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@DaveK 37811 wrote:

If $100 is for everything that’s an epic deal. If that’s still up tonight it’ll be worth the beating I get from my wife when I bring the pile of parts home.

let us know if you score, you’re lucky I can’t get out of the house.

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@Certifried 37818 wrote:

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/bik/3458706322.html

I saw this last week and tried to sell eminva on it, i have the same frame in the same paint color- it’s awesome. Easy SS conversion, the one in the ad is a 50cm frame.

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@jrenaut 37804 wrote:

My poor bike by thetejon, on Flickr

The pictures of the bike are actually a little disappointing. I was hoping for more gore. But the rear wheel won’t turn more than a few inches, and it’s not immediately obvious to me why, so I suspect the damage is worse than it appears.

Aftermath by thetejon, on Flickr

that sucks, let us know what the bike shop says

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@Dirt 37799 wrote:

I’m not even like Dirt today. I totally snoozed through a perfect photog moment this morning. That’s a photo I will NEVER (hopefully) have the chance to get again.

stop teasing, what was it?

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Well weathered Pinarello track frame set for $275
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/bik/3472173740.html

The seller also has a Jamis Sonik track frame set for sale
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/bik/3472144270.html

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Crashed Kona Jake for $100. Sounds like frame is bent but maybe repairable? Vicegrip? For $100 you can part this out for another build, 105 grouppo.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/bik/3471541533.html

(Have to check if $100 is for the whole wreck, including grouppo)

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I’ve yelled at people in the past, not proud but it usually happens when someone does something unsafe around my son while we’re on a ride. (setting a terrible example for my son)

Actually being on this forum makes me think twice about misbehaving on the bike. I wouldn’t want to be called out on the missed connections thread.

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@KayakCyndi 37780 wrote:

Goal for 2013 — 3500 miles. I’m just about at 3000 for 2012 and while that included a lovely week long bike tour it also was only about half time commuting combined with a pretty ambitious kayak racing schedule.

Non-distance bike-related goals:
1. Stop lurking on the forum and post — this is post one so I can say one resolution accomplished!
2. Commute through winter. I got an Ogre and can get snow tires if needed …. Will sign up for Freezing Saddles shortly.
3. Ride a Century (Ok, I guess that is distance related.

Glad to see you on the forum, we met a few weeks ago on the custis westbound. You were spotted in your BA vest even before your first post, too bad most of us aren’t like Dirt with a camera.

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@Vicegrip 37705 wrote:

Getting my bike, body and kit good enough that I find myself “forgetting” that I am powering the bike. The bike is making the light oil ssssss of the chain along with the sound of wind and tires on pavement. My mind drops all else behind. Not thinking about cadence or if my heart is thumping or I am hot or cold or this or that body part is grumpy. I look down at a spinning crankset that is powered by “a” set of legs rather than my legs. I look around and soak in the world as it rolls past me. Shifts happen as needed without thought, the autopilot portion of me maintaining a cadence, power and speed that feels both fullfilling in pace and almost limitless in abundance. The steep hills are anticipated as something to attack with known reserve power rather than a task simply to make it to the top. Skills improve enough to understand and start to feel nuance in the bike, the rider and the road.

Why does this remind me of a Rush song? Red Barchetta

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@DSalovesh 37756 wrote:

Donning my “bicycle industry professional” hat for a moment, a bike crashed by a car should be a total write off.

The simplest reason is that the cab driver ruined a perfectly good bike that you bought as a whole package, and that’s what they need to replace. The salvage value – what a shop would give you to strip those parts for the opportunity to re-sell them as used – is nil. Even if there are parts that you personally wouldn’t trash, the economic value (and what insurance should deduct from the compensation they’ll pay you) is zero.

+1, you should get a new bike out of this and keep the parts for a future build.

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Sorry to hear about your crash, glad you weren’t hurt worse. At least you get to shop for a new bike. Are you able to salvage parts?

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@culimerc 37725 wrote:

The Bike Lane Runs a Saturday ride 9 am through the winter.

I’ve done that ride from their Reston shop. When I went the group was pretty big, I think we averaged about 19 mph around Reston.

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@Bilsko 37694 wrote:

This is awful news – I hope you rest up well over the end-of-the-year down time.

I assume this was the brick sidewalks + wet leaves in G-town?

Yep, it was in a brick courtyard in front of our building entrance. While i was laying on the ground i was surprised how slippery the brick was, it had a mossy, slimy coating. I shouldn’t have been riding in the courtyard, lesson learned the hardway.

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Thanks all well wishers. No surgery, but pretty much laid up a home for a while. It’s too bad technology allows me to work at home.

Stupid technology.

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My morning commute sucked. Got all the way to work, literally at doorsteps and slid out on wet leaves on the last turn. Went down fast, as if on ice. Landed funny on my hip and knew I broke something. I laid on the ground unable to get up for about 10 min, finally a coworker walked by and called an ambulance. Had to be transported on stretcher.

Fractured my femur grand trochanter, hurts like hell. Won’t be able to do the Rapha Festive 500.

My next year’s resolution will be to not to break any more bones (last year it was my clavicle). Or at least learn to ride better and not fall off the darn bike again.

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