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I had a hard time understanding how she could bend her right leg like that.

An entire heaven where everybody is moving and dancing like shitty independent stop motion films? Sounds alright.

Bump. Apparently these fools have choreographed an entire opera in japan doing this. All these videos are from last year but it's new to me.

Andy Hampsten has the life. Wine tours on bikes in italy. Home in the Tuscany hills growing and canning olive oil. One of the guys at Rivendell works as a tour guide for Andy in the summer. If I knew italian i'd be fucking begging him for a job. That jersey probably costs more than my frame.

Those Japanese dudes were cool in that shit, and today I learned they're called "U-min." I mean I thought they were COOL. I didnt realize they were fucking INSANE with this shit:

Re: motorbikes! Theres an auction down in south city (ffsons.com) I went to the other day and nearly walked away with a hayabusa or a giant touring K1200 which was even bigger than the suzuki. That would've been fun. Im kinda pissed off I scheduled my trip to HI the same days as American GP in Laguna Seca. With the bike I definitely wouldn't of minded riding down and enjoying that.

Re: motorbikes! IMHO It's all about condition. This is what I'd do first, while the bike's cold, check the engine. Is it dirty? Does it look cleaned? Check for grease everywhere, around the headgasket, if you can see it check the engine seal around the ignition cable. Check around the nuts under the carbs. Is there any leaks? If the engine's been cleaned you're gonna have to stick your fingers in nooks. Dirt is cool, grease is bad. Next check battery. Check for rust around the battery. Especially check all mechanical parts UNDER the battery. There shouldnt be any more rust than the rest of the bike. Rust or a sulfur smell could be a bad battery and maybe even a bad stator/ charging system. New battery's gonna be $40-80. New charging system's gonna run you $250 to $500. Next check tire wear. How's the tread? Any cracking or signs of burnouts? Tires are gonna run you $250 a pair. Maybe more if you go sporty. Check the engine oil and brake fluid resivoirs. They should be clear. When the bike's warm check the oil again and make sure it's up to the line. Next I'd check the carbs. Push the choke in and fire it up. The bike should fire right up without any rough idle. If you're fighting to keep the bike from stalling at low rpms you're probably gonna need to clean the carbs. You can do it yourself for probaby $160 in carb kits and balancing tools, but it's labor intensive. Make sure the lights, turnsignal, gauge lights all work. If any of them don't and that battery's in shit condition you've got a bad electrical system. Make sure you give that bike a thorough road test— Five minutes at least—pulling the bike from a standstill in each gear making sure the clutch or the gears arent about to go. Ride it around and give it some hard "onramp" accelerating making sure the gears dont slip out. Most of this shit on a beater beginner bike isn't gonna matter, but you can definitely bring it to the owners attention before you make an offer. Hahah check the muffler. Make sure that shit's not gonna fall off any time soon. Acutally look at all the screws you can and make sure nothing's missing or about to fall off. That's all i can think of right now.. in essence there's just a lot of shit that can and will eventually go wrong when it comes to old bikes.

I just finished blowing the last two paychecks on the 2008 upgrades. Fancy ergo bars, wheels, tires, bibs, couple new tools, new cables, chain, rear casette, campy brakes.... New cranks and bb have to wait for the stimulus package... but now all i want to do is look at bike porn.

Re: motorbikes! Thread.... dieing... must... necessitate. HA! Found this on Hell For Leather. Motocyclismo made this illustration of the alleged K46 1000R, which used an R6 as a testmule for the motor (posted a page back), Also found this: Half 1098 half 696 monster. I'd fucking buy one in a second if they made it. And apparently this Lazareth's quadrazuma and other bikes are gonna be in Babylon AD. This needed NOS and Keith Haring Vespa ad: Just looks awesome.

New world record. waist size = 0.

Suki how big are you?

Fist, fucking edit that shit out and keep this thread to bikes while you still can. Edit: Ok, fine. For the record I've been riding road bikes since I was sixteen when my friends got me into it and I pulled my dad's old 84 bridgestone BS400 out of the attic. Those friends are now cat 1 and pro racers so you can fuck off with this "better than you" bullshit. I bought my first track bike a year ago and put about 3400 miles on that thing in about seven months on top of riding about 7,000 miles on the trek in the same time. Ugly single purpose bikes? Single purpose being RIDING the fucking thing? And i dont give a fuck about dudes shinguards. I just wonder if he wears him while he posts economic insights into a bike thread. And as for what I said to christo-f: honesty is the best policy. How is it astonishing people ride bikes but not into cycling? Have you ever been to a college campus or anywhere that the car is thought as actually unnecessary? As for taking things personally: Im eighth generation american, so theres no patriotism to china, but someone who calls all chinese unmotivated and lazy... and brings that shit into a bike thread... he's a fucking twat. I could ask you why took what I said personally too after your little blowup. Keep this shit to fucking bikes and keep your personal opinions about everything else to yourself. That's all I ask.

