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[i]rules schmules.
this guy breaks so many of them.
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and posted the second fastest 104mile time at the dartmoor classic this weekend. 5hrs36m!!! [/i]
He should try racing then.
Riding my road bike more than my MTB so far this year. Partly due to the weather but mostly cos its really fast! Having learnt "the rules" the saddle bag has now been removed and stem dropped.
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Stuff the rules: they are made to be broken. I've had a Van Nicholas Yukon for 5 years. Triple chainset, occasional mudguards, occasional pannier rack. I even ride it wearing baggies, and I've got bad facial hair. So there.
I love the fact that in 5 years, aside from buying some new, flashier wheels, all I've replaced are the brake pads (3 times), the chain (once) and a few sets of tyres.
Yep, have a road bike here, too. Bianchi Via Nirone with Campag via C2W scheme. I hadn't been on the road for over a decade prior to this, but now loving it... I even catch myself oggling some carbon road bling!
I have a horrible feeling that I am a roadie, albeit a roadie with only one road bike and two mountain bikes...
its probably just because i am out on the road bike more at the moment, i've been building a BFe for the last few months which is almost done and I can sense a shift coming on towards knobbly tyres and mud... right after I have conqured a certain piece of 1.2km long segment of strava...
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Nice Ares Stox.
I was very tempted to get one but in the end got this. A few errors in the pics with cranks not being in right position and the chain on the 39 ring. As pointed out earlier my Tomoato plant is on its last legs but my daughters little Bee windmill is doing grand.
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that wall's in a shocking state.
To AndyP
2 innertubes, a topeak alien tool and a punture repair kit, yes i do need a smaller pack, but prefer the bits on the bike than on me
i know i know its getting a lick of paint soon. The lose brick is handy for hiding my back door key when i head out on the bike 😉
unfortunately yes, I am/was a closet roadie.
But can't stand crabone fibRe, because I am not 45, post mid life crisis and have two kids wanting to go to some pap uni course @ £9k a year, each.
Instead I went retro, and built this thing from scratch in 2010/11. Frame is from 1973 and exactly my size, couldn't be more perfect if it was made for me (Its 54x54.5cm a non standard size lol) and all the parts bar the crank arms were 'NOS' found from many places, some dirt cheap, some free, but most at daft retro bike type prices.
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That was when I 1st built it. Now it has a different saddle (brooks swift Ti), much more seatpost sticking out (legs stretched up nicely), and a great saddle to 'bar drop (back has stretched out too) and a few other things.
Eventually I will have a full generation 1 dura ace groupset (1973/4) which is what it was originally decked out with when new. It actually performs really well (bar the brakes), and 27" tyres with 28/30c tyres roll a HELL of a lot better on rough Lakeland roads than any 700c 19/23/25/28c tyre does, by a LONG shot.
Its not bad on weight either, about 10.3kg with pedals (DA track pedals) and those massive touring rims/40h wheels/massive anti puncture tyres/brooks. If I put sprints on it (have some campag record on GP4 knocking about) and some 700c x 19c tubs, weight is down to 9.0kg DEAD (with pedals). which I think is pretty competitive with modern alu framed bikes (although they would be a LOT stiffer for the ewight).
One of each, tend to use the roadie in the week and the mtb at the weekend.
I inherited a Vitus Dural 979 too which is a bit big for me but a great bit of retro as a project one day.
So 2 road bikes and an MTB. Interms of which I use the most, the road bike coveres 70% more miles but the MTB is used for the same amount of time per week if that makes sense..
have a condor fixed and a pegoretti which i can't see ever changing unless it's for another one, ride is so much nicer than carbon yet it's still quite stiff as it's oversize. most people think it's aluminum as the DT is fairly huge.
Somebody mentioned Vitus?
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Whoops, double post. Pretty though, eh.
soooo tempted, especially by the decathlon 299squid one, but i know it wont just cost 299, i'll hav to buy some weird shoes that *genuinely scared of the idea....* attach me to the bike 😯
plus i dont have the money and if i dont end up riding to work as intended it will be a waste 🙁
Another roadie mtber here...these days im more roadie than mtber if truth be told. I only started road biking in the winter as iwas sick to the back teeth of getting covered in crap and the constant mtb maintenance required. So i bought a Boardman Team Carbon..and i love it, head down, arse up, the road train, sportives, i wish id done it years ago. Im even fully Lycra'd up, which i was thoroughly guilty of s****ing at with great gusto whenever i saw any lycra clad roadies in the past. I even bought a peakless helmet. Ive got the full Team Sky thing going on now. Desperately sad but i dont care 😯
Still not got round to shaving the legs though, doubt i ever will.
Me, got a retro Giant for 'training' on
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40th birthday present to myself last year. Cotic Roadrat relegated to pannier-laden shopping trips.
