Velominatus: Cyclops
Order: Guest Contributor
Location: Idaho Falls, ID
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I really like riding road bikes as fast as possible. I live in Idaho Falls, ID which is a gateway city - meaning, if you are headed to Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, Sun Valley, etc chances are you'll be relatively close to my home - so here is a standing offer to anybody coming my way: Need a place to crash, need a steak grilled to perfection, need a beer you can't see through, need your wheels trued, need theological insight? I'll hook you up. Just get a hold of me.
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What I think is really cool is what the heat of the battle does for you. Since I’ve passed the half century mark my balls have gotten considerably smaller – especially when it comes to high speed descents. If I’m on a training ride and the speed creeps … »
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Here is a photo of me (with the hair) circa 1986… …If you look at the ground/shadows in between the “doubles” (the two mounds that we are jumping from and to for all you non-BMX types out there) you can see the same “cloning” as in this article’s h… »
Remember, a hero is always just an upgrade away from a zero. »
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I found American Flyers on DVD for $2.50 at Big Lots last night. »
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@itburns Looks good, but since I am so well trained in exegetics and hermeneutics I was instantly able to shoot down your front tire first hypotheses – when you are built like this: by the time you bring the rear tyre up to proper pressure with the … »
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from the looks of euphoria on their faces it is obvious that they are drinking Rochefort 10 »
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@DerHoggz Well, since the 586 R-Light comes in at 6.4k (with pedals and cages) I have to bring the weight up to meet UCI regs! But I do lose the little tape behind the hoods. »
As a side note, bar wrapping is something that makes wish for the good ol’ days. The technique I describe above was especially “sano” when you wrapped old Cinelli bars that had the extra little aluminum sleeve in the center. You would butt the tape as d… »
@itburns So the red and white accents on your bars in the clamping area doesn’t do the same thing? »
@Bespoke Besides waiting eight days after the purchase of the bar tape you have to say five “Hail Merckxesesssessses”. Also, I guess it’s the same as with beer – the darker the beer (or whiter the tape) the higher the level of sanctification imbued upon… »
THIS… …is how you terminate your bar tape. – Frank showed me the basics but I think I’ve refined it a bit. You must wrap the bar tape past where you want it to stop and then you circumscribe a line with a marker where you want the tape to end and … »
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I haven’t been on the LOOK since I got the Deacon on the road but today I did a complete overhaul on the 586 and I installed new chainrings, chain, cassette, Gore Ride-On derailleur cables, and Lizard Skin bar tape. Just gotta glue the Vittorias back on … »
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@G’rilla When I took Frank’s frame to a guy that had an alignment table he checked it and it was always less than 1mm out in all the spots he checked. It looks like Kualis is using mitering jigs and holes saws to cut his miters… …it should be no … »
Got me some new frame building jigs. I guess I’m serious now. »