Olas Nah Posted June 24, 2019 Share #1 Posted June 24, 2019 Been a while again. Bought a new bike (Giant Defy1 Adv)... did I miss anything? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted June 24, 2019 Share #2 Posted June 24, 2019 Nope, and welcome back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted June 24, 2019 Share #3 Posted June 24, 2019 Hey there! Good to see you here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted June 24, 2019 Share #4 Posted June 24, 2019 How do you like your bike? I got the Adv Pro 0 late last summer and still smile every time I get on it 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted June 24, 2019 Share #5 Posted June 24, 2019 Hola Olas! Welcome back. We got the last few holdovers from the LF over here so there’s that.... Sweet bike, feel free to post a picture or two.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted June 24, 2019 Share #6 Posted June 24, 2019 Welcome back. Where have you been riding? What kind of mileage so far? Make with the pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted June 24, 2019 Share #7 Posted June 24, 2019 Welcome back. Got any movie reviews? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted June 24, 2019 Share #8 Posted June 24, 2019 Welcome back. We are still posting drivel and occasionally have a thread about cycling. Stick around and post. Now if we could get @Thaddeus Kosciuszko back too it would be nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted June 24, 2019 Share #9 Posted June 24, 2019 Holysamoly where have you been. Airhead has a new house, digital photog has sled dog, random guy worked for the Chinese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted June 24, 2019 Share #10 Posted June 24, 2019 Kzoo was mean to me. He got over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted June 24, 2019 Share #11 Posted June 24, 2019 Hi ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted June 24, 2019 Share #12 Posted June 24, 2019 3 hours ago, Digital_photog said: Welcome back. We are still posting drivel and occasionally have a thread about cycling. Stick around and post. Now if we could get @Thaddeus Kosciuszko back too it would be nice. And FSOG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted June 25, 2019 Share #13 Posted June 25, 2019 2 hours ago, donkpow said: Kzoo was mean to me. He got over it. Was snot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted June 25, 2019 Share #14 Posted June 25, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted June 25, 2019 Share #15 Posted June 25, 2019 13 hours ago, 2Far said: Welcome back. Got any movie reviews? This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted June 25, 2019 Share #16 Posted June 25, 2019 Howdy back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted June 25, 2019 Share #17 Posted June 25, 2019 welcome back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted June 25, 2019 Share #18 Posted June 25, 2019 Olas?! Wow, some earthquake to overturn that rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Olas Nah Posted June 28, 2019 Author Popular Post Share #19 Posted June 28, 2019 Well after my son arrived I was only able to carry on riding for about a year and then when he started walking and stuff the parenting responsibilities got to the point where riding wasn't very easy to do, plus we were living in the city where getting out to ride wasn't really that easy. But we moved, and so now I'm out in Bellevue, TN very close to the Natchez Trace, so I can hop on there from my house in just a few minutes. This is the bike: Giant Defy 1 Advanced, (2020). Ultegra Shift levers, FD and RD. 50/34 compact with 11-34 cassette, although I'm going to change that to an 11-30 or 11-28. Planning on upgrading the crank to Ultegra also in the coming weeks, but I'm wanting to see how the compact rides for a few weeks, because I was rolling a standard 53/39 on an 11-23 before. I've got a while before I'm any sort of shape like I was before, but hopefully if I can keep the riding up for another month or so i'll be able to do some metrics at a good clip. I made sure to get the 2020 year version so that all the hydraulics for the brake levers weren't sitting on top of the stem with that beefy crap I've seen on some bikes, the new hydraulics are built into the levers themselves, which also makes them more of a grip platform, which I like. Tubeless tires are a new thing for me. It's weird having a tire almost twice the width of my previous ones (32 versus 23). The bike rides really smoothly though, but I don't know how much of that is the wheels or the frame that is missing some of the AL parts that were on my previous Scott Cr1, which had aluminum joins on the forks, seatstays, and seat tube. All in all, it's really comfortable and the geometry seems to be a much better fit for me. Plus the red/gray coloring is bangin! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olas Nah Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share #20 Posted June 28, 2019 In terms of movie reviews...I will have to think on a couple. 'Wind River' - Fantastic film with a haunting score. Jeremy Renner was great in this. The story was compelling. Really worth watching. 'First Man' - I thought Gosling was miscast as Neil Armstrong, and they got his character all wrong, as well as Aldrin's to an extent, but the technical accuracy of the space sequences was great and the musical score was also nice. That being said, I'm still looking forward to the upcoming special documentaries and films about the moon landing. 'Infinity War'/'Endgame' - The first one got off to a rocky start, but kept building momentum and all I can say is that everything involving Thor was fantastic and Thanos was a brilliantly complex villain. The 2nd film was really slow to get the ball rolling but understandably they had to establish the impacts of Thanos' use of the gauntlet which changed a lot. I didn't care for how Thor became this beer guzzling loser...I had hope he might have become some dark and vengeful king who had retreated to some dark place and they would have had to pull him back to reality. The comedy of all that was lost on me, as well as the Mark Ruffalo/Hulk stuff. The final action battles were good if a bit confusing, but I have to say, the death of Tony Stark was moving as hell, and I had a tear in my eye. 