Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940853)

Hey Zingston

Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 3940754)

just finished up a nice work out in my tactical vest...1045am, and already 87 degrees... i love it guys.

Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940765)

Do not go to walmart or any big box store. Their bike are junk. I call them throw away bikes. You use them for a season and throw them away. They'll need so much work at the end of the season that it will cost at least double the original cost of the bike to repair them.

Without knowing what your local bike shops carry, there's no way for me to give you a recommendation. I can tell you that anything you're going to want to put the bafang set up on is going to be over $300. If you were out here, I could get you a great deal. Three of my friends own bike shops.

Originally Posted by Zoren 370 (Post 3940772)

EW looks like you’ve created such a deep fan base from Betty and Falcony!

Dude your strong and love by many!!!:tup:

Keep up being a pain in the azz!:ugh2:

Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3940790)

Agreed! They are the only animal that lives with their god and their unconditional love and commitment is always on display.

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 3940796)

when i work out, its just the plate carrier and level III plates thats rated up to a 7.62. now my other carrier with the plates, and ammunition, and everything else can be pretty heavy.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3940806)

:confused: I don't have any cats. And good riddance to the one I used to have.

Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940850)

Unless you want to do offroad, get a hybrid. Most are 27 speed, 3 chainrings up front, 9 speed cassette in the rear. Like I mentioned, you'll be removing the 3 chainrings in the front to install a single chainring that comes with the bafang kit.

The 9 speed in the rear is still good to have over a 7 speed. Hybrids generally come with 700c wheels, that's the same size as a road bike but wider. They are basically 29". Also, get stainless steel spokes on the wheels or the spokes will rust out in no time. Get trigger shifters, not twist shifters that come on the cheap bikes. And do not get a steel frame bike, aluminum for sure. Giants are fine as are all the name brands. Again, it all has to do with the components. I ride a Fuji hybrid as my everyday bike. It has high end components. The owner of the shop I did repairs for is a Fuji dealer and gets their bikes for less than half off. I paid him $300 for an $800 hybrid. He is also an electric bike dealer. If you were out here I could get you an amazing price on an electric bike.

Originally Posted by Zingston (Post 3940854)

That's what I'm talking about! I used some on a ribeye I grilled last night! So good!! :yum:


Ate you going to try it?

Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3940845)

That ain't no lie!!! That is the most expensive four days of fun for me each year. Still racecar said I need bigger turbos and that money evaporated that fast!

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Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940850)

Unless you want to do offroad, get a hybrid. Most are 27 speed, 3 chainrings up front, 9 speed cassette in the rear. Like I mentioned, you'll be removing the 3 chainrings in the front to install a single chainring that comes with the bafang kit.
The 9 speed in the rear is still good to have over a 7 speed. Hybrids generally come with 700c wheels, that's the same size as a road bike but wider. They are basically 29". Also, get stainless steel spokes on the wheels or the spokes will rust out in no time. Get trigger shifters, not twist shifters that come on the cheap bikes. And do not get a steel frame bike, aluminum for sure. Giants are fine as are all the name brands. Again, it all has to do with the components. I ride a Fuji hybrid as my everyday bike. It has high end components. The owner of the shop I did repairs for is a Fuji dealer and gets their bikes for less than half off. I paid him $300 for an $800 hybrid. He is also an electric bike dealer. If you were out here I could get you an amazing price on an electric bike.

Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3940870)

Dang, gotta have an office setup by 8 am and dayshift couldnt get to it all. Looks like I gotta go do some manual labor.

Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3940871)

Well it beats no having a job!

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 3940796)

when i work out, its just the plate carrier and level III plates thats rated up to a 7.62. now my other carrier with the plates, and ammunition, and everything else can be pretty heavy.

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3940857)

You have your ballistic plates in the vest?

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3940860)

Pain.........like a roid...........:icon23:

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3940869)

I've been out of bicycles for a while. Haven't kept up with some of the changes. The last 3 bikes I had were the Litespeed Ti road bike, A aluminum framed GT MT, and the cro-moly Trek 990 I have now. Almost bought a LOOK carbon frame back in 2001 or there abouts. $5,000 just for the frame. :eek: My hip started to go bad and I just quit riding for the most part. Still put a few miles on each summer.

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3940862)

Who makes it? Been looks at them. My brother in law has an old one that's Level II.

Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3940872)

You got that right my friend! Bossman and I were joking about actually having to work after 3 months of pawning everything onto dayshift. Gonna do something nice for the guys that been bustin *** all day, once covid relaxes a bit.

Originally Posted by jwick (Post 3940873)

I have a L3 plate carrier. It’s heavy on its own, but it’s not gov’t issue, so your might lighter.

Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3940837)

We didn't know any better then because we were drunk, high or both!

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Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940877)

Nothing wrong with the Litespeed titanium, there are some high end Ti road frames out there. More for the gotta have Ti guys though, not good for racing. For road it's pretty much all carbon frames but there are a few decent aluminum frames. Mountain are either aluminum or carbon now. I have about 8k into my road bike. Would have been a lot more but I bought the frame off ebay and built it up myself. Built the wheels myself too (bought the carbon rims and spoked, tensioned and trued them). Maybe you should look into an electric mountain bike. All my buddies have them now. I'm the only one that hasn't gone electric yet.

Originally Posted by jwick (Post 3940883)

****...That’s how I spent the 90’s and first part of the 00’s.

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3940884)

If I go motorized MT bike. It with have about 60hp. :tup:

Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3940872)

You got that right my friend! Bossman and I were joking about actually having to work after 3 months of pawning everything onto dayshift. Gonna do something nice for the guys that been bustin *** all day, once covid relaxes a bit.

Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940886)

You can bypass the speed sensor on the speed limited one's and they'll go about 28-30

Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3940887)

I'm sure they would love that!

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Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 3940888)

dont give mr. leingod any ideas :ugh:

Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3940890)

A couple racks of ribs and some sides and they'll forget about slashing our tires. :rofl2:

Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940891)

The kit Leingod is looking at isn't speed sensored nor pedal assist. It'll go 30 easily.

Originally Posted by Spoiler (Post 3938197)

The New “What did you do with your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVII

As BoneZ might say...

“Welcome to the 37th Off Topic Thread!

Have at it, all you sexy sexy Bacon people and Z lovers”

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This thread was constructed early, so no stray dogs (Ted’s Dad) could jump over the fence before it was time too... However no one was hurt during the building of this thread...

Originally Posted by BoneZ (Post 3940902)

BoneZ always socially distances from others.
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Originally Posted by BoneZ (Post 3940903)

Rosie is vacuuming the downstairs sporting her new steering wheel.
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Originally Posted by redondoaveb (Post 3940904)

After pooping in your pants, I see why people would want to socially distance themselves from you. :icon14: