My OTHER bike

[ChilliConCarnage]

I just got back from the LBS where they installed a Romic on my EVO.  BUt I also had them install a Marzocchi Marathon SL and Raceface Deus XC cranks on my Scandium Salsa Caballero:











The gray stem doesn't look right, but I couldn't find one in black yet...



And while I'm at it, here's "Special Ed":





"Special Ed" is going to the Seattle Bicycle Swap Meet tomorrow.  I've got 7 bikes in the garage now, so something's gotta go ;(

[orange]

wot's wrong with 7 biikes?...

[ChilliConCarnage]

7 bikes in the garage leaves no room for my lowrider 62 VW Bus - "Max" is sitting outside in the rain and just rusting away!

[will]

wot's wrong with 7 bikes???

It's not 8!

Good luck at the swap meet.

(Try putting the bikes inside the VW bus!) [smiley=beer.gif]

[Frankd3000]

Damn, you've got quite the collection! I'm working on my own, too, but "only" 4.

IMHO, I would LEAVE the stem on. In my eyes it works very well. You have the "4 corners" thing going on. The s/arm, seat, fork and stem are all pretty close in colour. It's aestheticallly pleasing.

Well, we know how MY eyes work.

Actually, if anything, i'd just take out the brake studs on the s/arm, other then that it's really very very nice.

Must ride great too!

[ChilliConCarnage]

"Special Ed" sold at the swap meet.

I thought that I was going there to decrease my total bike count, but after I sold the FSR, I had some money burning a hole in my pocket. So I bought a rare Italian road race bike, a Giordana XL-ECO from a long-time local racer.  It's a beautiful lugged Dedacci steel frame with an Eddy Merckx chrome fork. The drive train is all Campagnolo, including Record hubs, brakes, headset and front derailleur.