That looks great Patch! Are you still doing hella KMs and big ole randos? is this a new bike? Do you still have the speedvagon? Do you have a dad bike tho?
Yeah, show us the dadbike!
The PNW Tarck consensus is: if youâre bros with the PDW guys, theyâre fine, but if youâre paying retail, Velo-Orange.
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I am nearly obsessed with the idea of a pull along trailer eg. Burley with a big olâ trunk for extra storage for hauling Junior and a full camp suite. No obsessed enough to do any design past the initial idea.
I also think Thule should start adding pannier rails on their offspring trailers⌠maybe on the back.
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Iâm still working out how to put bigger fenders on a CX bike for winter snow clearance. The Focus has been a great success otherwise, so figuring out fenders should be the priority next fall.
Didnât pay MSRP but yeah⌠definitely should have stuck to the eurofenders.
Holy shit, Toddâ˝ Still doinâ the KMs. Nothing too crazy last year with 12000 in total, but the plan is to The Length of Sweden again (2100km in a week). Hopefully a whole lot less painful this time.
The Speedvagen lives but barely. Iâll probably update in the dithering thread WRT that one.
Iâll post the dadbike soon.
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Yeah dude! I just jumped back on here I have a MEd and a 7 month old baby now.
Please turn the speedvagon into a SS basket bike, maybe even with 800mm carbon downhill bars.
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The basket bike was a consideration but I donât have the heart. Iâll probably do a new professional paint job⌠thinking grey hammerite. Finish it off with Chorus 11 Speed and some nice light wheels.
What is a MEd? Congrats on the bb!
Masters of Education
Small refresh. Replaced the perfectly good Ritchey stem with a Zipp that matches the seat post.
And Garmin Vector 3 pedals with a 1030 Plus. All to see that my ftp is a good 30% off peak. Sucks to be old, fat and have had cancer several times. Chemo is the worst.
Was a little unsure of the graphs, but at least for power, it seems useful for targeting consistency.
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The Dâlite has pretty good cargo space back there behind the seat. Maybe two ortliebs worth.
Does it fit sideways?
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Does it fit upside down?
Itâs too big in every dimension.
telescoping bullit so you can run it short or long
$$$$
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Does the bullitt fit in the trailer
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Oh no here we go agian
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No, I want the whole bike to telescope!
If you do as I once did and read through about thirteen years of the LFGSS cargo bike thread, youâll see a classic tragedy arc of the Fate of the Omnium. It starts with a ton of hype! A cool Danish messenger dude is building a bike (that rips off a Bilenky design)! Oh shit advance orders are happening! I Got one! it rules! Huh, seems like it puts the cargo mass kinda high and forward? But still, so much faster than a Bullitt! Hmmm okay now its five years later and I have a baby and I want to carry that baby on my cargo bike, a bike designed for carrying things. This seems a little sketchy, but you can get a seat locked into the platform. Oh well, Iâm convinced that it works pretty well, so shrug.
Meanwhile everyone who bought a Bullitt seems happy with it, and people who bought not-Bullitt longjohns seem perenially cranky about design flaws.
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