# Dammit: Post your bike
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14 "2018-08-01T01:31:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 120
### Author:  [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2391 "2019-06-04T20:19:42Z")
Just do whatever you can to get that basket as far back towards the head tube and as close to the tire as possible. I’d just remove it until you’re ready for some cutting and welding.
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### Author:  [@anon24974279](https://tarck.cc/u/anon24974279)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2392 "2019-06-04T20:31:20Z")
Looks like handlebar attachments are horizontal. You can make them vertical to bring it down and back.
Probably will happen by itself once you put significant weight on. The struts will be too long then. You can cut them and redrill. I did that once. Worked.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2393 "2019-06-04T20:48:24Z")
Or just check out this thread for some good bike cargo advice
> [@You're gunna hurt yourself: Carry Shit Olympics (aka the Cargo Bike thread)](https://tarck.cc/t/youre-gunna-hurt-yourself-carry-shit-olympics-aka-the-cargo-bike-thread/21665):
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> Nut Arck needs a Cargo bike thread. Yo Dawg, today I transported a folding crate on top of a folding crate. [[image]](https://flic.kr/p/28Qwocw)[Cyclefab CycleTruck](https://flic.kr/p/28Qwocw) by [Andrew Squirrel](https://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_squirrel/), on Flickr
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### Author:  [@wickedwagon](https://tarck.cc/u/wickedwagon)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2394 "2019-06-04T20:51:15Z")
It does. I like this idea.
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### Author:  [@wickedwagon](https://tarck.cc/u/wickedwagon)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2395 "2019-06-04T20:57:36Z")
Exactly that happened, the basket is sitting at around 20\*. There’s some room to shorten the mounts. I’m also going to school for welding, so I have access to steel to make supports. Any further dithering I’ll take to the cargo thread.
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### Author:  [@rabbi](https://tarck.cc/u/rabbi)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2396 "2019-06-04T22:08:41Z")
or, you know, just buy the [adjustable struts](https://www.amazon.com/Wald-Basket-Part-Brace-Black/dp/B000AO9L56)
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Squirrel](https://tarck.cc/u/Andrew_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2397 "2019-06-04T22:10:20Z")
Why don’t they just ship with those things?
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### Author:  [@yonderboy](https://tarck.cc/u/yonderboy)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2398 "2019-06-04T22:16:45Z")
My kidlet’s townie. Evo Super6 from a Ruckus garage sale, Chinacrabon fork, eBay wheels, and various odds & ends from CCC and my parts bin. I still need to get the N/W chainring, because that’s what she wants to run.
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### Author:  [@wickedwagon](https://tarck.cc/u/wickedwagon)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2399 "2019-06-04T22:24:05Z")
God damnit, this fred thing is a rabbit hole. I need a net for the basket, a kickstand, and other things I don’t know I need. I should’ve stuck with road racer like bikes.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2400 "2019-06-04T23:56:01Z")
> [@Andrew\_Squirrel](#):
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> Why don’t they just ship with those things?
The one I bought recently came with adjustable struts. Maybe that basket was old stock?
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### Author:  [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2401 "2019-06-05T00:20:10Z")
different baskets come with different struts IIRC.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2402 "2019-06-05T00:24:09Z")
The newer 1392 version has adjustable struts. I thought that was the only one for sale any more but it looks like some places are still selling the 139 with the one-piece struts.
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### Author:  [@Shamp](https://tarck.cc/u/Shamp)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2403 "2019-06-05T01:11:08Z")
I’ve never cared so little for something I spent money on
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### Author:  [@EndpointBraden](https://tarck.cc/u/EndpointBraden)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2404 "2019-06-05T01:16:31Z")
Put some 11 speed stuff on here and braapped to work.
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### Author:  [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2405 "2019-06-05T01:17:03Z")
Last one I bought came with the adjustable struts.
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### Author:  [@anon3547885](https://tarck.cc/u/anon3547885)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2406 "2019-06-05T01:17:10Z")
Someone should make a tool for freeing seat posts. Maybe some saddle rails with a long lever?
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2407 "2019-06-05T01:25:18Z")
it’s a bench vise. with tubing blocks if you want to not ruin the seatpost.
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### Author:  [@jeffro](https://tarck.cc/u/jeffro)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2408 "2019-06-05T02:41:39Z")
Dribble some Coke down the seat collar?
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2409 "2019-06-05T02:45:27Z")
50/50 atf and acetone
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### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/dammit-post-your-bike/14/2410 "2019-06-05T02:48:07Z")
> [@anon3547885](#):
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> Someone should make a tool for freeing seat posts
Cyclefab used to have [stuckseatpost.com](http://stuckseatpost.com)
the tool is a boring bar and a dedicated lathe fixture to hold it by the seattube
mostly only needed after other people’s attempts have crushed or sheared the exposed part of the post, but sometimes nothing else will suffice
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