Shop K-Cups Deals at Staples. Save big on our wide selection of K-Cups Deals and get fast & free shipping on select orders. Medium-roasted coffee K-Cups® for Keurig® brewers. In Green Mountain Coffee Roasters® Nantucket Blend® Coffee, exotic berry-like East African, full-bodied. Museum bicycles from 1. Ritchey Breakaway Cross Titanium. Ritchey Breakaway Cross Titanium. Just to be clear, nobody here at Classic Cycle would ever advocate having just one bike. That would be irresponsible. But let’s just say that a zombie- style apocalypse does happen (or you move into a studio apartment). You have to get by with just one bike. How do you survive such a horror? You would need something that can handle different types of terrain (bombed- out city streets as well as zombie trails that cut through the woods). You would want something that continues to look good for years without access to touch- up paint. Certainly you would want something that packs down small and can go anywhere anytime. Air Force Falcons Alabama Crimson Tide Arizona State Sun Devils Arizona Wildcats Arkansas Razorbacks Army Black Knights Auburn Tigers Baylor Bears Cal Bears.The only smart option would be a bike like this titanium Ritchey. Spinergy wheels pack well an can be used as weapons. Designer Fashion at Bluefly.com. Free shipping on Designer Fashion with orders of $150 or more and free returns when you refund your purchase for store credit. Museum bicycles from 1986 to the present on display at Classic Cycle, a bike shop on Bainbridge Island, located near Seattle and Tacoma. Latest environmental news, features and updates. Pictures, video and more. Upload Entry Document. If your file is bigger than 2MB it will. Etched graphics look good for years and years. Simple seat clamps hold the frame together. The folks at Ritchey produced these fabulous do- everything bikes for about ten years. The titanium frames were exactly twice the price of the steel versions, but they were feather light and you could be a little more careless while riding or packing them up, free from the horror of paint scratches. All packed up and ready to roll. It’s a bit of a puzzle, but it all fits. The equipment on this particular bike shows extreme consideration for all possible contingencies (I happen to know this because it’s my bike). The most notable choice is the 2. Spinergy Rev- X wheels. A bold pick for a travel bike? Not as extreme as you may think. The Spinergys pack together more tightly than wire- spoked wheels, saving room in the travel case. They’re tough and surprisingly comfortable to ride, so they work well off- road. By switching to a set of skinny road tires they instantly become blazing fast road bike wheels (always pack extra tires when traveling). The spoke blades are also surprisingly sharp so the wheels will work as zombie repellent should the need arise. Avid Ultimate cantilevers. Carbon post, plenty strong for this design. Ritchey Superlogic carbon cockpit components look great (the logos match!) and save a fair amount of weight. The Sram Red drivetrain equipment is very tolerant of abuse and maladjustment, so it’s another fine choice in our one- bike apocalypse scenario. Sram Red is also the lightest component group option, and is a big reason why this bike weighs just 1. Cable couplers unscrew by hand. Sram Red equipment: Light and tolerant of abuse. These levers add control when the going gets dicey. This bike is outfitted with secondary brake levers on the top of the handlebars and they’re a great way to make the bike behave when the going gets sketchy, off- road or on. The gearing is typical for a cyclocross bike, 1. This combination works well for almost any riding. Sometimes the Ritchey is outfitted with a rack and panniers and is employed for touring duty. Sometimes the Time Atac pedals are replaced with sneaker- friendly platform pedals while the bike runs short errands. This bike can be configured to do it all. Ritchey stopped production of the titanium frame in 2. Gary Klein lent his signature aluminum tubes and deep sparkly paint to the project. Bicycle behemoth Trek, enjoying the publicity surrounding Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France dominance, made everything come together. The Klein Palomino featured Paul Turner’s Monolink design. The idea was to get rid of the standard four bar linkage found in most suspension designs without resorting to the old unified rear triangle design. Klein’s big aluminum tubes mated with the rear linkage perfectly, providing wide and stable mounting points for the long Fox shock unit. Trek marketed the bike as a full suspension bike for people (roadies) who didn’t like the looks or added weight of a full suspension design. Palomino. Turner’s monolink design. Deore XT equipment. The Palomino was not much of a success given the horsepower driving it. Mountain bikers were probably more interested in industrial- looking designs. Klein paint jobs were too pretty to get dirty. Trek, a midwestern company, didn’t really have a handle on the “mountain” part of mountain biking and delivered a bike that bobbed in an odd manner while pedaling in the small chainring and lacked the high- speed stability for knarly downhills. GT STS DS1. 99. 