http://www.downievilleoutfitters.com/home.html check out the photos- I'm the dork with the black bike. Very fun place to ride. Well worth a trip if you are in NorCal.
I ride a handbuilt steel Serotta CSI frame with a steel fork built in 2001. Components are 27 spd triple chainring Campy Racing T and Chorus components. Pedals are by Look. Bulletproof handbuilt 36 spoke wheels with Torelli rims by Terry Shaw of Shawscycles in Santa Clara. Tires are Continental Ultra 2000. It is a no BS ride that tracks true and is totally balanced. Certainly the best bike I ever owned. Other road bikes included a 1990 Specialized Allez Epic Carbon presently equipped with an electic mix of Look, Campy Athena, Veloce and Shimano 105 components, a custom 1986 Jack Kohler road bike with the original Shimano "New" Dura Ace SIS components and Look pedals, the 1984 Specialized Allez SE originally with Suntour Superbe components but now with an incredible mix of Mavic, Shimano, and Suntour components. Prior road bikes included a 1983 Trek 520 touring bike and a 1983 Univega Viva Sport.
My ti Eddy is a sweet ride when the trails are too wet. And sure it's not about the bike....I enjoy music through my oem stereo in my car, but it's just a bit more deep when run through good gear.
Perhaps, between riding my bike (if the rain stops) and watching Lance go for his 7th, my power bill should decrease during July as I probably will have less time to listen to music !
No time to listen tonight ... Had to watch the TTT on OLN, as I learned 'bout Zabriskie's crash and Lance is back in Yellow !
Meanwhile, my missing Z-slab shelves have finally arrived for my Zoethecus rack ... I wish I had time to set up and finally get the emmlabs gear off the floor.
Anyone else watching the Tour think its a little early for Lance to be in Yellow? Seems out of character for him to take it so early, he typically waits until everyone is spent then makes his run. I don't know, just would make me less nervous to see him take it after Stage 10 or 11 and hang on to it.
Regardless, the guy is machine. I hope he does it again.
Same thing happened year. I lose track, maybe it was '03. After the early TTT, the first 6 or 7 spots in the GC belonged to USPS, with Lance in second place, and then taking the yellow only a day or two later. They tried to make a story out of "will he hold his lead in the mountains," and he simply crushed everyone else. Anything can happen, but his form and his team have never been better. As if the crew wasn't enough, they've added Popovych & Savoldelli as domestiques! This is the A-Team, if ever there was one.
Just got a new ride myself: Dean El Diente Super-Lite 6/4 Ti
Goheelz, I agree with you on the Merlin MTB hardtails as being just about the best there is. Have not seen or ridden a Seven though and thats where Rob Vandermark went (started up I think) after he left Merlin.
Boa2, agreed on the Discovery team as being the "it" team. I guess if there was a team to pull it off for Lance this year they are it.
Colnago CT1...until I was nearly killed (and that is no exageration) 10 monts ago..still not back on my feet...so audio is all I got..and I was into cycling WAY more than audio...
Jb8312, I hope that you recover soon. While living in Italy, I purchased a CT1 with the Geo paint scheme, from a former Italian pro racer who owns a shop outside of Florence. I did, however, commit sacrilege as Tvad suggests, because I had the 25th Anniversary Dura-Ace groupset on it. Phenomenal bicycle, that was.
I recently had neck surgery, after being convinced that I would not be able to ride again. But I'm back on the bike, after riding hardly at all for the past couple of years. Went for a two-hour ride today, as a matter of fact. You'll be back, I know it.
I also committed sacrilege as I own this frame with the Dura -Ace group set. I LIKE Dura-Ace. It is just like the tube VS. SS gear arguement. Get the C40!
Well its shaping up to be a very exciting tour after all. Again, like last year I have been glued to OLN, velonews.com, and letour.fr, instead of listening to music. And when I'm not watching the tour, I am riding my Trek 5200 a lot more this year.
Unfortunately, I have been also looking around in a couple of bike stores recently. So, I decided to defer my turntable or replacing my PC's, and instead I ordered a new bike yesterday:
Cervelo R3 road bike. Like emmlabs, I am proud that it is Canadian and in fact, is made in my home town, Toronto.
The one Floyd Landis jumped on in the middle of today's epic TDF stage. It must have been magic because he really "pulled on out of his, uhh, hat" today!
BTW, for anyone that cares about bicycle racing, what Floyd did today is nearly unimaginable!
It has now been 22 months since my accident. Since then I have had 18 surgeries and lost my right lower legÂ…What is left of my CT1 still hangs in my office.
But do not despair for me! I am happier then ever and relatively healthy. I even went for my first (short) bike ride a few weeks ago. I finally got back to work some 13 months after the accident and even found a new and better job a couple of months after that. My wife and I are in the process of adopting our first child for which we are very very excited.
My systems sound better then ever and I am still reviewing for Positive Feedback...
Funny how spending a month in intensive care fully intibated with your family and friend surrounding you every moment of the day can change your life for the better!!
I had to sell my '98 Trek carbon which had Reynolds carbon wheelset(with only 10 miles on them), Carbon Record gruppo(with FSA Team Issue crank), SLR saddle, Easton Carbon bars/seatpost and magnesium post for the handlebar and "Lance pedals". All sold for $2200!
I got a 2002 Giant XTC NRS TEAM, fully equipped with XTR 2006, Crossmax XL Disc and FOX FLOAT RLC 100mm. I just have end up my "Camino de Santiago", from France to Galicia (Spain). Unbelievable aluminium friend!
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