What nice choices there are these days to build a system, I’ve never known a better time. Gratuitous off-thread image of my bikes, and closer to topic, listening/living space. [DSCF1690] [DSCF1697]

borrowed it from a skunk in the ditch

Pinarello For Sale Dogma F8 2018 Size 47 sloping (52.5 top tube c/c) White with black and silver graphics (gorgeous!!) All Dura Ace 9100 mechanical, 9000 brake calipers (lighter, better) Enve carbon bar and stem Zipp Firecrest clinchers, 303 front, 404 rear Conti 4000, 25mm Crank is 50/34, …

Sounds beautiful! Probably hard letting this puppy go!

Can’t look at it just sitting there. I live in a very hilly area, atop the highest, longest hill near here; 14% segments not recommended with Afib. waaaa!!!

[image] Hi Ron, I gave up climbing in 2015, I am in Afib 100% of the time and losing my cardio capacity. I am now 76. So, I put my baby on a trainer and ride it for 5 or 6 minutes when I get up in the morning. I can’t get my conditioning back; but I can circulate some blood. Best Regards Cha…

There is a motorcycle thread as well. [image] We also love motorcycles Everything Else While my wife doesn’t ride, but as a percentage the dozen (or more) women I’ve ridden with on technical tracks and roadways were better at feeling the surface and knowing the limits of …

We adapt or we sit and rot. (You rest, you rust) I’m going to give in and try an e-bike. btw, Seven frames are works of art; gorgeous welds.

Thanks for liking my Seven. Btw it was ‘welded’ in 1994; with only one top and head tube replacement in 2012, due to my car rack (and my driving, of course, into a garage without stopping, ugh). Fate later reciprocated, blessing me with a full knee replacement. The Seven is happy. So am I, the la…

Nice bikes, Ron, Chas, and Cardi (who seems to be killing it). I used to average a 1000 easy miles a year and now half that. I don’t have a funky heart and stay in reasonable condition so I have no excuse. A have a Kestrel, the original full carbon. Not the Beatty that Seven is.

I loved the Red Kestrels of the 1980s. They were magnificent rides.

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