Dammit: Post your bike

Rusty_Piton · November 14, 2018, 2:27pm

Sweet hybrid!

anon3547885 · November 16, 2018, 5:11pm

I haven’t PYBed in a long, long time, and I don’t think I’ve every exposed my Jones to ridicule.

Rent-to-own-Faxmachine · November 16, 2018, 5:15pm

Ooh, err, missus!

Straws · November 16, 2018, 5:45pm

Ferg how in the fuck do you own the sexy fuck English and then also that monstrosity?

anon3547885 · November 16, 2018, 5:59pm

I wanted something mountain-bike esque that was light (it’s 20 lbs) but also not terrible on the road. This bike works for its intended purpose–which is basically a bad neck day bike. Which is still about 50% of the time.

Orc · November 16, 2018, 6:31pm

It’s as if a Rivendell met a Pedersen in a fever dream.

cheese · November 16, 2018, 6:55pm

“Listen Jeff I want to ride a Paimio chair”
“You got it Ferg, but how do you feel about Russian Futurism?”

Shamp · November 16, 2018, 7:05pm

Fuck the losers and haters, that Jones is rad.

anon3547885 · November 16, 2018, 7:18pm

Couple things I might do:

I think I’m going to put on a substantially longer stem; I am most comfortable on the outside loop of the Jones bars and could use even more room.
I need to fuck with the angle of those bars more. I initially had them flat and that was really unpleasant.
I think I might switch out the Jones bars, I’ve tried a bunch of different angles

So DQ, what kind of bars or extensions or whatever can I do to get my wrists positioned so they are more like the angle they are at when you are on the hoods of drops, ie, parallelish with the top tube?

ICU81MI · November 16, 2018, 7:47pm

Drop bars?

Rusty_Piton · November 16, 2018, 9:03pm

Yeah, That’s an amazing hybrid and I love it.

Rusty_Piton · November 16, 2018, 9:04pm

Hey Ferg, I’ll take the Jones bars off your hands if you decide to ditch em.

anon3547885 · November 16, 2018, 9:24pm

Yeah and I basically use it as a hybrid

Will do on bars. They’re the crabon ones. But like most bike things I usually just suffer with them until I get some sort of stress injury.

I really do like this bike, but man it was a bitch to get everything together. The most complicated thing was trying to figure out where to put an internal battery.

Does anyone actually enjoy building bikes? Because I have a vintage Bates I want to eTap but I AM TOO INTELLECTUALLY LAZY to figure out all the partz

PS when I had it repainted I had the rear spacing spread to 130 mm so no problem there

Orc · November 16, 2018, 9:37pm

Ship the parts out to Oregon and I’ll put it together for you. I’ve been itching to build up a fly-by-wire machine for a while.

anon3547885 · November 16, 2018, 9:40pm

Thanks! I may do that. I’m actually going to try this winter to figure it out myself, if I fail I will definitely do that.

Stay tuned for numerous DQs like how do you get eTap levers to work with cantilever brakes

motorbacon · November 16, 2018, 10:46pm

There is nothing difficult there. Shouldn’t be an issue to etap old canti thing.

b-roll · November 17, 2018, 12:38am

I want to know if that fork is all that. First time I saw one I thought it was a drunken welding joke, but there are others who say it’s HAUNTED with awesome.

jimmythefly · November 17, 2018, 3:01am

jimmythefly · November 17, 2018, 3:09am

That’s the sort of project I could really get into. I’d probably want to surprise you with color scheme and small details, unless you have very specific ideas.

anon3547885 · November 17, 2018, 3:40am

Hmm well I’m now thinking about silver

Campy potenza
Velocity deep v polished
White industries t1 1
Paul polished silver skewers
Paul Cantu’s

Anyway this is not the thread for weird bike dithering

Oh and I found vo crazy bars which seem to meet my needs for the jones