Bike blog thread

Tarckives Bikes
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Can this be the all-purpose thread for posting shit you find on the internet involving people being dipshits in bike related ways? Excluding the building of jackass bicycles, which we already have a thread for.

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Also, her comment about the bike being “designed” to be stored outdoors is hilarious.

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I think so. That and people being cyclists in dipshit-related ways.

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“What’s your opinion regarding the concerns about the zinc nano-particles being poisonous?”

  1. Nanoparticles does not take a hyphen

  2. Zinc nanoparticles are (maybe) toxic if eaten

  3. Suddenly curious on her opinions re: vaccination

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WTF is this spring for?

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[quote=VT tallbike]WTF is this spring for?
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return to center/reducing wheel flop

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Mostly so girls with too much shit in their baskets’ bikes don’t fall over when they park em.

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[quote=Buffalo Bill]“The finishing on the TIG-welded frame with lugged fork crown, seat collar, and capped seat stays is up there with the quality of high-end custom frames.”

lollin[/quote]

Holy carp.

Are we now going to see stamped-steel seatstay/brake bridges on all the frames at NAHBS?

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Yes but they have been stamped for generations by a family of artisanal stampers.

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I wish I could make TIG welds that looked like that.

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I can’t wait til she gives me that blue bike

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Nah they’re a recent company so their practices aren’t quite so spectacularly shitty / artisanal as the other euro manufacturers she loves

TIG means that they actually have to miter the main tubes instead of just hearth-brazing unfinished ends into pressed lugs. They even claim to use cromo instead of mild steel or pig iron!

Dropouts and bridges might be stamped steel plate but at least they’re TIGed instead of just having the tube smashed around them:

Not only did they cap the seatstays, they even bothered to weld them to the seat cluster instead of just smashing+drilling the ends and shoving the seat clamp bolt through them!

Standards are low

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I have literally never seen anyone angle NUDL like this

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Is this you or the cat saying this?

Either way, you know it won’t be corrected, coz its a PITD to change that ‘tape.’

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would hate to be her cat

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[quote=lwkwafi]Either way, you know it won’t be corrected, coz its a PITD to change that ‘tape.’
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Not if it’s shellacked, it isn’t. You might not be able to use it again, but cloth tape comes right off after it’s got a couple of layers of beetle spit to stiffen it up.

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[quote=lwkwafi]Is this you or the cat saying this?

Either way, you know it won’t be corrected, coz its a PITD to change that ‘tape.’[/quote]

That cat looks ready to bolt.

Really the lever placement seems slightly on the low side, but not terrible. With the bars at that angle they would be hard to reach from the drops without huge hands though.

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i think that noodles are just hard to brake from the drops. i can hardly reach mine, which really limits how much i’m in the drops.

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the lever placement looks fine, nice relatively flat transition from the ramps, but the bars are angled pointing to somewhere between the rear dropout and the bb

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nah man
they look aimed to brake bridge…maybe half between bridge and dropout…