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aikigreg

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Well, it's here!
Aug 29^th, 2009, 9:23pm

The xstream sorta arrived in bad shape. Raam will do that to the bike, and Tim obviously pounds his bikes pretty hard. Several components were mismatched, including a underwhelming crankset and bacchetta front brake which I hate.

My only beef with the prototype were the brakes. Now the Xstream comes with a v-brake rear. Here's how I've got it set up:

For a little while it's going to have mismatched wheels: an american classic front and a velocity rear. Tim is sending me the front velocity. I also have a HED disc rear. Anyone happen to have a crackpipe so I can pump it up????

Now it has a sram red front brake and this bike stops so fast it's like hitting a curb. Terracycle front idler, tektro brake levers, and an fsa carbon crank with small and middle q-rings and a 56t aero big ring. This was my old tica crank.

Now she's all pretty, spiffed up with a couple nice high end parts, and ready to go. I need to find a bag that will work. The brainbox will not fit.

Taking her out tomorrow with Kent on the TTTT course.

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MrOverdressed Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 569	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #1 - Aug 30^th, 2009, 6:06am Congradulations!
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Bud_Bent Moderator Posts: 3311	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #2 - Aug 30^th, 2009, 8:20am This thread is worthless without photos...
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bikerteam Five Star Member Exceed Your Limitations Posts: 630	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #3 - Aug 30^th, 2009, 3:11pm Greg - glad you choose the SRAM red front brake. I love the SRAM red brakes. I have both the front and rear on my Xstream. The Angletech Aeropod bag fits both the Hoagie and Carbon seats. I really like my Aeropod, and even bought one for Angie's V3
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #4 - Aug 30^th, 2009, 6:52pm eh, voila! booty view: sram red brake crankset front view
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mleuck

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Re: Well, it's here!
Reply #5 - Sep 2^nd, 2009, 1:39pm

Quote from aikigreg on Aug 29^th, 2009, 9:23pm:

The xstream sorta arrived in bad shape. Raam will do that to the bike, and Tim obviously pounds his bikes pretty hard. Several components were mismatched, including a underwhelming crankset and bacchetta front brake which I hate.

My only beef with the prototype were the brakes. Now the Xstream comes with a v-brake rear. Here's how I've got it set up:

For a little while it's going to have mismatched wheels: an american classic front and a velocity rear. Tim is sending me the front velocity. I also have a HED disc rear. Anyone happen to have a crackpipe so I can pump it up????

Now it has a sram red front brake and this bike stops so fast it's like hitting a curb. Terracycle front idler, tektro brake levers, and an fsa carbon crank with small and middle q-rings and a 56t aero big ring. This was my old tica crank.

Now she's all pretty, spiffed up with a couple nice high end parts, and ready to go. I need to find a bag that will work. The brainbox will not fit.

Taking her out tomorrow with Kent on the TTTT course.

I missed something, why do you now have a Xtream?

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Bud_Bent Moderator Posts: 3311	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #6 - Sep 2^nd, 2009, 2:02pm Quote from mleuck on Sep 2^nd, 2009, 1:39pm: I missed something, why do you now have a Xtream? You really did miss something if you haven't figured out that Greg likes to buy a bike every couple of months.
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aikigreg

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Re: Well, it's here!
Reply #7 - Sep 2^nd, 2009, 9:11pm

Quote from Bud_Bent on Sep 2^nd, 2009, 2:02pm:

Quote from mleuck on Sep 2^nd, 2009, 1:39pm:

I missed something, why do you now have a Xtream?

You really did miss something if you haven't figured out that Greg likes to buy a bike every couple of months.

True dat. Thankfully I've never lost money on a bike except the corsa, and and that was only because I sold it to Steve. Theoretically I have nowhere else to go

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goatstick Team SCDRR Posts: 349	Re: Well, it's here! Reply #8 - Sep 2^nd, 2009, 10:40pm Quote from aikigreg on Sep 2^nd, 2009, 9:11pm: Theoretically I have nowhere else to go But downhill??? That's where I wanna go... :^)
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