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EMFC
 Post subject: I'm a cowboy...........
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:38 pm 
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on a steel horse I ride

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I'm wanted ........
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dead or alive.
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I can run SS if I want :thumbsup:
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2010 GF Presidio. Steel Cyclocross bike.

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Frame: Fisher custom butted Platinum Series Steel, sliding dropouts
Fork: Bontrager, aluminum steerer, carbon legs, satellite cyclocross

Wheels: Bontrager Race
Tires: Bontrager Jones CXR 700x34 120 TPI, folding

Crank: Set SRAM S-300 46x38 Cross
Saddle: Bontrager R2, hollow cromoly rails, 146mm width
Seatpost: Bontrager Rhythm Elite, 7075 Alloy shaft, 2-bolt head (this wil get replaced)
Handlebar: Bontrager SSR VR
Grips: Bontrager Gel Cork
Stem: Bontrager Race X Lite OS, 7d rise

Headset: Cane Creek S3 Aheadset
Brakeset: Avid Shorty 6 cantilever

Pedals will get replaced with some Crankbrothers egg beaters

This bike is much better than I expected. Brakes squeal like nothing I have ever heard before, I need to get that figured out. Tomorrow A quick ride at Otay Lakes.

I bought this bike to race the Dirty Kanza 200, 200 miles of gravel and dirt roads in the rollings hills on Kansas.

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Robo
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Scott Forty G.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:50 pm 
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Robo
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:52 pm 
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EMFC
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:56 pm 
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Did you have to pay extra for the pedal clip upgrade?


I forgot how difficult those damn pedals were, they came off after the laps around the block.

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Scott Forty G.
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Robo
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EMFC wrote:
Brakes squeal like nothing I have ever heard before


It's pretty awesome that you cyclocross guys are keeping it real by using brake technology from the 80s. Core, bro!

Payback is in fact a bitch, no?
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Robo
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But I digress...you were saying you were a cowboy? And you ride on something?

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Robo wrote:
But I digress...you were saying you were a cowboy? And you ride on something?

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Who's she?

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