TobinHatesYou posted:

Er. The soapy water trick isn’t about miraculously trapping more air, it’s about lubricating the bead.

Tesla Was Robbed posted:

New frame pack day! I made the pockets bigger, shaved 40 grams, and it now matches my handlebar tape. Everything’s coming up Milhouse. Too bad no one sees it bc it’s dark and cold at 530am and they’re sawing logs while I’m hitting that bike high

Tesla Was Robbed posted:

Nice pack. Fits the bike well.
I picked up some vx15 remnants from one of my vendors and had some time in production this week to make a me-project. This is only half though. I’ve got another part so that it will become a full triangle pack where the two parts stick together. I’ll be matching it to a saddle bag and maybe a top tube bag if i have enough fabric left. It’s fun sewing these things.

Shadowhand00 posted:

I find myself unexpectedly in santa Barbara for a week with a bike and not much else to do but sit in the hotel. Outside of gibraltar is there anything else I need to ride? Saw some nice gravel rides mentioned in one of the randoneur routes here.

Oldsrocket_27 posted:

Knee pain

e.pilot posted:

I was there for work and I have also been vaccinated yes, although nobody asked to see my vaccination card

Krogort posted:

I have a fancy looking saddle (only cost 25 bux tho) on my city bike and I worry some ill intended wanker is going to nick it.
Has anybody tried filling in the hex heads with glue or sealant or some other thing that is not permanent but is enough to deter somebody ?

Nitrousoxide posted:

Welp. Bought some of that finish line Teflon stuff earlier today because the reviews said it was the best.

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Soon

Stalizard posted:

I got a bitchin 80s road bike and it's got these fenders. Fenders are good, I want them, but these ones are rubbing on one of the wheels when I ride and I can't figure out which freakin one.

If I spin the wheels when the bike is stationary I can't hear a thing, it's only when my fat rear end gets on the bike and starts pedaling do I hear it. Can't quite tell if it's coming from the front or the back and I don't know how to figure it out without loading the bike and moving forward. The fenders are already out about as far as they want to go, do you guys have any tips or tricks for how to adjust them?

Steve French posted:

Mountain bike shocks use much higher pressure than any bike tires and use schrader valves. And mountain bike tires run lower pressures than cars and use presta valves. I don’t think that’s the reason and had thought it was more about requiring a smaller hole in a narrow rim.

Objurium posted:

highme posted:

I can't stand my mustache being that long, but I can see the advantage by keeping bugs out of the mouth.

spf3million posted:

After two years of the bare frame sitting in my attic, I finally bought a couple parts

Fievel Goes Bi posted:

Bike thread. I’ve been looking at getting into cycling after a recent trip to Detroit and riding e-bikes around the city and having loving blast doing it. Currently I have two old road bikes my grandfather gave me.

Fievel Goes Bi posted:

Sorry for the potato pics.




The Peugeot still needs to go somewhere to get fixed up to be rideable.

But he got these when he was living in Switzerland and brought them back with him.

Sab0921 posted:

Cleaning your bike is not fun.

Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:

It’s fine. I do it all the time.

Salt Fish posted:

if you lived in the middle of a roadless forest and commuted to work at the nearby boreal swamp

McCracAttack posted:

I have a question about a weird phenomenon I've noticed.

Every time I go on a long ride with friends we all get very chatty and oddly open about personal issues after the first hour. Like at the start of the ride it's "Hey how's work?" but half way through it's "I'm thinking about asking for a divorce."

What's going on there? It feels exactly like when you're a kid sleeping over at your friends house and you over share with each other while you're laying on the floor in sleeping bags. Do people just open up when we're working towards a common goal? Or is it the fact that we're together but not actually looking at each other that makes people open up?

no skateboarding EVER! posted:

Ihmemies posted:

Chain oil, yes. Next wheel I used anti seize. I still don't know what went wrong. What does it matter though? I just need to buy more spokes.

Planet X posted:

Ive been biking a long time, but ran into an issue tonight that I could use an opinion on.

I have tires on my bike that are pretty tight on the rim. Not impossibly tight, but I got a flat on the way home and ended up pinching the tube just trying to get the drat tire back on. Took a lot of force with the lever and I ultimately pinch flatted it.

As cold weather approaches, I'll likely put my winter tires (Schwalbe) on, which if I recall correctly are way easier than my "summer" tires (Panaracer). I'm so frustrated by this that I'm going to pitch or donate the Panaracers. A tire I can't change in the field is not practical to me.

How on earth do people field change a tire when it's so tight on the rim? I don't ever recall struggling this much, and I have fairly normal rims, I think, Velo Orange 700c ones. Or is the trick to find a tire that goes on a little easier and stick with that? I'm almost glad this happened, as I have a day tour coming up and if this were to have happened remotely, that wouldn't have been good at all. Luckily, I was able to call the wife and have her come pick me up just a few miles from the house. Have tires always been this tight on (road) rims?