Welcome and thanks for joining the group!

Thanks for the welcome Sky & William!

I like the supertype, even if putting my stock saddle on it is sort of like putting a turd on a pedestal. :>

Thanks Sky!

Regals are pretty, but I don't use leather or else I'd have gotten one. Tried the vinyl Regal knockoff from Soma (Okami or whatever its called), even gave it 150 mi to break in, and it was a total assmangler. Too bad most higher-end offerings in Lorica are busy team editions. . The search continues.

I recently moved to San Diego from Philly and began riding my very short commute to work today. The distance is about 3 miles one way and it begins in North Park and ends in Banker's Hill. I started a blog to blather on about biking and there are no posts yet: http://bicyclingsd.blogspot.com/

Below is a picture of me and another of my bike.

Thanks! I think I'm riding with some women bikers this sunday, but will try the breakfast townie ride the following weekend and will bring my husband along too (his bike is above mine on the rack)

hey richley chris!

i think we met @ sdyc a week or 2 ago!

nice to see you here

mellissa, love the masi!

Welcome Andy, I got a friend in Portland that works with the bicycle advocacy group up there I'll see if I could get you two talking on getting SD county bike friendlier

welcome Andy and Shanna, out newest members.

hey Shanna, we have a mutual aquaintance. :face-monkey:

Thank you for the welcome. I'm really enjoying San Diego and am glad I'm here. Its like being permanently on vacation.

What up Anthony.
I love your photos.

My name is Mark. My wife & I have two children & we have been very interested in cycling for about a year now. My wife commutes on her LHT to the office & I stay home with my daughters & try to do as much as I can on a Big Dummy. We're new to S. California & though we are rather stranded in the suburbs of Rancho Bernardo we have manifested a distaste for our mini van & 'average' automobile use & like consider ourselves advocates for more bicycling for life solutions & liesure.

Hey everybody! My name's Mike...I live in Golden Hill right now, just a short ride from VeloCult. I've been in SD for about 3 years, by way of Bloomington, Indiana (probably one of the best bike cities in the midwest...check out the movie "Breaking Away" if you haven't seen it).

I've been having a great time on this board, reading about some really cool bikes, routes, and events. I'm glad to be part of the community now. Here's me:



After a couple of years in SD with my '99 mountain bike, I decided to upgrade to a NEW Trek 1.5 double (18-speed). I commute as often as I can from Golden Hill to Sorrento Valley, usually by heading to the train station and taking the Coaster 2 stops. Commuting with the road bike is like night and day compared to the mountain bike, I'm really enjoying it. Here's a stock photo of my new bike:

What was up with the big race in that movie? Passing the bike off like a relay?
Crazy.

It's the "Little 500", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_500.

For the men, it's 200 laps (women=100), and teams of 4. You have to do a minimum of 10 exchanges, but what usually happens is the "anchor" of your team takes the majority of the laps. The race itself is a ton of fun, but the whole week leading up to it is a huge party.

haha, 16 seconds apart. i was just a little faster Seabass although you were more informative. :face-smile:

welcome everyone. site gets bigger w/ each visit. its awesome.

I got to Bloomington in 2000, and there was no longer a Paliai's. It's now a burger place called Opie Taylor's. The best pizza in Bloomington (now) is a placed called Rockits.

Welcome Mike and Tony!

I love the poprad. I looked far and wide for a good one when I was buying a new bike a few months back. Cool bikes. Welcome.

Hey ya'll. My name is Gabriel, and here are my main rides. 1980's Guerciotti, 1988 Fausto Coppi track bike. I don't have a car and do all my errands by bike. I also do longer 50 miles + rides on the weekends. I'm working on building up something that I can throw around and load stuff up on. Stay tuned....I work at Grants Marketplace in South Park. If you are in the neighborhood drop by with your bike and say hi. paz

and I only paid 5 bucks for it!

And a good day to you sir!

Karl. Grad student. Trying to commute more often to SDSU from University Heights.

cheers!

Hi,
My name is Roberto, i'm originally from TJ but living in the North Park/University Heights area for the past 6 years and been commuting ever since. I do a short run in the mornings from University heights to Bankers Hill near Downtown to work.
Here's some pictures of my only bike right now, I just finished restoring this 198(7)? Torpado "Alfa" (new paint, decals & components) which i use for this short & sweet ride, cheers!.

did you re-chrome the fork? who did the paint?

Hello, some random dude gave me a card to this forum... so hi!
Name is Hyoki but I go by Max because everyone butchers my real name. Korean by birth, did five questionable years in the NAVY, and now working as FRCSW's bitch (aka contractor) on Coronado.

Bit about my bicycling history. Last August, on a impulse went to buy a bike at REI, Novara Bonanza.

Went to a job in Point Mugu and went off-roading with some hardcore SS 29'ers and crashed it real bad (derailleur took a direct hit and went into spokes, locked it up. bike and I went off cliff together) . Took it back to REI (100% Satisfaction baby) and replaced it for a Novara Ponderosa, which you see here.
Gas price was going retarded and my car is a pos (95 eclipse gsx turbo blah gas hog blah) so I picked up my bike and started commuting. That was September.


After riding the bike you see here for 6 months ~2500 miles, I felt I needed a dedicated road bike but didn't want to spend $500 on a so-so multispeed road bike. I purchased this fixie on eBay for mere $250.


Today was my first day really commuting with it and I can't count in both hands how many times I almost crashed. And it definitely was fast but also very tough up the hill..

Oh yea, I commute from Clairemont by Keils, to Downtown everyday. Every Sunday morning me and my buddies go to different mountain bike trails, my favorite being Mission Trails.
I also build high-powered (600-900lumens) led headlights for sub $100 based off the ssc p7 led, I started this because I didn't want to pay $400 for a 400lumen bike light. I wanted something to blind cars with..... hehe.

If you see me on the ferry, please do say hi. I do not bite.