Bike Monkey

was there a long-cage, triple version of the centaur derailleur? i thought 28 t was the limit across the board on their normal derailleurs. (of course you can always stretch a cog or two, depending on the bike)

centaur 10 derailleurs and cranks were indistinguishable from chorus 10 ime. really good price/service bargain. i got spec'd with chorus levers so i don't know about that comparison.

real money, fewer life commitments. that's the time to load up your bike garage.

The demand for these ended at 10 speed, as far as I can tell. 11sp was common spacing and hits a sweet spot for older bike rehab, ime. Pity, because campy 10 speed was the absolute pinnacle of evolution. if you ignore the gear limitations, anyway. although a drop link might help with that.

Hampsten track bike

Maybe I need to get back on the velodrome.

I still can’t afford my cycling hobby The road bike has been doing a pretty good job during my grand return to riding. It doesn’t get as much time as my MTB but it has been mostly good to go, all the way up to the intensity of club rid…

Well yeah that’s the problem.

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I sorta of hanker for a steel pipe *horizontal fucking top tube* proper 74deg angles roadie with steel fork, disc brake capability and modern tire clearance. And of course a quill stem.

Tire width and pressure has changed. Soooooo much.

Racer me would have laughed at the fat and slow looking rubber on my current road bike.

I will never understand this current mania for the freehub equivalent of aftermarket loud car mufflers. All the noise and no performance gain.

Beautiful!

Lol

How did that White hub work for you? I had an early Gen MTB hub that had a massive design flaw. Grub screw for the bearing preload was totally inadequate

Looks like a blast to own.

Hmm. Actually that door reminds me right away I bought this as a graduate student.

The Custom Bob Jackson Somewhere in graduate school, I felt able to afford a new road bike. Technology had taken another leap forward with the introduction of shift levers integrated with the brake levers, and I felt lik…

In the flush of my first postdoc salary I had a custom Jackson built. Unfortunately going to a slightly larger size and “better” tube set was a mistake. Never did love the ride.

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The demise of SunTour as a component company was a dang shame. I keep trolling eBay for Superbe Pro stuff but until I find an old Reynolds 531 frame I like, no point in buying.

Clipless? Clipfull! The treasure trove containing several NOS bike parts that I repossessed from my childhood home also had a pair of used quill pedals. Lightly used, and it is likely that I had purchased them within …

Remembering how to use quill pedals with slotted cleats has been ….interesting.

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Installing NOS Treasure I forgot to bring home my found NOS treasure when I first discovered it but I repossessed these items from my boyhood home after the Century ride. Briefly, I found a mixed set of SunTour 7 speed sh…

Currently in retro mode.

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Dialing in the tires I do so love my Frankencrosser, even though I also own a real cross bike. This green beauty started life as my last college road racer, but during grad school I “had some work done” as they say abo…

My investigations are at the narrower end of the market.

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The Redline sold me b/c it was cheap, a too early entrant with disc brakes and carried by an outfit that would build it with Campy.

Never could afford chichi brands, got excellent service from bargain frames over the years.

The Carbon Years When the Toblerone IBOC eventually cracked, I was not surprised. If we learned anything from the proliferation of MTB frames made by some guy who knew how to weld back in the early 1990s, it was th…

I owned a few Mongoose MTBs in the day. One is still limping along in commuter guise.

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Nope. I don’t own anything that takes that tire range. And it is a very large marketplace from what I can tell.

Bicycle, parked by the water.

You guys motivated a little ride on the crosser.

One more bike is definitely recommended.

Nice!

With barends, as god intended?

not a horses for courses fan?

throwback flat fork crown is a nice touch