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  • Crap picture I know BUT – NEW BIKE
  • rob-jackson
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    My “new to me” road bike – very excited!

    rob-jackson
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    Oh and the reflector is OBVIOUSLY coming off asap!!

    m0rk
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    Gotta love decrapification of new bikes….

    reflectors off, spoke protectors off, bell off

    pudd
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    It’s lovely. Now give me a kiss.

    soundninjauk
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    Shiny 🙂

    tthew
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    But aren’t Shimano STI’s ugly? Rest of it is really nice. Should be well fast, being red and all.

    sparkyrhino
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    nice bit of wall that.congrats

    rob-jackson
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    Hopefully swapping the shifters for carbon microshift arsis

    clunker
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    Are we all turning in roadies 👿

    legend
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    I can only see a photo of a road bike 😕

    ChunkyMTB
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    I give it 3 months 8)

    captain-slow
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    well I like it. although it looks like it has sora shifters which I’m not keen on…

    rob-jackson
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    They are the only weak link for me also 🙁

    rob-jackson
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    enfht
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    Can it do wheelies?

    rob-jackson
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    is this any bigger?

    DuggieStyle
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    Nice but needs a black groupset 😉

    rob-jackson
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    Why duggie? one to sell?

    jonke
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    Needs knobbly tyres and a suspension fork.

    pop-larkin
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    Looks crap 😉

    DuggieStyle
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    Nope, just think it would compliment the red/white scolour scheme

    Teetosugars
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    ..

    takisawa2
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    Bikes nice.

    But I love your wall.
    Seen a lot of walls on here over the years, but that ones is very nice.
    Walls, logpiles, signs, obelisks, radiators. All mundane in their own right but essential backdrops for STW photography. And often overlooked.

    cynic-al
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    You bought a new bike that has the same shifters you hate?

    rob-jackson
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    yes but 9 rather than 8 speed so going in the right direction lol

    cynic-al
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    So the various threads were a waste of time…

    rob-jackson
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    as are 99% of your comments dumbass

    captain-slow
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    oh dear, personal abuse so early in the morning

    each to his own on shifters, but I can’t get on with the thumb buttons. my son on the other hand knows no different and gets on fine with his.

    oh, and to answer “are we all turning into roadies” the answer is yes, given time it is an inevitable part of growing up…

    rOcKeTdOg
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    A shifter is a shifter. If it works thats all you need just replace when worn out, getting out and riding is the important bit, i know that doesn’t sit well with the “never leaves the garage” bike tarts on here

    Nice bike Rob, ride it hard!

    brakes
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    as are 99% of your comments dumbass

    cynic-al
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    Jeez Rob, get over yourself, you’ve posted a ton of threads about how best to upgrade your sti’s…then you buy a new bike with the same ones on…this is why I CBA responding to your requests for help!

    rob-jackson
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    but you obviously find it hard not to type and press submit!!

    ginga
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    Mate, you know what I think….

    should be out wed on the other bike with the fatter tyres if you’re about

    landcruiser
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    “are we all turning into roadies”

    Yes ! due to the seemingly always boggy trails and the fact that one can do a decent road ride in 1-2hrs start to finish. Means more riding which means more er, riding!

    njee20
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    A shifter is a shifter.

    What an odd comment. The ergonomics are entirely different, let alone the feel and the quality. Sora ones are horrible!

    I assume you use a LH Campag Athena, and a RH Shimano 600?

    See also ‘all mechs/chainsets/handlebars/forks/frames are the same. 🙄

    smell_it
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    Lovely frames the caad 8, i’d pick one over that ribble anyday. On a budget, I’d live with the sora shifts to get that bike, they are not great shifts but the way some folk cry about them on here seems ott to me. Enjoy the bike, should be a blast and well worth some upgrades.

    Inbred456
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    Surely most of us on here ride to maintain a level of fitness that we find harder to maintain as we get older. All riding is good. Buying a lighter bike to go faster bemuses me, why not ride more and get fitter. I know a lad who has no car, rides everywhere on his old steel kona with rim brakes and steel fork. He can ride the legs of everyone I know on their 3k FS’s.
    Enjoy it I like it, is it better than the ribble, cos I may think about a road bike for the commute to work to try and get more riding in.

    rob-jackson
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    Some people have families, jobs, and commitments meaning that they cannot ride as much as they wish.
    Lighter usually means nicer to ride (on rd bikes)

    brakes
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    He can ride the legs of everyone I know on their 3k FS’s.

    just think how quick he’d be on a 3k FS then.

    howellj1
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    My Soras have lasted for quite a few years, not the nicest to look at but reliable and work! Personally I like my variety of riding, my commute, evening club rides and a bit of blether, MTB ing with the kids. I’m always surprised how bike handling skills transfer from one discipline to another.

    The shoddy white ducting really let’s down that wall though, should have used protected cable and buried it!

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