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  • CycleCarolina
    CycleCarolina Posts: 23 Member
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    What my bike looked like before 3 years of sweating on the derailleur...
  • CycleCarolina
    CycleCarolina Posts: 23 Member
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    Hmm. How do I add the photo??
  • indeterminate
    indeterminate Posts: 63 Member
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    hmm..doesnt work for me

    I think its due to the spaces before/after the URL.

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  • sydneybeachgirl
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    omg...thank you for fixing it up for me! much much appreciated :)
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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  • indeterminate
    indeterminate Posts: 63 Member
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    Love the gif...good thinking. Impressive stable.

    @sydneybeachgirl - how rude of me to help you with your picture and not comment on your bike. Looks like a nice workhorse, perfect for carrying your picnic to the beach.
  • composite
    composite Posts: 138 Member
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    My new race bike in unsupported racing/bikepacking mode.

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  • budkid
    budkid Posts: 50 Member
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  • sydneybeachgirl
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    I did a triathlon over the weekend. I didnt bring my own bike as the tri was held interstate and I didnt want to worry about the hussle of transporting a bike with the airlines...I rented one from a local bike store. And they fixed me up with an awesome 6061 flat bar road bike.
    It was an awesome ride! The bike was soo pleasant to ride I couldn`t stop riding it the day before the tri :) Just wouldnt want to put it down for the night :)

    I am now seriously considering getting a similar bike even though winter is coming up in here in the Southern Hemisphere which means that it would not get ridden a lot but boy it was such a good bike...
    Trying to post a photo here...

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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    use lower case img tags and no spaces between the square brackets...

    like this

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    gives you...

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  • lpherman01
    lpherman01 Posts: 212 Member
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    Here's my new one. Been working on it/paying for it for about 8 months. It's a custom built Spectrum double-butted Ti with Campy Record, Zipp 303 Firecrest wheels and Avid BB7 SL disk brakes.

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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    Here's my new one. Been working on it/paying for it for about 8 months. It's a custom built Spectrum double-butted Ti with Campy Record, Zipp 303 Firecrest wheels and Avid BB7 SL disk brakes.

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    ...Oh My, now that's Rather Nice...


    (I was tempted by the 303s myself, but I'm just a little too close to the max. rider weight on them... as in 2kg under, but that's not allowing for shoes, clothing, helmet and a couple of energy gels... :sad: )
  • lpherman01
    lpherman01 Posts: 212 Member
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    Thanks. It's been a while in coming and I am very excited to ride it except that it snowed the day after I completed it and so I only have about a half-hour on the rollers. And it has snowed twice again since then so I am basically looking at it on the stand. :-/
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    I think when I'd built my Dolan up last year, it was nearly 3 weeks from completing it to actually getting it out on the road. I spent the time tweaking things and agonising about the tiny details... like I didn't think the shiny Carbon Fibre on the headset cap and the spacers looked right when everything else was matt or satin finished, So I took all the bits off, bought a rattle-can of satin clearcoat and re-finished 'em... I guess I'm just a trifle obsessive about things :laugh:
  • lpherman01
    lpherman01 Posts: 212 Member
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    I think when I'd built my Dolan up last year, it was nearly 3 weeks from completing it to actually getting it out on the road. I spent the time tweaking things and agonising about the tiny details... like I didn't think the shiny Carbon Fibre on the headset cap and the spacers looked right when everything else was matt or satin finished, So I took all the bits off, bought a rattle-can of satin clearcoat and re-finished 'em... I guess I'm just a trifle obsessive about things :laugh:

    I've used titanium head set spacers on it because the thick carbon ones didn't look right with the sculpted Zipp stem, I have changed the cable housings twice because they didn't feel solid enough with the disk brakes, and now I am sourcing another set of Gore cables because they work better inside the SRAM housings. Plus I trimmed the seat post so that there was no unnecessary post sticking down the seat tube. A trifle obsessive? Nah!
  • sydneybeachgirl
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    This is going to be the bike I am going to get this year :)

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  • mogginsthemog
    mogginsthemog Posts: 35 Member
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    Having suffered hip arthritis. I got this 2 yrs ago; 'step-thru' was easier for me. Now I'm glad to say that, after my operation in September, I'm easing back into cycling. I'd prefer a larger wheel size tho, so may upgrade later in the year...If the rain would just stop that would be marvelous..:smile:

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