6'6" beginner rider wonders: 62cm or 64cm Trek frame?

Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 08:27 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 08:16 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
On 3/15/2010 7:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 06:39 PM, AMuzi wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 06:21 PM, Jay wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

(snip)

http://www.neiu.edu/~jbollyn/bike/bbq/

Glad you got a real rack. I think you should over the rack
brackets
with black heat-shrink tubing to keep the color scheme all black.

I was just thinking today about how the brackets disrupt the feng
shui.
Heat-shrink tubing would be ideal, but I might just wrap with black
electrical tape.

I've got just the car to go with that paint scheme
http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/2008..._06_01_003.JPG
Actually, I my beater 944 is black with a black leather interior...
only non-black bits on the whole car are the wheels.
yeah, I like black

That's too bad. Red is faster

(yes, I do. Although I don't drive much now)


I don't like red cars. For some reason they are visible to cops and
nobody else. I used to have a red GTI 16V, and I swear to God, some
idiot managed to rear end me while I was stopped in a parking lot near
an Applebee's, while I was sitting still, under one of those big
honking parking lot light poles, with my lights and turn signal on.
Only thing I can figure was that he was way drunk, but the only damage
to my car was the scuffs on the rear bumper from the screws on his
front plate, so I just told him that he was a freaking idiot and to
get the hell out of there.

The same exact thing happened to me on I-66 as well... stop and go
traffic, I was at the tail end of it, guy apparently couldn't see the
wall of cars (not to be confused with the wall of sound, which is way
more fun) in front of him and I happened to be at the tail end of it
in the middle lane with nowhere to go.

Say what you like about vee-dubs, they stand up well to being
rear-ended by morons.


You got that right. It is a cop magnet.

That is why I drive a gray compact sedan.

BTW when I read that sort of thing (yours above) or see these:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story...storyid=197979

I wonder how much effect a blinky or red reflector has, when push comes
to shove. If the guy didn't see 2 parked vehicles with red/blue lights
running or couldn't quite discern your red CAR right in his lane, how
much does a little red thing do?

There is a theory that the flashing lights attract drunks.


There may be something to that, not so much drunks but that they attract
people in general by drawing their attention to them. If you've ever
driven a car that really turns heads, the same thing happens - people
drift into your lane because they're steering where they're looking. It
actually takes some practice to be able to drive a straight line and
look somewhere else, and most people don't practice that, because, well,
you ought to be looking where you're going. I imagine that being drunk
just makes you a) more likely to stare at the pretty blinky lights and
momentarily forget what you're doing and b) more likely to forget to
keep from steering in the direction of the pretty blinky lights at which
you shouldn't be staring but are anyway.

Worst car I had for the "people drifting into your lane because they're
staring at it, probably trying to figure out what the heck it is" was
also bright red, but this time it was a '62 Studebaker hardtop. I also
saw a cop's head swivel about 270 degrees once as I passed him at
exactly 54.5 MPH (the glasspacks might have had something to do with
that...) Nobody ever ran into that car, thankfully...

nate


just dusted off some crusty ol' pics and threw 'em up, in case you were
wondering to what I was referring
http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/daytona.html

Yep, that's red. Cute too.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/red0904.html

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 03/15/2010 08:46 PM, AMuzi wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 08:27 PM, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 08:16 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
On 3/15/2010 7:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 06:39 PM, AMuzi wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 03/15/2010 06:21 PM, Jay wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

(snip)

http://www.neiu.edu/~jbollyn/bike/bbq/

Glad you got a real rack. I think you should over the rack
brackets
with black heat-shrink tubing to keep the color scheme all black.

I was just thinking today about how the brackets disrupt the feng
shui.
Heat-shrink tubing would be ideal, but I might just wrap with
black
electrical tape.

I've got just the car to go with that paint scheme
http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/2008..._06_01_003.JPG
Actually, I my beater 944 is black with a black leather interior...
only non-black bits on the whole car are the wheels.
yeah, I like black

That's too bad. Red is faster

(yes, I do. Although I don't drive much now)


I don't like red cars. For some reason they are visible to cops and
nobody else. I used to have a red GTI 16V, and I swear to God, some
idiot managed to rear end me while I was stopped in a parking lot
near
an Applebee's, while I was sitting still, under one of those big
honking parking lot light poles, with my lights and turn signal on.
Only thing I can figure was that he was way drunk, but the only
damage
to my car was the scuffs on the rear bumper from the screws on his
front plate, so I just told him that he was a freaking idiot and to
get the hell out of there.

The same exact thing happened to me on I-66 as well... stop and go
traffic, I was at the tail end of it, guy apparently couldn't see the
wall of cars (not to be confused with the wall of sound, which is way
more fun) in front of him and I happened to be at the tail end of it
in the middle lane with nowhere to go.

Say what you like about vee-dubs, they stand up well to being
rear-ended by morons.


You got that right. It is a cop magnet.

