Members' bikes

[Oscar's dad]

You do like your saddle pointing up though..

Must get some pics of mine soon. (not as nice, and not a dedicated TT bike)

..d

I don't like my saddle pointing up - I just hadn't adjusted it at the time of the photo! Is now perfectly horizontal. Did a 25 yesterday, position feels good etc.

That's 25 pubs isn't it?  Hats!   

[Fluffy]

Here is my Carrera Vengance Ltd - 24 speed sram x4 trigger gear shift, Cateye Micro Wireless Computer, Cateye single LED headlight (Forgot the model) Bikehut rear 3 LED light, silver steel aftermarket pedals. Continental City Contact with kevlar 26x1.75 road tyres. Bikehut mudguards. Topeak Mini G Master Blaster pump with gauge and Presta/Schrader compatible.

[Jacomus]

Here is Gen, freshly cleaned and parading for Dominic's perusal... so I thought that I might as well show her off to teh hole internets at the same time




Thompson seatpost and Spesh BG Alias saddle


Shimano 105 rear caliper + carbon fibre seat stays




Tyres


Tiagra dérailleur + KMC chain


Tiagra BB + crankset


More Tiagra




Time RSX pedals


Cockpit


Cane Creek cap + carbon fibre specific head tube nut


Cane Creek sealed headset


Easton EA70 bars


Shimano 105 Front calipers


Easton EC90 Aero forks - they weigh in total 350g and cost me £350 They count as the most outrageous bike purchase I have ever made, especially because I have barely ridden them


Mavic Aksium black wheel front




Mavic Aksium black wheel rear


Bike branded as Genesis = the sexy part of Ridgeback, which is where the Shimano everything came from (though the only originals on the bike that I didn't upgrade are the two derailleurs and the shifters as they are perfectly up to the job.)






Dura Ace cabling

Now, as these pics are here as part of a sale - I've got to include some of the ones that aren't so sexy. I have ridden this bike a lot and it has been crashed. After the crash I replaced the forks for the Eastons (no need, just a good excuse!) and changed the wheels to the Mavic wheelset, which is a vast improvement over the Shimanos that the bike came with. The only real damage that the crash did was to scrape some paint and write off my old front wheel (the cause of the crash).

I make no excuses for treating this bike as a machine to be used and enjoyed. It is not in perfect condition, but the only things wrong are cosmetic.See below pics for paint scrapes.








 


This looks the worst, though as it is under the tube, you don't really notice it when looking at the bike from standing. Carrying the bike up and down stairs at stations using the top tube led the rear brake cable to scrape off the paint at the point I carried it.

Here we are. At the end - it is quite a thing to think so seriously towards selling this bike Alas, it is just not suited to my needs and my bank account is not suited to acquiring another bike without one of the team contributing to it. 





Gen - the most bonkers, speed hungry bicycle I have ever ridden.

[eck]

I've got these tyres on one of my bikes, and very nice they are too,  but I never thought of getting matching brake blocks.  I do have matching valve caps though
Are you jealous, Mr Grub? 

[rogerzilla]

Here is my Carrera Vengance Ltd - 24 speed sram x4 trigger gear shift, Cateye Micro Wireless Computer, Cateye single LED headlight (Forgot the model) Bikehut rear 3 LED light, silver steel aftermarket pedals. Continental City Contact with kevlar 26x1.75 road tyres. Bikehut mudguards. Topeak Mini G Master Blaster pump with gauge and Presta/Schrader compatible.

That looks ready to ride the Karakoram Highway.

[Clandy]

Here's my Eddy Merckx, bought new in 1981 and still going strong:



My TSR27 converted to drops:



My Dawes Republic workhorse:



and my Montague Paratrooper folding bike:

[rogerzilla]

Here's my Eddy Merckx, bought new in 1981 and still going strong:

Those brake levers are made from drillium, aren't they?

[jogler]

I remember drillium being a popular notion

[Fluffy]

Here is my Carrera Vengance Ltd - 24 speed sram x4 trigger gear shift, Cateye Micro Wireless Computer, Cateye single LED headlight (Forgot the model) Bikehut rear 3 LED light, silver steel aftermarket pedals. Continental City Contact with kevlar 26x1.75 road tyres. Bikehut mudguards. Topeak Mini G Master Blaster pump with gauge and Presta/Schrader compatible.

That looks ready to ride the Karakoram Highway.

Is that a compliment on the bike?

[Zoidburg]

Karakoram Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Basil]

How not to park. 

(I was in a hurry for coffee)

[rogerzilla]

You could get a parking ticket.

[Zoidburg]

Can you get a ticket for riding with a freewheel when you should have a fixed sprocket?

[rogerzilla]

Can you get a ticket for riding with a freewheel when you should have a fixed sprocket?

M i a o w 

[Basil]

Can you get a ticket for riding with a freewheel when you should have a fixed sprocket?

'tis fixed

[Zoidburg]

Looks suspiscously free-wheely to me.

[rogerzilla]

It's like the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s.  Zoidburg is the chair of the Un-Fixed Activities Committee and you can denounce the fakenger in the works bike shed simply by PMing him.

[Zoidburg]

They are everywhere I tell you!

Locked up in bikes shed, lurking in the highstreet out side coffee shop and bar.

It could be anyone, a colleague, a friend, a forum member.

Inform on a fakenger today!*




*Calls will be monitored for training purposes.

[Clandy]

Here's the real deal. My father's bespoke 1954 Bryars. Built by Owen Bryars of Putney..

[gene hunt]

After 250 miles and not feeling right on the Kona, I switched all the bits to a Giant CRS frame which I got on ebay really cheap, 55 top tube in place of the Kona's 56.5, much better to ride as well plus lighter.

[rogerzilla]

Here's the real deal. My father's bespoke 1954 Bryars. Built by Owen Bryars of Putney..

Tyres are a bit...skinny 

[Clandy]

Tubeless. Besides, it isn't a mountain bike so why fit fat old tractor tyres? 

[border-rider]

After 250 miles and not feeling right on the Kona, I switched all the bits to a Giant CRS frame which I got on ebay really cheap, 55 top tube in place of the Kona's 56.5, much better to ride as well plus lighter.

Sir, you have a woman's bike !

</Mad Captain Rum>



(I actually really liked your Kona, I'm afraid)

[Rhys W]

Sir, you have a woman's bike !

Oh, you've done it now, it'll be for sale next week! 

[Sigurd Mudtracker]

My TSR27 converted to drops:

My secret Cycle to Work plan is to get a TSR9 and once they look the other way fit some drops and add a triple.  I'd like a TSR30 but it's more expensive and thought the better tyre  clearances of the other models would be an advantage.  Is there any significant differences in the frames apart from the brake arrangements?