Anyone else seeing a title change?

Hahaha Christo-f you need to go put your shinguards on and just shut the fuck up because, racist comments aside, your insight into china's culture and economy is as useful as... oh wait.. a white Australian's who's bumming around china drawing conclusions from the random fucking people he spots! Not to mention you're posting in a bike thread which puts you on par with Zoolander when it comes to 'the issues.' How bout you come to America and ponder what's wrong with us because cricket, rugby, or soccer never caught on as much as in Europe? And how bout you pick up any newspaper ever printed and find out why china's economy sucks instead of guessing? Every fucking day it's 'radioactive rivers,' 'droughts,' 'giant factory recalls,' 'mine collapses,' 'ceos jumping out of windows,' 'murder squads,' 'corrupt government officials blah blah blah.' This is simple shit dude. You think you're so much more in touch with the area just because you're there, riding a mountain bike, thinking something's wrong with them because they're not like you? Are you 15 years old? And I just don't want to talk about this shit, partly because it's a conversation with you, and partly because this is a bike thread you fucking retard—and that has nothing to do with the fact that i'm Chinese, nor is it of use as an indicator of anything related to Chinese people's attitudes as a whole. As for the Chinese Trek team in Td'G I hope they do well because the podium doesn't give a shit where they come from.

Rubbish, Whoiseuth, fuck your free tires. I'm getting some free Enduro ceramic bearings for the front hub. I dunno if that's gonna do anything but hey they're worth $100. Anyone know anyone with tubeless road tires? What do you guys think would be the best tires for carving it up downhill? And apparently Cipolini's finally demanding to jump the Rock Racing ship so he can go compete in La Classicissima. I just hope if Mario gets out of his contract Ball to wakes the fuck up.

No I did notice some random person asked you that ridiculous question and you obliged, kind of like how I noticed you felt it was necessary to quote the comment right above yours. But go you man. Lets see more of those shinguards. Maybe also you should consider that my family's Chinese before you start talking shit about the entire country just because everyone stares at you like you're a fucking alien.

Hahahaha I've got that GT in my garage. Not mine but a loaner. Christo dude it's not a fucking secret China never has nor ever will give a shit about cycling. Even if you've got photos of Trek's hopeless marketing scheme to develop cycling within China's growing economy, it's still boring. Boring as hell. And annoying since your photos of are blowing up my screen. And upsetting because I had this mental image of Australians all being as cool at this guy and you fucking ruined it. Argyle.

There's a human labor car wash around here. Looks like the easiest and laziest shit ever. Just slack off until you get called on it then work a liiitle harder. Not to mention dibs on everything in the fuckin car.

Hey KMART, happy new bike day. That bianchi was as italian as your giant anyway. I didnt mean to blow up Zak and Sharky across two pages. How bout some 07 highlights: Monte Paschi Eroica http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/20/2123609.htm?section=justin

Half of rock racing sports spokeydokes on their training bike. With all these upgrades im just tryna keep my bike rooted. Found these gems im sure Rubbish can appreciate. Here's a picture of a super-strong cyclist: And here's sharky:

Hey I take offense to that skinny part, as most roadies will. Dude you're critiquing a conversation between the same six people for the last year and a half. Regardless what you think about this thread, I'll tell you right now it's far more informative than listening to some white boy realize cycling in China kind of sucks.

I mean he's the most veiny, pimply and muscley cyclist I have ever fucking seen. Finally got around to upgrading the rig for 08 with my new club hookup. Ordered some black bladed American Classic 420s and a couple vittoria rubino pro techs to try out. Also, if anyone has any, im looking for one or two REAL spokeydokes. Preferably in disgustingly awful colors like pink. KMART, dont worry about it. I had to order my first bike too. Make sure tho if they dont have the size you want there's something you can try with the same geometry. IMHO, I still think that bike's a good first pick.

People get em everywhere, and do you know why? Because drinking and biking is fun as hell!