Holy shit. Quoting the copy for posterity.
I’m surprised they didn’t just buy some sw8 designerbro fixay. Would’ve been a lot less expensive.
holy shit
that bike musta gotten in a nasty wreck that ruined the fork, front wheel, and left shifter
not sure what explains the backwards seat post and lack of brake calipers and whatever the fuck is going on with the spacers…
also is it just me or does that cassette look too big to shift with that RD?
I guess they didn’t even ride the Orbea to where the photos were taken, because the chain is sitting on the BB shell.
think those are 650c wheels on a 700c bike?
“Dude, I can accelerate faster!”
looks like it was designed for 650c.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/4327947375.html
LOLOLOLOL somebody lifted a picture of Prolly’s fasterbackwards Bishop to try to unload their Spinergy Rev-XMadfibers.
They’re not the only one desparate to dump them around here.
Not only did he lift the pictures, he also lifted the sw8 copy Prolly supposedly wrote up.
Trolololol.
“If you pay attention to any kind of cycling forum, whether it’s a road forum, frame builder or cross, you’ll hear people’s testimonies of completing eating shit in a race or a ride to find the wheels 100% intact and true. Which brings up something Mad Fiber takes very seriously: you’ll never need to tension these wheels.”
prolls is everywhere? Saying you never need to tension your untrueable wheels is a bit like saying “you never need to wash this disposable, single-use package,” amiright?
Saw a few sets of those at the swap last weekend, but didn’t ask about price. Wonder what they were going for?
Exactly, and having White Industries bits is now only relevant if user-replaceable parts wear out/fail.
These wheel were never popular enough for a cottage industry to spring up to support them given the liability risk involved.
I feel bad for anyone who paid retail for these, but not too bad.
Iron is real.
Caption win; also that’s a nice iron.
I’m selling a few Mariachis on eBay. I get this stupid question about one:
[quote=dummy]Few questions:
What kind of steel tubing does it have? is this the stock el mariachi frame?
Can you give me a very accurate stand over height, not taken from a chart, measured at the mid point of the top tube, of this exact bike?
Are they grip shifters?
thank you[/quote]
It is extremely obvious that they are trigger shifters. I didn’t really want to engage this person at all but a couple days later I decided to indulge her request for stand over height. In the process of doing so, I dropped a heavy tape measure on the bike and put a small chip in the paint. I included that info in my message not to chide this person, but since it was a change in the condition of the bike.
To which she responded:
[quote=dummy]It must be a pretty cheap paint job if you chipped it with a measuring tape. :o( And “Kung fu” steel isn’t the kind of steel it is. It’s something like cr-mo (heavy), 853 (lighter), true temper (even lighter), etc.
“kung fu” is some name Salsa stuck on there, presumably to hide a lower grade of steel designation.
But it’s ok, because the stand over height is too high for me.
Thank you for your time,
Barb[/quote]
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooooou barb
people who ask stupid questions on ebay are not the people who will buy your shit
Wow. What an asshole.
For you to copypasta and email her, trying for a balance of condescending mansplaining:
Did I even say what kind of tape measure it was? Before the wide-scale availability of cheap petroleum-based plastics, we had this stuff called metal, and lots of items, including tape measures, used to be manufactured from it. This was also the age of building things to last, and even O-M-G built to be able to be taken apart and serviced. The side effect was things were maybe a bit heavier. I take it you have never held an original Stanley Powerlock. It’s heavy, and when dropped it will cause some damage.
“Kung Fu” tubing is a perfectly acceptable response to the question “what kind of steel tubing is it”. That is the tubing spec listed by the manufacturer. If you want a more specific answer, then you’ll need to ask a more specific question.
Oh wait, you aren’t capable of asking a more specific question, because you have no fucking idea what you are talking about. Allow me to break it down for you, and I’ll be sure to use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon.
“It’s something like cr-mo (heavy)” WRONG. Chromoly refers to the specific alloying agents used to make up the steel. It has absolutely nothing to do with how heavy (how dense) the tubing is. Tubing weight is dictated strictly by physical dimensions: diameter, wall thickness, length, density. All steel tubing has essentially the same density (unless you are using labratory-grade measuring equipment). As it happens a miniscule amount of googling would have revealed that Salsa’s Kung Fu tubing is a chromoly type tubing.
“853 (lighter), true temper (even lighter), etc.” WRONG, WRONG. First off, 853 and True Temper ARE chromoly tubesets, so by your deranged logic they should be lumped in with heavy tubesets above. Second, as described above, just because someone gave it a fancy brand can’t bend the laws of physics and make the steel any less dense. A Kung Fu tube set may very well be the same weight as a Reynolds 531 tubeset, if they share the same physical dimensions.
You seem to know just enough to be dangerous. Like maybe someone told you to ask if a frame set is made with 853 or True Temper, as those are the signs of a good frame? That’s not horrible advice, and there are reasons that a frame built from 853 might be able to be manufactured lighter than the same frame built from generic chro-mo, but it’s not a hard-and-fast rule. Until you know why you are asking the question, or can come up with questions on your own like a big girl, please refrain from responding like a know-it-all when it’s clear you don’t.