Esp friends who loan ya a spare Cross bike for the remainder of the season...
It ain't perfect, but I am extremely grateful for his generosity. Its a redline Conquest Pro - two, three years old frame in size 58... alloy fork, with 10speed... As a pit bike i couldn't ask for more. Although, part of me wants to switch it over to 9speed or a single speed... so #1 i don't hose his drive train in the event the course is wicked fucked up somewhere... #2 the bars ain't my style, they some goofy Ritchey WCS jobs with funky bends and all that... so i could get another set of bars slap my 9 speed bar cons in and roll with the Dura-Ace aero levers that were originally on the P-Mount and roll all 9 speed or ditch the ders and shifters and go single... might be wise if the course truly is shitty as all that requiring a bike change... But those are things i can get all introspective about to no end... so i won't...
Its just cool. I'm extremely grateful and happy. And Yogurt boy sure is a real sweetheart eh? All jealous of my form. Well MoFo... form is ALL i got... that and a sprint... my CP1 might be 1200-1400 watts but my CP60 is way below where it should be. Nah my CP1 prolly ain 1400...
picked up the bike down on main street at he was headed to CT today. Main is as low in elevation as you can get in Providence, and i work in the building damn near the highest point in elevation... so me... have to get both bikes up here... and i figure, hell i'll just strap it to the trailer. Well it worked... and me, with trailer, in work clothes (wearing my fancy new Cannondale MC900 shoes with spots that hurt my feet - should break in i hope) riding the P-mount slog up College hill in my 50x23. Yeah... trailer + extra bike + me in street clothes + jacket going up 10+% grade i think its way steeper than that in the steep sections... it's probably average 10% from bottom to top. Its steeper than the steepest pitches at Big Blue, that i know for a hard core fact. Anyway - there's me, trailer with bike strapped to the top of it... heading up the hill...
Felt a wee bit slow this morning... like my legs were saying ENOUGH ALREADY... but they'll get plenty of a break the next few days. Sterling is still sort of up in the air. Tough call. Got family commitments but Sunday's racing options are much farther away... Sterling's just a hop skip and a jump from here... right up 146...
And if Yogurt boy shows his face at Sterling, maybe i'll actually be on the circut the same time... o'course if the promoters wanna keep the pissy grumpy complaining old B Masters field placated there'll be nice separate starts... Cause... while i may have only finished 9 spots behind JD in the elite race... i probably still am a B level masters. At least this year... And this past weekend there was only one masters race. Which was nice, cause it meant i could get a great judge of where i lined up with everyone.
Anyway - we'll see... we'll see
Peace, and maybe i'll do blueberry waffles instead of chocolate ones... although i am determined to make a batch of choco ones that taste wicked damn good...
Oh and the Redline is one of the Red frame ones with Black fork. Matches team kit ;)
now i just have to get some of those fancy transfer letters and put GeWilli on all my bikes..... oops i mean on my cross bikes, cause putting them on the road bikes would be fucking LAME...
G-Dog... OUT
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You mean a red, black, and white frame with a red fork like the one I had? http://bsdadmins.net/bikes/P4240055.JPG
That's an '03. Although I think the '05 frame was all red, so maybe that's the one you're talking bout, in which case that's a nice bike. And yes...I hated the ritchey bars, I had those on both my cannondale and old redline, I've got some Easton EC50's on my new Redline which are much better but still not as comfortable as my FSA RD-250 bars.
P.S. I was keeping hitting my knees on the Ritchey bars...but then again as SB says, I climb like I'm running so that's probably why.
If ya need shifters I gots some Ultegra brifters, needs a screw for the inner lever though. You can borrow them. GOtta Deore LX derr too. Mebbe even a Tiagra front derr...
funny - i get an error with Firefox, but not IE...
that's fucked up...
Bike: '05 conquest pro with disc brake mounts (no disc brakes tho)
and i got some D-A brifters, no worries there...
'course maybe i should make a parts swap and run the Redline as the 1° frame and the Croll as pit bike... hmmmm
You DO realize that if you win, you have to buy me a beer, right? I had to log on to defend myself: I do not have red handlebar tape.
heh.
And BTW, G: In case I didn't make this clear, feel free to disassemble/change components/yadda yadda to your heart's content so long as you put it back together when you're done ;)
Sorry it's only got Avids on it. I couldn't afford nicer brakes.
like a fool I raced with my AVIDS this year
with my PAUL's in a box waiting to be put on my warrantied Jamis Nova
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