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The one thing I haven’t seen (and the reason I have roof racks) is for cars that live in particularly dense street parking. In a suburban area I’d have a hitch rack but my bumpers have to live up to their name on a regular basis.

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@KayakCyndi 114477 wrote:

Funny, Matt and I were just discussing that bike this morning …..

My brother and I were talking about that bike last night.

Be right back, taking a casual trip by Bikenetic…

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@jabberwocky 112903 wrote:

This is patently untrue. Good disc brake pads can withstand temps far in excess of anything a bike would exert on them. I raced DH mountainbiking for several years, always on discs, and never once faded a set. These are courses where you would drop thousands of feet in just a few minutes; the rotors would get hot enough to flash any sweat dripped onto them into steam almost instantly, but no braking issues. Rim brakes would never have withstood those forces. Not a million years.

I’m talking about the novice to average rider though dragging their brakes down a mountain instead of hard on the brakes before a turn or an obstacle. You can and will fade disc brakes doing that. And if you do they don’t cool down and come back as fast as rim brakes. A skilled rider can descend far better on discs but I’m thinking about the 90% of riders out there who will drag their brakes the entire way down a mountain.

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@ShawnoftheDread 112879 wrote:

Please explain the logic here. Or the emotion, if that’s more accurate.

I don’t see the point. Discs are heavier, less aero, more expensive, more complex, and just as likely to cook the brakes on a downhill as rim brakes (and slower to come back if you do cook them). As someone who’s been burned (literally) by a disc rotor before I’d also like to not repeat that. The benefits are better initial bite, much better modulation than rim brakes, if you’re running carbon wheels you’ll get better braking all around, more impervious to mud and weather, and there’s no chance of blowing out a tube or a tubular from heat built up in the rim. Looking at the pros and cons I see no reason to run discs on the road or for CX.

They have their place on MTBs, definitely, but that’s it for me.

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@TwoWheelsDC 112840 wrote:

…I’d probably change the chain ASAP just to be safe though to avoid having two master links (although I don’t really know why that would be dangerous).

The last chain on my Cross-Check had 4 before it moved on to a new home. What a great bike that was…

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@mstone 112830 wrote:

Bah, that’s a hipster visor. I was thinking something more like this:
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The fact that you think this is the opposite of hipster tells me you don’t spend much time around hipsters. I envy you.

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@hozn 112868 wrote:

I finally decided that the black on black on black thing was getting old. Plus racing requires white bar tape, as we all know.
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The only way I’ll excuse the road discs is because you’re running carbon wheels, but that is a fine looking velocipede. Fine looking indeed.

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@hozn 112697 wrote:

If anyone wants a 200-mile 120tpi Strada LGG for $20 lemme know. Otherwise I will keep it as a spare (and probably give it away in a couple years when I never use it)

Have you ever tried to mount it under a rim brake? I’ve wanted to try these for Rough Roubaix, etc, and based on the reviews I’m willing to chance that yours was a bad apple, but I don’t know that they’ll fit under my brakes.

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@jrenaut 112233 wrote:

Their target audience seems to be people with more money than sense. Good target audience if you can get it.

You are posting this on a forum dedicated to cycling enthusiasts…

[DaveK]

There appears to be no evidence I was ever there. Camera still has trouble capturing my lack of a soul.

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boomer2u;109034 wrote:

54cm trek madone 5.2, bequeathed to the freezing saddlest brave enough to fetch it after i jump off the key bridge into the frozen potomac [emoji4]

dibs

[DaveK]

Sounds like a great weekend!

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@consularrider 108896 wrote:

How about a samba shirt modeled by a Tim Kelley lookalike?

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Oh my.

[DaveK]

I don’t know the answer as to what I’ll wear but it won’t be any kind of rain shell or similar. In a 3-4 hour race you’re going to just be cooking inside anything that isn’t breathable. If I had one I’d wear a Castelli Gabba for this race. The best advice is to wear a wool layer next to your skin so you’re able to stay warm even once it soaks through, then layer on top of that as needed.

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@Raymo853 108754 wrote:

I still suspect VA DCR may say no to the event happening.

This. As it’s a park I don’t think they’ll be happy with what a few hundred cyclists will do to the trails in the rain and (please not) wintry mix. At a minimum I expect they’ll take out the singletrack portion in the middle of the 50-miler as that’ll get just ruined if the race goes on.

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