Sweet agony of choice - best all-around bike for under a grand?

In article ,
Kevan Smith writes:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:01:12 -0700, (Tom Keats) from
wrote:

So do I. A complete set of all-copper cookware would be
wonderful to have.

Until you have to clean it.

Who says you have to clean them? ;-)


cheers,
Tom

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Bryanska,

Proper fit is your friend. You willl have less pain and more ride time
with proper fit. You may want to find a bike shop that will do custom
fit for cheap and get measured with part of the money. A proper
measurement will take about 2 hours. You have many parts measured and
then sit on a fully adjustable bike and they move it around to find
the best fit for you. A custom bike will be out of your price range at
the amount you have listed. You can take the measurements from the
fitting and then you can search for the closest bike to your fitting.
Most companies will have the exact measurements of all of their bikes
listed on the web. You can then be secure that the bike that you buy
will be comfortable for you. This is how I found my first comfortable
road bike. I think you should be less concerned about brand and more
concerned with fit.

---Brink

Subject: Sweet agony of choice - best all-around bike for under a grand?
From: (Bryanska)
Date: 10/5/2004 7:52 AM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

I don't think I'm ready for a fixed gear. I like gears.

My Schwinn's drop bars hurt my hand webs, wrists, and elbows. (And
yes, it's sized well and I've been to two LBS to try and fix this, but
bike people can sometimes make you feel like you're doing something
wrong, especially if you're not planning on buying anything) So maybe
start out with ergonomic drops & a good stem, and eventually go with
those butterflies I've been seeing?

You should do some reading. Most fixed gears have drop bars...after all many
are track bikes.... some people use bullhorn or mustache bars.
start at bikeforums.net, and there is a HUGE thread called "pictures of my
fixed gear"

Until you have to clean it.

Who says you have to clean them? ;-)


cheers,
Tom


They're not dirty...they're "seasoned" :-D

Subject: Sweet agony of choice - best all-around bike for under a grand?
From: (Brink)
Date: 10/5/2004 6:33 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

Bryanska,

Proper fit is your friend. You willl have less pain and more ride time
with proper fit. You may want to find a bike shop that will do custom
fit for cheap and get measured with part of the money. A proper
measurement will take about 2 hours. You have many parts measured and
then sit on a fully adjustable bike and they move it around to find
the best fit for you. A custom bike will be out of your price range at
the amount you have listed. You can take the measurements from the
fitting and then you can search for the closest bike to your fitting.
Most companies will have the exact measurements of all of their bikes
listed on the web. You can then be secure that the bike that you buy
will be comfortable for you. This is how I found my first comfortable
road bike. I think you should be less concerned about brand and more
concerned with fit.

---Brink

How many bike shops can really do a good fit though.
I know of one guy is supposed to be very good who charges about what my bike
used to be worth until I upgraded.
Almost makes you want to consider a custom frame.

In article ,
Kevan Smith writes:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:08:14 -0700, (Tom Keats) from
wrote:

In article ,
Kevan Smith writes:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:01:12 -0700, (Tom Keats) from
wrote:

So do I. A complete set of all-copper cookware would be
wonderful to have.

Until you have to clean it.

Who says you have to clean them? ;-)

Ewwww! Tarnished copper is ugly!

We don't call it 'tarnish'. We call it a patina.


cheers again,
Tom

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Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:57:02 -0700, ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

Ewwww! Tarnished copper is ugly!

We don't call it 'tarnish'. We call it a patina.

They used to apply horse urine to new copper roofing to begin the
patina. Now there's some chemical stuff that does the same thing.
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Zoot Katz wrote:
Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:57:02 -0700, ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

Ewwww! Tarnished copper is ugly!

We don't call it 'tarnish'. We call it a patina.

They used to apply horse urine to new copper roofing to begin the
patina. Now there's some chemical stuff that does the same thing.

Which is why horses' legs are getting shorter all the time.

Bill "now they just slide off piers" S.

Kevan Smith /dev/null wrote:
As a Bianchi rider, I'll tell you it's the sexy Italian design lines. It's
made to flow with speed, and it does. I've got a Sa Marco Concor on mine --
black leather on a silver frame with bullhorn bars. People in the know always
give me a first look for the frame, then they go ga ga when they see it's
fixed.

Better it than you, huh.

But what I wanted to post about here is:

I missed about 12 years of bikie culture.

What is the deal with this fetish for fixed-gear machines?

Is it a kinky fad or are people honestly trying to connect
to the earliest days of the sport?

--Blair
"And why do we park in the driveway
but drive on the--ulp!"

Blair P. Houghton wrote:

Better it than you, huh.

But what I wanted to post about here is:

I missed about 12 years of bikie culture.

What is the deal with this fetish for fixed-gear machines?

Is it a kinky fad or are people honestly trying to connect
to the earliest days of the sport?

It's one of those "if you've never done it, you'll never understand
things". It took me over 20 years to get around to building a fixie,
but it feels more like a bike should feel than anything else I've ever
ridden.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame