Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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Why do you think they bent the top tube like that? Doubt it's just styling. Seems like it would reduce the frame's in-plane rigidity, but it could soften the ride on bumpy surfaces.
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Why do you think they bent the top tube like that? Doubt it's just styling. Seems like it would reduce the frame's in-plane rigidity, but it could soften the ride on bumpy surfaces.
stompandgo
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The latter. The X stays are also proprietary, designed to dampen the ride, yet remain stiff laterally. The Dogma F is the World Tour bike. The X is the UCI-approved "endurance bike". It's really not an endurance bike. It rides like a race bike, just more comfortably. I rode it in Italy on all sorts of surfaces, up a five mile climb, and through the back side switchbacks at high speed. It's a race bike.
The Pinarello site describes a lot of their design philosophy. They also put out white papers if you are really interested in the details.
Every once in a while (OK more frequently than that) I find myself wanting a high end bike like those RabH or Stompandgo recently ordered - but then I remind myself that, for me, they would be like putting lipstick on a pig. Unfortunately I'm more suited to the bicycle shaped objects that I already own.
Stefan Mikes
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People are not immortal. Buy yourself something good before it's too late!
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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There's always the spousal discount: Whatever the bike outlay, tell the missus it cost half that — but only if she asks.
Whatever you do, don't say, "But honey, what about all those shoes??"
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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Never realized how true that idiom is till I made the mistake of asking Google to see pigs in lipstick.
Not a single one looked good.
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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Speaking of expensive hobbies, spotted near the coffee shop the missus and I like to ride to...
Dreamed of a '57 Chevy with a big V8 as a teen in the 60s. Wonder what this one's worth in 2026?
Dreamed of a '57 Chevy with a big V8 as a teen in the 60s. Wonder what this one's worth in 2026?
Gionnirocket
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Yet somehow one still managed to neuter you
6zfshdb
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I bought a 57 chevy convertible in 1967. I Fixed it up to near stock condition before selling it in 1972 for $350.
Unfortunately, this is the only pic I have of it.
I was in a body shop 2 years ago and saw a picture on the wall of a 57. I mentioned to the owner that I had once owned one and described it in detail. He smiled and took me out to a barn behind the shop. He opened a bay door and there was the exact, fully restored car in the pic above! It actually brought tears to my eyes! He told me he had just bought it at auction for $126K !! Apparently, 57 convertibles are rare and demand a higher price.
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Chargeride
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Is that the Christine car?
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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None of the Christines I've known had a '57 Chevy. But I bet I would've gotten a lot farther with Christine Baker if I'd had one back in the day.
;^}
stompandgo
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At least four Pinarello Dogma's.
Jeremy McCreary
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I bet at least 10 Dogmas for this '57 Chevy.
BTW, Dogma strikes me as an odd name for a bike. Bet these gorgeous Pinarellos are a dream to ride and race, but nothing good ever comes from dogma. They're also cutting-edge on many fronts. Where's the dogma in that?
No offense. I think Vado's a stupid bike name, too.
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DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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It sounded better than Budgiema...
stompandgo
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I don't understand Italians. Nice people, mostly, but there's a little bit of Vito in all of them.
No offense, Italians, just my warped life experiences.
Watana Bob
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Jeremy, my dad bought a new '57 that exact color only in the wagon version when I was a year old. If I recall, there were no seatbelts and my dad would just stick us kids in the rear cargo area to play as he drove, and if I remember correctly, he could remove the keys from the ignition while driving and give them to us to play with. We made a road trip the next year, '58, from Anchorage to Pennsylvania and back to settle his folk's estate in that car, it would be the last time that he would leave Alaska, 55 years later he passed away in 2013. I once asked him why he didn't want to get out and see the world, he said that he had seen enough of the world from the gun turret of an A26 in WWII.
