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  • #1742
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Sorry if this is a repost, but this, in my eyes, in a piece of beauty. Getting one during the week :D

    specialized_langster_steel.jpg


  • #1743
    abcdggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭abcdggs


    Very nice! will you be keeping the rear brake? i love the look of those cable guides!


  • #1744
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Think I will for a while at least, seeing as this'll be my first fixed-gear. Thinking of getting a Brooks saddle once I can afford it, and some bullbars, although I love how the dropdowns look, I just don't use them that much.


  • #1745
    abcdggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭abcdggs


    +1 on the brooks, picked one up the other day. can't wait to finish my new bike to put it on it


  • #1746
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Is there anywhere in Dublin that does them cheaper then Cycleways' €70?


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  • #1747
    Rowery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭Rowery


    Thanks Furiousox, that is a lovely looking bike but I'm going for a carbon frame this time.


  • #1748
    Spins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Spins


    ten speed racer wrote: »
    I think the seat pin collar thing is a bit fugly. This is often the case with integrated seat posts, but particularly here.

    Incidently, Principia is one of those bikes I wouldn't want to own because of the sound of the name. At the risk of offending some owners of these bikes, there are few others, such as Ribble and Dolan. I know that's a bit stupid, but there you go...

    Whoa! back off on the Ribble bashing, I like the name then again I do have one, though now that i think of it, it does kinda sound a bit scooby doo.....


  • #1749
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,896 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    george hincapies new bike

    1265028616776-a2w8cyvgdbzg-850-65.jpg


    !

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #1750
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ednwireland wrote: »
    george hincapies new bike

    It's interesting that he's using an carbon/alu SLX01 rather than the full carbon SLR01. Is that a training bike?


  • #1751
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Lumen wrote: »
    It's interesting that he's using an carbon/alu SLX01 rather than the full carbon SLR01. Is that a training bike?

    It has a race number on the back. Nice wheels.


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  • #1752
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Lumen wrote: »
    It's interesting that he's using an carbon/alu SLX01 rather than the full carbon SLR01. Is that a training bike?

    Some discussion of it here:

    http://www.roadbikeaction.com/fly.aspx?layout=content&taxid=67&cid=2745
    Instead of having all the riders use the same bikes, BMC broke up the team into two categories (climbers/stage riders and sprinters/Classics riders) with an optimum bike for each. Since George Hincapie is not a designated climber, he (and about half the squad) were aboard the unique Racemaster SLX01 which is actually a hybrid aluminum/carbon frame.


  • #1753
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Instead of having all the riders use the same bikes, BMC broke up the team into two categories (climbers/stage riders and sprinters/Classics riders) with an optimum bike for each.

    Translation #1: we're incapable of making a bike that's both light and stiff.

    Translation #2: we've priced the SLR01 at such a ridiculous level that we need Pros riding the more affordable SLX01 to boost sales.


  • #1754
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Not mine.

    441156595_yDYP2-L.jpg


  • #1755
    abcdggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭abcdggs


    Is it just me or did they go a bit mad with the colnago stickers?
    I count it 7 times!


  • #1756
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Taken in Berea, Kentucky in November 2009. (not one of my bikes):D

    4352162582_36192152ee_o.jpg


  • #1757
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lumen wrote: »
    Not mine.

    441156595_yDYP2-L.jpg

    You seem to have come round with your thinking.


  • #1758
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    Lumen wrote: »
    Not mine.

    441156595_yDYP2-L.jpg

    I'd prefer if the wheels didn't say lightweight tbh. They're savage looking otherwise


  • #1759
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Raam wrote: »
    You seem to have come round with your thinking.

    No, I think it's an ugly little black plastic dwarf bike, utterly spoiled by the weird shifter angle, odd combination of setback saddle and micro-phallus stem, and glossy bartape. Not to mention those lugs.

    I just thought you might appreciate it. ;)


  • #1760
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭gman2k


    OK, I've had photos of it up before, but since I've upgraded to Zipp 303s, and Speedplay X1 pedals. Can't go any further with this machine, only wish my legs could match:D

    4357555988_07a9385f3b_b.jpg


  • #1761
    abcdggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭abcdggs


    Very pretty! love the fact that the wheels are both in the same position.

    What's the blue on the chainstay just behind the chainring?


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  • #1762
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Wow. It's amazing what a decent set of wheels do for that Scott.


  • #1763
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    And a decent rider. Although I suspect a post on the "credit card" thread is in the works, no?

    Wow, wow, wow, that is fantastic.


  • #1764
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭gman2k


    abcdggs wrote: »

    What's the blue on the chainstay just behind the chainring?

    It's an aluminium plate bonded to the outside of the stay, to take the 'heat' if the chain decides to go awandering;)
    But I'll probably get a chain catcher device from Dave over in adverts section for ultimate insurance.


  • #1765
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Lumen wrote: »
    Wow. It's amazing what a decent set of wheels do for that Scott.

    Part of the ex-Columbia High-Road offer that was on before Christmas. (Zipp Rim stickers are an Ebay purchase)


  • #1766
    ronanmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭ronanmac


    My Felt F4, apologies for photo, taken on phone camera...
    105312.jpg


  • #1767
    Highway_To_Hell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Highway_To_Hell


    nice bike, even nicer view.


  • #1768
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Highway_To_Hell wrote: »
    nice bike, even nicer view.

    Nice view, even nicer bike ;)


  • #1769
    ronanmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭ronanmac


    Highway_To_Hell wrote: »
    nice bike, even nicer view.

    Bike works out more expensive per acre though... :)


  • #1770
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    http://www.evanscycles.com/products/kona/grand-wagon-2010-single-speed-road-bike-ec021784

    kona-grand-wagon-2010-single-speed-road-bike.jpg

    Nice cheap fixie for any late-comers to the game.


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  • #1771
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    what kind of chain is that?


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