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So I guess this isn't a good time to tell the thread that my LBS has the $5000 road bike I was thinking about buying in stock in my size
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Some MTBs don’t have bottle cages in the main triangle 
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Andy Dufresne posted:So I guess this isn't a good time to tell the thread that my LBS has the $5000 road bike I was thinking about buying in stock in my size What color?
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Aug 12, 2020 02:37
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bicievino posted:What color? Asking the important questions 
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Andy Dufresne posted:So I guess this isn't a good time to tell the thread that my LBS has the $5000 road bike I was thinking about buying in stock in my size Have you considered spending that $5000 not on a road bike, but on a TT bike.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:48
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Turquoise and red https://www.specialized.com/us/en/tarmac-sl7-expert---ultegra-di2/p/175295
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Aug 12, 2020 02:49
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paperwind posted:Have you considered spending that $5000 not on a road bike, but on a TT bike. Those don't look good tho
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Andy Dufresne posted:Those don't look good tho  Or this?  OR THIS? 
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Andy Dufresne posted:Those don't look good tho
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Andy Dufresne posted:Turquoise and red https://www.specialized.com/us/en/tarmac-sl7-expert---ultegra-di2/p/175295 Have you seen it in person? That's... I mean, hey, if you love it then I guess I'm happy for you.
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Bat/Rabies update - got checked out by my (new) primary care physician today, she recommended me for the post-exposure prophylaxis at the local hospital; I called them, they referred me to my county's Health Department, and the rabies specialist there agreed that physical contact with a bat, especially at a spot of broken skin, was an exposure and that I should receive the PEP. I went to the ER and after waiting a few hours for the on-site pharmacy to send down the human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) and the first vaccination, I received my shots. They dose the HRIG by weight, and for me (6'1", 210) this was 14cc spread out over five different shots - left quad (3cc), right quad (3cc), left delt (2cc), and then repeats in my quads. In my right delt I got the first dose of the vaccine. I'll receive the second dose Friday morning, the third dose next Tuesday morning, and the fourth (final) dose the Tuesday after that. The HRIG costs about $15,000 USD before insurance pays their share, and each dosage of the vaccine is about $300 USD. My quads are sore, my delts are sore, but I probably won't develop rabies and that's some relief. As a point of information for the thread, every single healthcare professional that I talked to about this instantly and adamantly stated that I should receive the PEP after physical contact with a bat, even when no bite or scratch was believed to have occurred. The rabies specialist at the Health Department didn't seem to care whether the skin was broken - "You and the bat touched, we don't have the bat to test, that counts as an exposure and you are getting the PEP." Lessons learned - If you hit a bat while riding your bicycle, try to collect it (without physically touching it ideally) so it can be tested for rabies. If you don't collect it, but you made physical contact with it, you are probably going to need the post-exposure prophylaxis, and this will cost you somewhere between a crankset and two new top-of-the-line Tern GSDs depending on how good your health insurance is. This is by all accounts still preferable to contracting rabies, no matter how badly one wants a Tern GSD.
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Andy Dufresne posted:Those don't look good tho lol look at this guy that’s never seen the Canyon Speedmax 
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Aug 12, 2020 03:17
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Terrible Taste
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becoming posted:The HRIG costs about $15,000 USD before insurance pays their share, and each dosage of the vaccine is about $300 USD. God bless America.
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e.pilot posted:lol look at this guy that’s never seen the Canyon Speedmax 
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paperwind posted:God bless America. Worse than triathletes
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:Worse than triathletes You know that America invented triathlon right.
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becoming posted:Bat/Rabies update Starting to think the doctor I went to just wanted to stab someone in the rear end. quote:The HRIG costs about $15,000 USD before insurance pays their share, and each dosage of the vaccine is about $300 USD. What the gently caress America.
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I was writing up a big effort op but after these last posts I'm deleting it and just saying that aero is fake and aero frames are ugly and should be trashed
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I was writing up a big effort op but after these last posts must suck being too slow to take advantage of an aero bike
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Aug 12, 2020 03:59
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Aero frames look like little plastic toys from the pasts vision of the future
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e.pilot posted:must suck being too slow to take advantage of an aero bike Gives me more time to appreciate the ride 
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I was writing up a big effort op but after these last posts But the newbies need the contenttttt.
