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^Love that, been thinking of getting full guards for mine.

I remember doing that at least 30 years ago... why no one just went with 5318008 or just 58008 is frankly disappointing now

There were various mathematical back-stories that you could perform on a calculator to render a fictional female 'boobless'.
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My favourite modern 'dale road bike is this one. Guessing it's a custom paint scheme?

Nice one Mr B on having three of the best builds

Cheers. I find it quite hilarious, it's just one build with some paint and new bar tape.
That little one with the bling red brakes and filthy white bar tape is brilliant.

Cranks are a bit of a letdown and the photo's as flat as a pancake, but otherwise I'd ride that. Not sure if porn tho. Standards be sky-high round these parts.

I have 20 spoke wheels on my road bike and I do actually hop potholes etc. instead of going round them all the time (not claiming this is big or clever), and I weigh 65kg, and they're fine. I've also crashed it a lot. Still fine.

Mavic Ksyrium/Aksium?
I have Ksyrium Equipes and they're hard as nails. Not one true required in 2 years of LA riding over fire roads and all sorts.

One unfortunate side-effect of making the word POMPINO much, much bigger and brighter on my bike;
My new landlady is an elderly Calabrian, as are her two quite heavy-set sons who visit her practically every other day.
Not sure they'd take kindly to a new tenant chaining a bike with 'BLOWJOB' written aloud to their front railing. I'm keeping it in the apartment for now...

Totally. These things are fuck-ugly up close in real life. Everybody should own one though.
Since moving to NY I've been asked (whilst waiting at the lights or outside a bike shop):

• Is that a Geekhouse?
  
• Is that custom?
  
• Is that ?
  The look on their face when I tell them the frame costs $170 is an absolute picture.
  

The white one with camp tape is awesome too, if someone can dig out a picture of that

This one?

If so, my bike. Same bike, weeks before I painted it flat green.

That black-chrome powdercoat one fucking rocks. When I was building mine, I had a few 'inspiration' pics saved. Most if not all are from this forum. Plenty of ace Pomps on here.

By the way, the two Hollywood sign pics are of the same bike (mine). White with purple tape was the initial build, but I quickly grew to hate cloth tape (even with Fizik Bar Gel under it)!

Is the Bontrager Race Lite CX Fork a worthwhile upgrade for the new 2014 pomp frameset or a waste of money?

A good fork is a good fork. Whether it's the right rake/trail/length for the Pomp, I don't know.
Personally though, I think these frames are worth whatever upgrades you want to throw at them. They're brilliant. I hope the 2014 one is as good as the old version.

Talk to NYC Velo. If they can't help you themselves, they might know someone who will. Solid dudes.

Looks ace. You'll score LFGSS bonus points for not shaving the braze-ons off.

The SuperSix Black Inc may be CF, but the CAAD 10 Black Inc is Aluminium.
Cannondale's first flat-black production bike was the Bad Boy (a CAAD 3 Aluminium rigid MTB frameset wearing black-on-black decals and all black components), which pretty much started the trend for SR-71-Blackbird-inspired 'stealth' urban bikes. The look (and concept) was widely imitated following its release.
Credit where it's due, if anyone 'owns' that look nowadays it's Cannondale.

Define 'crazy expensive'.
A complete new CAAD 10 105 bike is ~$1500 USD here (in NY).
New framesets are around on eBay and the like for ~$800. Doesn't strike me as a lot, personally.
To give a little perspective, I paid £699 for a new CAAD 3 MTB frameset in London 14 years ago, which in today's money would be knocking on for £1100. That's over $1800 USD, just for a production frame & fork.
Like Apple computers, CAAD frames are getting cheaper all the time.

This top tube wrapover (bilam?) detail

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/82206d1395963113-airtight-cycles-moebius-aero-crit-12.jpg

is (to me) extraordinary. Properly lovely work. The whole bike impresses me, but seeing that was what marketing assholes like to refer to as 'surprise and delight'.
About the tyres; I can't be the only one praying Schwalbe employ a new graphic designer sometime soon. They make a seemingly infinite range of technically wonderful tyres, but the subtleties of their engineering prowess are smashed to pieces by the appalling labelling on their sidewalls.

'there's a valid place for that'. It is functional bikes, not bike porn

I'd go along with that. Nothing spectacular about them, so away they go.
If the relocation of said Black Incs could be arranged, that would be most satisfactory.
I currently want a CAAD 10 frameset, and I want to repaint it before building it up. Won't be flat black though.

I really don't think anybody buying an OTP complete Cannondale is claiming any kind of 'firsties' in the fashion stakes. I'd personally prefer the frame to be gloss black, but tbh when I saw the Black Inc models in a shop a while ago I had to concede that they looked pretty nice.
You're right that it's a lack of imagination. It's a cop-out, a non-choice. There's a valid place for that, imo.

A few things to bear in mind;

• It was only original once. It is no longer original.
  
• Unless you have a personal connection to the team or rider that raced the bike, you owe it nothing.
  
• Paint is a consumable, even on race machinery.
  
  

Ask yourself why you bought this particular frame, and what your vision is for the complete finished bike. You didn't choose the original paint scheme, you aren't duty-bound to like it, and you've already admitted that you think the CarMaxx logo is fucking horrible (you're absolutely right, btw).

I think you should do whatever you like with it, just be respectful and do a quality job that would be worthy of a frame of this quality.
If it was raced with any degree of success, its presence as a race bike will be in photographs somewhere, hopefully with the rider it meant most to.

Issue with the blackboard paint 'Dales is that they could be an entry level CAAD10, visually there really isn't enough to distinguish them from the 8K MAMIL chariot.

That's the entire point of that 'colourway' (coupled with black-logo Enve parts) imo.
For those wanting to 'brag', there are racks and racks of TEAM EDITION S-WORKS CERVELO MADONE EVO Full Kit Wanker bikes.

That's a rim de-sticker, Conti Grand Prix Classics and a dirty-ride-in-the-rain away from being a really fucking great bike. I'd love an 853 Mercian.

Not sure if Porn, Anti, HHSMTB, Epic WTF or all of the above.

Porn, from here. Biased though.

Given that they do buy expensive fat bikes

That was the other part I was about to cover - Every surfer I know would never dream of spending cash on such a yuppie affectation to get their board from home to the beach.
Far more common to use a ratty old Alu MTB or a thrashed old cruiser. Anything cheap with soft wide tyres and few or no gears, basically.
Like this.

The daft 3-wheeled thing mostly screams "Please steal my $4,000 bike whilst I'm in the sea folding the nose of my hand-shaped Al Merrick."

Bikes are better to ride the more freely you are able to turn the front wheel and the less the weight is on one side (as opposed to centred over the wheels).

This, I agree with (personally, being a cyclist and not being a surfer).

But...

The whole assembly is merely a device to keep a prized surfboard from coming into contact with the ground, and relieve the owner of the weight of said surfboard. To the intended user, everything else is irrelevant. I assure you.

Fuck me this place is hard work.
Unspecified lubricant.

I'll give you a clue - The bikes are ridden not by cyclists, but by surfers.
Not in the habit of repeating myself, so please re-read the last sentence of post #334.