rubbish heap two
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sweet weekend of riding.
although i still get a lot of discomfort from longer rides (20 miles or more).
i dunno if it's the seat, the chamois, or the bike fit, but i guess a fizik arione is in my near future since i'm getting a check from teh driver that hit me last monday.
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The old is new again and I think I'm gonna invest in a wheel cover circa the 80's.
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why can't the TdF background music be so badass these days? and where do i get disc wheels that hypnotize everyone around me?
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if you look closely, the pink guy initiates the crash with a headbutt, and than in true japanese keirin fashion, holds on securely to the handlebars throughout the crash even when he's rolling a couple times over. prevents collarbone injuries.
i'm kind of bummed that track season is ending right when i was starting to actually get into it.
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haha. yeah. i'm not retarded. i've been riding since i was 6, and on mountain bikes since i was 12. i ride hutchinson tires usually at 35 psi. one of the flats took place after i'd switched tubes and the top part of the presta valve broke--rendering the tube incapable of holding air, so perhaps 4 is a more accurate number.
fair enough. i tend to hang around with people that ride bikes all day everyday, i had just never heard of so many flats in one day. the previous record i've heard was 2 flats / 3 days, so i guess you topped it.
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5 flats in a day? are you sure you had rim tape on the wheels, and weren't using 5 dollar tires inflated to 40 psi?
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Rubbish that sucks dude. Any bruising on the hip? I landed on mine and the swelling/scratches havent healed in five months. The fucker better be paying for the doc too.
the hips not too bad, it's mostly my elbow that took the blow. honestly, the fall was pretty comparable to something from skateboarding when you land leaning back and hit your hip / elbow, nothing is too bad and should heal accordingly. if anything i may need stitches but that's not definite, i'm gonna go to the doc's tomorrow to get it checked out. i want my damn wheel repaired/replaced though, i was trying to go to the track on wednesday and than race the westside invite this weekend but it looks like those plans have been sidelined for now.
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nevermind the springwater corridor ride, i got hit by a car. luckily all i have is a bloody elbow and slightly scraped up hip, and apart from my rear rim being semi-taco'd and a single spoke being visibly bent, everything looks cool. the colission was completely the drivers fault (i had the right of way, guy was turning off the main street onto a side one and wasn't paying attention) so i'm gettin a nice check to repair the damages. no scratches on the car and likewise for my frame strangely enough.
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^ ^ ^ it just depends on what city you live in and what the demand is. in portland you can sell off something like say, an old schwinn for a bit more than other places because there's a lot more people trying to get into bike commuting on the cheap. what would go in some midwestern city garage sale for $15 could go for more than $100 here and i've heard it's like that in most big cities, it just depends on how many inexperienced riders there are in your market who are overpaying for their used bikes. the trick is to get an eye for what's good and what's not, because a lot of 30 year old bikes (i'm thinking paramounts, italian stuff, anything with all campy or suntour superbe) can fetch a very good price nowadays because it was built to perfection back in the day and arguably rivals a lot of today's stuff, but sometimes you can find people with mint condition beauties who don't know the market value and just want to get rid of them because they've been collecting dust in a storage room for the past 25 years.
joker, i did watch the crit. fun race to watch, some of the guys up front were just smoking... i talked to molly from veloshop the next day (she raced) and she said something about getting up to 40mph on the straights... until she got a flat with 2 laps left.
the westside invite is in less than a week, all labor day weekend. alleycats, track racing, bike polo, and a way sketchier criterium than that park blocks one (cobblestone streets, midnight, "dirty" race tactics, albeit nowhere near as fast). must have been a working messenger in the past year to win prizes. it'll be fun.
i'm off to ride springwater.
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day 2 = better results with the pearl izumi. the chamois didn't bunch up and the exposed threads didn't really dig / itch. i guess the washing machine fixed that.
selle italia turbo still makes my ass go numb eventually though. someday i'll have the money for that fizik :\
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awesome.
i'm going to alpenrose.
