Bike Storage

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[quote=Andrew_Squirrel]

Although… having similar bikes with slight differences in geometry has led to some geometry & tubing specific insights I’d only previously read about on the internet but could now experience IRL by riding the bikes back to back.[/quote]

So, if you had to keep only one, based on geometry and tubing, what would it be?

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It would probably be the Elephant since it can do loaded touring, wear fatter tires and still be used on longer rando rides.
Original thinking was:

  • Elephant NFE: paved or offroad touring & not quite mountain biking off-road riding
  • Rawland Stag: Faster Rando bike, lighter tubing
  • Trek 720: DGAF platform pedal commuting and bar bike that can be left locked outside without worry
  • Cycletruck: Grocery getter & the thing that could replace my car when it dies, intend to make it into electric bike.
  • Rodriguez coupled tourer: Need to sell, was originally THE ultra touring bike for air travel until I realized that the Elephant can do its job + more. Also realized (after it was made) that coupled touring bikes with standard racks can’t fit in a 26x26x10 travel case (oops)
  • GT Course skinny tire steel race bike: Not as fun & comfortable to ride as the Stag and I don’t really go on many roadie rides so pointless in my fleet.
  • Vintage Mercian: Pretty lugged bike that I tried to turn into a touring bike before I understood anything about bikes. Need to sell to a collector or someone that will give it love.
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Can we make this about dreamfleets? Mine:

  1. Nordavinden: Commuting, general road riding
  2. Elephant NFE: Touring, anything else that needs fat tires but isn’t expressly mountain biking
  3. Tandem: for riding with wife and, in a bit, with kid
  4. Massive e-assisted Family Bike for my wife and kid and groceries, and for me to get inappropriately rad on

current fleet is 1 and 3

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Yeah, Andrew, sounds like you can cut the last two no problem.
I contemplate selling my road bike now since I do most road riding with the Endpoint and schwalbe one wheelset. Plus, I’m likely to get a whisky fork for it this week perhaps. Wished I would have confirmed this as I could have grabbed a felt f1x frameset for $550. Could double as geared cx race machine and winter trainer bike in off season.

My storage problem in this house is basement-garage ceiling is too low for standard double decker racks and don’t have clean lines to put hooks up. But we are doing well with my 7 bikes and her 5.

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I have my dream fleet.

  1. Snowaguchi, steel cross bike built with my own two hands.
  2. Niner RIP9, full squish gnar crusher that handles anything I can throw at it.
  3. Salsa Vaya Travel, stainless steel disc brake road + off-road touring bike that fits into a suitcase.
  4. Niner EMD9, rigid aluminum 29er with carbon fork, the ridiculously light commuter / off road bikepacker rig.
  5. 9:zero:7, rigid aluminum fat bike, for snow and who knows what the fuck else. Will get a squish fork and carbon wheels next year.
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jelly of your storage set up. i tried putting hooks in the wall of my living room, but could not find studs, and just the weight of my road bike (20 lb) pulled the strongest anchor i had out of the plaster.

(also impressed by the rusty stack on the rodriguez)

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Andrew, that Stag looks hella sw8.

I have the same problem of way too many steel bikes. I gotta sell some stuff soon.

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[quote=akasnowmaaan]
3) Salsa Vaya Travel, stainless steel disc brake road + off-road touring bike that fits into a suitcase.[/quote]

Can you post this? I don’t remember seeing it.

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How does it ride unloaded?

I shouldn’t even think about getting something like that, but my interest is piqued.

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It’s a good ride, fits the whole Salsa ‘gravel grinder’ thing right now. Fits big tires and fenders.

72 square, long chain stays. Stable. Fun on dirt. I raced 'cross with it in Sweden, and even though I was fat and slow enough to never be a contender, I stayed with the pack for a long time mostly due to being able to keep my speed better than most through the muddy turns, maybe due to MTB handling skills?

It’s only flaw is adding a rear fender requires some shenanigans due to no rear braze-ons, you have to use the upper bolt for the swinging dropouts. Really stupid. It’s even a pain to fit a rear fender. Big oversight. I’m contemplating having someone put on some braze-ons locally, but since I bikepack and use front panniers rather than go fully loaded front and rear it hasn’t been an issue yet.

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[quote=akasnowmaaan]
It’s only flaw is adding a rear fender requires some shenanigans due to no rear braze-ons, you have to use the upper bolt for the swinging dropouts.[/quote]
http://salsacycles.com/components/category/alternator_dropouts/alternator_q_r_fender_mount_plates

kaboom

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THANK YOU.

I guess I didn’t notice when they got less stupid.

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fewest bikes I’ve ever owned, yet I rode the most I ever have in the past 6 months or so

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also with the homerbike syndrome

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Very nice.

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Jebus they make the anatomica in yellow?

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naw that’s the triathlete edition

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naw that’s the triathlete edition[/quote]

Does it start out white?

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“Goldenrod”