UCP Bicycle thread

[f6fhellcat13]

Went on a lovely 2 mile ride today. my shifter hasnt been working lately, but I ran into some blind luck and it worked on occasion today. usually I just leave it in 3&7 but today because i had gears I spent a while trying to break traction in low gear on a dry road Unfortunatly I was unsuccesful I'm going to lube up my shifter, lol, this weekend and hopefully it will change gear smoothly now.

[Cyco]

Bianchi?

Not unless Bianchi has had a change of plans recently, none of their CF stuff comes from Italy...

Try looking at Casati's Marte in white... With the new Dura-Ace...

At the moment I'm thinking about buying a freeride/DH KTM bike. I don't know much about them, but at least they look the part

KTM Bikes // Bikes vom Besten!

Looks good, but nut looking great value for your NOK. Best bank for the NOK has to be a Giant, though there are other bikes out there that offer a better package, especially in terms of handling.

The same advice applies to Rocky too

[Klemmel]

...great value for your NOK. Best bank for the NOK has to be a Giant, though there are other bikes out there that offer a better package, especially in terms of handling...

I know... like this one that I want SO bad: 2008 Cannondale MOTO 1

But I guess my old Giant is sufficient, at least it was flawless with new tires today

[zeppelin]

Well, I picked up a nice GT Aggressor for myself after my (luckily crappy) CCM got stolen. It's been a great bike, but now a month into ownership I got hit by a bloody car. Of course I had right of way, but he "didn't see me". So now I'm bike-less, and have to walk everywhere, and figured I'd tell the Internet about it. For a city with so many bikers, it really is a terrible place to ride around.

[Fleet 500]

I still own this Schwinn Stingray. It was built from different parts and is from around 1974.

[P4g4nite]

I am back in Japan ATM, getting about on a really old, girl`s bike with a big basket on the front and 2 gears, ridiculously high and ridiculously low.

I love it dearly.

[SIMPLETON]

here is my newest (and oldest) bike. It's a fixie; one gear, no brakes, no coasting. It's a sweet ride.

[my porsche]

here is my newest (and oldest) bike. It's a fixie; one gear, no brakes, no coasting. It's a sweet ride.

It's called a track bike, it's been around since the middle of last century, but if you're a hipster, you call it a fixie.

[coolieman1220]

on october 5th im going to be doing a 100 mile ride for Multiple Sclerosis on my Giant OCR1 Road bike. she's a beast but i've never done a 100 mile ride, only 50's. its gonna be a rough ride with lots of hills but i should be ok. i'll post some pics when i ride it cause i plan on taking them. the only catch to my ride is that i have to raise $100 in donations to ride, if anyone is interested in giving a few pennies to a hopeful rider and for a good cause, the link is here

2008 Bike MS - General Donation

also donations are tax deductible. i'd appreciate any donations! thanks guys!

[SIMPLETON]

It's called a track bike, it's been around since the middle of last century, but if you're a hipster, you call it a fixie.

not to split hairs or anything but there is a pretty big difference between a track bike and a fixed gear road bike.

Track bikes have extreme frame geometry and very stiff frames, mine just has pretty normal road geometry

[my porsche]

not to split hairs or anything but there is a pretty big difference between a track bike and a fixed gear road bike.

Track bikes have extreme frame geometry and very stiff frames, mine just has pretty normal road geometry

Well you are splitting hairs. And I'd appreciate it if you would knock it off, immediately.

True, track bikes have really high bottom brackets so that you can pedal through turnes, I want one.

[#1 Mustang Fan]

Well I had a fun job today fixing the puncture I got on Friday from a fairly large nail just before my computers exam -.- it went through both sides of the tube.

After hauling out the allen keys I also learned that I need to buy a new cable for the gears and I may also get a new tire/tread/whatever for the rear wheel as its getting rather bald.

[Fleet 500]

on october 5th im going to be doing a 100 mile ride for Multiple Sclerosis on my Giant OCR1 Road bike. she's a beast but i've never done a 100 mile ride, only 50's. its gonna be a rough ride with lots of hills but i should be ok. i'll post some pics when i ride it cause i plan on taking them. the only catch to my ride is that i have to raise $100 in donations to ride, if anyone is interested in giving a few pennies to a hopeful rider and for a good cause, the link is here

2008 Bike MS - General Donation

also donations are tax deductible. i'd appreciate any donations! thanks guys!

Okay, I donated $20.00.

[cmcpokey]

just did a 16.1 mile ride. longest ive done in years. im going to go pass out now.

[Waugh-terfall]

My bike tried to kill me on Friday... I haven't had working rear brakes for a while now, need to adjust the pads but the last time I did that I knocked the Allen Keys over the wall and into a ridiculously thick hedge. Anyway, so I get off my train from college and hop on my bike, pull out of the station exit to ride home, all the cars are stopping to turn into the entrance, so I pull the front brakes, nothing happens, I pull a little harder, again nothing, so I yank the lever back as far as it goes but all I get is an insanely loud squawking but absolutely diddly squat in the way of stopping power. By this time the shiny black rump of the Honda CR-V ahead of me is looming pretty fast, so I throw myself off the bike to the right and run along side it to stop resulting in me slipping over on the wet tarmac and falling into the hedge and bashing my non-helmetted head on the 12ft wall. Probably should wear a helmet but I try to stick to pavements on my daily 2mi commute, just at this point, there are too many students and business men/women walking home so the only other way around is the road.

Anyway, the bike is a silver & black 2003 Jeep Comanche TSi soft-tail. Sram 3.0 Grip-Shift and front gear set, Shimano Tourney rear gearset & deralieur.
Shimano Tourney replaced the Sram item on the back after the rear deralieur snapped, have been meaning to swap everything to do with the gears over to Shimano Tourney for about 3 or 4 years now, can't be bothered now. Forever having problems with the gears, can only use Gear 2 on the front set and 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 & 18 on the rears. The saddle is all broken and is extremely uncomfortable after about 3miles, it makes a god aweful clanking whilst peddaling hard, the tyres are totally bald, it's on it's 2nd rear wheel rim and 5th axle. It needs 2 new tyres, new gearsets, new shifters, new grips, new saddle, new rear brake pads, new front rim, new fron disc & brake pads, new gear cables and brake cables, and the steel frame weighs a freakin' ton, basically I need a whole new bike. Last year I did think about investing in a new Saracen Mantra 2 but I spent the money on a camera instead, now if my bikes out-of-service, Dad's 2004 ScottUSA Voltage MX-1 Hardtail comes into play, but that's out-of-service too right now after taking it off-road, buckling the front wheel, grounding out the front suspension and shattering everything inside it and then ripping the rear tyre off the rim on the way home...

We also have a 1991 Peugeot 12speed roadracer, gorgeous bike, original everything in A1 condition save for a slighly dent in the rear rim, sadly the bike is kept in France and I only get to use it for a month each summer