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Old February 4th 08, 12:30 PM posted to aus.bicycle
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Owwww my eyes.. and ears.... bad bikes, talk of triples, even pics of
crippled triples made into doubles!




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Old February 4th 08, 12:38 PM posted to aus.bicycle
Patrick Keogh
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BT Humble wrote:


Incidentally, why do roadies have such a loathing for triple front
chainrings? Is it just a machismo thing, or does it have some logical
basis?


BTH


My touring bike and my mountain bike have triples, but it is so much
nicer and smoother to change the double on my racing bike that I'd be
very reluctant to give that up. One day soon I'll move to a compact, but
if it gets too steep for that then that's just too bad!
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Old February 5th 08, 02:45 AM posted to aus.bicycle
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gplama Wrote:
Owwww my eyes.. and ears.... bad bikes, talk of triples, even pics of
crippled triples made into doubles!


Ah shadup, I've got a triple, but in it's defence it was built to suit
personal specs.

BTW - who got the bluddy Cinder Bikes spam last week? Must of deleted
it at least 20 times before TB realised it was spam.


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Old February 5th 08, 06:05 AM posted to aus.bicycle
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BT Humble Wrote:
Incidentally, why do roadies have such a loathing for triple front
chainrings? Is it just a machismo thing, or does it have some logical
basis?
BTH


I loathe doubles too. Next you'll be trying to convince us you need
more than one ring on the rear.

Parbs


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Old February 5th 08, 10:24 PM posted to aus.bicycle
BT Humble
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kanangara wrote:
BTHumble Wrote:

Incidentally, why do roadies have such a loathing for triple front
chainrings? *Is it just a machismo thing, or does it have some logical
basis?
BTH


I loathe doubles too. Next you'll be trying to convince us you need
more than one ring on the rear.


Word! You the man, dude! ;-)


BTH
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Old February 6th 08, 05:40 AM posted to aus.bicycle
not all there
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On Feb 6, 9:07 am, wrote:
On Feb 5, 4:05 pm, kanangara kanangara.34a...@no-

mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote:
BT Humble Wrote:


Incidentally, why do roadies have such a loathing for triple front
chainrings? Is it just a machismo thing, or does it have some logical
basis?
BTH


I loathe doubles too. Next you'll be trying to convince us you need
more than one ring on the rear.


Parbs


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Damn right. The bike I rode today has only one chainring up front and
one sprocket out back. Mind you, I still have 8 ratios to choose
from :-D


Is it my imagination, or is there a rash of extremely **** road bikes
being touted online at the moment? This Interweb thingy has a lot to
answer for.

You could buy the same thing at any department store for $150 on
special. It's a complete turd. $1450 - for that you'd get at least
Tiagra STI, probably a full groupset from a run of the mill bike shop.
Who are they actually sucking in?
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Old February 6th 08, 10:28 PM posted to aus.bicycle
BT Humble
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not all there wrote:
Is it my imagination, or is there a rash of extremely **** road bikes
being touted online at the moment? This Interweb thingy has a lot to
answer for.

You could buy the same thing at any department store for $150 on
special. It's a complete turd. $1450 - for that you'd get at least
Tiagra STI, probably a full groupset from a run of the mill bike shop.
Who are they actually sucking in?


Probably a sample drawn from that population who are adding one to
their number every minute.


BTH
(Was that too abstract?)
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Old February 7th 08, 02:33 AM posted to aus.bicycle
Bean Long
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not all there wrote:

You could buy the same thing at any department store for $150 on
special. It's a complete turd. $1450 - for that you'd get at least
Tiagra STI, probably a full groupset from a run of the mill bike shop.
Who are they actually sucking in?


Yeah, it's quite laughable. I bought my 2005 Giant TCR2 with full 9spd
105 (hence a price reduction) for $1399. I race with it and it's a very
good bike IMO. The one these guys are selling is a worthless piece of
crap and they want THAT much for it! Sheesh!
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Old February 7th 08, 03:55 AM posted to aus.bicycle
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On 2008-02-06, BT Humble wrote:
Probably a sample drawn from that population who are adding one to
their number every minute.


BTH
(Was that too abstract?)


P.T. Barnum, unless I'm mistaken.


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