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EvilJoven posted:The only bad bike is the bike you don't like to ride. I was riding my hands me down road bike and i loving hated every second i was riding it. meanwhile my ancient hybrid lacks a hell of a lot of things but i loving love riding the trashy loving bike.
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A good hybrid is basically a more nimble/predictable road bike (because it's the same thing with flat bars) so I 100% get the feeling.
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Apr 18, 2021 21:38
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Mine’s an early one made while mountain bikes were still all 26” and they were making an effort to make the frame light. So it’s components are low end but it’s light enough to have panniers filled with shopping without making you want to cry. My panniers are absolute trash, originally pink but covered in mystery disgusting stains on the outside, and no one has ever touched it at the tram park and ride lol.
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Apr 18, 2021 21:54
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Pink anything is more resistant to getting stolen, in most circumstances. Mystery stains also help. Well done!
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Apr 19, 2021 02:34
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Wokeup feeling pretty well rested after an otherwise shot weekend of Moderna second-dose malaise and decided to go take a chance on a route Strava generated for me that involved a ton of dirt trails. Still feeling a little skittish on dirt after eating poo poo a few weeks back, but whatever gently caress it. Only one way to get around that eh? TRIAL NUMBER ONE: Sunbathing Noodle  Homie was absolutely posted and didn't care at all about the rocks I lazily toss in his direction (not at him, of course) so I pretty much had to wait until he got bored and left after he did the striking coil thing when I tried to just go around. Okay for sure dude lol. TRIAL NUMBER TWO: Strava "Routes"  I climbed ~2k feet to Tongva Peak, where Strava is convinced there's another dirt road that'll drop me down the south side of the mountain, but I'm pretty sure it wanted me to take this mega sketchy looking fire break along the ridgeline and lmao, naw I'm good. I had a feeling that might be the case as I've never heard of a thru-route over the hills in that particular direction, and figured worst case I could just carry my bike down until it got rideable, but it was steep and lovely looking enough to seem like a bad idea, so I bailed and found an alternate route down. I guess my b for not double-checking the route on satellite beforehand. Also got to learn how to tweak my barrel adjuster thingies on my brakes on the side of the road after realizing I had next to no ability to stop myself while going fast down that alternate route lmao 
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Apr 19, 2021 04:23
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Were you on a gravel bike? If I saw that single track down the side of a trail on my MTB I'd have a hard time resisting.
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Apr 19, 2021 12:11
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I’m not going to besmirch the picture thread with this, my park ‘n ride bike, oh yeh it’s got the vintage tourney shifters. 
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evil_bunnY posted:Were you on a gravel bike? If I saw that single track down the side of a trail on my MTB I'd have a hard time resisting. Yeah, Salsa Journeyman Sora.
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Apr 19, 2021 15:12
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 Beautiful day for riding bikes yesterday
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Objurium posted:Yeah, Salsa Journeyman Sora.
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I saw this and thought of development:
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iospace posted:I saw this and thought of development: rude
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Went to the bike "warehouse" this afternoon. It was an old rural school building. It was, in fact, mostly junker bikes, but there were some nice ones there. He had a finished fuji road bike in the biggest frame size I think I've seen. You'd need to be like 6'5" to ride it, but it was very pretty. His road bike room was all old steel bikes plus a trek 6000 and some very rusty beach cruisers: Nothing top end, but some very respectable bikes that really just needed some cleaning up/tear down and regrease treatment, including a schwinn le tour and a world tour, a bridgestone of some description, another fuji, a decent looking raleigh. He had a really pretty late 70s motobecane frame (no fork) in metallic green that I was tempted by until I noticed a rusty hole torn in the underside of a chainstay from the kickstand plate getting ripped off. I didn't pick any of these up, but if I want another project at some point, I'm betting they'll still be tucked away back there for a while. He only had three fixed gears, all of which were modern beaters but two of which were in my size. I picked up the "nicer" of the two for $50 to tinker on. I forgot my phone in the car, but my buddy got a quick few photos of the storage room bikes waiting to get fixed and moved the the "showroom" room. The kid bike room  The Mountain Bike room  I didn't have the time to look through either for anything special, but there might be good bikes hiding in that mountain bike room. Oldsrocket_27 fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 02:49
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What the gently caress
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Had what will probably be my top ride of the year today around the Eifel region of Germany along the Mosel river and surrounding area. 50mi, 4000ft, a climb I can only describe as a mini stelvio, some accidental gravel, almost entirely on bike paths and quiet country roads with zero traffic, what a day. https://www.strava.com/segments/25570908          
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Apr 20, 2021 04:25
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Very nice. I had seen your earlier pictures and wondered where that was. I vacationed last year very close to where you were this time (helps that they put big labels on their vineyards) and it’s absolutely beautiful.
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Talk to me about tailgate pads for bikes? They seem good, but i have a vision of launching all my bikes under a semi after hitting a pothole at 80 mph on the expressway.
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PCjr sidecar posted:Talk to me about tailgate pads for bikes? They seem good, but i have a vision of launching all my bikes under a semi after hitting a pothole at 80 mph on the expressway. I have a dirt-cheap amazon one and it's no problem. As insurance, I bungee the rear to the bed fixtures but I've never really considered it would fly off. Mine straps with buckles to the tailgate and the bike goes through a velcro loop. No issues besides the bike slumping a bit if I whip too hard. I drive a 15 year old 4 cylinder Colorado work truck. I don't whip too hard. I can't whip too hard. I can't whip. So yea, nothing but a positive experience with it. The nicer ones have QoL improvements for mounting it up but I don't really mind taking a bit longer.
