My Newest Addiction
 

My Newest Toy

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I've been wanting to get into Cycling for quite some time now, but I never had the opportunity nor did I know anyone that was into it. Up and behold, my new job and new colleagues!

I ordered this bad boy about a couple of week's ago, picked it up last Friday. My original plan was to buy a lower model/cheaper version, but my personality and tendencies to upgrade/modify the bike would've cost me more in the long run. So, I convinced myself to "Go BIG or Go Home!"

good job. nice bike.

i did the same thing, and then i ended up still upgrading and modifying my bike :twised:

Marko,

Don't tempt me, I've kinda been looking at lighter wheels already. Haha!

Zipp carbon wheels

You can spend a lot making it lighter, which is only worth it if you're already 6% body fat and are seriously racing :) Mine is about 15 pounds, light enough for me.

But the zipp wheels make a cool whooshing sounds.

Well there ya go, gotta have those. :)

Mine is sitting at 16.5 lbs, I'm not going to be racing so I can definitely live with it.

I already went with Carbon pedals, but new Carbon wheels would just be sexy! Haha!

Once you buy the bike and the million accessories that goes with it, you have to ride it.....you know with your legs:mrgreen:

sticks?? and I think the part of accessories will be a electric motor.

lol you mean go sticks! lol

Dammit Marko... now I gotta check these out too. :twised:

Can Tony and I tag along riding our 40 lb Freeride / DH bikes? :D

Congratulations on the new bike!

An electric motor is probably twice the weight of the bike.

I'm only doing 15kms every 2nd day, I should be up to 20-25 kms in a couple of weeks.

Unlike some "people" a Bike doesn't need 600 CC's to move it and the rider.

Anyhow, I got into Cycling to improve myself not to show off. However, once I get up to doing longer distances, I think I'm going to do the Ride to Conquer Cancer.

Thanks!

Haha! I rode my mountain bike the other day, and it felt sooo weird that it took me a couple mins to get used to it.

We have my Mtn bike and my wife's city bike set up with seats for the kids. We went for a leisurely 10.5 kms ride last week.

Pretty soon I won't be able to call you the skinniest fat guy I know.:mrgreen:

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This is the Lounge:wink:

Wow Ken nice bike, please refrain from mentioning carbon anything as you make me jealous.... When my wife asked me what ring I wanted for our wedding bands guess what I said?? Carbon with a fat diamond inset, unfortunately we settled on black tungsten carbide....

My best friend did the ride to conquer cancer from Seattle to Oregon last year on his mountain bike, it wasn't the lightest bike but he finished, so I have faith you can do it too....

I had to trade in my downhill bike that weighed alot so much it was hard to pick up with one hand, I bought a lighter mountain bike and zip around the seawall and Stanley park alot easier but wouldn't mind getting a lighter Raleigh bike so I can attemp to ride further distances.... I wanna ride from Richmond to Stanley park which I figure should be around 35k if you go marine through Ubc and then over the burrard and around Stanley park. You're so lucky you live by science world you can just hall around the seawall and cut across to Canada place....

We should do a ride sometime, I'll skytrain to cambie and we could do the seawall all the way around Vancouver to kits!

I did the sea wall to kits on my first ride, it's a 25 min leisure ride. I fell once on Cornwall at the first light, I quickly learned how to get used to bring clipped into the pedals. Haha!

My house to 2nd Beach is less than 15 mins, but there's a lot of pedestrians that walk in the bike lane.

My next ride is to Stanley Park and do the whole sea wall around it. It should be about a 25 km ride.

Marko.........I hold you personally responsible for these:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/09/19/agudapy9.jpg

At least that's what I'm telling my wife. Haha!
Hopefully she may never find out that these bad boys are worth almost as much as the bike. Although I did tell her the truth that I got them for one hell of a deal though.

Very nice upgrade :lol:
Every bit counts :mrgreen:

Where's the disc brakes ?

I remember when Mavic rims were IT - geez I'm old

OOo i love roadbikes and miss it, just cant find anymore time to spend on the road nowadays...

Just out of curiosity what does the bike weigh now? I'm rocking my all mountain 19.5lb Norco Fluid One:
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5293178/

And my Devinci Remix SL1 XC bike sitting at 21.2lb - wife or daughter use this bike now

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5293198/

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Here's one of mine, just over 12 lbs as she sits...

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I don't ride these wheels all the time though, the potroads will eat them up...

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If you're cycling to get in shape I find that cheaper and heavier gives a much better work out, that's why I have my Costco bike that sits in the shed all year. Just thinking of it right now is making me skinnier!

HAHA love this.

Nice wheels (literally). In modding bikes I've always reduced rotational weight as much as possible, as I notice a huge difference. I've never been overly concerned with stationary weight, as that doesn't really seem to have too much of an effect.