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The "I should have left the credit card at home" thread

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  • #572
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    I love the Cinellis too. The Estrada in black is very nice.


  • #573
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Williers are very very common, tonto has one as well as someone else.

    Dreadfully common bicycles.

    To be honest a winter trainer is not the place to be posing, it is the place to get the best bang for your buck on something maximally functional.

    Having said that the Mortirolo looks like a good deal if that fitted and you just can't bring yourself to Planet X.

    Have you considered something in titanium?

    Also, 3 road bikes is just too much, I would not do it to be honest. There are so many other types of bike out there.


  • #574
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    blorg wrote: »
    Also, 3 road bikes is just too much, I would not do it to be honest. There are so many other types of bike out there.

    Indeed there is... red road bikes, blue road bikes, jelly belly road bikes...


  • #575
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    3 road bikes is not too much if you live in 2 different places.


  • #576
    Vélo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    ROK ON wrote: »
    3 road bikes is not too much if you live in 2 different places.


    I didn't know you were a pikey.


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  • #577
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Raam wrote: »
    Indeed there is... red road bikes, blue road bikes, jelly belly road bikes...

    I would like a red bike. Red is a good colour for a bike. The first bike that I recall was my red bmx with yellow wheels.
    Also I love jelly bellies and would definitely consider one (even though its a focus).
    I think we should have jelly belly's as opposed to natural confectionery jellies as the official jelly on Boards spins.


  • #578
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    ROK ON wrote: »
    I think we should have jelly belly's as opposed to natural confectionery jellies as the official jelly on Boards spins.
    You bring them, we'll eat them.


  • #579
    Glitterangel76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭Glitterangel76


    ROK ON wrote: »
    I think we should have jelly belly's as opposed to natural confectionery jellies as the official jelly on Boards spins.
    blorg wrote: »
    You bring them, we'll eat them.

    Er, I was in the Jelly Belly factory in WI a few months back and I think I've a few bags of mixed Jelly Bellys left....if I do they are all yours :)

    I'll be keeping the sports ones though..


  • #580
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    In case anyone has missed it, the UK postal strike is suspended until after Xmas. So now you have no excuse - take advantage of the 15% VAT rate while it's still there:)


  • #581
    redmaxi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭redmaxi


    Got this from PBK. 50 odd
    It seems very similar to castelli, especially the chamois ?.

    95462.jpg95461.jpg


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  • #582
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Just ordered one of these:

    AdamoSaddle2-782514.jpg

    Possibly the ugliest saddle ever invented, but Joe Friel has one (his road saddle is a Toupe, like mine) so it must be good. :pac:


  • #583
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    Just ordered one of these:

    AdamoSaddle2-782514.jpg

    Possibly the ugliest saddle ever invented, but Joe Friel has one (his road saddle is a Toupe, like mine) so it must be good. :pac:

    Someone please take moderator rights away from this guy, quick...


  • #584
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Lumen wrote: »
    Just ordered one of these:

    AdamoSaddle2-782514.jpg

    Possibly the ugliest saddle ever invented, but Joe Friel has one (his road saddle is a Toupe, like mine) so it must be good. :pac:

    That looks like a surgical clamp used in vasectomies :eek:


  • #585
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    RobFowl wrote: »
    That looks like a surgical clamp used in vasectomies :eek:

    The interesting thing about the design is that the rear section is basically just there to meet UCI regulations on minimum saddle length - you don't sit on it. Your sit bones go on the rails and your tackle just hangs off the front, apparently. :pac:


  • #586
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    The interesting thing about the design is that the rear section is basically just there to meet UCI regulations on minimum saddle length - you don't sit on it. Your sit bones go on the rails and your tackle just hangs off the front, apparently. :pac:

    Sounds like you are cheating, again


  • #587
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Raam wrote: »
    Sounds like you are cheating, again

    The saddle is UCI legal. :)

    edit: the saddle should allow me a comfortable forward position whilst staying within the rules. The downsides are increased arm loading, weight, and less stability on hilly courses. It's basically an alternative to HTFU.


