I bought this vest and love it, although I’m not sure what its best complements might be. How would you build an outfit (tasteful and conservative with this kinda wacky vest at its center) around it? Be creative!
Servus!
I'm an old expat (M55) from the US with an extra ticket to the Jalen Ngonda concert next month.
My wife gave me the tickets for my birthday then promptly left me for another man. So, lucky you, I have an extra ticket!
DM me if you're interested in going, and we can coordinate before the 11th.
https://www.muffatwerk.de/en/events/view/7990/jalen-ngonda
Ach, ja: I'm a university professor (Kulturwissenschaftler) in Germany (not Munich, though) who loves soul, jazz, and hip-hop music.
Deutsch kann ich auch einigermaßen. Bayrisch weniger.
1985 Colnago Super frame with Campy 11 and a steel Precisa fork. Rides like a dream.
I was a young racer myself and was thrilled to see most of my heroes at the event. But the highlight was certainly the personal contact:
- Legendary announcer Phil Liggett responded to my greeting, telling me to "enjoy the day."
- Rising star Lance Armstrong invited me to "get the fuck out of the way," mistakenly thinking I was leaning into his path (I wasn't ).
- And I shook Eddy Merckx's hand as he walked along the route. No one recognized the guy in Atlanta, apparently.
The pictures are bad but it was my best cycling experience without my bike.
Fifth from the left. Gangly dude. That's young me.
I only discovered the photo in the original Reddit thread because I was looking for more footage from race day: 31 July, 1996.
Original post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/s/PQg3KrRHaJ
I'll be staying around Ghent with my steel road bike and a car, and I want to ride some iconic cobbles and climbs. Kwaremont, Koppenberg and Geraardsberg are already on the list, but what are some places every cyclist needs to ride in western Belgium?
Just swapped out the chrome fork for a 20th century carbon Colnago fork. Really fast bike: SRAM Rival 11 shifters, Mavic 50mm wheels and Campy Power Torque cranks.
Photo taken in the shadow of Arnsberg Castle in central Bavaria.
Riding in central Bavaria now, but I plan to take her back home to Lombardy in August.
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My dream bike: 1985 Super frame, Precisa fork from around 2010, Campy 11-speed setup. The best of everything, you might say.
I really love this community and feel it's helped me a lot, but I do have a question and would like to see what the consensus is.
I'm an older rider and I used to race back in the 1990's. Back then, on the university team, we didn't have coaches, we just trained the way the older riders told us to. Mostly, it worked. But there was one tip regarding bike fit they gave us I still remember and wanted to see if it holds up:
Is it true that your stem is the correct length when the front hub is obscured by the flats of your dropbars? Obviously, you can lean forward or back, but in your standard posture, you shouldn't be able to see your front hub.
Any value to this advice?
Sure, it's great to cross that mountain pass or win a local crit. But what are some of the small pleasures that people who don't ride as often might not know?
Yesterday, I was in the middle of a long hilly road ride and while following the course of a small valley, I had a generous tailwind. I was pretty tired, but started pushing and while cruising around 35kmh, the world was silent. No wind and no rattling from the bike. Just quiet speed. Best feeling ever.
EDIT: Bunch of poets in this thread. 🥲
I can't get away from my favorite brakes: Shimano 600 Tricolor from the early 1990's. Still work great, look amazing, and are easy to maintain.
Just finished my restomod 1987 Saronni frame with SRAM Rival 11, Mavic 50mm wheels, and a 2015 Colnago Precisa fork.
The paint job and head badge are meant to recall my very first bike from 1976: a yellow Murray MX with a kick-ass banana seat.