Show Us Your Bicycle: That is as rad as it is bad

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Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Do reflective tyres count as reflectors?

# ¿ Jul 26, 2020 10:35

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 03:35

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

dema posted:

New road bicycle in progress.

Can't believe you'd post the finished thing on reddit before this thread

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 10:27

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Ya that's a nice bike right there

I only noticed because it looked rad and recognised the frame from your post before. Then saw the stems were the same and went full :monocle:

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 21:21

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

How wide do your shoulders need to be to ride that comfortably?

# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 13:16

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

New commuter (with bad lighting)

# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 11:59

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Al2001 posted:

Looks sweet. My commuter is the same colour (but not as nice.) Is the rack rated for the standard amount (~25kg)?

Yours looks pretty tidy too!

No it's lower rated and fairly flimsy, think only 10kg or so. It's also designed mainly for the Ortlieb quicklock 3.1 system, so pannier selection is limited too unfortunately. It limits the utility but I have a stadsfiets for heavier loads and going shopping etc

# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 15:15

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Krogort posted:

Nice one, is this a Canyon ?
Belt drive / nexus commuter are brillant, clean trouser, no need to lube and they are so quiet !

Yep, Commuter 6.0. Yeah I'm really looking forward to the belt benefits when winter comes. The Nexus hub seems pretty smooth too, although the lowest gear is a bit too low to be useful (in the flatlands at least).

# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 21:59

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

You planning on mainly gravelling it or as a road/off-road switcheroo-er? Would be interested in finding out what they're like as a road bike replacement.

:krad:

bike either way.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2021 15:26

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

I got a Brooks B17 for my commuter based on the sheer number of recommendations it gets but just couldn't get on with it, don't think it's suitable for the riding position and the rails are very short so it's hard to get enough setback.

Now have a Bontrager saddle that's a bit too solid on there. The C17 looks good though, might try it once I sell the B17.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 13:56

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

bicievino posted:

Finally managed to track down all the parts I needed to get my new gravel bike built up.

It's a Carbonda CFR707. Very happy with how it rides - quite snappy.
The shifters look ridiculous, but I can't stop my brain from wanting to get narrow and aero. It just feels right!

rear end saver + mudguards though?

And did you get it painted yourself or by carbonada?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2022 09:54

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

eeenmachine posted:

Pretty bike 🤩

Mamma Mia!

# ¿ May 16, 2022 13:43

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

BraveUlysses posted:

Good bike

I'd like to get some deep carbon rims for my rim brake bike but don't think it makes sense since I'd like to get one with discs in the next couple of years (and I don't race so my actual speed doesn't really matter). They just look and sound so cool though!

# ¿ Aug 12, 2022 06:42

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

rngd in the womb posted:

HOT DAAAAAAAAMN!!!! I didn't realize these Cervelos came in purple??

Definitely not my bicycle, but the new Giant Propel comes in a nice deep purple and I want one

# ¿ Aug 20, 2022 16:02

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Gave it a quick spin in the garage and seems to fit me perfectly, hopefully the weather is better tomorrow and I can go for an actual ride.

Only a few things I'd like to tweak fit-wise:
- Have a seatpost with setback arriving this week, but might be I don't need to swap it as it felt pretty good like this and I don't even have the saddle all the way back.
- Bars are 42cm with 16 degree flare, might swap them for 40cm + flared, which I also did for my other bike, since that's nicer for my wrists.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2023 17:21

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Heliosicle posted:

Gave it a quick spin in the garage and seems to fit me perfectly, hopefully the weather is better tomorrow and I can go for an actual ride.

Did an hour on it this afternoon, including some offroad sections which were more suited to an MTB than this given how much it's rained recently. Fit is almost there but think I do need the other seatpost. I used the saddle it came with and it didn't agree with me much so will switch that out.

All in all though it's amazing, it eats up all the bumps that my race bike makes uncomfortable and just feels so capable. It feels really nice whilst accelerating on it, maybe even stiffer than my TCR, but holding the speed is harder so will definitely get some road wheels at some point for when it's too muddy for offroad or it's :rice:

time

Did notice that I need to intentionally turn a lot more though, I'm used to small quick movements being enough to nip around corners and that's not the case on this.

Riding in road cleats on the muddy bits felt sketchy af though (I'm dumb and tried them anyway). I almost got stuck and was spinning my wheels like mad to get to a grippier section.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2023 19:58

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

Bike is completely set up as I want it (for now): got some xtr pedals, switched to tubeless and put a crankset powermeter on there.
Sram don't advertise it but you can totally set up the force/red spider PM with rival cranks. Would've gotten the rival PM but they were only available as a full crankset within the next couple of months, and for that price it wasn't much extra to get the spider.

I was going to do all this in a while but I already scratched my assiomas up quite a bit with all the dirt from using them off-road and didn't want to ruin the resell value.

Heliosicle fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jan 20, 2023

# ¿ Jan 20, 2023 11:43

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

dema posted:

Sweet, looks perfect for that scenery.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2023 11:44

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

TobinHatesYou posted:

What wheels are those?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2023 10:26

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

TobinHatesYou posted:

Light Bicycle WR50s.

Huh, looking at the rim profile they seem identical to these https://www.duke-racingwheels.com/duke-world-runner-carbon-38-50/?lang=en which I was looking at

Also what width tyres did you use and how wide do they actually measure?

E: for the new page

I love this thing so much, it lets me do the kind of riding I dreamt of as a kid

Heliosicle fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 20, 2023

# ¿ Feb 20, 2023 16:22

Heliosicle: May 16, 2013; Arigato, Racists.

TobinHatesYou posted:

If you get Dukes, get Baccara Xs. Their more up-to-date website is https://www.jpracingbike1.com/

I'm running 28mm GP5K S TRs, and they measure over 31mm.

Thanks for the tip. The wheelbuilder I've bought from before has the Baccara X for only 40 more. I figured wider=better but guess that's not always the case.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2023 07:26