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Mon, 25 Apr 2005
Summer's here, and I'm happy to say I'm finally getting back into road biking. Step one: buy a bike.
It turns out that the used bike market strongly favors the buyer. That is to say, fancy road bikes hold value about as well as a wet baby T holds in Britney Spears's implants. I was able to pick up the ridiculously hot Kestrel 500SCi (see picture, right) for about 1/4 of what it would have cost new.
A Kestrel with Dura-Ace all around for less than a new Cannondale R700 with 105s. Score.
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gwax wrote
Oh! Sex!
Holy crap, that bike is sex! Good job old chap.
Johnstoned wrote
Fsck you man: all Dura-Ace? You worthless yuppie.
Sincerely,
A 105/Ultegra guy
repak wrote
Dude, if Dura-Ace makes me a yuppie, sign me up.
If it makes you feel any better, there's no way I'm gonna spring for the Dura-Ace SPD pedals. The Performance Mag/Ti ones are lighter and about 4x cheaper anyway.
-repak
Johnstoned wrote
Heh. I actually have Ultegra SPD-SL pedeals that say
"Dura-Ace" on them. I wore out the platforms (!) and
the shop tech had only Dura-Ace parts... but of course
the two versions are identical except for the bearings.
Rodin wrote
When you guys are done pissing all over each other, I'd like to point out the elegant curves of the frame. I don't know what Gwax was talking about (I seldom do), but that dip in her lower back fires up the old nitric oxide.
Johnstoned wrote
Rodin is on to something here. Qualitatively, how noticable
is the loss of stiffness with the no-seat-tube design?
repak wrote
re: stiffness
I'll report more on this when I have more datapoints. My dad has the Kestrel 200EMS, and it's qualitatively stiffer, but it's also made of stiffer carbon.
Either way, I'm not racing this thing, and a little flex goes a long way on long hauls...
-repak