WHAT???!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: You're not supposed to wear a visor whilest riding on the road? Of course, that does explain why my neck is always so darn sore when I practise riding in the drops, hehehe. Oh, the wise things I learn here...
Dar
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WHAT???!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: You're not supposed to wear a visor whilest riding on the road? Of course, that does explain why my neck is always so darn sore when I practise riding in the drops, hehehe. Oh, the wise things I learn here...
Dar
Maybe it was his triathlon bike? I know a few long-distance triathlon bike courses where I'd be happy to have a triple!!!!!! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by aicabsolut
I ride a 650 with triple and a mirror on my helmet!!!!! EEEEE GADS! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninabike
There is a tipping point at which being really uncool (Fred) suddenly becomes Uber Cool. Ideally, we should strive for this. It's sort of like movies that are SO bad that they then fall into the Great category.
I love it!! Maybe I will be great after all.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
I've been running a newbie womens group ride for a few years in Flagstaff. It is an uphill battle here in our rural area town. The ladies in town who want to race or race (don't and won't come on rides with this group) and vice a versa. I can get strong men to come on these rides to help but no gals. The gals that race could be helped by some training rides where they work on skills but don't seem to realize this. So, it is really a balancing act. Women are just as susceptible as men to peer pressure and wanting to be with the in group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grog
You just have to have separate groups and in a town this small it doesn't work very well.:(
Phew, I was beginning to think I was the only one with a visor. I just like to minimize the sun in my eyes. Although I may get a second helmet for when I do canyon rides to increase my visibility on the descent.
Speaking of canyon rides, I love my triple. I couldn't ride the canyons without it. I'm glad I'm not the only one with a triple (albeit I have an aluminum frame). ;)
I had never seen people turn up the bottom of their shorts until I started riding with my club this spring. :confused: When I first saw that, my thought was that they were clueless. Oops, maybe I am the clueless one. Either way, my shorts are staying down, I need the grippers to keep them from riding up. I'm with that whole function over fashion thing.
Hmm..good point. But if you were a guy, would you still use a triple, or would that be "Fred"? (seems us women can get away with them a little easier huh?) Still, as far as weight and aerodynamics, a compact double makes the most sense if you need the smaller gears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grog
Just too funny. Something I never considered...
A triple on a full on TT bike. spinning at 150rpm. Oh my. Now I think triples are absolutely wonderful for those who wants or needs it. It gives you more flexibility in the gear you want to ride.
Nothing more stupid than grinding your way up a steep hill (6-9% or even a 15% grade) on a corncob with 39/54 chainring. I've watched others smile and pass me up the hill as they spun their cranks. And all I could do was ...
Anyway, my father used to tease me about my workout on a bike. He suggested that I use a beach cruiser single speed with a mustache bars and solid rubber tires. And while at it, put a rack with pannier on both side. He added that I would get a much better work out.
How can I argue with such perfect logic?
maybe I will deck out a beach cruiser with a fixed gear, my speedplay pedals, and replace the wide comfy spring loaded seat with a sella Itallia racing saddle. Ofcourse, I would need to attach a streamer on the bar plugs and a small bicycle bells on the handle bar. A generator with a head light and a tail light, a kick stand, fenders. Did I miss anything??
My reply was: I don't think logically like that. Color matching is logic and styling is logic in my books :p So I'm vain to some degree.
And guys are slave to fashion too. look at all the barneys. Dressed like a members of CSC, Discovery...
shawn
There it is! You see? Voila!....UBER COOL !!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by smilingcat
Compact doubles are nice for the lower end of the gear spectrum, but they suck on long descents. Even I like to be on 53X11 for those.Quote:
Originally Posted by aicabsolut
In all cases, I was just trying to say that we have no idea why this guy has a triple on his bike, and there are good chances that he's not clueless.
Handlebar basket. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by smilingcat
Aha! But how far down the clueless spectrum is "Fred"? That's what I'm wondering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grog
Those who have had their chain go into their spokes may think a "dork disc" isn't clueless. But they still may admit it's Fred.
Just for giggles, I looked up some nice TT / Tri bikes, like a pimped out Felt (which I also saw at this race). The standard rings on them run something like 54/42T. with 11-23 cassettes. Wow.
I'll admit it; I'm a Fred. Or a Fred-ette. :) Not a racer, but I have a road bike. I bike slow, and I have aero bars. I granny gear up hills and ride the brakes down hills. I have yet to change a flat on a ride (but I've done two in the house. Nice when they blow indoors :) ). I have a helmet mirror. I say hi to people when I pass them.
FYI: aero bars are wonderful! No, I don't use them when riding with other people. But they help my back tremendously, thus the reason for the purchase. The helmet mirror keeps me safe when I ride the hills around my house. Too dangerous to turn around and look behind you on those backroads. The road bike is much easier on my knees than the hybrid. And the hills... That is a testament to my utter avoidance of them for the past several months. So I am paying the piper now... Ugh. But yes, I am a Fred. And I like it.
I had no problem with the "dork disc" but it was driving me crazy making noise. The manager of my LBS said that after 300 miles (when I had her first tune up) it wasn't going to be a big issue. My old bike didn't have one so I trusted him on this.
I roll up the elastic on one pair of shorts I have. They are a team kit that only came in mens (whatever), so they are too long for this petite gal. I fold them over and they are still grazing the top of my knee.
Yep...check this out...that's the richest guy in the world in the lower left hand corner:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/microsoft.html
If I had invested $8,800 in Microsoft back then, rather than a brand new camaro, I'd be retired right now!!!
