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Thread: RolliePollie gets a NEW RIDE!
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11-16-2008, 08:58 AM #1
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Sarah
When it's easy, ride hard; when it's hard, ride easy.
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11-16-2008, 09:59 AM #2
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She is drop-dead stunning! Thanks for posting your photos.
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11-16-2008, 02:06 PM #3
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Oh!! Lovely!!! And she has SILVER on her!!!! Enjoy! I've got over 10,000 miles on my Madone and I still Love him!!!! I hope that you have many happy miles on yours too!
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11-16-2008, 02:13 PM #4
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That is one sweet bike. You'll be able to spend lots of $$$ accessorizing her.
Congratulations!
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11-17-2008, 09:32 AM #5
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wow! that is a brilliant colour combo!! I didn't notice the blue until u mentioned it though, my bad. Happy Riding to you two!!
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11-17-2008, 09:57 AM #6
Can't never could!
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I think you need some Purely Custom bar ends to replace those red Bontrager ones.
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11-18-2008, 01:13 PM #7
I like my bike
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Purely Custom scares me because I look at all their cool stuff and feel as though I'm losing all self control...
Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama
I think you need some Purely Custom bar ends to replace those red Bontrager ones.
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11-18-2008, 01:27 PM #8
Can't never could!
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lol! I got the same thought with the headset. In fact I haven't ordered it yet because I might want bar ends instead or grips or..... Originally Posted by RolliePollie
Amanda
2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
2007 Cannondale Synapse Carbon Road | Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow | "Miranda"
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. -Lee J. Colan
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11-23-2008, 04:43 PM #9
I like my bike
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I have to whine and moan...I still love my new bike, but the shifting is totally messed up and I had two very frustrating rides this weeked!!! Up to now I've just ridden her on the flat bike trail in Sacramento, so I wasn't shifting all that much. This weekend I ventured out on my local hilly routes and discovered that things are not working quite right!
I actually took her to my LBS yesterday because I noticed the front derailleur cable wasn't routed correctly through the cable guide on the bottom of the bike. It was going over the side of the plastic guide thingie and sticking. So in trying to fix it myself, I basically unhooked the entire derailleur cable and had to take her to the shop. So they fixed her up and adjusted a few things. Then I took her out for a ride and the shifting on the middle ring was a mess. But I compensated by just not using that ring much. It was annoying, but not that bad.
My LBS is closed on Sunday and I really wanted to ride today, so I headed out. Oh my. What a disaster. Clicking, skipping, and shifting by herself. Not fun. I think the indexing is messed up because when I tried to move to the middle ring from the big ring, it would shift all the way to the granny ring. And if I could massage it into the middle ring, it took 3 shifts to get it back down to the granny and just one to pop it back up to the big ring. The half click "trim" would either shift to a new ring or do nothing. And anything down towards the bigger sized gears in back would skip and click or shift by itself. Luckily I still had my granny gear or I would've had to walk home.
So she's headed back to the LBS in the morning. I was so looking forward to the "shifting like butter" I've heard about Ultegra, but I sure haven't experienced that yet I have faith that she'll get better though.
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