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My apartment building did a bike audit and these bikes are abandoned so since I  know people I might be able to claim one if no one else does. I want to ride around town on tarmac for fitness but trail riding* would be sweet too. *trail riding to me is like, in the flat wooded area. Nothing wild. I know nothing about bikes. Should I snag any of these? I’m 33 and 5’11” and 190lbs if it makes a difference? 
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Can you get pics of the Trek "Sram" or Ridley Tioca (model name might be the saddle)? Those might need the highest end bikes. Next would be the other Treks and the Gary Fisher.
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kimbo305 posted:Can you get pics of the Trek "Sram" or Ridley Tioca (model name might be the saddle)? Those might need the highest end bikes. Maybe Tioca is Tiagra as well?
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Anything but the Treks and the Ridley and kinda the Gary Fisher was probably pretty junky to start with. The Trek 7100 will probably be a pretty meh hybrid, the "Judy 4500" is actually a Trek 4500 with a Judy fork, a pretty low-end and older hardtail mtb, the 6500 is a slightly nicer version. Silque SL might be a pretty decent "women's" bike and the FX3 could be a pretty ok flat bar road bike hybrid. Really though, we have no idea what size these are so any or all of them could be too big/too small/perfect for you in that regard. e: Based on the available info I would guess the SIlque might be the nicest bike in that lot but wildcards to the Ridley and the "Trek Sram" Thufir fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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PCjr sidecar posted:Talk to me about tailgate pads for bikes? They seem good, but i have a vision of launching all my bikes under a semi after hitting a pothole at 80 mph on the expressway. https://www.instagram.com/p/CN6eLfDDZxg/?igshid=1merg9yq3sm4
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Registered for the Iron Horse Classic in Durango. 
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https://twitter.com/onthisdayshe/status/1384777499549306882?s=21
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That's basically an 80s mountain bike
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Biggus Duckus posted:That's basically a Path Less Pedaled guest star
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https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com In the 1890s women becoming cyclists and riding their bikes to beer halls and roadside inns was a scandal.
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I gotta say, whatever people say about an upright posture being less efficient on a bike, I'll be damned if I don't enjoy riding my Brompton about 30x more than my more aggressively stanced gravel bike thanks to the more relaxed posture. It also helps that I have RSI's in my hands so putting a lot of weight on them for an extended time and having to grip tightly really gets uncomfortable, and even painful. It might be more tiring on my legs maybe, but I can actually ride longer with this upright stance than I can with the aggressive stance. Also got in a cargo rack for the front cargo block and rear of the bike. Rear rack is a Chinese knockoff of the H&H titanium rack and didn't come with instructions so I'll have to see how to I'm supposed to assemble it. But no way I'm spending 400 loving dollars and the H&H one. This one was less than 1/4th the price, and the front rack was just ~$20.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com The book One Less Car by Zach Furness has a whole chapter on bicycling and women in the 1890s. It freed upper class women to explore their surroundings without a chaperone / coach driver. Naturally it was considered massively scandalous and unladylike, turning women into men, etc. Some lovely men went so far as to accuse women of only riding a bike as a form of sexual masturbation - how immoral  ! However, some other equally lovely men called woman riding bikes a good thing because it would exercise their childbearing muscles and allow them to have more white christian babies.Bicycling also played a substantial role in the dissemination of socialism in Europe, as it mobilized working class people who could not just pay a stagecoach driver, allowing them to go spread the word to other towns and organize workers 
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accidentally roasted my rear GP5KTL last night doing a sweet skid on gravel to look cool. tore a chunk of rubber out. still had at least half a season left on it. definitely NOT worth it. 
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Nitrousoxide posted:I gotta say, whatever people say about an upright posture being less efficient on a bike, I'll be damned if I don't enjoy riding my Brompton about 30x more than my more aggressively stanced gravel bike thanks to the more relaxed posture. It's as if different postures are best for different people! THE NERVE
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numberoneposter posted:accidentally roasted my rear GP5KTL last night doing a sweet skid on gravel to look cool. tore a chunk of rubber out. still had at least half a season left on it. definitely NOT worth it. Yeah, I've been on a wait list with my LBS for when they can get them back in stock.
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evil_bunnY posted:It's as if different postures are best for different people! THE NERVE I’m not fond of drop bars if I’m honest. End up on the tops all the time because the hand position on them feels super weird to me.
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alnilam posted:The book One Less Car by Zach Furness has a whole chapter on bicycling and women in the 1890s. It freed upper class women to explore their surroundings without a chaperone / coach driver. Naturally it was considered massively scandalous and unladylike, turning women into men, etc. Some lovely men went so far as to accuse women of only riding a bike as a form of sexual masturbation - how immoral My mother just sent me a copy of Wheels of Change, and it covered many of the same subjects. There were some really good sections on race, gender equality, social norms, etc. There was also a chapter on early competitive cycling which was nice to see. The book was put out by National Geographic and is sitting on the coffee table right now.
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PolishPandaBear posted:Yeah, I've been on a wait list with my LBS for when they can get them back in stock. 
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numberoneposter posted:just found a brand new pair on facebook marketplace for $115 cad Please don’t call him a cad
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I want a gold 10 speed chain, is YBN my best bet?
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KMC has a few 10spd models in gold. Either is probably fine.
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Gold seems like kind of a soft metal for a drive chain, imo
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