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Picture of your Bike...[BICYCLES ONLY PLEASE]
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I do ride everywhere but not quite like that, I mean, I live in the city and have a job and apartment and stuff like that too. That last photo I posted was from a camping trip last weekend, started off in Seattle, took a ferry west, joined up with a friend on the other side and we rode up to a horse camp on the kitsap peninsula. It's fun to go from city streets to the boat to towns then country and eventually gravel road forest and mountains on a bike ride. And that trip was like twenty, twenty five miles in the saddle each way so its not like going on tour or anything. But yes, I ride to work, run errands, visit friends, and just for the fun of it whether it be around town or out to the countryside. I probably average 25 miles a weekday, double that for weekends and days off work.Do you ride literally everywhere? What's your average distance a day? I see your bike and it looks like you just ride everywhere and live of the land. Obviously not completely since you post on the internet, but still.It's neat.
Aboard the Bremerton/Port Orchard foot ferry the 'Admiral Pete', with a little less of a load:
Inspired! Every time I go out I'm inspired to keep moving forward. I love seeing people on bikes on the road and trail. Full bike racks outside the grocery store, going slow on crowded summer bikepaths. I love seeing parents with kids on bikes, whether it be young kids on the backs of cargo bikes / tagalong tandem attachments or families on individual bikes. I love the designers and makers of bike gear, individual entrepreneurs that join the traditional and modern in ways that in the big picture are revolutionary. Students and professionals going to school and work, riders young and old, getting someone to smile by ringing my bell, making friends at camp or stopped at a red light, the changing scenery and seasons, old bikes, new bikes, more bikes! It's always moving forward, never backward; new places, frontiers, physically, mentally, turning around and heading where you came from, but still forward, always.
Methinks your real name is Grant Peterson or Bruce Gordon :0)
You have the sexiest bikes!!
That's flattering, I know you know what you're talking about. I'm prenatal (newb didnt seem adequate) compared to those guys, though I get inspiration from them as well. Not unlike Grant I know what I like and flaunt it happily, I just dont know as much as I want to. This has been the season of weekend trips and <24 hr overnights thanks to encouragement from certain builders and makers.
I'm pretty sure my next bike is a Sam hilbourne, after some consideration. I rode a homer hilson this weekend and loved it, the weight! I've been pretty thoughtless when it comes to weight on my main ride and its like 75 lbs fully loaded with camp gear, food and liquids, I couldn't believe how light the homer was, even with full camp on the rack.
Today was Monday and a half, a big new project came down the pipe and I got to put twelve hours in on it. Frazzled, I took a nice long ride around town on my slow bike on my way home and am now wound, quite properly, down.
I need to get some shots of my nice new chainguards..
Would defiantly be a good bike for you but so would a rock 'n road or BLT
I'm the heaviest thing on the bike so it doesn't make sense to spend alot of money making the bike lighter, so I spend money making it sturdy.
That Cervelo frame looks huge - you must be a giant.
(I get obliterated by these huge tall people when it's time to sprint).I've still got my Giant TCR Advanced SL (along with the Trek 4.5):
In action: http://i.imgur.com/glHFs6E.jpg (danger - danger, cyclist in lycra warning).
It's doing well - though with all the rubbish weather we've had here of late I just stuck the Giant PSL0 alloy wheels back on it. There is nothing in the way of difference in weight between those and the carbon clinchers in the photo above, but they are much easier to live with in poor weather.
Only notice the difference at 48km/h+ - though around this area there aren't too many places you can go much quicker than 60km/h, and even then it's only for a short amount of time.
I don't have the sheer brute force for insane top speeds, but I do alright when there are hills.
What I have noticed is that the Giant TCR Adv. SL is a damn good bike - it rides incredibly well. All those nay-sayers who reckoned Giant wasn't so good, etc, cheap for a reason, they were wrong.
It's a 58cm. Stem. 6'0 160 triathlete
That Cervelo frame looks huge - you must be a giant.
I've still got my Giant TCR Advanced SL (along with the Trek 4.5):
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In action: http://i.imgur.com/glHFs6E.jpg (danger - danger, cyclist in lycra warning).
It's doing well - though with all the rubbish weather we've had here of late I just stuck the Giant PSL0 alloy wheels back on it. There is nothing in the way of difference in weight between those and the carbon clinchers in the photo above, but they are much easier to live with in poor weather.
Only notice the difference at 48km/h+ - though around this area there aren't too many places you can go much quicker than 60km/h, and even then it's only for a short amount of time.
I don't have the sheer brute force for insane top speeds, but I do alright when there are hills.
What I have noticed is that the Giant TCR Adv. SL is a damn good bike - it rides incredibly well. All those nay-sayers who reckoned Giant wasn't so good, etc, cheap for a reason, they were wrong.
I recently added Campy Scirocco 35 wheels and black Cinelli bar tape, but this is my current setup: Colnago Master X-Light with Campy Record 10, repainted white, Look Keo Plus pedals, Prologo Scratch saddle, Cateye Strada Double Wireless computer, and GoPro mounted on the stem. I can record my rides and also get the Cateye in the picture for the speed and cadence.
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We've gotten to the point in this thread were very few nice bikes are posted. You are the rare exception, you have a beautiful bike.
Thank you for your comment. It would be even nicer, but custom paint prices here in Honolulu are a little bit ridiculous. I could only afford half of the paint job I designed, but it still ended up very nice. Of course, when you start with Colnago and Campagnolo, it's kind of hard to go wrong
Thank you for your comment. It would be even nicer, but custom paint prices here in Honolulu are a little bit ridiculous. I could only afford half of the paint job I designed, but it still ended up very nice. Of course, when you start with Colnago and Campagnolo, it's kind of hard to go wrong
I powdered mine..
Prices in Hawaii are expensive for everything, but I'd live there again in a heartbeat to bad my wife wouldn't
Here's my hybrid bike that I use to ride on the trails and gravel areas.. nothing fancy like a lot of the bikes here, but I love it. I tend to ride it more than my Tommaso cyclocross these days.
It's just a Trek 7.1 FX
This picture was taken a couple months ago. I've got new grips on it and the phone mount on the handlebars is gone, but otherwise it's all pretty much the same.
It's just a Trek 7.1 FX
This picture was taken a couple months ago. I've got new grips on it and the phone mount on the handlebars is gone, but otherwise it's all pretty much the same.
I had to use BT headphones with it and along with my BT heartrate monitor and BT speed/cadence sensor, my battery life wouldn't even last for a quarter of my ride.
When I rode without the BT headphones, but using the other two, the battery life lasted my whole ride still with around 30% left.
It was pretty secure, in my opinion. When I ride from my house, I have to go down a very steep, long, bumpy hill. I never felt like it might fly off and that was my main concern when getting a phone mount.
First time cleaning my bike this summer so I took some shots
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr
The Invader by O.Taillon, on Flickr