Now no one will ever follow me in a break, which is pretty cool. I know that's the first thing I look at when a break rolls away.

 

Haha, good thinking. I don't race, but it's subconsciously one of the first things I look at when I come across someone else while on a ride.

I actually leave a little room under the stem so that I can put 5-10 mm worth of spacers under it when I'm not as fit & flexible.

 

I think I have adequate flexibility but my undercarriage seems to get in the way, like the shape of my undercarriage shouldn't rotate and further forward.

 

get a TT saddle

 

Been down that road, happy where I am.

 

I am basically paralyzed by my shitty climbing ability that it's keeping me from going on vacation. Ugh.

 

Only way to climb better is to do more of it

 

muscles or lungs for climbing?

 

Yes.

Pain tolerance helps too.

 

It appears I am #1 in line for one of these at a place that will surely get a few frames:

 

I can't quite make out the discs.

 

Well, you see, it doesn't have them because it is a proper road bike. Also, the embodiment of perfection. I'm actually getting it for a friend who's going to buy it off me and make it art. My next bike is the double-purple CAAD12, if I can will myself to hang-up the blue bike.

What I want right now more than anything else is a set of tubulars for CX but not sure it's worth the money and effort required to run them.

 

 

My dogg's new CX bike:

 

If you're looking for a 54cm Boone in white/blue/black, I can get you a great deal on the frame.

 

When you have a color problem and need to tone it down, show a little restraint:

 

This was a ton of fun yesterday:

 

A trek mountain bike? You already have one of those.

Did my first real group ride yesterday @ 50mi 20mph avg (only 1100 ft), with a friendly group of riders. 6 of us total, nice tight organized paceline the whole time. Do love the GF jakroo bibs. I'm liking the Van Dessel more and more the more I ride it, requires a different hand position than the tarmac for stability, strangely enough. It does some things as good as the Tarmac, but nothing better so jury is still out on whether I will part it out or not. But holy dogshit it's stiff; rough roads caused the GPS mount and seat clamp to loosen up.

 

It's a shop-bros, was told I had to ride it. It's a $10k or whatever bike with huge carbon fiber wheels too. It has colossal grip, would describe it as going from NT-01s to R6s, similar break away characteristics, way easier to control the bike on what I perceived to be the limit of traction. For the first time I was able to chase the extremely fast cat-1 MTB bros (two with stripes) and keep up. For some reason I can't do that on my Top Fuel.

 

Is that a top fuel too? Fuel ex?