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1407 comments
Amazing
Unsurprisingly
Oooh. That is a lovely bike. And with Campy...
Chapeau.
Really stylish and so beautiful!!
6 + kids bike.
All cheapies from gumtree normally, all alloy.
2 60cm top tube Avanti Blades. 1 hub, 1 derraileur. 14.3 ,11.90 kg
1 aero fixie with carbon forks. 7.3 kg
Ninja Shogun 10.56kg
Chromoly BMX freestyle. Heavy.
24inch BMX. Lightweight Alloy, strong.
The 24 inch I like. My rim melted in a shed fire so I replaced it with a sealed bearing double wall alloy rim that was basically the cheapest at the time of purchase from LBS. Good road bike but not long flats. On hills I averaged 15kmph rather than 20kmph on a cheap 28mm roadbike.
Cost me $400 twenty years ago, as is besides front rim. Seen one selling at $3500 the other month, a rusty one selling at $1000 .
Brooksby, just cheap bikes here dude, different roads, weather. Paid via usage of petrol budget to get to work (basically)
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11 broken ribs
3 fractured vertebrae
Bleeding in to lungs
Bleeding in chest cavity
Left ulna broken - pinned and plated, and a scar that runs from elbow to wrist
Left patella smashed in to 4 pieces - pinned and wired
Full thickness tear of left PCL
Bone damage within the knee
Amnesia - I have lost the time from a few mins before impact on the Friday evening through to around the following Monday afternoon.
A week in HDU, a week on the orthopedic ward.
5 months of not being able to lift anything heavier than a cup of tea and not being able to bend my knee
What a dreadful experience ,
All my best wishes for a complete recovery.
Yours
Doug.
I hope the car driver will be prosecuted.
No such luck I'm afraid, similar but different injuries.
Broken Femur, Tib & Fib, Radius, Pisiform, Finger and 12 Ribs. I learnt lots of exciting new terms like ORIF, IM nail, and degloved. I have some complications and need more surgery.
They don't die quickly enough.... The bike this one is replacing was my first road bike which has now been retired to strictly summer riding. That's done over 36k miles and could do with a new groupset really. My primary bike does have carbon wheels and di2, but the 3T discus wheels it came with are shit - every problem I've had with that bike has been those wheels (oh and a leaking seal on the front brake caliper). The freewheel keeps coming loose and you have to take the disc and the cassette off to get to the nut that holds it on, the aluminum nipples keep on splitting and within the first month of owneship one of the spokes broke. The shop told me "sometimes spokes just break"
Hopefully this bike will be a bit more reliable and give me a chance to repair the other two.
Still not sure about celeste bar tape.
Is that a thing? I thought generally the advice was that you need some steerer above the stem clamp. Ok, it doesn't look that neat having loads of spacers above, but does it make failure more likely?
I can't have an Italian bike with anything other than Campag. It's like having a bacon butty with no ketchup.
I hear you there, Boatsie.
My household has my wife's aluminium-framed BSO, my kids have each got a low-budget BMX style BSO (none of them have actually been ridden anywhere in the last year), and I've got an eight year old aluminium hybrid workhorse (a Mongoose) and a steel-framed Dawes city/hybrid (a 'Street Life' from c.1992).
My wife's BSO and the Moose (my workhorse, with Carradice panniers) were both full priced, but not exactly expensive, and my in-laws bought the kids' bikes (so that's not real money spent).
The Dawes was GBP10 from a friend of my wife who was clearing out their garage
Christ! I hope you're getting better, now...?
Thanks Doug.
Because he admitted guilt at the scene, it was a fixed penalty Careless Driving ... didn't go to court.
Although, as an octogenarian, he might find getting insurance a bit harder.
May your recovery be speedy, and the fear leave you soon.
SuperCaz have matched the shade perfectly though.
Looks great whilst still clean.
Most of it has healed without further issue ... but the knee is the problem.
I've limited walking ability - gradients hurt, and I live at the top of a hill - and I've got about 20 - 25 miles of cycling before my knee gets too painful.
I'm a club cyclist (which is great as since the accident my solo confidence is shot), and I don't have the distance for a club ride.
I'm not letting this beat me though... LBS has a Paralane E2 e-road bike coming in soon to test - and I'm looking forwards to it
Thanks, the Corona virus might delay the surgery, I'd imagine I won't be out until next year. The metal problem may be leaving the brakes alone if a see a car facing me with it's indicator on to turn across me.
Sorry to read about your crash.
Yesterday I bumped into a clubmate in his 70s who is recovering from a serious illness and can't ride his bike for long or keep up with a group any more. He looked at the Ribble e-bike but decided to buy a Paralane2 from the LBS (red, 105 groupset) and is very impressed. He said it feels not so different from his Trek Madone. Hope you enjoy it.
Thank you Simon.
I was looking at the Orbea Gain and the Ribble, but discounted them as you can't remove the battery for charging.
I've no power or heat in the bike store, and concerned over battery life being reduced by the cold.
Although ... if I can't get the funds for the Paralane, the missus might have to lump a Ribble in the hallway
Wishing you well.
I was thinking of electric. Both Avanti blades have bottle screw holes on seat tube and both above and below angle beam of frame.
Eg a low mount of battery if converted. Pictured bike is hub gearbox and front guard isn't installed, hasn't been washed since last year and is ridden during storms.
I was thinking of whatever that crank drive unit is, comes as single wheel or double chain wheel.
Quality bikes. They sell cheap used down here. Add $1000Aus to assist torque electrically.
Just in case such suits you with something to do during recovery.
I changed my mind.. Happy without. Although the double chainwheel will probably go back to a triple when I can be bothered. The parts I have should work.
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Awefull ! Hope you make a full recovery.
All the best
Your tale brings it all back. Can I ask did the car turn right from a side road, or was he facing you and turned into the side road. Mine was the latter.
I'm coming round to this way of thinking - my leisure riding is less frequent than I'd like now, but I ride to work at least 4 days a week, so maybe I should upgrade my commuter. That said, there's a certain satisfaction in having a decent, relatively cheap, low maintenance bike that I can neglect without feeling too guilty (Genesis Day One Disc).
This looks much similar to the $600 Electric bike on Geekwake .
Ow that is a shame , to be hounest i have a set of the same wheels..
Not the best i've owned im affraid.
Hope they work better for you !
Canyon Endurace CF SLX 8.0 Di2
Absolute black chainrings
Speedplay pedals
Pirelli velo 28mm tyres and latex tubes
Dura ace rotors (didnt like the silver ultegra ones)
Fabric bar tape
Fizik Aliante R1 saddle
Shimano climb shifters under the bar tape on the tops
Wahoo bolt
Carbon cages
blah blah
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My Trek Domane Ultegra sporting Strada Wheels Big Fella Deluxe wheelset. 3000 mile down and never laid a spoke key on them.
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My new (and first) gravel bike, a Raleigh Amelia 1 Just waiting for the snow to melt!
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