bicyclists! check out my new project bike.....suggestions? - Page 2

greglepore · 03-09-2006, 05:20 PM

King headset? They're the Porsche of headsets.

goat · goat's Garage

The bike looks real good.
Glad the fork and headset worked for you. The stem adapter looks very good.
They in better use than where they had bin sitting forever.....
Speed plays are great pedals just not friendly if you have to walk in them the pins in the cleats get jammed real quick with dirt and are very hard to clean.

sammyg2 · 03-10-2006, 09:16 AM

In the early 80's i worked in a pro bike shop in fullerton while going to college, looks like the technology has changed a bit since then

My claim to fame was building specialty wheels. built up a set for eric Heyden (sp?) the former olympic speed skater. He could taco a standard wheel without even trying, his legs were bigger around than I was (back then, not now)

I also built up a set of wheels for the Shimano three wheel recumbant that held the world speed record for human powered vehicles at the time.
Reynolds 531 frames were the hot ticket then. No fancy composites, even the aluminum frames at that time were not very good.

Used to be that full campy was the only way to go, I remember when the shimano dura ace stuff first came on the market. It wasn't that good but quickly got better. I used to rebuild the hubs and crankset before installing them brand new!
Phil Wood grease was the trick back then.
I had two paramount bikes, one was a sprint road bike (very tight rear triangle, i had to deflate the sew-up just to remove the rear wheel. That thing would do a donut if I sneezed) and a full track bike. I used to race at the Encino velodrome on wednesday nights, now that was a long time ago. That was before the track at Rancho Dominguez was built.
I'd probably die of a heart attack if I tried to do that now.
I get winded riding my mountain bike to my son's baseball games and the park is only a mile away

gt3racerich · 04-15-2006, 10:48 AM

Nice bike jfw834, heres a little something I just put together

Rich

deathpunk dan · 04-15-2006, 02:36 PM

Man, that body geometry saddle still looks better than the one that came with my specialized allez elite.

Nice bike!

dd74 · 04-15-2006, 10:57 PM

Specialized Allez compact carbon fiber frame was what this one guy I briefly rode with last week had underneath him. It had full Campy Super Record. I didn't catch what brand wheels he had. But he did tell me his was an $8,000 bike...

...given to him by his sponsor.

The irony: he was drafting off me, never once leading for a two-mile stretch.

Laneco · 04-16-2006, 12:19 PM

Good to see so many cyclists on this site. Guess going fast is going fast, two wheels or four! Nice build on that Trek. Glad to see you moved away from the spinergy rev-x wheels. I don't care for them, they are real twitchy in cross winds...

Though its not road bike, thought you would get a kick out of my 24 hour bike. Giant NRS - a little on the custom side (gotta be ME!) with mostly XTR, XT cranks, and Spinergy Spox wheels. The spinergy spox wheels are the bomb. Done three 24 hour races on this wheelset - still running true.

angela