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putting a fucking great big leather english saddle and 60's english stem, stupid bars that have no real purpose; on a top-end japanese race frame. i think your sisters jeans you are wearing are too tight ;)
it is just soo confused!!!
just because people throw expensive parts onto a bike, don't make it gel.
i saw that coming a mile off. once the 'you have no taste' gauntlet was thrown down.
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Of course you are right about the saddle Dogs, but I think it looks good. The stem is actually a Nitto Pearl 90 not a 60s English stem. Bars again are my preference, didn't want risers or flats, well, not yet, but after riding a few months I might decide to change them.
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hey tom- its your bike mate, ride it as you like it!
{edit} that sounded patronising, basically if you ride it, who can question your build?
And never listen to dale. he just can't wait for his project and all these completed ones are killing him. I know how he feels. (or at least I will do by the time my project gets here- because everyone will have done theirs). -
if you post it, it's no longer your bike.
it's kind of like 'death of the author' but with bikes.The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader, rather than the “passions” or “tastes” of the writer; “a text’s unity lies not in its origins,” or its creator, “but in its destination,” or its audience.
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some slaveness that i am slaving over
You have got the fucking lot ! :D
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if you post it, it's no longer your bike.
it's kind of like 'death of the author' but with bikes.The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader, rather than the “passions” or “tastes” of the writer; “a text’s unity lies not in its origins,” or its creator, “but in its destination,” or its audience.
That's a lovely sounding sentence, but subscribing to it, in the context of bicycles, is subscribing to a charter for posers.
Basically "Worry about what your audience think"
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Of course you are right about the saddle Dogs, but I think it looks good. The stem is actually a Nitto Pearl 90 not a 60s English stem. Bars again are my preference, didn't want risers or flats, well, not yet, but after riding a few months I might decide to change them.
it's your bike and you can do with it as you please. but saddle just doesn't fit the build.
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stupid bars that have no real purpose
Are you suggesting that bullhorns have no purpose over risers? what about the ability to stretch out and multiple hand positions? (and no, "right up by the stem" and "a little bit further out" are not separate hand positions :P)
The primary reason I'd run them over drops would be on a town bike where I'm not likely to use the drops much, but want to keep a 'hoods' position that has the advantage of letting me get better leverage on a brake.
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I think I may have to Grandad The Fuck Up and build some sort of touring contraption as my next project. I have a good donor bike and a fair amount of bits it just needs some love.
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I'm going the Grandad touring route. Just bought this. It's 27" wheeled.. also planning to get it a 700c cyclocross wheelset and hopefully have two bikes in one. OBTB FTW
Also building up a slave lo-pro as primary fixed, and returning my Guerciotti conversion to its Campag SR geared glory.
Going to be a fun, greasy, (expensive?) summer.
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