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  1. ratz

    Possible to mod for gates carbon drive and internal hub?

    I'm lazier than both of you; WD40 by the gallon at homedepot $2.99. Ride, Spray, wipe down with a rag; repeat. Ditto For those that ride in the rain on purpose well you need a better solution or don't live in the northwest US.
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    Self motivation is a good thing

    In honor of her being out on the road for her first solo 60 miler today (and it really isn't warm out). I thought I'd point out that having a self motivated spouse means never having to kickr in da... Yeah we have his and her's trainers now so we can race in the basement. :p
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    Larry's Ride report from 2015 12 hour Calvin's Challenge

    These are cut pretty much just right for no Bent Aero flapping and the pockets are in the right places and the collar isn't made for a road bike. http://www.benditcycling.com/Neon-Flame.html http://www.benditcycling.com/High-Voltage_p_38.html and last years design was on sale and has a few...
  4. ratz

    New Vendetta V20

    Pretty sure that's even within reach with 700c wheels if he has the budget. :cool: Although 9.5kg and a 3lb diet for the engine is immensely cheaper. :p
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    New Vendetta V20

    Yeah just try this; look for a small pace line of 4 or 5 heading into a head wind. Rather then run them down; just take your time catching them so they can see you coming for a long time. Then when you finally do pass them; then finally pedal up to full normal speed so they know you'd been sand...
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    Possible to mod for gates carbon drive and internal hub?

    Yeah probably would need a Fixie style front fork with a dropout based fork. The problem with those belts is nobody has come up with the equivalent to a chain tensioner for the "conversion" industry. If that tensioner existed these things would probably pop up in more places. Speaking of a...
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    Vendetta finally tested

    Typo 20mm-25mm sorry. The Ventisit thing pad is just 20mm thick (just measured it) If I recall before you sit on it the stock pad is 50-60mm thick. I know I had to change the boom length when I changed the pad out. The V is totally comfortable over 100miles, but the S is nap inspiring...
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    Larry's Ride report from 2015 12 hour Calvin's Challenge

    Clearly you need more bottle holders. :) More amazing is the number of DF riders with incredibly poor fitting bikes; I'm always amazed at the number of people over extending their legs
  9. ratz

    My Journey Begins...

    LOL that was the only way to make the bike easy to see because of all the background noise.... or maybe there is an M1 hammer head behind the curtain....:rolleyes:
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    Vendetta finally tested

    "I rode a vendetta achievement unlocked, proceed to the next level of the game" Ok so The seat angles on the 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and V20 are all very very close aka you won't be able to tell any difference so don't sweat that. The big change was the geometry of the front end and bend in the boom was...
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    LOL My day job

    +1 for the one liner.
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    LOL My day job

    Pretty much anytime someone says "that'll take too long to fix that data"
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    LOL My day job

    That's the new vwmare 3-way system for an exchange cluster for our mail services. 1000 users, 1million message processed inbound (spam/ham) per week. You want to see the matrix's green data stream? yeah we got live logs that look like that. Sucker is gonna be fast with SAS 2TB Raid-10 and SATA...
  14. ratz

    2104 Silvio for sale

    When the market is strong, you can calculate it two ways: By Mileage or By Age. The usual is 10% off per 1000 miles for a complete bike.The other way is to consider it as depreciation: Step 1 Find the original price of the bicycle. Step 2 Determine how many years you think the bike is usable...
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    My Journey Begins...

    Which model trainer? A quick google and they all looked like mag style trainers to me. Plenty of us here on the forums use flywheel ones like that. Just make sure the fly wheel is to the Back side of the drive wheel. Here's Silvio on a Flywheel trainer.
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    LOL My day job

    This is probably the better thread to answer Slims question about what weight so much. two ups two external batteries; 4 server chasis and 39 hard drives. Sadly I think I could build 2 full Silvios faster than the time it took to unbox everything and assemble all the drive. OEM drives might be...
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    New Vendetta V20

    Ventisit Seat Pad solves that problem and the hot sweaty day problem. Highly recommend if you don't already have one on backorder from Robert.
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    Calvin's Challenge

    Couldn't have said it better.
  19. ratz

    SRAM 11-speed 11-36 cassette for double chainrings?

    Hard to beat Velocity on so many fronts.
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    SRAM 11-speed 11-36 cassette for double chainrings?

    The 350 is usually compare to the Ultegra 6700 Advantage 350 versus 105 for weight capacity; and for having also having a Straight Pull version for both front and back for the same price which doubles the number of RIMs you can pick from. Cavet being straight pull limits your max spokes to...
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