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[Mr. Rick]

Thanx for your, as always, time-honoured slant on things Dave. Straight from "Directandtothepointville"!!!  

Hopefully this new "body geometry" thingie will go some way to returning erectile functionality. Viagra not required here in Middle England just yet  

.......... I can sense moderation winging its way at a merry pace toward this thread as I type   Please feel free to do your thang Mr. Smokester!

We can always continue this conversation on MB next year anyhoo. Thinking of bringing one of the sexy bikes with me as our new Lemons partaker is one of my cycling buddies and he will want to do the same and at 73 is still darn fast   So we can compare saddles, perineums (tintas), methods with vegetable oil etc......

[Dave H]

To be honest Rick, I'd be very interested in your new saddle experience.  On road I'm OK, but on the trainer in the snowy winter months here in Indy, losing Jr. for a few minutes numbness can still be quite discomforting to say the least.

What kind of hardware are you thinking of pedaling to Le Mans?  It's always seemed like a great idea, but hampers ones ability to drag the coolbox and maintain steady state blood alcohol levels.

[Mr. Rick]

Ah, slight miscommunication methinks Dave. Have thought about "all the way" in the past, but did mean carrying the bikes over on the LuvPug and maybe doing a few circuits of the track on the Friday (gendarmerie permitting).

As for the new saddle, might give it a go on the Sunday club ride this week just to see how I get on. Will report back. I've got two, one for the TT machine and one for the road-racer but will try one of them on the trainer first then.

If you get all moist (like I do) at the sight of sexy pedal-powered bikes, I'll mail you a fotie of the finished articles! They are a pair of Specialized Festina frames from 2001. One of them is an exact replica of the 2001 Tour De France frame (lightest in the Tour that year) - that'll be the TT bike, and then there is a similar looking frame for the road-racer which is not quite from the same exotic material but looks very close. Even got a replica team saddle to match for the TT bike. The super-sexy TT frame is brand new and never been used!! Coupled with some rather nice carbon Spinergy Rev-Xs, rather hoping to lower the 10 mile PB this year!   Currently only a paltry 26:12

Anyone else still awake at this point? Just noticed I've gone off on a self-indulgent tangent again!!

 

[Mr. Invincible Mou]

This may be usefull for afterwards

http://www.ketteringsurgical.com/asp/product_details.asp?product=1362&l1=4

How wonderful!! I'm going to order one of these for the corner of my tent this coming June. Save having to pull the tent pegs at midnight on the corner of the nearest German tent anyway  

[Dave H]

Ah, slight miscommunication methinks Dave. Have thought about "all the way" in the past, but did mean carrying the bikes over on the LuvPug and maybe doing a few circuits of the track on the Friday (gendarmerie permitting).

As for the new saddle, might give it a go on the Sunday club ride this week just to see how I get on. Will report back. I've got two, one for the TT machine and one for the road-racer but will try one of them on the trainer first then.

If you get all moist (like I do) at the sight of sexy pedal-powered bikes, I'll mail you a fotie of the finished articles! They are a pair of Specialized Festina frames from 2001. One of them is an exact replica of the 2001 Tour De France frame (lightest in the Tour that year) - that'll be the TT bike, and then there is a similar looking frame for the road-racer which is not quite from the same exotic material but looks very close. Even got a replica team saddle to match for the TT bike. The super-sexy TT frame is brand new and never been used!! Coupled with some rather nice carbon Spinergy Rev-Xs, rather hoping to lower the 10 mile PB this year!   Currently only a paltry 26:12

Anyone else still awake at this point? Just noticed I've gone off on a self-indulgent tangent again!!

 

Both Fax and I are sad bastards when it comes to loving all thing cycling.  Fax just got a new ride the other year and I can't for the life of me remember what it is.  I've got several machines too.  My pride is a new Litespeed Ultimate but I've got a Cannondale R2000 as a 2nd bike, Cannondale and Specialized spare frames from days gone by and a Trek MTB.  Need to get rid of some of the old crap one of these days.

sh*t, I've become a boring bastard too!

Let's get back to H's undercarriage.

[Fax]

My ride's not so new now, about five years old.  Its one of the FDJ Gitane frames, nothing particularly trick about it.  I always wanted a frame from one of the venerable old French constructors and got a good deal on it, kitted it out with a mixed bag of Campy Record and Chorus bits.  Its been a terrific bike.  I've got an older generation carbon Trek as a back-up.
Fax

[Rhino]

It's the thought of Rick being moist in those overalls