Dudes I scored a pair of Hayes cable brakes for $20 iirc
[quote=iwillbe][quote=ThurberMingus]https://instagram.com/p/BcVYnzhAoEi/
Hereās the post. Spoiler alert: itās actually an advert for Paul Klampers.[/quote]
Lol yeah, that seems about right. The advertorial is, of course, goofy. Gotta get one up on Grant Petersen if you want to keep drawing the clicks.[/quote]
Such horse shit. So many bike modern bike parts are objectively hugely improved over what people used to ride. Wheels (I broke at least six axles before I finally got an 8sp cassette wheel). Bottom brackets. Threadless headsets. Low end steel frames. All the shitty stuff of yesteryear broke decades ago and was thrown away.
Yeah, that is total crap, especially from someone who makes a living adver-venturing Diverges for Spec.
TC: Iād love to ride one of those Sworks Diverges with SBHās and fenders.
In the latest episode of āprison island scamps mess with dockless share bikesā:
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[quote=Blakey]In the latest episode of āprison island scamps mess with dockless share bikesā:
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hahahahahah
Needs bigger photo.
how big are you guys who are cracking frames regularly? Iām still riding a 2009 blue cxc and it has yet to fail. in fact the only thing iāve irreparably broken on a bike was a rear wheel and thatās only because i never lubed the nipples so i couldnāt true it after a while
6ā6", usually around 210lbs. Iām a pretty smooth, graceful rider (if I do say so myself). High rpm cadence, ride over rough stuff with bent knees and elbows so my head and torso are gliding. Itās still just a lot of weight on the frame, which, over time, exploits any imperfection in the frameās design or construction, to say nothing of previous damage if I bought it used.
Iāve basically accepted that a bicycle frame in my life has about five years of riding before iāll almost certainly need to replace it.
I guess thatās another advantage of being a tinybro that Iād never really considered. The only thing Iāve ever broken is an NFE fork, but who hasnāt?
240, probably more now
What am I looking at with that sharebike. Is its spine broke or did they flip the fork for kicks or both?
cut and shut with a 180Āŗ
like actually welded back together and painted???
that is some next level dedication to obike fucckery (even if itās only gaffer tape, or glue or something)
P.S. i found a secret obike lair/repair/dumping facility in my 'hood, sorta a mini version of that mountain of bikes in china
I saw them stacked in a huge pile outside of UW once but I was driving and couldnāt get a picture. Also my wife found one lynched back in early November. Pic is gone but I think squirrel got a pic of it a few days later that he posted somewhere.
(full size here)
Almost but not quite. I wonder why the planet is trying to kill us all
nailed it. (welded it?)
I doubt someone welded it, probably just flipped the fork around and slapped it back together.
No, look at the angle between the head tube and the boom tube. Itās definitely been sawed into two pieces.