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[bob]

Cutting on a marble board is very bad. Gives you dull knives. Please get a cheap wood board.

 

[gomestar]

get either wood (not bamboo) or a softer plastic.

 

[indesertum]

he says its a pastry board

 

[BrianVarick]

I figured it would be bad for my knife, but wanted to ask

 

[greekgeek]

Just grabbed this new Seiko Premier. Thoughts?

 

[LawrenceMD]

SRAM Red. If you want to see my actual individual weights of the parts click here.

 

[venessian]

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD

SRAM Red. If you want to see my actual individual weights of the parts click here.

Very nice stuff.

LOL your link reminds me of myself when I was first on WW years ago. It was fun and a real rush to get into that. Posted a lot there, but then as always I found it less and less compelling. Still lurk ocasionally there and participate irregularly on a couple other fora.

Nice bike. Good job!

 

[Althis]

Good stuff. I would have waited until the new all black version, though.

 

[LawrenceMD]

Originally Posted by venessian

Very nice stuff.

LOL your link reminds me of myself when I was first on WW years ago. It was fun and a real rush to get into that. Posted a lot there, but then as always I found it less and less compelling. Still lurk ocasionally there and participate irregularly on a couple other fora.

Nice bike. Good job!

build is finished click on the previous link to see it.

Originally Posted by Althis

Good stuff. I would have waited until the new all black version, though.

black is nice, but it was only a color difference, plus it the whole groupset I got was rock bottom pricing.

 

[venessian]

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD

build is finished click on the previous link to see it.

Turned out well. I think the Easton fork is fine (I mean the colors). The old Trek c-f forks were tanks. I would ditch the USE Alien, sorry. That sp is just a royal PITA all around. Hated it. I would ditch the bell too. You save 42g + the air you exhale when you whistle!!!

Otherwise, looks pretty good.

I've been selling a lot of my WW stuff; just not into gram counting anymore...but it was a fun phase and some of those WW guys are not only fun fanatics but also quite good mechanically. Don't get caught up in the super-light-stuff-that-will-go-south-on-you, though...not worth one's hide.

I'm curious: during my time on WW the equation went basically from $1/gram saved to $2/gram saved when I got tired of it. What's the average $/gram ratio now?

 

[LawrenceMD]

Originally Posted by venessian

Turned out well. I think the Easton fork is fine (I mean the colors). The old Trek c-f forks were tanks. I would ditch the USE Alien, sorry. That sp is just a royal PITA all around. Hated it. I would ditch the bell too. You save 42g + the air you exhale when you whistle!!!

Otherwise, looks pretty good.

The USE seatpost is weird for me. Its a newer version that has the one bolt adjustment. The adjustment is fine, but the damn thing slides down after a hard ride. I just applied some carbogrip (which is suspiciously seems like spray on model airplane glue) and reversed the seatpost clamp.

I'm done with the weight weenie stuff. The only reason I went all out with a Fork and Red is because I can always slap it onto a older titanium frame (my future plan is to find a merlin exralight that was still Massachusetts made), plus the trek frame and fork can still be sold on eBay as a collectable.

 

[venessian]

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I just don't trust/like the USE, nor the limited setback. And I don't trust carbon paste. On a seatpost? No way.

Did you keep- the original Trek fork? Then, yes, f/f as a minor collectible. Frame + Easton, not so much. I'm assuming you are referring to the original Trek fork above.

Depending on your size, that planned Extralight may be a bit noodly (and will limit your choices). I can definitely talk with you about ti frames, if you want, but probably better in PM. I don't want to hijack the thread.

 

[Xericx]

bought a new router. old one seems to be sluggish at times....sometimes a new router will make everything faster i guess.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_os_product

 

[Xericx]

new passport. thrashed last one. got a passport card too.

 

[Krish the Fish]

^
passport card is cool. I'm taking mine with me to the Bahamas in a couple weeks. make sure you keep it in the sleeve though.