Dammit: Post your bike

LASER_BEIGE · April 11, 2020, 4:21pm

Tbh I kind of want a raleigh chopper

Greengage · April 12, 2020, 12:50am

I ended up buying this back from someone after a few years and rebuilding it. Sometimes I can’t let go. Repainted MXL.

karl_dandleton · April 12, 2020, 1:13am

that bar setup makes me sad but i’m happy about that bikes potential.

oh, and i guess your blue headset has ruined my day. you can pass that one on when the moment is right.

Greengage · April 12, 2020, 1:32am

I seem incapable of doing a proper bar set up. It looks good in the basement, and then…

anon24974279 · April 12, 2020, 1:38am

If you get the cut ends of the bars perpendicular to the ground you are pretty much good. Then the top of the levers parallel

yonderboy · April 12, 2020, 1:38am

I saw GT has a remake of the Mach One and thought really hard about buying one.

turpentine · April 12, 2020, 1:46am

probably went too much into the idea that you were going to have flat ramps to hoods on bars too old for that

Greengage · April 12, 2020, 1:53am

I’m too old or they are?

turpentine · April 12, 2020, 1:55am

yeah

karl_dandleton · April 12, 2020, 2:20am

the bars.

flat-ish hoods (or pointed just a hint upwards) is good, but position them so that they are flat-ish and your drops are also a useful position and you’ll be money.

some bars don’t give you flat ramps. in my experience that isn’t bad, and actually forces you into a more optimal position if all other fit stuff is about right instead of letting you get lazy and stick with the easiest place to lay your habds

plop · April 12, 2020, 4:34am

Disc Truck is on the road. Still needs crate and fenders, but my hauling ability just leveled up.

anon24974279 · April 12, 2020, 4:44am

That’s cool

Mankato_Pet_Cremation_LLC · April 12, 2020, 4:48am

Jesus Christ! How tall are you?

plop · April 12, 2020, 5:15am

I’m 6’1", it looks huge cuz 26", but it’s only a 58cm. Headtube is hilariously tall.

karl_dandleton · April 12, 2020, 12:12pm

i’ve thought about a disc trucker as a replacement clydes frame. this might have pushed me over the edge if i can find a used one cheap enough. otherwise i’m still tempted to go supercustom marinobike

plop · April 12, 2020, 2:25pm

Marinobike is a good idea! I got impatient waiting to find the right vintage frame in a dumpster so I said fuck it and EP’d this one. Of course somebody ditched a perfect old Rocky Mountain behind our shop a day after I finished building it.

karl_dandleton · April 12, 2020, 2:48pm

yeah i just don’t feel like paying lht money even at cost. qbp doesn’t let me get any better than cost and even at EP it’s maybe more than i want to spend for what it is. marinobike would be 100% “perfect” aka only my own mistakes

Jacobell · April 12, 2020, 4:28pm

Gonna keep posting pictures of this bike until I ride another one

iwillbe · April 12, 2020, 4:40pm

duck is really going through it right there

karl_dandleton · April 12, 2020, 6:01pm

it me