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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby schroeds » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:48 pm

Good move...the new is the nicest Oppy I've seen
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby visrealm » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:40 pm

Dimma wrote:Love seeing bikes well used!
Me too - makes it happy I think :)
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby jasonc » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:46 pm

Dimma wrote:The new:
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very stealth Dimma

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby DTdotcom » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:54 pm

Cheers mate, just need to get ride of the tires, and make some cockpit adjustments.

How's ur new ride going?

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby jasonc » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:44 pm

Dimma wrote:Cheers mate, just need to get ride of the tires, and make some cockpit adjustments.

How's ur new ride going?

D

new ride is going well - de-stickered the thing yesterday. cockpit adjustments also required (have a shorter stem to try in my hand right now)

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby hanzao » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:11 pm

Dimma wrote:The old:
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The new:
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Have to say very nice
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby ldrcycles » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:33 pm

That new oppy is seriously cool, i really like the new headtube too, the old hourglass shape didn't do anything for me. I reckon the new one would look even better with the carbon rims you had on the old one.
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby DTdotcom » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:45 pm

Those carbon clinchers are dead, they only lasted 5 months.
The frame is great, the BB is ridiculous, def improves the stiffness.
The previous frame was outstanding for long seated climbs, yet to see how the new one goes.

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby schroeds » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:20 pm

Dimma wrote:Those carbon clinchers are dead, they only lasted 5 months.
Jeez, what brand were they? Remind me not to get any.

The Easton's should look after you. Btw fwiw I like the tyres.
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby JessicaAlba » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:33 pm

Dimma wrote:The new:
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Anything in Red and Black will get my vote...but that thing is just sex on wheels!
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby il padrone » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:38 pm

A different style of bike for your scrutiny - my Thorn Nomad with Xtrawheel fully loaded (~65kgs :shock: ) at Kulgera crossing the Ghan railway line.

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby jheeno » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:23 am

Dimma wrote:Those carbon clinchers are dead, they only lasted 5 months.
The frame is great, the BB is ridiculous, def improves the stiffness.
The previous frame was outstanding for long seated climbs, yet to see how the new one goes.
why what happened to carbon clinchers ?
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby schroeds » Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:52 am

il padrone wrote:A different style of bike for your scrutiny - my Thorn Nomad with Xtrawheel fully loaded (~65kgs :shock: ) at Kulgera crossing the Ghan railway line.
Obvious question: why didn't you take the train :P
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby Crittski » Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:58 am

Updated the disc brakes to hydraulics with the TRP Parabox

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby il padrone » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:04 am

schroeds wrote:
il padrone wrote:A different style of bike for your scrutiny - my Thorn Nomad with Xtrawheel fully loaded (~65kgs :shock: ) at Kulgera crossing the Ghan railway line.
Obvious question: why didn't you take the train :P
Nah, nah. We took the plane :D
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby visrealm » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:44 am

il padrone wrote:A different style of bike for your scrutiny - my Thorn Nomad with Xtrawheel fully loaded (~65kgs :shock: ) at Kulgera crossing the Ghan railway line.

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Good training rig :D Can't imagine how a nice roadie would feel after this.
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby DTdotcom » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:34 am

I wore out the braking surface, and had ongoing rear wheel durability issues.
They didn't suit my style of riding more than the wheels being inferior.

re tires, I just don't like colour, and I'm a Conti man.

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby familyguy » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:57 am

Dimma wrote:The new:
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LBS owner turned up on one of these on sunday. UDi2, stealth graphics, the works. Very nice.

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby rpmspinman » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:04 pm

Crittski wrote:Updated the disc brakes to hydraulics with the TRP Parabox

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Thats a sexy looking stead there. Love it.
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby norbs » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:32 pm

Crittski wrote:Updated the disc brakes to hydraulics with the TRP Parabox

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Want!

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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby hannos » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:08 pm

norbs wrote:
Crittski wrote:Updated the disc brakes to hydraulics with the TRP Parabox

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Want!

pfft. It's got those new fan-dangled disc brake thingos. That idea will never catch on!
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby il padrone » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:52 pm

visrealm wrote:Good training rig :D Can't imagine how a nice roadie would feel after this.
I whistled up Kinglake on this bike (unladen) on Sunday, leaving all my companions on their road touring bikes and roadies behind in my dust :twisted:

Have yet to touch the real road bike.
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby Whorl » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:23 pm

First time poster! Got back into riding a few months ago after a 15 year hiatus and grabbed this shot on the weekend after a ride out to the local dam. Enjoying every minute of it!
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Re: Bike Gallery

Postby adrian_d » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:41 pm

il padrone wrote:A different style of bike for your scrutiny - my Thorn Nomad with Xtrawheel fully loaded (~65kgs :shock: ) at Kulgera crossing the Ghan railway line.

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You sir need more drink bottles haha. I barely drink water when i'm riding so that lot would last me years haha.

65kg is a fair bit to carry around, thats like having someone on the back of a tandem and the other person not doing any pedalling. Very impressive indeed.

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Postby il padrone » Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:45 pm

Water? That's only 3 L in the bottles. On days like this one (39 degrees later) we went through all of that water and twice over !! You would as well. In the red panniers I had two 10L water bags with ~ 12L in them. This was enough for our overnight camping needs.

The total luggage load was a heavy haul. At the maximum load of 65 kgs, for about 7-8 days between resupply and up to 3 days between water points, I could not actually lift my rear wheel off the ground (without doing a serious back injury). 25kgs of all my camping gear, 23L of water = 23 kgs, and then food for up to 8 days = ~15 kgs.
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