My Other "Rides" - UPDATED 1/1/12 (I'M BRINGING SEXY BAAAAACK!)

[Stanae86]

I'm all in Tour de France mode right now (Go Saxo and Andy!)

Here's my other "rides":

2007 Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL, Gerolsteiner blue, Dura Ace 7800, Roval SL-45 carbon deep section wheels:


2007 Specialized Transition Comp, Ultegra drivetrain, Specialized carbon trispoke wheels:


2004 Cannondale Adventure 400 hybrid, my commuter bike, all stickered out with reflective tape and big fenders (about 6 miles one way to work, rain or shine):


2006 Iron Horse MkIII full suspension mountain bike on Manitou shocks and Juicy carbon hydraulic discs.  Just added the rear rack so I can put my commuter bags on it when I want to ride it to work.  But honestly, it's not often.  It's like driving a Mack truck.  Heavy and slow, but sometimes I just want to ride something different than the C'dale.  I take the rack off when I actually go mountain biking:


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UPDATE 12/29/11

I ended up selling the silver Transition for a carbon Transition:



And...I wrecked the blue Tarmac by driving it in to the garage while it was still on the roof rack...      Third bike I've done that to, so I've retired the bike rack.  It's being replaced with a new Tarmac SL3 though.      I'm finishing the build and will post pics when done.

But, I recently got this pimp ride:



It's a bamboo bike that my friend made.  It has steel at the head tube, seat tube, bottom bracket, and drop outs, but is otherwise, full bamboo.  It's bonded with carbon fiber and re-wraped with fiber to make it look fully "Gilligan's Island."  He's built several and so I thought it was safe enough to ask him to build me one.  =)  It's set up as a fun cruise bike with a single speed.  Surprisingly light.  Gets looks and comments everywhere I ride it.  I enjoy it a lot.  Rare.

I have it geared so that at 100rpm, I'm doing about 20mph.  So, it's a good cruising speed at about 18-20mph.  I could go heavier, but it would make starting at stoplights and going up inclines harder.  I think I'm at a pretty good gear ratio, even though it's not super fast.

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Update 1/1/12

The SL3 is DONE!!!



I just need to get some miles under it and get it fine tuned in adjustments.  It came out to 16lbs even with the two cages, pedals, and k-Edge chain saver.  Feels good in the brief roll around the street checking shifting and stuff, before it got too cold and I came inside for the night.

Woo woo!  No roof racking this one!

[MartinR]

Wow, nice set of bikes! 

I only have one MTB, well, probably doesn't even quite qualify for that. But I use it for everything...commuting, fun in the forest etc. Probably should upgrade soon.

[Phobo]

2004 Cannondale Adventure 400 hybrid, my commuter bike, all stickered out with reflective tape and big fenders (about 6 miles one way to work, rain or shine):
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Tron has arrived at work :SCNR: - nice set of bikes. I have to get my bike out again but the last weekends it always was too hot to do any activies outside (except for changing wheels )

[TNT]

nice, I was have one that I used back in college to run with the bike messengers around town. I still want to get a bike similar to this.

[danidmas]

The first 2 bikes look awesome!

I'm considering getting a bike for daily communting, but it must be one of those folding bikes (i.e. Bromton bikes) 'cause my office is pretty small (and the apartament, too). And I won't let it parked in the street - in Barcelona bikes get stolen very very quickly

[DMF]

Wow.. new racing bikes are pretty ridiculous. Those carbon tri-spoke wheels must be great!

This is my current ride:



It's an mid 90's Trek.. one of the first bike frames to use a carbon composite. At the time they used carbon tubes with aluminum forks and rear triangles. Still pretty light even by today's standards. Which is good because I carry it up to my apartment which is on the 6th floor. No way I'm keeping this baby on the streets of NYC. It's my friends bike and he put a lot of money upgrading everything.

[Stanae86]

The new Tarmac SL3 was finished today at my friend's house.  We did the final cut on the steer tube and dialed it in as close as possible without riding hard on it.  I'm stoked.  Can't wait to start putting on some real miles on it....picture added to the top post!

[goodduck]

you have such sick bikes. i cant help but laugh at the image of you wrecking those bikes with the rack. i cant imagine it was too good for the car either.

[bmuller]

Mmmmm, thems is some tasty looking bikes...    I love the SL3 dude, and I bet that transition is a sweet ride for the tri's

[DMF]

That bamboo bike is pretty sweet. Was the bamboo broken down into fibers first? It doesn't look like whole pieces of bamboo at all looking at the shape of that frame. My Aunt in the Philippines is an architect who uses bamboo to build full size houses, so I find it pretty damn interesting to hear your friend makes bike frames like that out of it!

I'm taking on my first bike build. I picked up a '89 Cannondale 3.0 Aluminum frame for free and will be converting it to fixed gear as my beater/training bike. It has a vertical drop and I'm going to look for the perfect set of gears rather than picking up one of those eccentric hubs.

[Stanae86]

I wish tri, it's just for time trials.  I hate running (won't do it unless someone is chasing me AND it better have sharp teeth) and I'm not much of a swimmer either.

No, they're full length bamboo.  It's the shading of the bamboo that probably is throwing you off.  It is wrapped with fiber at the headtube, bottom bracket, seat tube, and for the rear tie for the seat stays.

Use this to figure out what gear ratio you want to build your bike:

http://sheldonbrown.com/gears/

I wanted a 20mph cruising speed.  So, I entered a 700x23 tire, 172.5 crank length, I want to know my speed at 100rpm, I have a 36 chainring and just started putting in numbers for the sprocket to see what I needed to get to 20mph.  Turns out I needed a 14 gear in back and I get 20.1mph at 100rpm.  So that's what I'm running....a 36x14.

Beats having to buy a bunch of different ratios and doing a bunch of test rides.  But, you do need to know how fast you want to cruise at, and what rpm you will be comfortable at.  Most beginners will be comfortable between 80-90rpm.  As you get used to spinning your legs, more like 90-100.

Good luck!

[TopGearNL]

Damn nice bikes! Since I''ve just recently started working I must make soms serious money before I can afford a Specialized!

So cool to see many people here enjoying that sport! Im with a local club called ''the driver''  . And also my employer Scania has a biketeam where Im part of, really cool!

Ive got a Sensa Lombardia Full Carbon, weighs about 7,5 kg, full Shimano Ultegra set, mavic wheels. (thinking of buying carbon Zipp wheels) 2011

My Mountainike is a Merida Matts Pro full Shimano XT 2012, hardtail because I like it better then full suspension

[Stanae86]

Bikes are just so sexy these days.

Check out the new Cevelo P5:

[bmuller]

Meh...   Don't get me wrong, that is one sexy bike that I wish I could take for a ride, but I still love the P3

[Stanae86]

I was looking in this thread...and I thought you posted the P3...but then I remembered, it was in the Shiv thread I did.  Post that sucker up here and let's stare at them for a while!   

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention...be careful with full carbon wheels if you do a lot of hill rides with fast descents.  I warped a pair of full carbon wheels because I'm a little bit of a bitch going downhill and rode the brakes too much and overheated the rims.  Then they warped!  I lucked out because Specialized warrantied the Roval wheels, but you need to be careful with those full carbons.  I will only ride carbon with alloy brake surfaces from now on.