Confess about your geared ride

How are you finding it?

*hums Is This Love? (Bob Marley, not Whitesnake)* :)

are you bringing that out on sunday?

I've got a geared audax bike, pictures to come later. I love the thing, fair enough It's a ridgeback but a very good one at that and very practical for me.

i might, might have bought myself a new geared bike.
its unlikely though.

I'm not too bothered. I'm no fan of old steel frames for anything other than commute/beater duties. I don't care how posh they are - I have no interest in them.
I don't believe something being old makes it less likely to fail just because it has been around for 25 years. What if it has sat in a garage for 25 years doing nothing? What if it was at the bottom of the Thames for 10 years? Bike design and manufacturing has improved - I choose to embrace this improvement.

Like this..
http://www.lfgss.com/post1570389-23.html

I'm only funning dude, I like old steel frames, some more than others, I like the fact that the good or half decent ones were hand built. And the main reason they were phased out by manufacturers (apart from developments in materials and technology) is the fact that the good ones became too expensive to produce not giving a large enough profit margin for the CFO and any other number crunchers of big brand names / companies.

The Raleigh I'm building will be a posh beater / commuter maybe a few longer rides as well, it'll be perfect for this and I won't stress any over it having carbon or unobtanium nicht. In fact I'm pretty confident it'll still be going strong in another 25 years :)

This for round town, and short trips out, and eventually touring (will probably 'upgrade' to bar-end shifters and a deore touring groupset). Right now it's running a single chainring up front and 8spd on the back:

This for having fun and going fast on days out:

My Concorde in PDM livery, columbus slx with a 7403 DA group. Lovely to ride, if a little heavy.

As everyone else is...


About to get some new wheels built for it.

I'm literally about to pop down to the PO to collect some wheels for my Raleigh Tourer/Audax :D

My lovely (i think) Kinesis Racelight, Ultegra groupset, easy going up hills.

i wish that i had a pict of my condor leggero and moeny to dura ace it!!
apart from that old de rosas are nice, i heart them!

condor leggero? wowza i didn't know you had one of those tika. nice.

i got no pics of my condor :(

tika's Condor is amazing, it's turned her into a speed demon. :-)

Btw, I've nothing to confess, I rode gears before I rode fixed and imagine I'll be riding gears after as well.

Btw, I've nothing to confess, I rode gears before I rode fixed and imagine I'll be riding gears after as well.

my seriusly gear ride start when i found a columbus slx frame whit fork and seat post for $40 U.S dollars. first think in transform the frame for repalce my steel track frame, and make a lighter one. but thinking well decide not to make modification on this lovely frame and built up for was it was designed.
now i love my roab bike, and i love road cycling, i decide to upgrade this bike (group and wheels), startig for the wheels, im thinkin in matrix carbon wheels first, maybe its too much for the, bike maybe not..... the other option is change the frame for a modern taiwan carbon frame, and then upgrade the wheels and group, but in this way i will never know how far can go this lovely frame and i want to now..........

My recently restored early Aende. Mostly used for pottering around country lanes at the weekends.

Lovely.

This for having fun and going fast on days out:

hey, how does the Planet x ride? is it a nice quality frame? they have a great deal on right now with SRAM red for a grand.

Btw, I've nothing to confess, I rode gears before I rode fixed and imagine I'll be riding gears after as well.

Come on! Let's see them!

andyp has never hidden his roadie douchebagness...

All need MOAR spacerz

Never though I'd own a Colnago in my lifetime, rode really lovely, might change the chainring for a 50/34 instead of the current 53/39, fit me just about nicely with a 55cm TT and 100mm stem.

Hate the paintjob though.

All need MOAR spacerz

Thanks, but they're just fine.

Hate the paintjob though.

That paintjob is pure sex.
FACT!