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Title: post your bicycles
Post by: gwEm on December 04, 2011, 01:27:31 PM: I hope the cyclists on here will enjoy these.

The Colnago is my road bike for long distance rides - I took her to Italy this year

Sadly the blue Holdsworth has been written off by a van - luckily I wasn't written off at the same time

The gold track bike is a Romet - a polish make, and is my current daily ride. Now has a carbon fork.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: Madsakre on December 04, 2011, 02:11:55 PM: (http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/208462_10150262160557818_688447817_9122719_470287_n.jpg)
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: HTH AMPS on December 04, 2011, 02:14:11 PM: wish I still had pix of my BMX - a trip to mama and papa Anderson's is on the cards, photo album :D
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: Philly Q on December 05, 2011, 12:03:55 AM: (http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/IMGP4437.jpg)
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: _tom_ on December 05, 2011, 05:15:27 AM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tomr61/IMG_0572.jpg)

Seat's usually down when riding downhill but I'd just been climbing on it. cheesy self timer photo of me on it in Whistler :P

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tomr61/asdfgh.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tomr61/med_gallery_307_2_633156.jpg)

Hopefully getting a road bike again soon, not sure what to go for. Had an Allez before and it was ok but headset started knocking after 800 miles and the wheels felt flimsy. Possibly getting rid of the Bullit as 7" of travel isn't really needed in the UK imo, at least in the places I'm riding. And possibly getting a bmx eventually as I'm finding it hard to justify the petrol costs for mountain biking, since I live in the East Midlands.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: tomjackson on December 05, 2011, 10:05:10 AM: Quote from: Philly Q on December 05, 2011, 12:03:55 AM
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/IMGP4437.jpg)

Nice clothes hanger!

Reminds me of when Argos delivered our running machine a few weeks ago. The delivery man said 'your clothes hanger has arrived'!
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: Philly Q on December 05, 2011, 10:57:42 AM: :lol:

I do actually use it every day, but I've got nowhere else to hang those ties!

So I have to go through a ritual of draping them over the back of a chair then putting them back again after I've finished. :oops:
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: MisterMuncher on December 05, 2011, 01:33:54 PM: I haven't got a decent camera, so a vague description will have to do...

2011 Cannondale Bad Boy 700c (the new shape, slightly triangulated top tube). Bought as base model, bog stock. Whilst really an Urban/Commutter bike, I've been doing some really long runs on it, so I've upgraded a little. It's refitted with:

Shimano 105 Double (53/39) Chainset
Shimano SLX 10 Speed Rear cluster and Derailleur.
Shimano SLX Hydraulic brakes.
White Ragley "Cheeky" Saddle.
Leather Brooks Grips.
SPD Pedals
(Does it show that my local bike shop is Chain Reaction Cycles?)

Currently, I've a set of Schwalbe Marathon Plus 28mm Tyres on there, just champing at the bit for Spring to get some 23mm Duranos on there to really give it a lift. It was a bitch to get a road front end and mountain rear to work in harmony, but it's really made a good bike out of it. Just as capable on (paved) hills as a mountain triple, considerably lighter, and no trouble really with cross-chaining.

For my next bike, I'm keeping an eye for a Cannondale Synapse flat-bar, but I'm giving some serious thopught to building one up.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: Andrew W on December 05, 2011, 01:59:03 PM: I actually no longer have it but this was my last bike - a salvage job of an old Holdsworth that had fallen on hard times. Started out as:

(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/192/485135121_55f28b0b66.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/485135121/in/set-72157600179790468)

and ended up as:

(http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1332/1386844095_7a9ffa1dff_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/1386844095/in/set-72157600179790468)

There's a whole photoset of the rebuild here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/sets/72157600179790468/with/485135121/) if anyone's interested.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: JacksonRR on December 05, 2011, 05:52:05 PM: That first pic looks like a Government issued model. It did end up looking amazing! Great job.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on December 05, 2011, 07:52:38 PM: Quote from: Andrew W on December 05, 2011, 01:59:03 PM
I actually no longer have it but this was my last bike - a salvage job of an old Holdsworth that had fallen on hard times. Started out as:

(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/192/485135121_55f28b0b66.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/485135121/in/set-72157600179790468)

and ended up as:

(http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1332/1386844095_7a9ffa1dff_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/1386844095/in/set-72157600179790468)

There's a whole photoset of the rebuild here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_atrocity/sets/72157600179790468/with/485135121/) if anyone's interested.

Single speed fixed wheel - brave!

And you even got handlebars to match your 'tache - cool!
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: choucas09 on December 05, 2011, 10:31:09 PM: Having just vented on the "Kill all cyclists" thread I thought I'd better show my trusty steed here. Had it about 8 years and it's my favourite from a long line of good bikes (31 years of pedaling). You can lock both the front and rear suspension giving you rigid, hardtail and full sus in one bike.

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc119/jage7/DSC02641.jpg)
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: gwEm on December 05, 2011, 10:49:07 PM: I like Andy W's Holdsworth alot :) looks like _tom_'s been getting some miles in on those trails :)

I really think of cycling as the ultimate expression of freedom - just eat food and explore the world!
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: choucas09 on December 05, 2011, 11:03:44 PM: I really think of cycling as the ultimate expression of freedom - just eat food and explore the world!

Well said.
Title: Re: post your bicycles
Post by: _tom_ on December 06, 2011, 05:22:17 PM: Quote from: gwEm on December 05, 2011, 10:49:07 PM
looks like _tom_'s been getting some miles in on those trails :)

I got about 200 lifts to the top of the mountain in about 1 and a half months, think I did alright :) Wouldn't fancy riding up it each time though, at least not on a dh bike! Think I've ridden the mtb 2-3 times since getting back home, just don't have anything good locally :(