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2008 Specialized Tarmac Comp
Road bike |
Description: Bike Specialized lent us at Sea otter for test rides, which I used to unwind at the end of the day...
Lifetime Odometer:
54.0 km
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2007 Ridley Compact proto
Road bike |
Description: working in the bike industry has its rewards... I'm building up this beauty now. As much as I prefer recumbents for riding courses with limited cumulative climbing, ther's nothing that will beat a road bike for climbing in the mountain ranges. (Plus, there are no other recumbent riders who like riding hard here in Madrid)
Rotor BB with Ágilis Cranks (limited ed. red spider)
Aero 52/36 compact Q-Rings
Ultegra brake & shift levers
Ultegra F & R derailleur with carbon pimping
Sonic wheelset
Fizik Arione seat
Rotor S1 stem & Proto seatpost
Noname (gigantex) carbon bars
Rotor proto seat clamp
Cane Creek SCR 5 brakes (early production protos)
boring shimano cables untill I can afford Nokon.
Speedplay X2 pedals
Lifetime Odometer:
393.7 km
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2006 Cougar
SWB Recumbent bike |
Description: I designed the Cougar, And its definatley my favorite Highracer on the market (no, of course, I'm not prejudiced... :) )
XTR/Dura ace groupset, chris king/mavic wheelset, Cane creek AD12 shock, custom headtube suspension fork, Rotor RS4x ti 26-39-56t crankset, Speedplay X2, venti sit seat foam, Terracycle ti idler, carbon boom/fork/seat.
Lifetime Odometer:
4,287.3 km
Tires:
650 x 23C Continental Grand Prix, front, 4,750 km
650 x 23C Continental Grand Prix, rear, 4,750 km
Chain:
Shimano 9 speed, 2,740 km
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2005 Wheeler 1.5
Road bike |
Description: Bike lent to me by my Australian Distributor when I visited family, December 2007
Lifetime Odometer:
165.0 km
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2003 Klein Palomino
Full Susp XC Mountain bike |
Description: XTR derailleurs, disk brakes, shifters. Rotor RS4x cranks.
Look Fournales Parallelogram Front fork.
Chris king headset, King ISO wheelset/mavic X3.1
Speedplay Frog Ti pedals, ROTOR RS$x Ti crankset, Thomson stem/seatpost
ASPide arrohead seat, woodman caron bars@barends.
IRC mythos xc + home tubeless mod.
This bike is the mainstay of my cycling and the result of a many year upgrade project, part by part.
Lifetime Odometer:
4,098.9 km
Tires:
26 x 2.10 IRC Mythos XC 2, front, 2,717 km
26 x 1.95 IRC Mythos XC 2, rear, 2,717 km
Chain:
SRAM 9 speed, 1,765 km
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2000 Optima Stinger
SWB Recumbent bike |
Description: StingerEX
Std mfg setup.
Sold this bike in 2005, It was by first serious recumbent after a homebuild project when I was 17.
Lifetime Odometer:
6,455.0 km
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2000 Easy Racers Ti Rush
Recumbent Road Tandem bike |
Description: Denton from Easyracers lent me this bike for a ride from Freedom to Monterey in April before the Sea Otter classic. Thanks Denton!
Lifetime Odometer:
75.0 km
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1998 Klein Mantra Comp
Full Susp XC Mountain bike |
Description: This bike is now 'oficially' my Wife's bike, but I borrow it every so often cause its got a longer travel setup than the Palomino and is better suited to jumping and fooling arounnd on stupid steep downhills...
'98 XTR derailleurs and '99 shifters, ROTOR RS4x ti crankset, Speedplay Frog S Pedals, Bontrager race lite tubeless disk wheelset, Thomson seatpost and stem, BBB sport saddle, Fox alps shock, Rock Shox Recon forks, modified frame (reinforced rear triangle + disk brake tab), Magura Marta brakes.
Lifetime Odometer:
12,092.0 km
Tires:
26 x 1.90 IRC Mythos XC, front, 164 km
26 x 1.90 IRC Mythos XC, rear, 164 km
Chain:
generic 9 speed, 619 km
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1997 Giant
Touring Road bike |
Description: This is my 'Camel'. Its not that pretty, weighs a ton but rides like a dream.
Giant womens frame, Rotor RS4x st road triple, Girvin ELT front fork with disk brake mod, Deore LX group.
Topeak modulat rack and bags, depending on how much I have to take that particular day.
Lifetime Odometer:
10,138.0 km
Tires:
700 x 32C Continental Contact, front, 7,120 km
700 x 23C Continental Contact, rear, 1,177 km
Chain:
Shimano 9 speed, 4,726 km
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1997 homebuild
SWB Recumbent bike |
Description: I won't bother posting a photo of this bike cause it was fugly. It was a high school technology class project, which rode ok, but wasnt ideal. Not bad for a first attempt at designing a bike and it did land me my first job and an inroads to the cycling industry way back then...
Lifetime Odometer:
2,345.0 km
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1995 Giant Iguana
XC Mountain bike |
Description: This was the first MTB i used more than just to ride round the neighbourhood. Before its "decomission" it had a rediculous mix of XTR, king, etc... with the original frame. I replaced the frame with the Mantra in 1998.
Lifetime Odometer:
6,527.0 km
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other
26" Comfort bike |
Description: Various scrapheap 3 speed city bikes in several cities which I used for transportation when I lived in NL. They rareley lasted more than a year cause I always used to pound them for the frequent short rides I used them on.
Lifetime Odometer:
26,034.0 km
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