Mostly used for short, sharp local loops with as many Strava segments as I can cram in. Have done one Sportive - would like to do more.
Has improved my all round cycling fitness and overall miles ridden by a huge amount.
Full susser and 29er hardtail both still seeing plenty of use.
I'm a mtber and also got a roadie Spesh Allez with Fulcrum racing 5 wheels and 105 groupset, now with a new Spesh Toupe Expert saddle as I got home from a 30 miler yesterday evening and my sit bones/backside were so painful I couldn't get up once I sat down and had to crawl upstairs on my hands and knees, so I got my sit bones measured today and got a better fitting saddle. Do more on my road bike than mtb, although supposed to go out on mtb this evening but my arse can't hack it 😥
I have two road bikes and two mtbs (plus build in progress). Love riding all of them, sportives, TT, of road events, bivvy trips.
Which ever bike i happen to be riding is the one i love the most.
Ok....go on then,
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Ever considered getting a bike to go with the graphics? 8)
Tis like a corporate killer whale innit 😯
Luckily most people only see the rear view 😉
I've got a Cannondale CAAD10 and a single speed basher for commuting.
Sold all mine to do this having got disillusioned with the Great British Motorist. When I started cycling in the mid 80s there was a quarter of the traffic there is today and no one had a mobile phone or satnav distracting them.
I gave up with trying to justify my existence and exercising my right to be there. I ride on the foot path now to get to the trails, stress free, should have done it decades ago. Threads about angry motorists are inconsequential to me these days, no longer have to put up with them.
Take care, it's a jungle out there.
I've got one of these, albeit with pedals fitted:
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Some very nice bikes on this thread, pity I can't afford any of them 🙁
Apologies for quality and background (showing junk in the garage), these are the only photos I have with me at work...
Race bike when I first got it now ride with different wheels and it has Look Keo pedals, everything else is pretty much as standard
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Winter bike: taken at the office with my phone. Biggest seat pack in the world so I can be self sufficient and carry work stuff on my back. [img] 
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TT bike this was pre bike fitting so now the seat post is a little lower (needed to be hacksawed a tad). Excuse the positioning of my old clip on tri bars which I seem to have placed on the junk behind the bike and give the illusion that I've strapped them on to the seat post![img] 
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Might as well chuck in the obligatory photo
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and the Langster I miss! (I know the stem looks shit, it was my first road bike and I didn't fancy it pointing down!)
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Rorschach's Giant looks the mutts, well done!
I've been considering getting a road bike for a while now.
How do the experienced roadies feel about the more "endurance" type bikes (eg. Cannondale Synapse) in comparison with the "race" type bikes (eg. Cannondale CAAD)?
Would either of these type of bikes be preferable for an MTBer without road experience, given I'm unlikely to be riding longer than 2 or 3 hours?
Cheers
Me, spent more time on the road bike than the mtb since getting it.
Bought it off here, nice bike...
crap, but only pic I've got...
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Choron, there's not gonna be a lot in it. As long as you don't buy something silly, you'll be able to get proper comfy.
Heres mine.Not ridden it much this year but will be riding it on the Dunwich Dynamo on Saturday........
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Stem has been shortened slightly but this is mine and I love it.
One roadie, one DH bike, one 4x bike. No MTB hardtails 😛
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Thanks for the info Ben! Nice to have an informed chat! One last question which occurred to me about 20 miles round today's ride, the bike fit you had...was it based around a 'traditional' frame or a compact? Or did the sizes they come up with apply to both?
Two of my four:
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This one is waiting for me to collect it from the bike shop (blue and white) [url] http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/bikes/racelight/t2 [/url]. just need my c2w voucher.
and a stealth all black langster
Mogrim. My Focus Mares Disc 'cross bike cost me less than £390.
Yep when in the mood.
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Can I say for the record, I am a very happily married, hetrosexual man and I love bicycles. There are some lovely bikes in this thread but that ^ tattoo is FIT!
Of course I have one and the only one of my fleet which gets ridden every week
Yup.
Bikes is bikes. They're all good.
I've got a Santa Cruz Roadster. Rather like this:-
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Except mine's got Easton finishing kit and a Record groupset (and a slammed stem, natch).
Ride it once or twice a week - brilliant for getting a solid hour or 2 of blasting in over a lunchtime without all the faff of having to deal with a filthy bike and kit afterwards.
Oh, and 53/39 + 11->25 is fine in the Peaks. It's not meant to be easy, it's meant to be FAST. I'll admit Winnats hurts though...
Interested to see some people with no mtb's anymore but still coming onto stw!
I've got a ss BSA tour de France in orange- proper retro ( and tough)
Mine is a cross bike really, but only really gets used on tarmac. IMO roadie-ing is just like mountain biking without any of the good bits, but it's one step up from turbo-trainers.