Dammit: Post your bike

Why would you ever put a few thousand miles on a bike?

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If I was going to visit out east, how else would I get there?

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frankly a train would have been my suspicion for you

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Well, there’s the teeny detail of the people who live in the states between here and the east coast that worries me; If I go north a few hundred miles, then east, it means that the crazies aren’t home-grown crazies (even though a significant fraction of Alberta wants to be part of the USA.)

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Nah, if I’m gonna hop in the wayback machine and take a train in the 1950s, it’s gonna have to be electric:

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Finally got my wife’s fat bike built up. It’s a size medium Suzi Q that I managed to find for a song just a few hours from my house. I originally got it for me to replace my REEB but she fell in love with it and I fell back in love with my REEB so I set it up for her.

She’s a few inches shorter than me so we cut the 175mm cranks down to 153ish. Then we added a super stubby Spank stem. Now it fits very similar to her small Transition Spur. And it’s sick. I just gotta add a dropper.

Now I just gotta get my REEB finished up before the real snow flies.

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like drilled new holes and tapped them?

Yes

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The Aeffect 175s are choppable. The other RF models have relief pockets in the way.

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I considered that with my altitude powerplay because 170 is just ridiculous. But not ready to drop $450 on north shore billet jawns. Luckily, I know that RF is going to be making 160mm turbines real soon, so I’ll probably swoop some of those if I can match (or otherwise replace) spindle length.

And the silver rims on that look so good. Glad to see silver rims are making a small comeback in MTB.


Oops spent all my money in two new bikes last week.

I left the pie plate on for you guys as little dessert.

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God damn that’s a good lookin blue

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I know, but i also feel like it needs a bit of complimentary colors. Or maybe some silver accents.

Both bikes have great paint jobs though. Very sparkly.

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That’s a good tip about 160mm Turbines, I’ll keep my eyes peeled.

Myself and friends run the Goldix kids cranks from Ali Express and as long as you add a NDS spacer they’re great for 73mm BB shells. I’m not sure how that would work with your eeb tho.

And yeah I had to go like 7 pages deep into Google to find these but they’re so steezy it was worth it.

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was special care needed to drill the new pedal holes on-axis?

I do it on my lathe and align it initially by grabbing that pedal extender in the chuck

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An inspiration.

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Is that an Atlas/Craftsman 618? Pretty sure mine looks exactly the same but I haven’t used it yet.

My dad shortened the cranks on my mom’s (basic hybrid) just using a drill press, I think he just used a square to get it aligned with the spindle.

Atlas 10200 6x24

I’m sure you can get it “close enough” on a drill press. With the Hollowtech type cranks the spindle can get in the way if you’re doing it on something like a milling machine.