Got taken out by a driver the other night. Hit-and-run, unfortunately. Bashed my helmet up, it's useless now, but my head is still good, albeit a bit sore. CT scan was thankfully clean, so no permanent damage. Unfortunately, the incident broke the steel fork on my Bridgestone. The Bridgestone is therefore toast, and on its way out (going to donate it to the Austin Yellow Bike Project).

This means yet ANOTHER bike will be entering my stable to serve as commuter and future race bike. Since I'll be racing the track bike weekly this summer, I can't keep converting it back and forth from track to commuter duty and back every week (it's a time consuming and annoying job). The track bike is also really uncomfortable for commuting because the frame is ridiculously stiff, and the position is very aggressive.

Can't commute on the carbon road bike. Can't commute on the high end mountain bike. A new bike won't hurt I guess!

I've got a lead on a new Specialized Tricross Singlecross on sale near by, so I'm going to check it out this Friday. Will end up racing it this winter, no doubt, and maybe even the fall and next spring if I have the time. There are plenty of 'cross races here in Texas, so I've got lots of opportunities to do so.

Whoa bro glad youre alright man. ive had at last count 14 near misses and one collision. wiht cars. within hte last month. the collision wasnt painful nor did it cause injury. well the only injury it caused, is when i bunnyhopped my trek 4500 onto hte hood of an 88 honda ( and back off again.) she pulled out in front WHILE looking at me. she started bitching about the tire tracks and slight dent on hood of her car, im like ok, YOU pulled out in front of me, I have witnesses. we can call the police right now. i can find somethign broken in this bike. and YOU will pay for it, or you can go on home. like it didnt happen. your choice. ( she went on home). i see this car on occasion, and it still has the tire track on teh hood

Oh man, that sucks, glad you're ok. The stuff people are capable of doing and completely ignoring is mind blowing.

Why is your bridgestone no good anymore without the fork? Did it dimple the top and downtubes, or do you just not want it without the matching fork? I'm sure someone else will appriciate it all the same. I used to have a fuji track pro, which as you mentioned is pretty much the same thing as your bike, and it was awful for riding on the street. I rode it to work maybe 2 times then I just sold it. Oddly enough, the cheapest of the frames I have, is the one that gets the most use and is one of the most comfortable city bikes I've had, which is an old pake frame, back when the seat tubes were all 26.8 and I had to ream it out to 27.2 to fit a normal post in. I can only fit a post in a couple inches now too, so I have to cut them all short, haha. Hope you find something new. I've been looking for an old cannondale touring frame forever now. I have a bunch of old 7 speed stuff with some bar end shifters that I've been holding onto for when I find one, it'll make a great bike for around town when the weather is questionable or I feel like going slow.

well i se this car coming out in slow mo. traffic is heavy so no go there, ditch on left, ( 35mph) no go there either. so it was tankfully a WTH gaveit what i had. and landed on the tires. ( on the car, and afterwards)

The Bridgestone isn't worth much of anything, even when it had the fork. The MB-5 and MB-6 are some of the most least valuable of the old Bridgestones, unfortunately. I barely used it, and it would have been an annoying commuter (30lbs of old mountain bike steel? no thank you). Now that the fork is broken, it's not even worth fixing it up again, time wise or money wise.

I haven't had much time to ride lately (finals), but before, and soon, I will be riding each of my bikes at least once a week. The road bike will be ridden at least twice a week, the track bike will be raced weekly, the new commuter will be used 5+ days per week, and the mountain bike at least once a week. Starting in the fall the track bike may see less use, but the mountain bike will see increased use (race season!). The road bike and commuter will continue on. Winter time? The commuter bike will turn into a race bike, as cyclocross season starts, possibly turning the track bike back into the commuter.

Then spring will roll around and road season will start back up again. I think I'm actually set on bikes... for now.

Ok, that makes more sense. I love the old bridgestone mountain bikes, but in this current day of Keirin frenzy, when I hear someone say bridgestone I usually assume they're talking about a track frame, so I was wondering why you were just going to hand it off for free.

Your situation is how I used to end up with so many bikes. I had 12 at one point. I swore I needed one bike to fit every possible use there was. I don't race, but I still needed certain ones depending on weather, distance, and my mood. Currently it's nothing but the 1.7 mile commute to and from work, so, boring, I know, but on the plus side if I hadn't started to get bored with bicycles I never would've pulled the GS out of storage after 4 years. Aside from wanting to find an old cannondale touring frame, the only other thing I really want to do someday is replace that pake frame with something else. My 3 main choices are a cannondale track frame, any generation, whether it was the old one from the early 90's, which I'm not paying for, a major taylor which I'd love, or a newer capo, I really don't care, or else I'd take either of the older KHS frames. Preferably the one with the curved seat tube or else the one with the sloping top tube(which my friend said he was going to sell me, and then backed out on...).

After that I feel like I'll definitely be done with new ones for a really long time.

can always put an engine kit on one of them

Hey TT, as broke as i am, i put in for the saddle ( your ebay sale) only up to 5, BUT i don thave much more than 15 in paypal. sooo thats the best i can do. BUT even if im outbid, it will bring more than it was. approaching 14 hours now. so last minute bidding war should commence shortly. must admit. with that enigne due to arrive  the 18th. that saddle would look pretty good on the racebike

haha, thanks for the help. It was a pretty corny looking saddle, but I couldn't pass it up when I saw it.

I think there may be another bicycle casualty in my Buell pursuit. My right knee has been sore for a couple months, my knees have always been picky. This morning as I was getting ready for work I really didn't feel completely up to getting on the fixed gear bike that I usually ride. Knowing that's less that ideal for the condition of your knees I'm thinking I might just sell it and take it easy on bikes with gears for a while. I love riding fixed gears, they're by far the most fluid way of getting around town, but if I want to be able to walk when I'm old it's probably best if I give it a rest. Trying to leave every single redlight with that tall of gearing just isn't that great of an idea it turns out.

anyway, that'll put me down to 2 bikes!! I haven't had that few of bikes since I was in high school. It'll just be that cyclocross bike with slicks and riser bars, and that single speed mountain bike with slicks and fenders for winter riding, and I'll just use it to ride in the rain now. Still hoping to pick up an old touring frame eventually, and I'll just be able to ride that when the weather is questionable. The little bicycle stand I made in the basement to hold my and my wife's bikes is going to start looking pretty lonely since it already has one empty spot.