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http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bik/401966311.html if you're around chicago. seems like a deal minus those sloppy spinergies. you could probably buy the bike w/o and bargain the guy down though. that frame is the real deal.
i just got some pearl izumi bike shorts, anyone had good / bad experiences with the lower ($70) range? so far i've had some good rides and bad rides today, the good being painless and the bad being just now with the chamois getting sort of off-aligned or bunched up. ugh. no, i'm not making the rookie mistake of wearing underwear underneath either... i'm also getting on/off itching near where some of the threads are exposed, wtf? i almost want to find some silky underwear from a dept. store and use that for longer rides, as cotton seems to be the biggest reason i get discomfort the over-15 mile treks.
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get a used road bike or single speed. something 80's or earlier. have a friend that knows something about bikes go with you when you buy it so you don't end up with things like steel 27" rims, one piece / cottered cranks, or trashed headsets / bottom brackets.
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fyi iloveboxcars, it's celeste green.
fyi^2, if it's not a frame, steel is kind of worthless components wise. steer clear of anyone offering you a bike with steel cranks and steel 27" wheels. obsolete oner! a friend had steel cranks on a beater bike, if you picked it up and dropped it, the bike sounded like a shopping cart and rode about the same.
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fuck this 98 gt vengeance piece of shit. nothing on this thing is a normal size, and gt cant even tell me what the specs are. how the fuck do you not know what size seatpost a frame you built takes?
this thing is going back in the trash pile
sell it on craigslist, make it someone else's headache. i did that with a 70's english frame, it was a headache and a half.
that senator is retarded. i bet he's one of those guys that yells at me from the passenger side of a pickup truck as i breeze to the front of the line at a stoplight... seriously, the main thing that makes having a car a necessity over a privilege is the existence of suburban america. if population was concentrated in the cities and rural areas pre-Great White Flight , we wouldn't have this problem. who enjoys driving in traffic anyway? i know i hate my life everytime i'm in a car trying to leave downtown portland after 4pm weekdays. on a bike i breeze through the lanes and my time is unaffected no matter how many cars are on the road. sure beats burning up gas for stop and go bullshit :)
i built up the bridgestone and immediately raced it in an alleycat upon completion. needless to say this is the nicest bike i've had so far. double butted spokes really are the superior option! i think next on the agenda is buying track drops and taking it to alpenrose... though 49x17 is a little small for the track :(
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tange, rubbish.
cool. my old bridgestone track frame was tange #2, but than again it was made in the 80's... :o
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my bros best friend has an 80s panasonic twelve speed.
it is built with the same tubing as my brothers bridgestone track.
some solid stuff came out of japan in the last bike boom, no doubt.
what tubing, ishiwata 019? kaisei 019? quad butted miyata tubing (ishiwata in disguise)?
yes, i'm a tubing nerd. but those japanese guys had steel down, i'll put kaisei up with reynolds. than the market shifted to aluminum and they got fucked over.
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i had a guy tell me "presta valves are stupid" so you arent alone joker.
maybe he's into dept. store mountain bikes? presta = the standard. atleast for road/track/the rims i ride.
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people do it, fist. it's not like you're doing fixed gear with a velodrome ratio and no brakes, it's a whole different breed.
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^ ^ ^ reminds me of snowboarding.
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NIGGA GOT MY SISTER PREGNANT, DIPPED OUT LIKE NOTHIN HAPPENED REAL QUICK
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old school campy super record road pedals = the fucking jam.... who knew nice pedals could feel so much better than $25 ones?
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white is nice too.
rode this frame last night, ridiculously stiff (i'm sure it rides just like the concept).
better than the past aluminum frames i've ridden, but the masi i rode was a bit
too small so i couldn't get a more accurate feel for it.
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ye, i did the coffee cat yesterday morning and watched the midnight criterium the night before. also stuck around at alberta park to watch polo / drink, and go on the group ride at 8. i didn't "officially" register though due to not havign $30 to drop this weekend, but the coffee cat was pretty fun and as predicted, sharky won again (and two of the top ten finishers puked).