Re: [CR] What do you ride?

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From: "Timothy Ernst" <ternst@mac.com>
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:33:58 -0500
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To: Dick Mckee <dickmckee119@hotmail.com>
Cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] What do you ride?


If I can ever find the street again, I will be back out on my custom (off topic) Seven with Campy groupset. My love is my '73 Paramount, P-13 I bought and raced in college. Still in great shape. Put >3K miles on the Seven and about 1K on the Paramount last year. Totally resigned to indoors for the next 6 weeks at least, independent of what the ground hog saw.

Tim Ernst

Envying the Mojave in Wellesley MA

On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Dick Mckee wrote:
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> Good morning all. I enjoyed and learned a lot about vintage bikes by reading the groups posts. Its fascinating reading about the vintage bikes and equipment that are being restored, but it got me wondering. How many ride on a regular basis what do you ride? Do you ride, do I dare use the word, a carbon bike, or are you on a metal bike? Where and how often do you ride?
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> As for me, I ride almost daily in Mohave Valley, Az which is in the north west part of the state. My goal is 100 miles a week. Mohave Valley is an interesting place to ride. The county does not own a street sweeper or have any bike lanes. The favorite past time on weekends is throwing beer bottles out the window. The only tires that will hold up are Specialized Armadillos. The advantage to the area is that I go the the back roads and ride old Route 66. I have about 200 miles of the route in the area.
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> I bought my first non metal, read carbon, bike in November a Specialized Roubaix DA Pro. So far so good, but the biggest disadvantage, for me, is it that it is very light compared to my last bike and the wind, especially in the canyons, moves it around quite a bit.
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> Dick McKee
> Mohave Valley, Az