That is why I drive a gray compact sedan.

BTW when I read that sort of thing (yours above) or see these:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story...storyid=197979

I wonder how much effect a blinky or red reflector has, when push
comes
to shove. If the guy didn't see 2 parked vehicles with red/blue lights
running or couldn't quite discern your red CAR right in his lane, how
much does a little red thing do?

There is a theory that the flashing lights attract drunks.


There may be something to that, not so much drunks but that they attract
people in general by drawing their attention to them. If you've ever
driven a car that really turns heads, the same thing happens - people
drift into your lane because they're steering where they're looking. It
actually takes some practice to be able to drive a straight line and
look somewhere else, and most people don't practice that, because, well,
you ought to be looking where you're going. I imagine that being drunk
just makes you a) more likely to stare at the pretty blinky lights and
momentarily forget what you're doing and b) more likely to forget to
keep from steering in the direction of the pretty blinky lights at which
you shouldn't be staring but are anyway.

Worst car I had for the "people drifting into your lane because they're
staring at it, probably trying to figure out what the heck it is" was
also bright red, but this time it was a '62 Studebaker hardtop. I also
saw a cop's head swivel about 270 degrees once as I passed him at
exactly 54.5 MPH (the glasspacks might have had something to do with
that...) Nobody ever ran into that car, thankfully...

nate


just dusted off some crusty ol' pics and threw 'em up, in case you
were wondering to what I was referring
http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/daytona.html

Yep, that's red. Cute too.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/red0904.html


Nice. Oddly enough, the guy's house where those pics were taken had at
some point restored a similar body style turbo convertible. I never saw
that car though...

nate

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Nate Nagel wrote:

I don't like red cars. For some reason they are visible to cops and
nobody else.

Someone told me that /yellow/ attracts the eye more than any other color.

They told me this shortly after I bought a (gorgeous) yellow sports car.

Bill "and yes, I traded in a RED sports car -- no (speeding) tickets" S.

In article , Nate Nagel
wrote:

I've got just the car to go with that paint scheme

http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/2008..._06_01_003.JPG

No offense, but I always thought the front end of those things looked
like the front end of a carp, and this photo illustrates that
perfectly.

dan trolling the bottom becker

In article , Nate Nagel
wrote:

just dusted off some crusty ol' pics and threw 'em up, in case you were
wondering to what I was referring

http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/daytona.html

And now in penance I must say that for 1962 that is one extraordinarily
fine rear end.

dan red in the face becker

Jay wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

(snip)

http://www.neiu.edu/~jbollyn/bike/bbq/

Glad you got a real rack. I think you should over the rack brackets
with black heat-shrink tubing to keep the color scheme all black.

I was just thinking today about how the brackets disrupt the feng shui.
Heat-shrink tubing would be ideal, but I might just wrap with black
electrical tape.

Electrical tape is tacky and it won't last long. Either paint them or
use heat shrink. I've used black heat shrink on several bikes where I've
installed black rear racks.

SMS wrote:
Jay wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

(snip)

http://www.neiu.edu/~jbollyn/bike/bbq/

Glad you got a real rack. I think you should over the rack brackets
with black heat-shrink tubing to keep the color scheme all black.

I was just thinking today about how the brackets disrupt the feng
shui. Heat-shrink tubing would be ideal, but I might just wrap with
black electrical tape.

Electrical tape is tacky and it won't last long. Either paint them or
use heat shrink. I've used black heat shrink on several bikes where I've
installed black rear racks.

I used electrical tape to cover chrome inserts on outside door handles
of a car I owned. When I sold it more than a dozen ungaraged years later
it looked fine.

On Mar 15, 10:39*pm, Dan Becker wrote:
In article , Nate Nagel

wrote:
I've got just the car to go with that paint scheme

http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/2008..._06_01_003.JPG

No offense, but I always thought the front end of those things looked
like the front end of a carp, and this photo illustrates that
perfectly.

dan trolling the bottom becker

I believe i've heard it called a "chrome catfish" before, but have you
priced a good used 53-54 Stude front clip lately?

nate

Per Nate Nagel:

http://members.cox.net/njnagel2/daytona.html

Geeze, a reminder that at one time they actually *did* make
sedans with headroom...
--
PeteCresswell

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

"SMS" wrote in message
...
Jay wrote:

(snip)

http://www.neiu.edu/~jbollyn/bike/bbq/

Glad you got a real rack. I think you should over the rack brackets with
black heat-shrink tubing to keep the color scheme all black.

I was just thinking today about how the brackets disrupt the feng shui.
Heat-shrink tubing would be ideal, but I might just wrap with black
electrical tape.

Electrical tape is tacky and it won't last long. Either paint them or use
heat shrink. I've used black heat shrink on several bikes where I've
installed black rear racks.

I don't have a heat gun. I found a Weldy Plus Heat Gun online, but it is
$190. I don't think I would find enough uses for it around the house, to
justify the expense.

J.