8 GT STS DSIn the old days, bikes were easy. Bike frames and forks were made out of steel tubing, you had “racing” or “touring” design, and you had maybe a half- dozen component groups to sort through. This is not an easy bike. This is an STS DS thermoplastic dual suspension bike from GT Bicycles. It was built in 1. Thermoplastic, not carbon fiber. A lot of machining. Rock Shox Coupe Deluxe. Let’s start by talking about the frame (and handlebar) material. These areas were made out of thermoplastic. Thermoplastic is not the same as carbon fiber. With regular carbon fiber you use glue and pressure and sometimes heat to form it the way you want it, and you can’t really change the structure once it cures. With the kind of thermoplastic used here you can rely on heat more than mold pressure to shape things the way you want them, and if you get it wrong you’re able to heat things up and repeat the process. Carbon fiber was still looked upon skeptically in 1. Rock Shox Judy XL1. Scott thermoplastic handlebar. Ringle Twist skewer. The STS was pretty extreme for a cross country mountain bike in ’9. It had almost 3 inches of suspension travel and a pretty long wheelbase. The dual- crown Rock Shox Judy XL fork was pretty heavy by racing standards and was considered downhill- specific on looks alone. The seat tube was curved on this bike to make room for the rear shock linkage and Rock Shox Coupe Deluxe coil spring. The cockpit features a long Kore stem and a narrow Scott thermoplastic handlebar. Like every other mountain bike ridden in the 1. All purple parts or a rainbow of colors was not uncommon. This bike got a minor red treatment. It has red Paul Components brakes, twist- off (not cam- actuated) Ringle hub skewers, a red Ringle seat post and bottle cage. The red- anodized theme could have gotten out of control with brake levers, hubs and cranks getting in on the craze, but the matte grey Shimano XTR parts put a stop to that. Shimano M6. 46 DX pedals. Shimano XTR 9. 50 components. There are a few more notable bike bits to point out. The “Sunset” anodized Mavic 2. The Shimano DX pedals gave mountain bikers a bigger platform than Shimano’s cross country models, offering better support for softer shoes and a place to stand when your cleat wasn’t actually clicked in. The Shimano XTR 9. XTR trigger shifters worked great but were about three times the cost of the Gripshifters, a difference that usually explained the substitution and not an actual preference for twist- shift actuation. Unusual Paul V- brakes. Red Paul Crosstop III brakes. Lastly, the brakes are fantastic. Here we have Paul Component’s linear pull variation called the Crosstop (III). They stop really well but were kind of hard to figure out when we were setting them up. There is an adjustable lever arm running across the top where the cable and V- brake noodle usually resides, and the cable stop and pinch bolt is down the side instead of on top of the brake arms. Just another thing about this bike that wasn’t so easy. The aerodynamic cutout for the rear wheel was ahead of the curve (so to speak), and it just seemed so fast. Internally routed cables made it more . Raleigh probably built the great- grandfather to this rig back in the 1. We have an Italian Bianchi just like it from 1. Avon that was made in India during the 1. The timeless design was obviously a winner. The fork has more rake to it than you’ll find on most bikes, a feature helps to smooth out the ride. Gravel roads and cobblestones are no match for the Phoenix. Industrial strength kickstand. Here’s your suspension. While the Rod- actuated brakes are not the most powerful design, they are reliable. Leave the bike out in the rain for weeks at a time, you don’t have to worry about rusty brake cables. Hard rubber brake pads and big steel rods (instead of thin wires) are used so that the brakes, as mediocre as they are, rarely need adjustment. You’ll find bikes like the Phoenix sometimes equipped with 3- speed hubs. Let’s call multiple gears a luxury (they need occasional maintenance) in this instance, so a single- speed will have to do. Phoenix frame detail. Heavy duty rack. A ton of bricks. Now let’s talk cargo capacity. School books? Suspension hadn’t really become a thing in the mountain bike world yet, with suspension fork travel being only an inch or so and most suspension options adding a tremendous amount of extra weight. Rapidfire shifters. The front triangle. I figured weird designs like this one would be the way forward. Pinarello FP6. Pinarello FP6. Bike riders (especially roadies) like what they like. Kim Bottles is an Eddy Merckx fan and has 4 or 5 of those. Cycling Team GT Superbike. This is the road version “Superbike” from GT and the U. S. Like Stephen Roche, Giovanni Battaglin did a grand Tour double, winning both the Giro d’ Italia and the Vuelta Espana in 1. Fork detail. Campagnolo Record Delta brakes. Campy “C” Record drivetrain. The frame represents some fairly typical Italian design from the era. Columbus Thron steel tubing, while being a hair heavier than the more common SL or SLX tubing, made tall bikes like this one plenty stiff and reduced the front- end twisting that would have compromised the handling. The paint is fairly modest for an Italian bike, but there are lots of little engraved logos and custom touches abound. Frame detail. Toe clips! Record derailleur, custom dropouts. This bike is outfitted with all of the greatest hits of the 1. It comes with Cinelli handlebars and stem, a Selle Italia Turbo saddle, Mavic rims, Campagnolo C Record components and. The gaudy paint job and 1. Lance Armstrong’s victory at the ’9. Tour de France. Oh, sorry. I meant to redact the name. That should read “L**** A********’s” 1.
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