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Thread: Your dream bike

  1. #1
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    Question Your dream bike

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    Ok, your fairy godmother suddenly decides you've been a very good girl indeed.
    She grants you two wishes.
    1. You can choose your dream bike. No expense spared. Go treat yourself. And to add to your delight, you're allowed to buy one item of clothing, be it frivolous or essential.
    2. No point having a swanky new bike and nowhere to ride it.
    Go book a vacation. All expenses paid. Your boss has found cover, so no workload to worry about. Your other half, kids, family, pets, etc etc are all taken care of (she's damn good, that fairy godmother!). Only one condition, you have to take your bike.

    Choose wisely. What would you buy and where would you go?
    Life is Good!

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    This is soooo easy ;-)

    The bike would have to be the beautiful:-
    http://www.lemondbikes.com/images/wh...left_photo.jpg

    I'd wear the vibrant:-
    http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=8020

    Oh and to cycle San Francisco coastal roads
    http://usatourist.com/photos/califor...lifornia1b.jpg

    Thankyou Fairy Godmother... I had a wonderful time, but now I have to get back to the washing and ironing

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    Sigh.
    Your fairy godmother was more than generous!
    It's such a cool cycle top, I might just have to blow the customs tax and order it anyway!
    My fairygodmother is still holding me to ransom.
    Apparently I don't have enough karmic credit points just yet. Deliberately ran over a beetle on my morning ride , but I'm displaying random acts of kindness in a desperate hope she'll forgive me!
    Still window shopping, will post my choices later!
    Life is Good!

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    hmm, I'd have to RIDE a lot of them to decide. I'd look at Titus, and Turners for dream mountain bikes to start with.

    My dream mtb vacation at this point in time is Fruita CO will my pal Jerry the Freak to be my tour guide.

    Irulan
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    Though I love my Allez Comp, if presented with terms from the fine and generous Fairy Godmother, this would be the bike:

    http://www.bianchiusa.com/luna.html


    I'll have to get back to you on the outfit.

    As to vacation locale... Fly to France; cycle through France, Italy and Belgium, fly back via California, cycle the Pacific Coast Highway, come home to New England and look at the photos for months.
    no regrets!

    My ride: 2003 Specialized Allez Comp - zebra (men's 52cm), Speedplay X5 pedals, Koobi Au Enduro saddle

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    Hmmm, my dream bike huh? I dunno, I really want a road bike right now, but my desire for a road bike is more of a casual summer fling type deal. Mostly because they're repaving Oneill highway clear to Prineville and even on my mountain bike it was crazy smooth and fun. Okay, okay, back to my dream bike.

    What if I own my dream bike? I mean, for now? Pony really is, she's an '04 Gary Fisher Big Sur GS and the love of my life. I started out looking at a $400 Specialized Stumjumper but as I looked around, and rode my brother's full susp that I hijacked, I got a feel for what a good bike was. Pony was it for me. She felt like the cattiest cow horse, and quickest barrel raching horse I'd ever riden before. Never in my life did I dream that I'd own such a nice bike, or that I'd short of starve to save up the money so quick! However when an $1100 bike is sitting in the shop for $850 because it's girly and they can't give it away, one must move quickly.

    Okay, so that aside, when I'm better and I can really make use of a full suspension as a tool, not a crutch, I'm going with another Fisher. I am sooo sold on their geometry, it feels good to me. I want a Sugar Race but I want full XTR components (why mess around?), I want the SID Team shock replaced with a SID World Cup, want my paint job to match the World Cup shock that year, need better disc brakes than what it comes with, haven't decided that yet, Mavic Crossmax SL wheels and Crankbrothers Candy pedals that match everything too. Yup, think that will do. =)

    Where would I go? Hawaii, mostly to hang out on Kauai with my little brother who is stationed on Barking Sands, but I'd love to bike all the islands.

    What clothing item do I need? Hmmm, I think I want another pair of Craft shorts. Better than the ones I have though, that way mine can become my beater shorts.

    There, I did it. =)

    love and cookies
    -smurf

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    Oh, fun! I'd get the Specialized Roubaix Pro (I have an Elite now) and spend about a month in Italy tooling around! I'd like to do one of those tours where you ride with a bunch of people, stay in posh hotels and eat gourmet food. You never lose any weight, in spite of biking all day, every day, because you eat enough to compensate.

    Here's the specs and a picture of the bike:

    http://www.specialized.com/SBCBkMode...pg1n566.j27002

    Only two caveats on the bike... I need a women's cut-out saddle and a triple chain ring. Gotta have my granny gear.

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    Thank you Fairy Godmother...

    ...but I just bought my dream bike. However, a few tiny upgrades and accessories might be nice. Like rotor cranks:

    http://www.rotorbike.com/

    and aerospoke wheels:

    http://www.aerospoke.com/

    panniers would be nice:

    http://www.angletechcycles.com/accessories/techwind.htm

    and the racks to hang them on.

    As for clothes, can I have a really nice pair of cycling shoes that I can walk like a human being in?