  • #588
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    The saddle is UCI legal. :)

    Yeah, well I don't like it, so it shouldn't be.


  • #589
    crashoveroid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭crashoveroid


    I really have to stop

    I just ordered two Santini Head gators White sram hudz and bar tape and 130 ritchey WCS stem white Pro overshoes for the winter i really like these . FSA compact bars in a 42 a garmin speed and cadence sensor for my edge 705 three new tubes. FSA brake blocks and 56T chain ring for my TT bike and a pair of white RXS time pedals.


  • #590
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    crashoveroid wrote: »
    I really have to stop

    I just ordered two Santini Head gators White sram hudz and bar tape and 130 ritchey WCS stem white Pro overshoes for the winter i really like these . FSA compact bars in a 42 a garmin speed and cadence sensor for my edge 705 three new tubes. FSA brake blocks and 56T chain ring for my TT bike and a pair of white RXS time pedals.

    Don't stop. You needed all that stuff. If anything, you probably need more.


  • #591
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Raam wrote: »
    Don't stop. You needed all that stuff. If anything, you probably need more.
    Club gear changing to Nalini so you'll need a full new set ;)


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  • #592
    crashoveroid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭crashoveroid


    Raam wrote: »
    Don't stop. You needed all that stuff. If anything, you probably need more.

    I think you could be right the only problem is my better half who makes shopping look like and Olympic sport. I even put her to shame with the amount of spending i do on weekly basis.


  • #593
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    crashoveroid wrote: »
    I think you could be right the only problem is my better half who makes shopping look like and Olympic sport. I even put her to shame with the amount of spending i do on weekly basis.

    The important thing to remember here is that it is a competition, and you must beat her at all costs.


  • #594
    crashoveroid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭crashoveroid


    Raam wrote: »
    The important thing to remember here is that it is a competition, and you must beat her at all costs.

    I do with ease face one zet FSA carbon rims will blow her out of the water HHHMMM FSA carbon rims


  • #595
    bbosco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭bbosco


    The posthombre just arrived with more goodness from the land of CRC. Is it wrong that I like even the bikeshop smell that comes with it?


  • #596
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Need advice. Seriously considering a bike that is on sale for agreat price. Kitted out in SRAM Red. While I am so tempted, I dont want to feel like a complete feckin idiot. I can barely climb out of bed never mind up a hill.

    Am I deluding myself. Should I bother. I dont even race FFS, and I probably wouldn be able to notice the difference.

    Buy the bike with Red, or buy something more appropriate for my ahem, skillset.


  • #597
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Do you have 3 bikes as it is?


  • #598
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Raam wrote: »
    Do you have 3 bikes as it is?

    Yes. But I will sell one.


  • #599
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    I believe this is the 'I should have left the credit card at home' thread, not the 'should i bring the credit card with me' thread...

    Now I'm no mod but to me thats a breach of thread rules which carries the PoP (penalty of Purchase in layman's terms), this means that you must now, without furthur posting, buy the bike and post up about your purchase in a 'look at what I just bought' kinda way.....


  • #600
    sy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭sy


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Yes. But I will sell one.
    Thats what they all say.

    I say but it and enjoy, it will look great in your photos from the Pyrenees ;)


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  • #601
    Ryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭Ryaner


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Need advice. Seriously considering a bike that is on sale for agreat price. Kitted out in SRAM Red. While I am so tempted, I dont want to feel like a complete feckin idiot. I can barely climb out of bed never mind up a hill.

    Am I deluding myself. Should I bother. I dont even race FFS, and I probably wouldn be able to notice the difference.

    Buy the bike with Red, or buy something more appropriate for my ahem, skillset.

    That kind of thinking is dangerous. Luckily there are numerous "calculators" online to help make the purchase easier. New bike is lighter, well then hell you'll be X time faster up those hills. More aero, even better. Looks nicers, that'll mean you'll go out more. And then there is just the placebo effect of having a new bike that'll make you faster!


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