OT: just stepped up my pedal-powered game...
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xyster
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Where do you buy mag wheels like that?
Someone should put a hubmotor in one...spokes blow.
Someone should put a hubmotor in one...spokes blow.
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bought the HED3 at a local bike shop... only costed $700 
xyster
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d said:bought the HED3 at a local bike shop... only costed $700
Yikes! Spokes don't blow that hard, do they? Guess you're rolling in dough....literally :lol:
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thats the price you pay for space-age lightweight composite materials, aerodynamics, low rolling resistance, and of course looks... :wink:
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Ypedal
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Anyone know someone who would seriously do up a hub motor ?
I'd like a 3 part rig you could bolt together over a hub, then mount the tire.
Weight is not the concern, but strength and durability are. Can carbon fiber take impact type hits ?
I'd like a 3 part rig you could bolt together over a hub, then mount the tire.
Weight is not the concern, but strength and durability are. Can carbon fiber take impact type hits ?
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Ypedal said:
Perhaps a pair of disks that mount to a flanged alum rim (kinda like dragsters). If you bashed the rim, the composite disks might survive. The rim could even have a honeycomb flange that acts as a crush-zone.
Love teh invisible brake lever! To bad the caliper is the old fashionned visible type... Or is it just dirty? Who knows!
Serious though, good on ya for not getting a 650 front with a 700 rear...
Seems to be gettin trendy in my neck of the woods.
Reminds me of my rat bike with 26 front and 24 rear, except they actually payed for these parts? Feels wrong by me, but whatever.
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re: "Love teh invisible brake lever! To bad the caliper is the old fashionned visible type... Or is it just dirty? Who knows! "
hah... very observant you are
that's so I can run drop bars on the velodrome with no brakes (functional brakes are against the rules)...
...and bullhorns with brakes on the street...
hah... very observant you are
that's so I can run drop bars on the velodrome with no brakes (functional brakes are against the rules)...
...and bullhorns with brakes on the street...
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*Shrugs* May as well post this here & stuff.
Got this one a few days ago, needed new tires, tubes, bartape, a quick wash up, oil, tuneup & fitting - though needs a different seatpost to get the saddle angle right. Oh well.
Rear reflector has to go... But the dork disk is awesome!
Previous owner damaged the paint and crushed one of the chain stays with a poorly installed kickstand...
Good thing it's not alu or carbon... Steel is real.
Got this one a few days ago, needed new tires, tubes, bartape, a quick wash up, oil, tuneup & fitting - though needs a different seatpost to get the saddle angle right. Oh well.
Rear reflector has to go... But the dork disk is awesome!
Previous owner damaged the paint and crushed one of the chain stays with a poorly installed kickstand...
Good thing it's not alu or carbon... Steel is real.
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nice...
how's the shifting? do you ride without a motor often?
and you may wanna tilt that seat down
how's the shifting? do you ride without a motor often?
and you may wanna tilt that seat down
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you also may wanna ditch those platform pedals and get either some shimano "spd" clip-in pedals or "time atac" pedals, both of which I use... time atac's on the fixie and spds on the other bikes. (time atacs are much less likely to unclip when you are pulling up hard on the pedal)
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and lose the "dork disc" (as you said ) and the red reflector and you'll be ballin'
) and the red reflector and you'll be ballin' d
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<img src="http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x25/coutujean/620939d4.jpg">
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and maybe get some all-black vittoria tires. ok, i'll stop now. 
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and some shimano 105 integrated shifters/brakes would make your life a whole lot easier
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Hehe, well I blew up my last 'lectric bike at some point during winter so yeah, I don't ride electric very often these days... Though by next winter I expect to have a sexXxy 409'd Finelli up & ready for action.
Shifting on this one is awkward, I've been spoiled from XTR, revving up from a stop and then going snap-snap-snap while accelerating without even easing off the pedals except to change rings... So the best I can describe this one is that it rides like a singlespeed with many speeds to chose from. Pick one and stick with it, change occasionally. Taking hands off the bars to shift feels wrong. Otherwise, indexed shifting is much better then I remembered it to be, fast & precise, though I do have to trim the front dérailleur a little as I go from one end of the freewheel to the other.
I dig this bike's vintage look, so the gumwalls are there to stay & brifters would look wrong, though indexed downtube shifters would be sweet if that exists. The metal dork disk is likely to stay also, but that depends if I get around to doing some fancy lacing on the rear wheel. For the pedals I was thinking of just adding powerstraps to them if possible, old fashioned clips would look better but they've always seemed somewhat impractical to me. And, not gonna go clipless.
Rear reflector should get a blinkie to replace it soon-ish, as soon as I can find an 2 AA blinkie that screws onto a reflector bracket for a reasonable price. Shops here seem to carry only either cheap AAA blinkies and expensive (54$?) AA blinkies... I have an AA charger that takes a pair of cells at a time. Something like a vistalight super nebula 5 would be great if I could find one.
Edit: Looks as though Vittoria don't make 27's. Current tires are bottom-feeder IRC 90PSI things... They were the only 27's the bike shop had, and the front tire was getting a hernia by the time I got there so that kinda settled it.
Shifting on this one is awkward, I've been spoiled from XTR, revving up from a stop and then going snap-snap-snap while accelerating without even easing off the pedals except to change rings... So the best I can describe this one is that it rides like a singlespeed with many speeds to chose from. Pick one and stick with it, change occasionally. Taking hands off the bars to shift feels wrong. Otherwise, indexed shifting is much better then I remembered it to be, fast & precise, though I do have to trim the front dérailleur a little as I go from one end of the freewheel to the other.
I dig this bike's vintage look, so the gumwalls are there to stay & brifters would look wrong, though indexed downtube shifters would be sweet if that exists. The metal dork disk is likely to stay also, but that depends if I get around to doing some fancy lacing on the rear wheel. For the pedals I was thinking of just adding powerstraps to them if possible, old fashioned clips would look better but they've always seemed somewhat impractical to me. And, not gonna go clipless.
Rear reflector should get a blinkie to replace it soon-ish, as soon as I can find an 2 AA blinkie that screws onto a reflector bracket for a reasonable price. Shops here seem to carry only either cheap AAA blinkies and expensive (54$?) AA blinkies... I have an AA charger that takes a pair of cells at a time. Something like a vistalight super nebula 5 would be great if I could find one.
Edit: Looks as though Vittoria don't make 27's. Current tires are bottom-feeder IRC 90PSI things... They were the only 27's the bike shop had, and the front tire was getting a hernia by the time I got there so that kinda settled it.
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all in all its a pretty nice looking bike... congrats!
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the tires won't slip... it'll tip over :wink:
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