vibe Compacts, and 3T Ergonovas. Great bend on both.
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any of you racey types make your own food for the road?
i'm talking bars and such.
i've been experimenting with various things and i find it much more rewarding than unwrapping a clif bar.
though, i do enjoy clif bars.
Well, for actual racing I won't do anything other than Clifs, gels and dextrose in the water.
For training I've experimented a bit over the years - sweet potatoes, the Garmin rice cakes, honey (in the little plastic Hammer flask), cream cheese/jelly sandwich with bacon (so good on a long ride near the end), etc.
What I've found is nothing really beats the Clif Bar or PBJ for calorie to size ratio. I could probably get enough energy eventually from eating the sweet potatoes or rice cakes, but not with the limited about of space I'm allotted in my jersey pockets.
Are you trying to save money or just try something new? Could always just pull over at a cafe/convenience store...
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so when a bunch of kids take something you like and turn it into a lifestyle and image and trend that have absolutely nothing to do with the original element, you're a loser for resenting the dipshits that bought into a trend and lifestyle they know nothing about?
cool. you guys are awesome.
dude, i really doubt you were apart of the jamaican wave of immigrants who brought the track-bike-on-the-streets-en-masse-revival thing back to NYC, nor the wave of 80's NY messengers working in the golden era.
this whole "i was there first" thing is a bullshit defense. it's about what you can do on it, not when you decided to get one.
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I dont give a fuck about what bike you ride - i give a fuck about hipsters being gay esoteric hype beast pieces of shit who thinks that riding fixed gear Is TeH MaDdEsZt thing to happen on two wheels.
so you're saying you care about what kind of bike someone rides.
BACK ON TOPIC:
this is what last weekend's race looked like:
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way better from '08.
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So, who all's gonna be at SSCXWC in SF next month?
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Rubbish, you going to Bend for the Halloween races?
Yep, I'll be there both days and plan on doubling up the racing day one: A's followed by SS.
Joker, Hillsboro was dry, bumpy and endless u-turns. Some fun terrain for sure. My first race out with the big boys in the A's - second to last row call up so I wasn't exactly at an advantage, but who am I kidding? A's are fast.
Anyways, was rolling around the 40th place area until I snagged my shifter on course tape and a stake while riding the bumps out in the corral area... got passed by about 10 people and then got back in with a new group and hung out with those guys with the rest of the race. (And by 'hung out', I mean 'nearly vomited' while managing to look as disoriented as possible.)
Around every straightaway, I could really lay the gas down and make up about 5 positions in the race, but come hairpin and u-turn territory, I slowly got gapped back off. Definitely got my work cut out for me, as u-turns have always been a weakness for me and now that's really shining in a stacked A field. Also, my running is mediocre at best right now so I'ma get back on that train soon and get some solid early park runs in in the near future.
After riding myself into the gutter for a good 5 weeks getting that elusive mechanical-free 1st place last Wednesday, I'm taking a much needed rest week (5 days, really).
I'm really excited for the rest of the Crusades schedule.
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I ride Schwalbe Marathons and Gatorskins for wet NW wintery stuff. Have gone balls out descending on both in wet corners.
If you want something racier, go for GP4 Seasons.
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why? that componentry era (c-record) was totally the time when shamals were an actual race-legit wheel and not just a heavy turd (in comparison to modern carbon aero wheels). he's just building it period correct.