[Closed] My new (road) bike

Road bikes are ace. Looks like a good'un, enjoy. 😀

Road bikes are mint - think he has put the wrong chainset on it though 😀

i was about to say prepare to be ripped about the triple, but it's already started i see

looks nice though

wait til they spot the pedals, too

nice.

I too picked up my first road bike yesterday. An 8 year old cannondale off ebay although it's practically brand new, it seems to have had very little use.

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I've just come back from my first nervous spin on it, using the drops is going to take some getting used to. A road bike seems a good way to show how unfit you are (or me anyway)! Really enjoyed it though.

Tripples are for people who live in hilly areas - wish I had once rather than a compact today 😯

Oh want some second hand road pedeals Castrol?

MTB pedals & a triple, bet you ride with a peak on your helmet as well??
Nice looking bike though, hope you get plenty of enjoyment out of it-road bikes are ace.
I've got a spare pair of Shimano SPD R540's if anyone needs/wants a set.

Triples are for the alps.........or just run a 39x27

Enjoy the bike...looks nice

Tripples are people who look after their knees!

(Run double myself but sneak in a 12-27)

Road bikes are great esepcial when trails are gloopy - you just get on the roadbike to local villages.

Road bikes rock 🙂

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I've just come back from my first nervous spin on it, using the drops is going to take some getting used to.

I'm not surprised. Try flipping the stem & levelling the bar. 🙂

if i flip the stem the bars will be lower, I certainly don't want that. That photo makes the bars look more tilted up than they actually are but I will try and rotate them forward a little bit.

Road bikes are becoming more popular on this site me thinks ...

I love mine.

triples are for those with girly legs. And who eat mung beans.

You try doing a 25% hill with a double I dare you 😉

[i]You try doing a 25% hill with a double I dare you [/i]

I rode Mow Cop in the Cheshire Cat Sportive earlier in the year, it's 30% up the top, I was having to weave my way through people falling off sideways, people pushing.

One guy looked across at me in my 39:23 lowest gear and wailed "oh that's just not fair!"

Doubles rock. 🙂

Somewhere there is a pic of me on it but this'll have to do for now...

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Hehe. Just done some Alpine cols on a double - I'm going with a triple next time 😉

> One guy looked across at me in my 39:23 lowest gear and wailed "oh that's just not fair!"

You're a riding god though James 🙂

How long is that climb?

[i]How long is that climb? [/i]

1500m in length, about 170m height gain.
It starts fairly steady (10-15% ish) with a couple of bends in the middle then flattens out a fraction before kicking up in 200m long dead straight ramp of 25-30% gradient.

It's [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=385500&y=357500&z=120&sv=mow+cop&st=3&tl=Map+of+Mow+Cop,+Staffordshire+ [City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf]HERE[/url] if you want to try it. 🙂

Erm on second thoughs - nah - Found it hard enough today doing Widdecombe and Dartmeet - 🙁

I too have recently took a plunge into the dark pool and I love it.

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Downside is that I dont enjoy riding my mtb so much anymore 😳

Here`s mine......

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My LBS has a very nice Trek Project 1 in Shrek green that might also have my name on it. 😉

Please dont tell the wife 😯

I have one on its way in the next few days 🙂 Specialized Langster, bought a ss as it'll force me to work harder and tbh I can't be bothered with the faff of gears on another bike! We don't have any good off road round here so I was always making a compromise with my tyre/pressure on the mtb to make it work well for road, now I don't have to 🙂

if i flip the stem the bars will be lower, I certainly don't want that

but it's a road bike not a MTB.

You're into the subtle look then, stoney?

You're into the subtle look then, stoney?

mmmmmmm absolutley! 😉

I did mow cop on a 39 /25. tough going, but by no means impossible. personally i think hardknott is tougher, but again, very doable

Ah yes... while we are on the subject of steep hills and big gears.....

I have rode Honister, Newlands, and Kirstone (from Ambleside, the "Struggle") They are all 25% in places.... on an old school 42/21..... 😯

Twas in my younger days though and i`ve since learnt the Lance Armstrong way of cadence 😛

All,

Thanks for the comments....

I knew I should have photoshopped the triple out, and was already prepared for a slating 😉 .

I can honestly say that I didn't use it this morning though. Oh yes the pedals too, ok I can't stretch to another set of shoes and pedals at the moment but will do over time.

As for mung beans... pk-ripper, you been looking through my kitchen window, thought I'd kept that a secret 😆

Regards,
Matt.

Here's my (relatively) new road bike too. Main tubes are alu - seat stays and fork carbon - and it seems pretty good so far. Nice and stiff.

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Here's mine. A second hand Pinarello. busy saving for a new one though !

Oh go on then.

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foxyrider - Member
You try doing a 25% hill with a double I dare you

Surrey Legs of Steel on a 53/39. so don't need the dare as already done it.

re triples are for Alps. Most alpine roads aren't that steep - they just go up for a long time. Triple is more useful for UK

Go on then, 2 days old

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I copped out and went for the compact.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-bike-ti-content

Well any excuse 😀 Although will most likely swap the fork out for an Edge 1.

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Less than a week old 🙂

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MM

Does anyone still ride a mountain bike? How long until a 'who looks the fattest and stupidest in their lycra' thread?

Me too! Me too!

54/42, none of your nancy boy 53/39 here pal.

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The inexorable slide from SingletrackWorld to [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608 ]MAMILworld[/url] continues...

Rusty trowel has a point
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Mines about a month old now.
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It's an upgrade from this.
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don't think my road bike's been posted on here yet...
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now with a slightly shorted stem. Think I need to fiddle with the gearing as I never seem to have the right gear for the gradient!