cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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When your significant other allows you too
It's 'bike o'clock somewhere.About half an hour after the last one always works In my book
It's mostly the legs and not the bike I think. I'm not drastically quicker on the best carbon bike as the legs still let me down.I was out on my 25yr old hardtail MTB last night threatening Strava KOMs. Not bad for an old guy on an old bike.
My 38 year old Claud Butler, with mudguards and a rack got me an 11th spot out of over 7000 riders on one local Stacros segment.I was out on my 25yr old hardtail MTB last night threatening Strava KOMs. Not bad for an old guy on an old bike.
Pah! 11th doesn't even get you on the list grandad! 10th or better is where it's at....My 38 year old Claud Butler, with mudguards and a rack got me an 11th spot out of over 7000 riders on one local Stacros segment.
This makes sense.@CanucksTraveller not quite falling out of favour for me but I sell when it becomes cheaper to buy new than it does to repair.
I have worn a bike out, in fact a couple, but never all at the same time. This is the snag. If your MTB needs new forks and brakes, now, chances are that it's a few years old, worth very little, and the cheapest option is to renew it. But they don't pack up in the same week.Replace? No no... you don't replace... you enhance your collection.
Seriously though I've never worn a bike out, I've added one or two gradually to the garage over several years when I fancied something new, and then some years later I've sold on a bike that hasn't been ridden for a while and which has possibly fallen out of favour. I reckon that's what quite a lot of cyclists do.
I do (or did, I've given up with Stavros and it may have been beaten by now) have a KoM, but I think I pushed myself dangerously hard getting it - once I'd passed the finish of the segment I eased off and almost fainted. That was on a 6 year old aluminium framed Felt with Tiagra, not a new plastic rocket with Durategra.Pah! 11th doesn't even get you on the list grandad! 10th or better is where it's at....
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Pretty good for a 1996 bike with a 1973 rider IMO.
...am trying to just keep the 12 left without adding any more...