Ponder that:D :D :D :D
Oh, I forgot, I use a glasses-mounted mirror, too. I can understand not wanting a mirror on low traffic rides, but out on the highway, with loaded logging and chip trucks and tourist 5th-wheels coming by all the time, I really like seeing who is coming up behind me. When traffic is thick, I'd be turning my head every few seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by liberty
[QUOTE=Aggie_Ama;183546]I had no problem with the "dork disc" but it was driving me crazy making noise.
Um, what's a "dork disc"? I know what a disc wheel is, but it doesn't sound like you mean that - ?
Thanks for educating another Fred...;)
The circle of plastic or metal that sits between the largest gear in your rear sproket and the spokes. The purpose, I believe, is to prevent the chain from dropping into the spokes if you overshift.Quote:
Um, what's a "dork disc"?
I have yet to remove my dork disc. Maybe if I get a Seven, I'd feel different, but mine doesn't make any noise. There was a previous thread that talked about cutting it off. I'm so mechanically dis-inclined I'd probably succeed in cutting a spoke.
OK, got it now - thanks! :D
Oh my gosh! Sorry to say this, but they look like serial killers! :eek: ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
I concur with the added note. I thought everything had to be the same color i.e. colthes, helmet, shoes etc.. had to all be the same color. I thought that is what a Fred was?Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
geez, If I had $880.00 dollars in 1978, I would have thought that i was rich!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
1978: Married in March to unemployed cute Raleighdon. Got temp job until July, then helped DH with his gardening business until I had baby in November.
DH found job at sugarbeet factory and quit 2 weeks later. In December he bought me a vacuum cleaner with 75% of our money. we had 25 feet of carpeting in our 65 foot mobile home.
Ah, yes, there are GOOD reasons why I didn't invest in Microsoft that year.
You don't have to cut off the dork disk. That's really dorky. Just remove the cluster and the disk should just come off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thorn
Speaking of which, one of the fuuniest sight I've seen over the years back in the days of freewheels. A FRED was happily riding his bike, it was making some fuuny sound as he rode. It was sounding rather odd, so I rode next to him for a while listening and looking for the sound. The smallest cogs screwed into the rest of the freewheel body and it had unscrewed itself. So there it was two sets of cogs just dangling on the skewer... It turns out he never rode in the smallest of cogs. The four lowest gears were fine. Top two was unusable in that state.
What is "freewheels"?Quote:
Originally Posted by smilingcat
This reminds me of the time I was working on my bike outside, and one of neighbours comes along with a worried look and asks shyly if I can take a look at her son's bike, because "it doesn't work".Quote:
Originally Posted by smilingcat
Apart from the flat, which I offered to help her fix a day I had a bit more time, it turns out that whoever had put the bike together - I'm assuming some bargain store - had just attached the derailleur cable at the shifter end, found out it was really really long, and instead of adjusting it to the right length and cutting off the slack had wrapped it around the frame until it was "short enough". :eek:
"Hey, he has a derailleur! He doesn't need to actually USE it!"
Ok, so the jist of Fred is it is pretty Fubard eh? I learned ALOT from this post and I also laughed my Fred butt off!:p
I'm trying to de-Fred my new bike of a seat bag. Does anyone know of an in-jersey pocket case of some sort for tube, patches, tire levers, co2?
I like the looks of no seat bag; plus, this way I don't have to switch my stuff between bikes.
That makes my knees hurt, just thinking about it! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by aicabsolut
A ziploc bag?Quote:
Originally Posted by li10up
Too Fred. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Regina
"Hump?....What hump?"Quote:
Originally Posted by li10up
-Young Frankenstein
I travel light. It wouldn't be much of a hump at all. Just want to keep it all together so I can just grab it and go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
How 'bout a zippered makeup case? :p
This thread reminded me of a time when I really learned how much of a Fred I must look like.
I was quite a distance from home and service, and I had a flat. I was just walking my bike a short distance to a safer part of the shoulder to fix it, and some really nice people with un-Fred bikes on their car stopped to see if I had what I needed.
I assured them I was OK and thanked them very much for stopping (very sincerely...it was nice of them!). One of them wasn't convinced, and I told her all the repair stuff I had with me (including cartridges). She looked at me and said: Do you know how to use them? :)
(A fair question, really, but I thought...I really must look like I have no clue...also a fair assumption a lot of the time! LOL) :D
I knew it I knew it!! I'm a WILMA afterall. I use ziplock bags to keep spare change, and few small loose items together. And I also use small zip lock bag with small amount of talc powder in it and a spare tube. The spare tube covered lightly with talc powder makes it much easier to install the spare tube.
The set of cogs in the rear today are called cassettes. There we have 9 or 10 set of cogs and its held on the real wheel assembly with a locking ring.
Prior to cassettes, we had free wheels. It consisted of 5 set of cogs then 6/ultra 7 ... the locking ring didn't exist. The whole cog assembly had a threading in it so you just screwed the freewheel body onto the rear wheel assembly. Now you can imagine how tight the freewheel got as you pedaled your way up the hill. Pumping your leg, and with each revolution the freewheel assembly got screwed on that much tighter. The way big boys removed the freewheel was to tighten the freewheel tool in a big heavy duty vise and you would torque the whole wheel. This was a MAN's job. I couldn't do it no way no how nada...
I'm been around a LOONNNGGG time. was riding seriously when Eddy Meryck (sp) was a big name. Later Greg Le Mond became a big name. It took some time to convince people that he was an American not some French. Then he had that stupid hunting accident that ended his career. Team 7-up? Coors Classic? ... oh gosh and there was that huge race on the east coast. Sorry having my senior moments. ;)
been ridin' safety bikes most of my life. ;)