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"aerodynamics" was a scam pseudoscience invented by Canadians in 2003 to sell ugly bicycles. Few know this
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vikingstrike posted:Don’t spend 5k on a road bike. Spend 5k on MTB. At the same time, you will also be buying the best most versatile gravel bike on the market. You've sold me on the idea, take my money! e: e.pilot posted:lol look at this guy that’s never seen the Canyon Speedmax Someone who posts in this thread (sometimes) has this bike... Levitate fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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EvilJoven posted:Starting to think the doctor I went to just wanted to stab someone in the rear end. Yeeeeep. I was sitting in the ER today thinking about how lucky I am that I happen to make a pretty good salary and have good health insurance. I’ll pay somewhere between $380 and $1200 out of pocket, depending on how the vaccine from the health department gets billed, and while that’s certainly money I could spend on something else, it’s not enough that it’s even a question of whether or not I’d get the treatment - I’ll happily pay it and have the peace of mind that I won’t develop rabies... but there’s a significant portion of America that is uninsured or underinsured, and for those folks there may be an actual question of whether to just chance it and live with the risk that they might some day develop rabies. I was varying levels of worried about this for three full days, I can’t imagine waiting out an incubation period that’s been known to last as long as eight years. Three days kinda sucked, imagine going through the stress of trying to figure out a way to pay for it, deciding that you can’t, and then going “welp, I guess I just hope I don’t die”. I guess with something like rabies, if you can’t afford the treatment you just get it anyway and deal with the bills/collections later. So instead of the stress of “will I die a horrible death?” it’s the stress of “will I survive this medical-debt bankruptcy?” Anyway, not trying to make this a Big Thing but basically Don’t Touch American Bats, It Is Expensive.
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kimbo305 posted:But the newbies need the contenttttt. lol the OP is making me blush please just delete it and put links for the other bike threads e.pilot posted:This is the Bicycle Megathread and we're here to help
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bicievino posted:Have you seen it in person? I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow while I buy some shoes but I won't walk out with it. The pictures look good to me though. I'm in the conundrum of my existing bike being old and bad and I've already got the money set aside for my new ride. The three bikes I've focused on so far are that Tarmac, this Canyon, and this Madone. The red Madone is in stock about 30 miles away but tbh I like the yellow one more. I'm all ears for other bikes in the range I should look at. Genuinely not afraid of aggressive positioning or a stiff ride, I just want to go fast and eventually clip on some tri bars (Canyon has previously made tri bars for that cockpit but I'm not sure if they still do). becoming posted:Bat/Rabies update This is a genuinely disappointing story, and I'm so sorry this happened to you 
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Andy Dufresne posted:The red Madone is in stock about 30 miles away but tbh I like the yellow one more. I'll help make this decision-making easier for you. Trek makes cop bikes so gently caress them.
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Also Specialized has a fairly well-deserved reputation as an industry bully and the blue fade on that Aeroad absolutely fucks. Canyon all the way. I am, however, a Crux-riding hypocrite, so my opinion could very well be based on subconscious guilt. Modal Auxiliary fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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paperwind posted:I'll help make this decision-making easier for you. Trek makes cop bikes so gently caress them. This is the correct answer.
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Levitate posted:You've sold me on the idea, take my money! Mine is all black and more expensive than that model and you bet your rear end I commuted to work on it today. Let's convince Andy to get a TT bike so he can be a top 1% triathlete just based on his running ability.
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Andy Dufresne posted:I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow while I buy some shoes but I won't walk out with it. The pictures look good to me though. Yeah, it didn't tickle me personally but I dislike red, and just can't stop thinking it'd look better if it were just the blue/teal of the rear triangle. But, people like different colors, so if you dig it, of those three I would *absolutely* go for the Specialized. The Canyon is super dated at this point, and Trek makes cop bikes. I would ask 'em about how hard it's gonna be to do clip-on aerobars though... I haven't seen anything about that, and I know with some bars it's just straight up not a thing (even when advertised as such - ask e.pilot about the clipons for his giant propel).
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Andy Dufresne posted:I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow while I buy some shoes but I won't walk out with it. The pictures look good to me though. I know you said aggressive geometry is fine, but make sure to double-check... The Aeroad is particularly long and low in most sizes. Also while aero bikes do chase some real wattage savings, the majority of the aero drag comes from the rider...then the cockpit and wheels. Putting deep wheels and an integrated aero bar/stem on the SL7 is primarily how they made it "as fast as a Venge." You *will* feel the extra weight of the Madone SL when riding up hills. TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Probably impossible to test ride, but if you're looking at Canyon maybe that isn't a dealbreaker. You might also consider this Orbea: https://www.orbea.com/us-en/bicycles/road/orca/cat/orca-m20iteam In contrast to Trek, the cop-bike-sellers, Orbea is a neat employee-owned cooperative. They've also got a custom paint scheme like Trek but more reasonably priced.
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I still can't believe Specialized threatened to sue someone for using "Roubaix" in their Cafe name when it turned out they didn't even own the rights to that brand but were licensing it from the owners of Fuji. Just incredible. I actually really like old Specialized bikes but I'll never get a new one after stories like that.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I still can't believe Specialized threatened to sue someone for using "Roubaix" in their Cafe name when it turned out they didn't even own the rights to that brand but were licensing it from the owners of Fuji. Just incredible. Yeah, that was super lovely. What they've been doing with supporting greater representation in the sport in more recent years is enough to turn my opinion, though.
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Longshot, but does anyone have experience with early- to mid-70s Gitane TdFs or Olympics? I have a stupid idea I can't let go of and it involves a 650b conversion on an old Gitane. I'd like to know what the 700c max widths are at the fork and chainstays.
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