my new 2-wheeler
 

Finished the build a few weeks back but never got around to posting any pics. She's a mongrel but is fairly light and quick feeling for an all-around bike.

Salsa Cassaroll cromo frame
Ritchey Logic cranks 34/48
Dura Ace rear derailleur
Campy front derailleur
Mavic MA-40 rims
Suntour XC9000 front hub
Shimano XT rear hub
Shimano 12-25 8 speed rear cluster
Campy brake levers
Cane Creek SCR-3L brakes
Shimano Ultegra 8-speed barcons
Moots layback seatpost
Salsa 110mm 105 degree stem
Nitto "Noodle" bar
SPeedplay Frog pedals
Continental 700x26 tires

The Blackburn touring rack goes on tonight, and I want to go to at least 700x28 tires.

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Good.

For a moment I thought you'd bought another motorbike.

Steel is real. I gotta get me one of those.

Statistically, especially if you take alcohol and idiotic riding out of the equation, I'm betting bicycles are much more dangerous than motorcycles.

I do love being on two wheels though...

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Damn! What's your inseam length? I might consider selling you my "classic" Raleigh "supercourse". Are you 6'3" or so???

6'1". Inseam is around 34" depending on how you measure. A better way is floor to pubic bone height which is about 90cm. For road I like a bigger frame and getting the bars up close to the level of the saddle. This frame has a slightly sloping top tube and extended head tube. The effective top tube is a tad on the long side but as I get more miles my back will stretch out a bit. The noodle bars also sweep back a bit, so it is damn near a perfect fit.

pretty...gotta build me a road bike one of these days as I miss the speed and distance runs.

Nice bike. What does she weigh?

As a newb to the road bike scene, I don't know what most of that stuff is, but it looks good.:) How many miles do plan on riding a week?

Weight? Hmm...if I had to guess I'd say about 19lbs. But I frankly haven't weighed it and won't because it'll have a rear rack, tools, pump, etc. The frame is about 4.5lbs and for is under 2lb. A good, solid, steel bike. One cool thing is that it has very long horizontal rear dropouts. You can actually run a single speed setup if you want (I don't want to), but you do have to crank down the rear qr otherwise the wheel can move. In a perfect world I prefer Breezer-style vertical dropouts...

My plan is to commute to work (west LA to Marina del Rey) once or twice a week. That should be exciting. Every other weekend try and do a 20-30 mile ride. The other weekends I hope to get my son into the mountains on our mtn bikes.

Damn nice ride.

Real men ride steel bikes.

I'm currently on a Pinarello Catena Lusso. Actually just upgraded the rear cog to 10-speed & dérailleur to Dura-Ace. Did a 40-miler over to P.V. today. Beautiful. I heart Dura-Ace. Stuff is soooooo smooth. :)

I think you're right, and riding horses is even more dangerous than riding moto, IMO.
I've owned/riden both.
There's something about wrapping your crotch around a 1,200 lb. personality. :eek:
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Yup, nothing like two wheeled movement.
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Every time I see a nice bike like yours I think of my idle Lemond BA Triple in the garage and my 20 lbs. of redundant flesh.

Great looking wheels!!
I have a dinosaur hanging in my garage that I've noodled rebuilding and riding.
Late 1970s rig that I've logged countless hours and miles in TN, IL, VA, MS & AZ over.... lets just say a long time. It was last rewrapped by a buddy here in AZ back in '95. Ugh, that long ago? :eek:

When I got this bike, I had to run alongside and jump on. My feet barely reached the pedals.

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I had a slightly newer version of that (same color!) when I lived in San Francisco. It was how I got to work every day...left my apartment, hopped on my Green Raleigh and rode across GG Park to UCSF. Gotta love lugged steel...

where did you get ma 40's? a few years back i was looking for a set, to build a training wheelset and couldnt find any...in 32 hole.

The more and more you guys talk about this the more I want a bike. I do not need another expensive hobby as a college kid.

We used to have a saying in college, "real men ride sew-ups". :)

Does anyone still use them?
I can remember staying up until midnight repairing those darn things, real PITA. I got pretty good at it though, used to charge others $5 a piece and made an extra hundred a month doing that.
Pretty good scratch back then.

Cool... nice color choice, I just finished mine about 4 weeks ago... had it powder coated similar color. VooDoo Reynolds 853, IF fork, Ultegra.

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Have you ridden it yet? The rear triangle looks a little tight and little rake on forks, might be twitchy. Good for sprint, tiresom for centurions.