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[PedalUma]

Off topic but I attract the extremes. Super high-end bikes with handmade frames and the bottom of the barrel. Yesterday I worked on an S-Works. I work by appointment. A guy just showed up today stoned on a moped style bike with 16 inch wheels. Three-year-olds ride 16 inch wheels! It had no brakes, the chain was falling off loose, and he had me install pegs, even though he said that he doesn't know any girls. He crashes almost daily. His pants were torn at his left knee from a crash and he had a bad limp. He kept going outside to vape more THC. The bike had these plastic cylinders by the rear springs that do not do anything. The distance from the saddle to the fully extended pedal is about 20 inches. At the top of the pedal stroke it is about 4 1/2 inches with your knees at your ears. Below it says that it is for hunting. What, a moose?

 

[PedalUma]

On that Ti bike the right, drive-side chainstay makes a thud when hitting it with my fingernail, but the left rings indicating that the power side is much thicker, although with the identical outer diameter as the left. The designer was genius, putting care, vision, experience, love, maybe some intuitional alchemy into making the bike. I contacted my cargo mom friend saying we need to fix your brakes. She replied, I have no brakes. I replaced the brake pads yesterday. Intuition. Trust it.

 

[stompandgo]

On that Ti bike the right, drive-side chainstay makes a thud when hitting it with my fingernail, but the left rings indicating that the power side is much thicker, although with the identical outer diameter as the left. The designer was genius, putting care, vision, experience, love, maybe some intuitional alchemy into making the bike.

That's what I'm talking about. Dave still races on one of his Spectrum frames.

Every modern carbon Pinarello bike is built asymetrically. Split down the middle, the right side is not the mirror image of the left side. You can read about it on the Pinarello site. You would think that maybe it would negatively affect the ride, but it doesn't. Quite the opposite. It's the nicest riding bike I've ever owned. I can ride no hands any time I want to. Cornering left feels exactly the same as cornering right.

 

[Chazmo]

That's what I'm talking about. Dave still races on one of his Spectrum frames.

Every modern carbon Pinarello bike is built asymetrically. Split down the middle, the right side is not the mirror image of the left side. You can read about it on the Pinarello site. You would think that maybe it would negatively affect the ride, but it doesn't. Quite the opposite. It's the nicest riding bike I've ever owned. I can ride no hands any time I want to. Cornering left feels exactly the same as cornering right.

Awesome!

I wish I’d been able to make my lovely Merlin Ti MTB fit me, but the upshot is that my son has it in Brooklyn now (young back), so I don’t feel so badly about it. Plus, my Fättie has been transformational for me!