The Official DMF Bicycle Thread

[Stella]

I haven't even ridden the new steed yet.  Well until a minute ago. Good idea right? To hop on a bike in the dark (w/helmet of course), after 3 beers to test the new pedals, shoes and gears?  About 12 hours before a race. 

Stupid is as stupid does.   

Tomorrow is not going to be pretty.

[triangleforge]

Sounds about right. Go fast tomorrow.

[LMT]

I haven't even ridden the new steed yet.  Well until a minute ago. Good idea right? To hop on a bike in the dark (w/helmet of course), after 3 beers to test the new pedals, shoes and gears?  About 12 hours before a race. 

Stupid is as stupid does.   

Tomorrow is not going to be pretty.

Just party like it's 1999! All will be good!

[Kopfjager]

Are you drunk posting too homie? 

[triangleforge]

I remember the start line of my first mountain bike race after a few years flailing around at road racing. All us roadies were standing around talking gear, diet & periodized training, while the mountain bike racers were telling one another about how they were hungover/still drunk from the night before.

So look at it this way - you were just upholding an important tradition of the MTB tribe.

[DRKWNG]

Just spent the last hour and a half re-learning how to ride singletrack. 

[Stella]

I remember the start line of my first mountain bike race after a few years flailing around at road racing. All us roadies were standing around talking gear, diet & periodized training, while the mountain bike racers were telling one another about how they were hungover/still drunk from the night before.

So look at it this way - you were just upholding an important tradition of the MTB tribe.

Yes.  Why I gravitate to mtn biking.   

[Pedro-bot]

[JoeP]

I'll be modding this up over the next few weeks into a fixie cruiser:



It's an 80's era steel Colnago frame that a friend found in a dumpster and gave to me. The seat tube had a hole in it so I had it replaced, and it remains unpainted. I found a Colnago fork to match. I'll lower the bars another inch. Waiting for some red anodized rims and a new saddle. Maybe I'll powdercoat the frame, maybe not. Starbucks, here I come.

[stateprez]

It's an 80's era steel Colnago frame that a friend found in a dumpster and gave to me. The seat tube had a hole in it so I had it replaced, and it remains unpainted.

Damn, that's an awesome find.  Good on you for resurrecting her.

[fastwin]

Colnago in a dumpster? That's a sin X 10!!

A couple of years ago I sold one of my old 70's era Pinarello steel frames to an ex-bikey who worked at a motorcycle shop. He turned it into a primo fixie and got lots of ++++ comments from folks. Good to see it have a new, happy home and getting some sunlight after three decades of sitting in a dark storage bldg!

What he really wanted was my same era Exxon Graftek. It was the only custom 55cm frame they ever made thanks to my old friend John Howard who had some "connections" at the time. Still hanging onto that one even though I am sure it's not safe to ride anymore due to ancient adhesives in the lugs.

[Pedro-bot]

found it in a dumpster?!!! 

nice find!

[triangleforge]

Nice find!!!

The closest I ever came was when I rode past a couple of bikes kicked to the curb, waiting for trash pickup. One was a '70s Free Spirit, exactly the kind of bike you always see next to the garbage cans, waiting for it's last trash truck ride.

The one behind it, though, was a cheap mixte frame of about the same era - with the name Eddy Merckx on the down tube! I'm almost certain it was from the era when Eddy M. licensed his name to Windsor for a line of cheap, department store bikes.

Alas, instead of grabbing it then & there (I was commuting home on a bicycle & would have had to carry the "Merckx" the additional 5 miles home, as it wasn't a roller), I raced home, hopped in the truck and sped back to the scene - to find just the lonely Free Spirit siting there, waiting for its date with the landfill.

It wasn't much of a bike, but it would have made a fun, fixie pub bike...

[stateprez]

http://www.cxmagazine.com/jonathan-page-cyclocross-bike-profile-2013-national-championship-blue-norcross-shimano

Pretty interesting article on Jonathan Page's National Championship bike.  No bike sponsor, downgraded components from the last year.  2012 Nats only brought 1 set of wheels.

I guess the secret is living in Belgium (....and hopefully not drugs).

This time next week, a crew of us are headed to Louisville for Worlds. 

[triangleforge]

A few masters CX racer friends of mine passed that article around on Facebook with the note "See, juniors & noobs - you don't have to have the latest & most expensive stuff to go fast!"

And, I would note, without a hint of irony.