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The Northern Monkey
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Cool looking bike, now we need the pics of you in lycra!0
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What colour is that for a shed?!
Needs to be blue like mine!0 -
Nice bike Benj! How you find it? Mine hurt my back for the first few times, ached for days, but after percivering with it, it's really comfortable now
And you can't be that embarressed! You posted 3 photos!Boo-yah mofo
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Gear shifting brake levers :shock:
Nice thoughNow that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:10 -
thats a nice looking bike, have you ridden it yet?0
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Hmmmm how can I describe it....
FAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTTTT
Its great, I actually really really enjoy riding it! Picked it up at 5pm and have already been out on it for a longish run (twice!)
Its not bad on the back actualy, just weird kinda facing the floor on the drops0 -
Poor skinny thing, looks like it could do with a burger!
But seriously, that does look very nice. I'm quite tempted to one day begin looking into possibly expressing an interest in planning to start saving for getting a road bike!
Don't really get enough time for proper use of the MTB at the mo to be honest, hmmmm, but I could use the road bike during the weeks to keep me fit for going to trail centres on the MTB at weekends.........0 -
You'll get used to it. Is it a standard 'double' or a 'compact'? Either way, the gears must be a bit different to your other bike(s)!!
You been up any steep, long-ish hills yet?
You'll be a mixture of amazed, shocked and in pain (with longer gears, you have to go faster, and it hurts more! :shock: )Boo-yah mofo
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Looks better now:
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supersonic - what did you do??
I take it I missed something here...?Boo-yah mofo
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supersonic wrote:Looks better now:
Brilliant."The problem was, I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut"
Demoted to commuting duty
Orange Crush!0 -
bigbenj_08
Hope you have smooth roads in Cardiff
Seriously though, been out on the roadie recently and it can hurtNow that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:10 -
bigchazrocks wrote:You'll get used to it. Is it a standard 'double' or a 'compact'? Either way, the gears must be a bit different to your other bike(s)!!
You been up any steep, long-ish hills yet?
You'll be a mixture of amazed, shocked and in pain (with longer gears, you have to go faster, and it hurts more! :shock: )
Its actually a triple! I could have sworn it was a double in the shop!
I haven't been out of top gear yet so i may have to put a longer gear in there eventually. coming home on the flat I was cruising along in top gear
Haven't hit any hills yet... tried standing up though :shock:
Its quite comfortable tbh, legs are getting a different workout though!0 -
Its actually a triple triangle!
Certainly is!0 -
bails87 wrote:Poor skinny thing, looks like it could do with a burger!
But seriously, that does look very nice. I'm quite tempted to one day begin looking into possibly expressing an interest in planning to start saving for getting a road bike!
Don't really get enough time for proper use of the MTB at the mo to be honest, hmmmm, but I could use the road bike during the weeks to keep me fit for going to trail centres on the MTB at weekends.........
thats the plan 10 miles after work and either a MTB ride or 50 miles on the roady at the weekend0 -
Yeah, that standing thing can be a bit of a shock! It's weird!
And supersonic - I see it now..Boo-yah mofo
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i need a set of wder bars before i can stand and sprint on mine, gets very unstable!!0
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sheepsteeth - good luck with the whole bar-tape wrapping thing!!!
Boo-yah mofo
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sheepsteeth wrote:i need a set of wder bars before i can stand and sprint on mine, gets very unstable!!
light wide carbon bars sound nice though (oh god its already starting)....0 -
haha, i just did it a couple of weeks ago as i bough somewhite bar tape, took a fair old while to figure out until i found a thread about how to do it, the trick was an extra separate piece of tape for round the back of the shifters.
will do a better job next time i hope!!0 -
I reckon Sonic's got it bang on with his modification. Why do the seatstays and the top tube meet in such a strange place? looks ugly to my eyes.
Also, why is it trendy to get a really large frame, with a tiny seatpost on a road bike?0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:I reckon Sonic's got it bang on with his modification. Why do the seatstays and the top tube meet in such a strange place? looks ugly to my eyes.
Also, why is it trendy to get a really large frame, with a tiny seatpost on a road bike?
I never thought it was trendy... i got it because i'm too long for the smaller size frame :?0 -
Short stays, stiffer for power transfer. Apparently.
Oh, roadies enjoy banging their nuts on bars.0 -
Oh they have nuts?
I thought the restrictive clothing would prevent them dropping, making them kind like spandex-clad eunuchs0 -
bigbenj_08 wrote:yeehaamcgee wrote:I reckon Sonic's got it bang on with his modification. Why do the seatstays and the top tube meet in such a strange place? looks ugly to my eyes.
Also, why is it trendy to get a really large frame, with a tiny seatpost on a road bike?
I never thought it was trendy... i got it because i'm too long for the smaller size frame :?
Nah, mate. I'm not calling you a trend-whore. I'm saying there seems to be a trend for frame manufacturers to make a really large frame, with a very tall top tube, where it would likely be lighter to make the setstays shorter (and stiffer!?!) and have a lower top tube.
Then stick a carbon seatpost in and bob's your uncle.
I can;t help thinking that a more compact frame would also make the entire thing stiffer.0 -
Santa Cruz made a compact frame a few years back:
Nursing a semi.0 -
ah, now that's waht I'm talking about. THAT looks nice.0