Dammit: Post your bike

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Arrived today!

Getting the XTR dropper lever, non-lockon grips, and cranks longer than 170mm

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Time to build north Seattle’s most compact mountain bike trail in your yard

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Oh baby!

This thing brings me so much joy. Tempted to sell Emonda and 2x11 GRX this disaster

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#savetherimbrake

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Built up some new wheels for the trumpdumper, hoping to get a mellow ride in soon…

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Wait, we’re saving the rim brake now?

I just did the math, I’ve had this frame for 18 years!

EDIT 17 years, I’m bad at math.

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there’s something about bb7s on a fox 36 that kinda makes me :smilegrant:

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HY do brake boosters help for vbrakes?

I don’t know. I had it floating around. Just for fun.

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Helped for me, maybe confirmation bias tho.

not 100% sure if they help with braking power but they definitely help with lookin cool

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TC: I was no-handed JRA on my old MTB with a brake booster when the bolt in the saddle clamp failed. The booster was the only thing that saved my junk from getting pulled into the seat stays by the tire.

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One weird aspect of pandemic is that I don’t have any place to ride to most of the time, so I don’t need bags or a lock etc etc. That means I’ve been putting a few more miles on this bike:

It’s nice!

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Yeah, not bringing a lock on rides has felt weird.

How do you even smash side mirrors?

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This feels so much better on 700c wheels.

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I’ve been spending a lot of time in and around graveyards lately. Not sure why.
Here’s a picture of my bike leaning on the grave of notorious labor villain George M. Pullman.


And here’s a picture of my bike laying on the grave of architectural hero Daniel Burnham

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