    My trip? The Vancouver to Key West solo bicycle adventure/extravaganza I've been dreaming about for years. (But I'd like to invite my husband for company.)

    That should do it.

    And did I say thank you?

    Thanks again.
    Give big space to the festive dog that make sport in the roadway. Avoid entanglement with your wheel spoke.
    (Sign in Japan)

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    Cool thank you fairie godmother!

    hmmm, I have my dream bike and vowed never to look at another bike again, I only have eyes for my Mondonico Futura Legero, she's all Campy Record, Rolf aero wheelset.

    But my LBS says I'm much too young to settle down with just one bike so....maybe the El Os Foco (same builder but steel/carbon blend) or Terry Fast Woman-I just like the name. I'd keep the same wheels but full Shimano so I can have flightdeck.

    trip; since my fabulous fairie godmother is covering my work and taking GOOD care of my dog I'm making this a long one.

    first to Norway, good excuse to visit my sister and do the Great Test of Strength a ride from Trondheim to Oslo, then maybe meet up with the sib and her family, tool around southern Norway and the islands there, down through England and stop by some friends in Oxford I have not seen since I was a child, over to Geneva visit cousin Dena and her family, swing down to Italy and France to warm up a bit and EAT.

    Then back to the US of A and I'd love to do a cross country trip. Seems like most of them start west and go east, probably a logical reason for that like headwinds just like trips down the CA coast go North to South but maybe I'd start East and go West.

    Outfit? Head to toe in Craft, can I get back to you on the shoes but "Impeach Bush" bike socks (sorry to politicize the board-back to just cycling now).
    Fancy Schmancy Custom Road bike ~ Mondonico Futura Legero
    Found on side of the road bike ~ Motobecane Mixte
    Gravel bike ~ Salsa Vaya
    Favorite bike ~ Soma Buena Vista mixte
    Folder ~ Brompton
    N+1 ~ My seat on the Rover recumbent tandem
    https://www.instagram.com/pugsley_adventuredog/

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    Since we are dreaming....
    Serotta Legend ST, almost full Campy (of course)

    A new jacket would be super for all of Mother natures input. I'm not sure how Maine became the Butt of all her jokes..

    If fairy God mum can promise to make me not get homesick and tone down the testosterone, then I'd love to go back to Spain .

    Shhhh...no one wake me.

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    I already have a Titus RacerX so if my fairy godmother bestowed a new bike on me it would be a Titus Full Custom Racer with Campy components and American Classic Sprint 350 wheels.

    I'm going to Moab next month to do the Moab Century Tour. Its a road tour for the LAF but we're also taking the mtn bikes.

    Can't buy the Titus FCR yet, not until I buy my winter home in Colorado.

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    Remind me to bake a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake (with oreo cookie crust) for that Fary Godmother ....

    I absolutely love my Trek 5200 WSD ... I can't imagine that I could want for anything more other than going to a Project One. Upgrade everything and a cool paint job with the bikes name painted on the top tube.

    And for my one cool outfit ... I think I would combine a trip to Scotland for my *kit* shopping spree and my dream ride.

    I had the chance to spend some time in Edinburgh last year - found a bike store that sold jersey's with one of the local bike club logo's but the store was closed both times I went looking. Dang. Gives me something to dream about for my next trip.

    I'd love to bike around Fife then head off to Inverness then on to the Orkney Islands for a week or so ... head back towards England ... stopping in the Mull of Kintyre and the Lake District until I get to Penzance where I'd bike around Cornwall. A great jumping off place for a holiday in the Channel Islands for a few days and if time allows, a couple of days biking on the Isle of Wight.

    Wonder what I get if I promise my FG a cheesecake every week???

    This has been a great thread .. I've enjoyed reading everyone's fantasy!

    Cindy

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    Oh, Fairy Godmother! How could you make me choose between mountain biking and road biking? I simply could not pick one over the other at this point. Could I get two bikes and skip the vacation? Or just keep my current threesome of bikes and have two dream vacations? Or, better yet, could you arrange for me to retire early (like tomorrow!) and just be able to ride here in Phoenix whenever and wherever I want?

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    Ooooh, the dream bike is easy for me! Fairy GodMommy, please bring me a Rivendell Rambouillet (more piccies here)!

    I haven't really started fantasizing about clothes yet ... not 'til I can actually fit in some of those women's clothes, anyway *chuckle* but I guess that's a good enough fantasy in itself right now.

    As for the dream vacation, I'm thinkin' six months of touring around Canada ... dunno ... might have to pull out an atlas and think about that ...*grin*

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    Re: thank you fairie godmother!

    Trek420 appends: fairy godmother? could you change my socks and craft jersey to this simple tasteful plea for peace from our sponsor

    http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=11286
    Fancy Schmancy Custom Road bike ~ Mondonico Futura Legero
    Found on side of the road bike ~ Motobecane Mixte
    Gravel bike ~ Salsa Vaya
    Favorite bike ~ Soma Buena Vista mixte
    Folder ~ Brompton
    N+1 ~ My seat on the Rover recumbent tandem
    https://www.instagram.com/pugsley_adventuredog/

 

 

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