Who was that man in lycra?

[madbikeboy]

Do these things break lots? Hence the need to have the brand name on every frame member, so you can identify all the bits?

Richard

The CT1 was a shocker, Italians couldn't be trusted to build a ti frame. The CT2 was actually made by Merlin, the best ti manufacturer in the world, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The frame is 6AL/4V, and they're stunningly well made. The rear triangle is made from a C50 rear end. It's such a nice bike to ride.

I have something better, and I have stuffed knees, so I just don't use it. I have sold most of my good bikes, stuck the money in the mortgage instead...

[madbikeboy]

Yes. I am el presidente of that club. But with handmade comes safety, handling, and history. Without that, you end up with a Giant or a Trek.

[madbikeboy]

If i have my dates right .....

I bough a c40 frame in 95 or 96 and fitted it out with campac nola gear and mavic rims best bicycle i ever owned..... Just dont crash them!!!!

It has seven gears on the back starting wit 21 and moving down to 11 ( i think) with a oversize big cog on the front. 2 teeth more than standard. Cost me a small fortune back in those days but was doing heaps of cycle tours so well worth the spend. They came out with the c40 around the same time as cannodale came out with the first version of those fat stupid frames and every fat bastard that taken up cycling bought a cannondale realy funny to watch.

Oh, the C40 - I always wanted one in Mapei colours. I was a poor student, riding 700 k weeks on my Cannondale, which was second hand, and suffering downtube shifters...

[skidMark]

Yes. I am el presidente of that club. But with handmade comes safety, handling, and history. Without that, you end up with a Giant or a Trek.

Or a gsxr... ...

and learn to multi-quote MBB, frikking n00b.

[enigma51]

Oh, the C40 - I always wanted one in Mapei colours. I was a poor student, riding 700 k weeks on my Cannondale, which was second hand, and suffering downtube shifters...

My c40 had downtube shitfters. It had a special bracket to fit them to the carban frame and the only reason was cause i didnt want to spend more money on converting the brakes. ........ Which i ended doing a few years later ...... to only crash it. I still believe it was the stupid brakes fault. Lets just say it took me along time to convince my self to use shimano again.

[skidMark]

No fuckin' shit.





In reality, dude, the reason that you can't hold a job down for more than a few weeks is that you're a bone-idle bum who hates getting out of bed in the morning.

Now, can we get back to talking about bicycles?

ive seen enough of you in lycra for a lifetime after staring at your pie filled arse and smuggled chicken nuggets for 50km's!!!!!

Yeah, wasn't this thread about Random in lycra *shudders* at one point??

Yeah but all i have to do is make one post and every thread has relevance back to it for a month....

I can leave the site for 2 months...come back and people are finding things and going oh look this is like skidmark then some n00bs are like hu t3h fux is skudMorcz.

Infamous for all the wrong reasons.

[007XX]

As I understand it, our hard earn dollars are being siphoned off in order to support his lifestyle. Brilliant Link!

Gah....

Scamming the government...

they scam us...

Cept for john key, hes our friend.

So you say you got a disability? Ok, as much as I know that it is utter and complete rubbish, check this out...

http://www.odi.govt.nz/publications/...ing/index.html

Because frankly, there are people out there worse of who are doing heaps better...why do you think that is uh?
These folks deserve and preserve the community's respect on a daily basis.

Damn, what pisses me off the most if knowing that you are capable of so much more...anyway, as The Stranger said: "Wooosssshhhh..."

In reality, dude, the reason that you can't hold a job down for more than a few weeks is that you're a bone-idle bum who hates getting out of bed in the morning.

Now, can we get back to talking about bicycles?

Couldn't have said it better, as usual...

And ok, bikes...Uuuuummmm...how about that one? Dare ya to do a burnout with it!!

[jrandom]

Coke, Red Bull or coffee still has no wagon pass, mr I train 10 hours a day and still get the learn from n00bs that sit around all day crooking their little fingers and consuming daintily 'healthy' foodZ...

Keep this up and you'll get a slap, mister "let's give Dan a race the day after he pedals from Auckland to Arapuni".

Also I should note that that was a prelude to the beginning of 10 hours a day training, etc.



And, I want some chilli sauce with this tasty tasty fishhook.

[madbikeboy]

Or a gsxr... ...

and learn to multi-quote MBB, frikking n00b.

I'm going to bling Cajun for your postscript.

I hate multi-quoting, and I'm big enough to tell people who complain to go fuck themselves.

[madbikeboy]

My c40 had downtube shitfters. It had a special bracket to fit them to the carban frame and the only reason was cause i didnt want to spend more money on converting the brakes. ........ Which i ended doing a few years later ...... to only crash it. I still believe it was the stupid brakes fault. Lets just say it took me along time to convince my self to use shimano again.

Downtube shifters have an elegance about them, the simplicity is really great. I've been looking at SuperRecord, thinking about buying a group for a frame that I have, but it's hard to understand where all the complexity has become normal. I have a 1969 Bianchi with 1973 SuperRecord, and it shifts so perfectly.

I've owned some great bikes over the years, very few of them have had Shimano (just don't get on with it). But I run XTR on mtb bikes, it's the ultimate.

[madbikeboy]

Keep this up and you'll get a slap, mister "let's give Dan a race the day after he pedals from Auckland to Arapuni".

Also I should note that that was a prelude to the beginning of 10 hours a day training, etc.



And, I want some chilli sauce with this tasty tasty fishhook.

I'm multi-quoting the wrong way just to piss off Skidmark.

Where's Arapuni? Until you treat a jaunt up to Whangarei and back as a training ride for a rainy Sunday...

Skiddy, pull your head out of your ass, stop watching people on Oprah who complain about "poor me".

This is a list of people with Aspurgers, recognise any of them?
Albert Einstein
Alan Turing
Al Gore
Andy Kaufman
Andy Warhol
Bill Gates
Bob Dylan
Carl Jung Hans Asperger
Henry Ford Isaac Asimov
Isaac Newton
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
Michael Jackson
Michael Palin
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Jefferson
Vincent Van Gogh
Woody Allen

[McDuck]

I'm multi-quoting the wrong way just to piss off Skidmark.

Where's Arapuni? Until you treat a jaunt up to Whangarei and back as a training ride for a rainy Sunday...

Skiddy, pull your head out of your ass, stop watching people on Oprah who complain about "poor me".

This is a list of people with Aspurgers, recognise any of them?
Albert Einstein
Alan Turing
Al Gore
Andy Kaufman
Andy Warhol
Bill Gates
Bob Dylan
Carl Jung Hans Asperger
Henry Ford Isaac Asimov
Isaac Newton
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
Michael Jackson
Michael Palin
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Jefferson
Vincent Van Gogh
Woody Allen

And if you add dislexia to that list it would be hundreds of pages long

[madbikeboy]

And if you add dislexia to that list it would be hundreds of pages long

Exactly.

Add if you included dyscalculia, then I'd be on that list too. Quit whining and get on with it.

[McDuck]

Add if you included dyscalculia, then I'd be on that list too. Quit whining and get on with it.

That actually exists? I thought it was just somthing my mum used to use to blame my crap maths on....

[madbikeboy]

That actually exists? I thought it was just somthing my mum used to use to blame my crap maths on....

Nope. It's real. I have to be super careful writing down telephone numbers, in fact, I remember number patterns, not numbers. I have to double check numbers when I'm doing tax returns, and when I'm doing my math for budgeting each month. I could never be an accountant. Dislexia ran in my family, I got it, but with numbers.