Bike blerg thread

[jame5on]

is it unlevel cause steep headtube and it should be on that bike?

there’s nothing adjustable to get it level is there?

I don’t want a clydsdale

[featherduster]

@Shamp

Mad all over again looking at this. Like, what dipshit built the bike and was like “ok yeah that’s good” and what other dipshit took the product photos and was like “yes perfect great build”?

tompson + brooks + omnium aaaand it’s ready for photo letsfuckeengooooo

[Shamp]

Yeah HTA is too steep and/or A-C is too short for the bike.

You want it level, but even tilted back a degree or so would be fine. Otherwise all your shit is gonna slide up to the front and be unbalanced.

@jame5on

I don’t want a clydsdale

They’re actually pretty great and I wish I’d kept mine but I had too much shit to move but hindsight is 20/20

[jame5on]

I have team pros and I have thomsons but I don’t have any team pros on thompsons

cambiums and flites go on thompsons

[alp]

they forgot the king headset tho

[featherduster]

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[Shamp]

Studio shots look like HOPE?

[LASER_BEIGE]

@karl_dandleton

…supposed to replace. crust doesn’t call it out but i measure it closer to 520 (which makes sense if you are skipping down from 622 or 559 bsd to 406 and hoping to roughly maintain the same head tube position) (take with a grain of salt because my basket makes it difficult to measure)Correction: i am the stupid- it’s more like 480mm. so not as bad as i thought. clydedale is still about an inch taller

25mm shorter than 400 puts this in road bike retrofit territory

[karl_dandleton]

the question is did they do that on purpose but not account for HTA giving you a leaning fork of pizza?

[drwelby]

Since you can see the perspective on the far side of the rack I could also see that they didn’t get the “use a long lens” memo

[cousinmosquito]

@karl_dandleton

…otoshop but free and in-browser (though the work is done locally). it’s one dude who runs it and it comes in SO handy. it even has !i whined on his subreddit once about missing the ruler tool on photoshop so he implemented it a day later. i said thanks but the best thing was the logical measurement where you can define x pixels as y units. a day later he implemented that. it’s under the dropper tool

Its the best tool out there. I use it all the time and encourage my workmates too as well .

[karl_dandleton]

and it’s just some dude named igor maintaining it!

he is incredibly active on his subreddit r/photopea and never stops improving it

[Crustradamus]

photopea is great atmo, you have to wonder what deep dark secret powers it

[Emor_please]

Reddit dork posts pictures of his rock lobster with these absolute dipshit “vintage lamp” power cables

I can’t help myself and immediately share my opinion that it’s beyond stupid and ugly and get my shit downvoted. R/xbiking is truly the tasteless cesspool of internet cyclists

[asterisk]

Paul Sadoff needs to call and demand they send the frame back.

[cheese]

colourful braided wire loom would be cool but not like that

[jame5on]

for dynamo? you give your electrons that much room and you lose all your pressure and don’t get all the light

[cheese]

maybe it’s a tiny hydraulic pump with a remote dynamo and those are actually fluid hoses

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

maybe it’s a tiny hydraulic pump that pumps water up into the handlebars. and this acts as a physical battery so whenever you need extra power, you release the water and it powers your dynamo (which is now a motor instead of a generator) and you can go faster.

[cheese]

maybe it’s a tiny hydraulic pump that connects to your butt rocket reservoir for effortless hydration