check out my ride....

bendertherobot

arrived today.

Stock apart from Spoon saddle.

andrewgturnbull

The Jackalcp wrote:

andrewgturnbull wrote:

Wow! Have you tried a bigger frame size?

I guess your talking about the height of the seatpost. I fall directly between 58cm and 60cm frame size. The 58cm was more comfortable for my riding style and I have been riding that size for a few years.

Hi there.

I've no objection to the amount of seat-post showing - that's to be expected if you're going to get into a racing position on a frame with a sloping top tube.

It's just when combined with the long, riser stem and a stack of spacers underneath it, it just looks to me as if the bike is one size too small...

But hey, if you're happy then there's no problem!

Cheers, Andy

radders89

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This is my baby!

aracer

Here's my new bike (finally completely finished). ~6.7kg complete as pictured.

Gr.uB

radders89 wrote:

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This is my baby!

That looks very very nice.

JST

Here is mine - my first road bike.
Found it on Ebay but it didn't sell so the owner got in touch afterwards and we did a deal. Probably not the best way to buy a bike but we spoke a number of times and he sent loads of photos and arranged a courier. It was better than I had hoped when I got it. After I recieved it I took it to the LBS to get it set up for me and fortunately it only needed minor tweeking.

Having trouble finding the time to get many miles on it at the mo as I have got several other things on the go (too many hobbies!) but hopefully that will sort itself out later in the year. So at the moment I am doing a few trips to work and back and the occasional weekend ride.

musto_skiff

bendertherobot wrote:

arrived today.

Stock apart from Spoon saddle.

Same bike as mine ... I changed the saddle to a Toupel Gel 143 and have changed to a compact.

Really happy with it ...

bendertherobot

musto_skiff wrote:

Same bike as mine ... I changed the saddle to a Toupel Gel 143 and have changed to a compact.

Really happy with it ...

Good to see someone else with one! I suspect they're about to get rare. Paid a shade under £1300 as it is last years. Very happy. Appears to be, using some rudimentary scale standing, around 1.75 pounds lighter than my Alu Focus was.

Mine's a triple which I had no choice about. Happy enough with that, even coming off a compact.

How close to a Madone is the design do you reckon?

wicked

Here is my summer bike. First post!

markos1963

wicked wrote:

Here is my summer bike. First post!

Welcome Wicked, what a first post! Love Orca's, got an Onix, one day I might be worthy enough to have one!

wicked

Thanks markos! I dont really feel worthy of it myself but stuff it i fell in love! Funny thing is I went to the shop to buy a wilier with campag and got a orbea with shimano. :?

Lagavulin

Stunning bike that Wicked. 8)

I was torn between an Izoard and Orca for a while but ended up going for an Italian.

Adieu

This Bike is older than me. :oops:

MIsterGoof

I think this thread is disgusting all those pornographic pictures of scantily clad Steel, Alu, Carbon and Ti constructions

You should all be ashamed of yourselves

I for one wont be coming back here for at least 5 minutes

redddraggon

It's not exactly a new bike, but I've made a good few changes, narrower bars, new white arione saddle (doesn't look like it's going to stop white long though ), longer stem.

19colnagoboy86

My bikes...
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Winter/Commute to work bike:

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wicked

cool 8)

you have a clx for winter!?! :shock:

robbarker

Loking sweet Reddragon - the white bits look good while they're nice and clean! i particularly like the name and wlesh flag and lack of frame manufacturer decals - makes it look like a pukka pro training machine in an odd way.

broachboy

Hi forum people

My Road Bike...

http://velospace.org/node/11997



Super comfy Columbus EL steel

My Mountain Bike / Commuter



... now has mavic wheelset, flat bars & bar ends

philak

gkerr4

Nice red - looks well with the white saddle / bars.

how come you decided to change the width of the bars?

broachboy

:oops:

redddraggon

gkerr4 wrote:

Nice red - looks well with the white saddle / bars.

how come you decided to change the width of the bars?

it's a long story, my first bike had v. wide bars, my second bike had narrow bars, but while on the second bike I had a flare up of a rugby injury (I thought it was the narrow bars), so I stuck with wide bars then. Then I started building this fixie and bought the cheapest drops I could (wiggle £7ish, but they only had 42cm), then I started getting annoyed with the shape of the drops on the good bike, so I thought why not try the new drops on the good bike - and I experienced no problems over a long ride.

gkerr4

oh i see

have you built the langster up yet? - any Pics?
How do you find it?

redddraggon

gkerr4 wrote:

oh i see

have you built the langster up yet? - any Pics?
How do you find it?

Got the rear wheel coming this week, just need brakes and levers/cables to finish it off then.

Lagavulin

Fr!gg!ng hell... a CLX as a hack/commuter! :shock: Very nice.


My Izoard is now sorted with neutral stem, twin cages (much easier to get a drink now) and computer installed.

If that damn wind would sod off I might get out on it. :roll:

il_principe

The Prince in the Pyrenees:

mr-ed

As I had to send my Look back I've ended up with this, which so far feels 100x better than the Look ever did!

salsarider79

It's all in the signature...

simon johnson

mr-ed wrote:

As I had to send my Look back I've ended up with this, which so far feels 100x better than the Look ever did!

Now I understand the mecaphiles!