{"id":2323,"date":"2014-11-04T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:54:56","slug":"new-ride-soma-smoothie-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2014\/11\/04\/new-ride-soma-smoothie-54\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ride: Soma Smoothie 54"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend I am building the first full road bike I’ve ever owned.\u00a0 After weighing the cost\/benefit options of steel verses carbon, I elected to go with a steel frame on purpose:<\/p>\n

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  1. I am not going to race it.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m not being a “weight weenie” about this bike.<\/li>\n
  3. Steel does provide a more comfortable ride.<\/li>\n
  4. I can’t break it easily if at all.<\/li>\n
  5. It’s cheaper (but not much).<\/li>\n
  6. The component geometry already matches several components I already own.<\/li>\n
  7. I got hooked on the classic style of steel and the nostalgia factor kicked in after riding a friends All City Mr. Pink<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. Damn near everything else on the bike will be carbon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Although I have 53\/39 rings I will be setting this up compact 50\/34 and breaking into experiences with huge gear ratios compared to my life on mountain bikes.\u00a0 I’ve made it into the top 10 on several road segments riding my 1×10 cross bike with 38 and 40×11-38 gearing.\u00a0 This Soma will be 50\/34-11\/25 and slightly heavier because of the frame weight and being a 2×10.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get this thing built and on the road so I also went ahead and ordered a new Pearl Izumi fleece bib and gloves because it’s getting cold out there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This weekend I am building the first full road bike I’ve ever owned.\u00a0 After weighing the cost\/benefit options of steel verses carbon, I elected to go with a steel frame on purpose: I am not going to race it. I’m not being a “weight weenie” about this bike. Steel does provide a more comfortable ride. … Continue reading New Ride: Soma Smoothie 54<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}