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Snak Shak
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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:31 pm |
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 Pretends the bricks at St. Anthony Main are the PaveJoined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:35 pmPosts: 2924Location: So.MPLS
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Good thing all those "extra" tubes aren't structurally important.
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versitalex
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:35 pm |
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| Does this bike make my tires look fat?Joined: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:48 pmPosts: 631Location: 55409
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Snak Shak wrote: Good thing all those "extra" tubes aren't structurally important. Welcome to Flexy Friday!
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omiak
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:23 pm |
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omgmrj wrote: That's a folding bike that doesn't fold.
WTF. I actually totally want a Mini Velo. Smaller wheels = more agile handling as well as faster acceleration. Would make a great city-commuter bike.  This one's maybe a bit excessive though.
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:49 am |
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7141
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JenNastix wrote: You guys ever wonder if we're over-thinking this bike riding thing sometimes? |
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kineticgraphics
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:41 pm |
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 Exists in the limbo between winning and DFL in every single alleycatJoined: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:38 pmPosts: 398Location: stevens
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I don't get it.
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:53 pm |
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| Pretends the bricks at St. Anthony Main are the PaveJoined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:35 pmPosts: 2924Location: So.MPLS
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kineticgraphics wrote: I don't get it. Check the brake lever and cable routing. I am guessing that's a DIY job there...
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dasunt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:31 am |
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 Has recurring nightmare of descending Ramsey Hill no-handedJoined: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:00 amPosts: 4390Location: Whipping Cult Central
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That one disturbs me the more and more I look at it.
They care enough to do a nice job on the bar tape. Yet don't seem to care about finding a proper brake lever.
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:39 pm |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7141
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It's nice shit, too. That's a $200 XTR lever&caliper. I guess they had a mountain bike, decided they wanted drops on it for winter, but wanted to keep their one (1) hydraulic brake. So they thought they'd mount it up by the stem, 'cross-style. But then they hit the first bend in the drops, the lever wouldn't go past, and they said 'fuck it' and tightened it right there.
It was also ghetto singlespeeded. Big ring to whatever cog gave the best chainline, then the chain shortened to the length that the VERTICAL dropout gave them.
Again, there was no rear brake.
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dasunt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:30 pm |
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| Has recurring nightmare of descending Ramsey Hill no-handedJoined: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:00 amPosts: 4390Location: Whipping Cult Central
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Their backup brake is a pedestrian.
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kineticgraphics
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:41 am |
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| Exists in the limbo between winning and DFL in every single alleycatJoined: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:38 pmPosts: 398Location: stevens
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dasunt wrote: Their backup brake is a pedestrian. I prefer to use those as my primary 
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FreeRangeZombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:42 am |
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 Never got over the fun of spinning out on a Big WheelJoined: Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:37 pmPosts: 784Location: Your mom's house
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omgmrj wrote: I know I see a head tube going into one side of a fork a bit, but it doesn't structurally make sense to me. I don't suppose someone can explain to me why sometimes the fork connects in the middle and sometimes on one side, or the other, of a fork. kineticgraphics wrote: dasunt wrote: Their backup brake is a pedestrian. I prefer to use those as my primary you guys are killing me 
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:42 am |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7141
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FreeRangeZombie wrote: I know I see a head tube going into one side of a fork a bit, but it doesn't structurally make sense to me. I don't suppose someone can explain to me why sometimes the fork connects in the middle and sometimes on one side, or the other, of a fork. It's an illusion in this picture. It's a traditional, double-sided suspension fork. Cannondale offers many types of "Lefty" forks, which save weight by removing the right side. A left fork with drop bars would have made me wait outside by the rack with a couple thugs to rough the owner up a little.
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dasunt
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:02 am |
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| Has recurring nightmare of descending Ramsey Hill no-handedJoined: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:00 amPosts: 4390Location: Whipping Cult Central
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Having just googled "lefty fork", I think it really belongs in this thread.
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kuando
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:39 am |
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| Better to have Bikeloved and lost than never to have Bikeloved at allJoined: Tue May 29, 2007 9:22 pmPosts: 2717Location: Golden Valley
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dasunt wrote: Having just googled "lefty fork", I think it really belongs in this thread. I have two. Together they make a whole fork.
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JAE
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:03 pm |
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dasunt wrote: Their backup brake is a pedestrian. still laughing 10 min later... at the joke and that setup
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