Dammit: Post your bike

earwig · April 21, 2020, 8:33pm

Those new guy bikes are much more interesting. There’s still a shortage of fenders, magnetos, and front racks.

turpentine · April 21, 2020, 8:58pm

Hayes cx is great because you can get take offs on eBay for $20 a pair if you are patient. Spyres are good but heavier and mode expensive

jimmythefly · April 21, 2020, 9:40pm

That is a sweet gravel biek, but man(?) that giant chairpole is really jarring.
Do you have like a huge bin of take-off parts from bikes you are benchmarking?

ProCracknfailBro · April 21, 2020, 9:42pm

I actually had a Ti chairpole but the knurling for the hardware blew up so I had to put a shitty chairpole in there. This photo is 5 years old, I rode it primarily with a carbon or Ti post.

canti_lover · April 21, 2020, 9:43pm

Don’t worry chairpoles don’t damp the ride #dropthestays

ProCracknfailBro · April 21, 2020, 9:44pm

Also I appreciate fenders, but don’t usually use them because I really like going offroad.

ProCracknfailBro · April 21, 2020, 9:44pm

They do offer compliance though.

canti_lover · April 21, 2020, 9:58pm

ATMO the Ven Diagram of trails I want to ride on my gravel bike and trails I wont ride on my gravel bike because it has fenders is basically just two circles next to eachother

Timarchylime · April 21, 2020, 10:05pm

Sup PYB thread. It’s been a while.

I made the basket bike a little heavier with fenders and cheap V’s.

No way to trim the fender stays at home.

All I need now is a cheap cassette wheelset and I can finish making this a funner bike. I’ve got 8s stuff from the broken sundeal. Or I can swap the old 9s off of the bikepacking bike and get something better for that one.

cousinmosquito · April 22, 2020, 1:45am

I must be the only person to ever break an etrex, and I don’t even know how.

Wesbarf · April 22, 2020, 3:28am

My etrex just quit working recently. It just doesn’t pick up satellites anymore. It’s on the to-do list to see if there’s some way to fix it.

wickedwagon · April 23, 2020, 12:32am

This is how I wanted a fixed to ride, so much easier to hop than the converted trek touring bike.

turpentine · April 23, 2020, 2:05am

the dream is alive

oogens · April 23, 2020, 4:04am

The Geo charts are interesting, what size is that?

wickedwagon · April 23, 2020, 4:43am

XL. It feels pretty stiff and lively, and there’s no toe overlap with the cleats skid all the way back in my size 46 shoes.

Only cut an inch of the steerer and the largest it’s the biggest size at 58. To run larger than a 32 in the back you’ll need to run the wheel far back in the dropouts because of the brake bridge. It was $200 shipped so it’s not going to be perfect.

arlew · April 23, 2020, 5:46am

I recently traded a $50 DB TrailStreak for this univega altima. Doing my best @kmcdon impression for now, might add a basket. Or sell it

if you’re wondering, I swooped the surly tires for our tandem and threw on some 2.0’s so I don’t grow too attached to the new bike

viggen · April 23, 2020, 8:28am

Hella chillax geo.

EndpointBraden · April 23, 2020, 1:09pm

Definitely read TrailStreak as “Trail Steak” for a second.

amy · April 23, 2020, 1:28pm

I also read it as trail steak, but it’s early enough that it didn’t strike me as odd enough for reread.

Greengage · April 23, 2020, 1:46pm

Would a “trail steak” be like a portabello mushroom that one finds and cooks while exploring or be a steak that one carries out on a hike/bike/whatever and cooks up after a long day/week/whatever on the trail?
Also, this thread always makes me wish I’d never gotten rid of a single frame I’d ever liked, and just perpetually rebuilt them into interesting configurations. Like Sisyphus, but with a basement full of tools and parts. I dig.