'Captain Marvel' - total crap. The movie was all too aware that it was some sort of women's liberation movement and any male actor of any sort in the film was virtually emasculated or was a chauvanistic pig. The action and even the effects were sub-par and all I can say is that I hope a sequel is of much better quality. 'Black Panther' - mediocre. This film was also all too aware that it was a black superhero movie so it was filled with all sorts of cliches like token white guy helpers and the whole 'Wakanda is sitting upon some super precious element so naturally we're all better than everyone else' was pretty ironic. A good example is how the Wakandan scientist girl just casually indicates that she's so much smarter than Bruce Banner who in the comic world is like a legendary super-intelligent character, along with Stark. There was no attempt at toning any of this down. Plus, Killmonger's motivations were soured by the inept weakness of T'Challa and played the audience like Killmonger was somehow wrong. Dude won the fight fair and square and suddenly nobody wanted to follow him just 'because'. The final battle at the end was a bit hokey because you can see that nobody is really getting killed outside of Killmonger himself in his fight with T'Challa. But, it ended well. Was a bit better on the 2nd viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2019 Share #21 Posted June 28, 2019 Nice bike. What size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olas Nah Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share #22 Posted June 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Zackny said: Nice bike. What size? 'Large' I'm guessing the CM range is between 56 and 58 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olas Nah Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share #23 Posted June 28, 2019 One other feature that was a surprise to me, which I didn't really notice when buying it, was that they've apparently gotten rid of quick-release levers for wheels? I seem to remember some states mandating something about locking nuts on bike wheels, but wasn't sure if this impacted it or not, now the wheel comes off via handle screw and bolt. This makes me a bit mad because now I can't use the fork mount thing inside my car, and I'll have to rig up something else for carrying it inside my SUV. I've got a hitch mounted bike rack, but I don't feel like leaving my bike unattended, even if it's locked to the hitch mount, so I usually keep my bike inside my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted June 28, 2019 Share #24 Posted June 28, 2019 Oooooooo. Very pretty stealth bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted June 28, 2019 Share #25 Posted June 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, Olas Nah said: One other feature that was a surprise to me, which I didn't really notice when buying it, was that they've apparently gotten rid of quick-release levers for wheels? I seem to remember some states mandating something about locking nuts on bike wheels, but wasn't sure if this impacted it or not, now the wheel comes off via handle screw and bolt. This makes me a bit mad because now I can't use the fork mount thing inside my car, and I'll have to rig up something else for carrying it inside my SUV. I've got a hitch mounted bike rack, but I don't feel like leaving my bike unattended, even if it's locked to the hitch mount, so I usually keep my bike inside my car. It's has the new "through axle". Some, like on my Breezer Doppler, has something that looks like a quick release lever, but it works differently. Some require a tool. You should be able to use the fork mount with an adapter. One thing about the hydraulic brakes: Don't hang the bike upside down on hooks and avoid laying it on its side. If you aren't careful, you can get air in the brake lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted June 28, 2019 Share #26 Posted June 28, 2019 58 minutes ago, Olas Nah said: One other feature that was a surprise to me, which I didn't really notice when buying it, was that they've apparently gotten rid of quick-release levers for wheels? I seem to remember some states mandating something about locking nuts on bike wheels, but wasn't sure if this impacted it or not, now the wheel comes off via handle screw and bolt. This makes me a bit mad because now I can't use the fork mount thing inside my car, and I'll have to rig up something else for carrying it inside my SUV. I've got a hitch mounted bike rack, but I don't feel like leaving my bike unattended, even if it's locked to the hitch mount, so I usually keep my bike inside my car. Besides what Jerry said, the through axle will add stiffness to the wheel at the axle which is important due to the added forces of disc brakes. Its been a thing with mountain bikes for a while and now pretty common with road disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2019 Share #27 Posted June 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Olas Nah said: 'Large' I'm guessing the CM range is between 56 and 58 Too small for me. I’ve been looking at either the Trek Emonda sl6 or Specialized Robaix comp. both in Ultegra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted June 28, 2019 Share #28 Posted June 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Zackny said: Too small for me. I’ve been looking at either the Trek Emonda sl6 or Specialized Robaix comp. both in Ultegra. Where you expecting him to give it to you? Or maybe just a test ride!?!? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2019 Share #29 Posted June 28, 2019 4 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Where you expecting him to give it to you? Or maybe just a test ride!?!? ? I was going to steal it. Do you know how expensive new bikes are?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted June 28, 2019 Share #30 Posted June 28, 2019 6 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Where you expecting him to give it to you? Or maybe just a test ride!?!? ? He asked me for the IP address, I sold it to him for $50 Canadian. He said that is a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olas Nah Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share #31 Posted June 28, 2019 33 minutes ago, Zackny said: I was going to steal it. Do you know how expensive new bikes are?? Yeah, but it's in Russia. You'll have to think in Russian to employ its systems too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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