dude buy a lotto ticket
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 20 July 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/IMG_1277.jpg
mrs h's commuter/errand bike. i bought 93 vintage specialized hybrid frame/fork/headset--$20 on craigslist. i had to buy a saddle, seatpost, tires, and rack, but everything else was in my junk bin. rides great. looks...well, its an abomination. you cant have it all for $100. weird stem/seatpost config necessary to fit super long legs/short torso.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
super long legs/short torso
pics plz (sorry)
Bike looks fine, though. Is it a trick of perspective or is the back wheel bigger than the front?
― Mark C, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
is your wife still faster than you?
― cutty, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
not on a bike. running? def. swimming? probly.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
the old nail:
http://i28.tinypic.com/2lntysw.jpg
the new one:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2yod9as.jpg
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Monday, 27 July 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
lol reflections
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Monday, 27 July 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3774038462_5fcb4fa094.jpg
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Saturday, 1 August 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/Golden017.jpg
commute over lookout mtn
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Sunday, 2 August 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i want to ride those climbs!
― cutty, Thursday, 6 August 2009 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
DREAM ITDO IT
-vail public shitter grafitti
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 August 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
from dream
What bikes do we lust over?
to reality
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2645/3850489642_e33f377e69.jpg
― ledge, Monday, 24 August 2009 09:38 (fifteen years ago) link
nice. ive been looking at xc bikes and having a hard time getting used to the idea of modern mtb riding position. i feel like im sitting straight up and down.
im going to moab friday. really reluctant to ride my ancient bike with little cracks in carbon on the down tube. maybe i'll just bring a road bike.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 24 August 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome, ledge! i want a new XC hardtail...
― cutty, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
29er? some schmoe at vn sez 26er hardtails are now dead.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 24 August 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
or how about a 69er
http://www.mountain-bike-world.com/image-files/69er.jpg
what is this nonsense
― ledge, Monday, 24 August 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
o_O
― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Monday, 24 August 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3509/snapshotg.jpg
^^^ pic of me w/pista, taken outside the thompson center in downtown chicago. there's this old guy who has made it his mission to photograph all the messengers in town, so he'll hang out at the TC, snap photos with his ancient point and shoot, and then come down with copies for everyone weeks, maybe months later. in this case, my friend kyle just emailed me the pic, 1.5 years later
― crabRCISE (gbx), Monday, 24 August 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bike24.com/images/products/p049777.jpg
can't find the exact same specs as mine but this is the frame/bars/post with a mix of 09 ultegra with 08 dura-ace brifters and 08 easton circuits (discontinued).
basically it was a lot of bike for a fred like me but with the economy crapped out and my friends' own a bike shop and i sold them a car and we worked out a couple bikes as part of the exchange.
― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
but now i'm in the top 20 riders (top 10 climbers!) in the world as rated by strava.com... pure lolx0rz for those who know my low-wattage and fat ass. here are some crappy cell phone pix from the road (i should be riding but i had to pull over out of exhaustion):http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3891357368_186228db2b.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/3869038526_89a94006bb.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3862660865_3cec4dd4b5.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3549/3845524255_9bc06aca30.jpg
― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link
niiiiice
― ROCK BAND: BORBETOMAGUS (haitch), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 06:33 (fifteen years ago) link
crazy nice. is the top tube ovalized? also interesting headtube/downtube junction.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
my bike is old and ugly but I love it
― cozwn, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
show us it!!
― ROCK BAND: BORBETOMAGUS (haitch), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
shasta can i move in with you, sugar daddy
― cutty, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
nice lakeside pix. i have a bianchi but its not that nice
― am0n, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the frame is STIFF... i rode steel, titanium, aluminum and carbon before choosing this frame. it's monocoque, so no joints, lugging, buttings, or seams. the top tube is trapezoidal and the downtube is upside-down teardrop-shaped. i am neither small nor petite and carbon was an issue for me but now i ride relatively fearlessly. some of the descents following the climbs pictured above i'll hit 45mph+.
1st pic is from the top of Mt. Tamalpais with a fog-shrouded San Francisco peninsula in the distance.2nd pic is from the approach to Mt. Tamalpais (locals call it "Seven Sisters") overlooking Bolinas and Stinson Beach.3rd and 4th pics are at the base of the mountain at a reservoir called Alpine Dam.
― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
for historical purposes, you cross and mtb riders should note that mt. tamalpais served as the birthing ground for mountain biking as we know it today. there is a trail along a ridge in the near-background in pic #2 that is quite famous.
― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
tamalpais high (at about three)
― am0n, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
old and ugly but as I said it gets me where I'm goinghttp://img.skitch.com/20090918-nsq2r3yb8nt67isn75r1p9dbin.jpggot it (rebuilt and re-conditioned) from this v.opinionated bike charity
― cozwn, Friday, 18 September 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
My new old bike (before / after):
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/mai_baiku_II.jpghttp://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/mai_baiku_iib.jpg
1983 Trek 400
I took off some of the ixnay crapay, next step is to get the derailleur sorted (right now it is basically a ss) and get some new handlebar tape (want to go w/ a deep red) / brake hoods. I kinda like the patina of the decayed and gooey old hoods but I want my bike to look loved. Yahhh trick i know I should have taken off the lock before the picture.
So much lighter than the Fuji upthread.
― my future wife has to love talking about the ninja turtles (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry that should be:
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/mai_baiku_IIb.jpg
― my future wife has to love talking about the ninja turtles (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6374/bikebn.jpgNew frame, new saddle and seat post, old everything else.
This new frame is chromoly. It's a little heavier than my last two, but after going through two aluminum frames in two years, I could use something a little stronger. And maybe it's a more comfortable ride?
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
here's my mountain bike:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4059348067_f117384bee.jpg
and my commuting bike:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4060101896_4a5dbce414_b.jpg
in that first pic, i didn't mean to poach the trail... i came up the other side, where there's no sign, and then was surprised that the sign said it was closed... but there were plenty of other bikers and hikers on it, so i'm wondering if it's really closed or not.
― I Endorse He-Horse (ytth), Saturday, 31 October 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it would appear that you live someplace v pleasant
― how rad bandit (gbx), Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ha- the first pic is in china camp state park in beautiful marin county... some of the last legal singletrack in the immediate vicinity of san francisco.
the second pic is indeed somewhere v pleasant- the seaside enclave known as oakland, ca.
― I Endorse He-Horse (ytth), Saturday, 31 October 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i was guessing the first one was tamarancho
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://static.paulsmith.co.uk/images/width484/img-3085-33395.jpg
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
old bike
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3685552423_62489308ea_o.jpg
new bike
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/4118031974_fa3d1dbdf6_o.jpg
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
unavailable :(
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/4118031974_f9270fcc5c_o.jpg
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
nice dude! will you go clipless? for me?
― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
are clips bad
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
niiiiiice
I'm going clipless soon
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
v nice eman
cutty is right, you should get some clipless if only for those times you want to go on a long ride that is not just A-->B (i wear bike shoes all the time, but they're still inferior to real shoes for non-biking comfort, which is why i've got comfy slip-ons at school)
or just do what a lot of ppl do and ride yr street shoes on yr clipless when yr just getting around. it's really not much of a pain when you get down to it
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
also most clips/straps just get mangled over time, and are generally a pain
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll look into it at some point. not really looking forward to learning how clip in and out without falling
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
you can do it. you're a smart boy.
― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
or just do what a lot of ppl do and ride yr street shoes on yr clipless when yr just getting around.
that would be good. do most clipless pedals allow for that? obv the eggbeater ones don't
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
nice dude! will you go clipless adjust your saddle? for me?
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link