cycling: a materialist pursuit

VinceEager
VinceEager Posts: 247
edited December 2009 in The bottom bracket
its not about the bike - remember?
...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    That reminds me, must remember to bid on that White/red Fizik Aliante, it finishes in an hour!
  • tri-sexual
    tri-sexual Posts: 672
    nothing wrong with buying bikes and parts, i'm keeping the world economy going :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Part of the excitement for me is hoping that MrsNapD doesn't notice.

    So far the biggest/most obvious things I've got away with are a TT bike, A litespeed frame to replace my crappy aluminium one and some Zipp Wheels.

    There are many many others (e.g. the only think remaining on the Look bike I bought that has stayed the same is the frame!)
  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    My favourite frame materialist is titanium.
  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    Harry182 wrote:
    My favourite frame materialist is titanium.

    The only materialist to use is Steel. All other materialists are inferior
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    You need to get one of the new moral fibre frames
  • beancounter
    beancounter Posts: 369
    He who dies with the most bikes, wins.

    bc
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  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    It's a bit about the bike, although I concede this wouldn't make for such a winning book title.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    "He who dies with the most bikes, wins."

    Derived from "He who dies with the most toys, wins."

    I don't understand either statement.
  • Heckler1974
    Heckler1974 Posts: 479
    I would feel less of a cyclist though if my bike weighed more than a flea's shoelace.
  • VinceEager
    VinceEager Posts: 247
    :lol: fair enough
    ...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Lance Armstrong was on TV for an hour going on about bike technology - I wish he'd make his mind up! Clearly it is partially about the bike as I found out on Sunday when I pitted my single speed against The Trough of Bowland.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    NapoleonD wrote:
    That reminds me, must remember to bid on that White/red Fizik Aliante, it finishes in an hour!

    I have a 2007 Litespeed Siena, can I have a club badge please ?Or do I have some Phi bet Kappa type initiation to do ? :wink:
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    You can have one if you give me all your bike gubbins.

    Either that or just give yourself one. You do need to post your pic on the thread to be a real member.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    dmclite wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    That reminds me, must remember to bid on that White/red Fizik Aliante, it finishes in an hour!

    I have a 2007 Litespeed Siena, can I have a club badge please ?Or do I have some Phi bet Kappa type initiation to do ? :wink:

    Have you posted it on the club thread?
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    Thought the Addict R1 needed a winter cheer up. Waiting for some TRP 960's in blingtastic red.... I am tragic!

    Nowt wrong with the stoppers it has now, but that's not the point( in my head anyway)

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