Your latest bike purchase?

[Powerful Pete]

Most excellent. Very curious how the alu frame rides… sounds like it is making you happy.

Curious as to your thoughts on the November wheel set…

Also, while I am certain it is financially painful, I am sure it is far less painful than a CF frame, no?

As my daughter would say, That Is Totally Plobnerd (apparently, that is what a 9 y.o. says when she means something is very, very cool).

[dasgeh]

I keep forgetting to post this… on sale at Target last week:[ATTACH=CONFIG]6243[/ATTACH]

[Harry Meatmotor]

@Powerful Pete 90712 wrote:

Most excellent. Very curious how the alu frame rides… sounds like it is making you happy.

Curious as to your thoughts on the November wheel set…

Also, while I am certain it is financially painful, I am sure it is far less painful than a CF frame, no?

As my daughter would say, That Is Totally Plobnerd (apparently, that is what a 9 y.o. says when she means something is very, very cool).

I’ve got prolly about 2k miles on the Rails so far. I was unsure whether I’m fast enough to notice any aero gains when I first started looking at them, but over the last year I’ve started to push into “should be racing” territory and can tell when the wheels start doing their magic. On the flats, once i hit about 22-24 mph, it feels like i have to do very little extra work to get the bike up to 28-30 mph. The November guys seem to be pretty straight shooters – definitely check out their blog. They’ve been doing some more wind tunnel testing and have built a rim deflection rig to compare different rim profiles and spoke count builds.

As far as the frame, it’s a poor man’s Tarmac – retails for $880 and has the Tarmac fork (the claimed weight on the 54cm frame and fork is 1100 grams or so). I’m pleasantly surprised at how smooth it rides – definitely stiffer than my Salsa Pistola, and I’m feeling a little more road stutter through the handlebars, but through the saddle it’s just as comfy (if not more so) than my Pistola. I’ll need to get some more miles on it before I figure out all the little handling nuances that are different – gonna put another few miles on it this afternoon!

ride ride ride!!!

[cyclingfool]

@dasgeh 90714 wrote:

I keep forgetting to post this… on sale at Target last week:[ATTACH=CONFIG]6243[/ATTACH]

Those are some awesome diapers! I need to find me some of those, too! What size(s) are those/did they have? #covet

[dasgeh]

@cyclingfool 90728 wrote:

Those are some awesome diapers! I need to find me some of those, too! What size(s) are those/did they have? #covet

They’re Honest Company diapers. I’m not the biggest fan of the company, to be honest (blame DrewDane – I just read his Fat Tired post). These were at Target in Charlotte, and they had sizes 2 through 5 or 6, IIRC. I imagine they have the full range available online.

[Dickie]

@Harry Meatmotor 90690 wrote:

my wife calls it “The D*ck Bike”

Whoah, whoah whoah….I’m not quite sure how I feel about that.

[Geoff]

@cyclingfool 90728 wrote:

Those are some awesome diapers!

There’s a phrase I never thought I’d see in this forum…

[TwoWheelsDC]

After a couple months of collecting parts:

-Cinelli MASH Parallax frameset
-SRAM Omnium crankset (170mm 48t)
-3T Ergonova bars (38mm)
-3T ARX stem (90mm, -6 degrees)
-3T Palladio seat post
-Selle Italia SL Kit Carbonia Flow saddle
-H+Son SL42 wheelset w/All City cog (17t)
-Continental GP 4 Season tires
-SRAM S500 brake levers
-SRAM Apex front brake

[Harry Meatmotor]

@TwoWheelsDC 90760 wrote:

After a couple months of collecting parts:

-Cinelli MASH Parallax frameset
-SRAM Omnium crankset (170mm 48t)
-3T Ergonova bars (38mm)
-3T ARX stem (90mm, -6 degrees)
-3T Palladio seat post
-Selle Italia SL Kit Carbonia Flow saddle
-H+Son SL42 wheelset w/All City cog (17t)
-Continental GP 4 Season tires
-SRAM S500 brake levers
-SRAM Apex front brake

Man – in a world of “me too!” rainbow bright fixies that’s positively tasteful! well done!

[hozn]

@TwoWheelsDC 90760 wrote:

After a couple months of collecting parts:

-Cinelli MASH Parallax frameset
-SRAM Omnium crankset (170mm 48t)
-3T Ergonova bars (38mm)
-3T ARX stem (90mm, -6 degrees)
-3T Palladio seat post
-Selle Italia SL Kit Carbonia Flow saddle
-H+Son SL42 wheelset w/All City cog (17t)
-Continental GP 4 Season tires
-SRAM S500 brake levers
-SRAM Apex front brake

That is a damn sexy bike. Well done!

[cyclingfool]

@TwoWheelsDC 90760 wrote:

After a couple months of collecting parts:

That is not a white garage door. Background fail!

She’s a beaut.

[vvill]

@TwoWheelsDC 90760 wrote:

What everyone else said, plus: it’s my size! Perfect.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@vvill 90803 wrote:

What everyone else said, plus: it’s my size! Perfect.

Yep. Care to arrange a ride swap?

[mcfarton]

My 14$ work stand

[cyclingfool]

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These two guys. The latter was perhaps overkill, given the amount of wheelbuilding I actually do, BUT I did already get to use it this weekend, and realized my rear wheel was not sufficiently tensioned. So if that nugget of knowledge and the work I did bringing the rear spokes up to proper tension and retruing give me more life out of the spokes and wheel build, then it may have already paid for itself.

Sadly the former item is still mid-shipment, so work on the wheel had to be done my old-fashioned way, using an old POS frame I have lying around with some clipped zip ties for feeler gauges as a truing stand. Future wheel work will be done on the new stand! Should be here any day.

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