why does you’re seatpost have a nose?
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silly carbon S-Sporks seatpost with an elastomer in it, only recently picked it up from a bud who was thinning out their hoard. it actually does seem to smooth out some of the rougher chunks of pavement on my commute? maybe just in my head.
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I rode a friends bike with one of those chairpoles and I couldn’t tell a difference, but I also didn’t weigh very much at all in those days. I bet now I could tell though, I know every flex point on every bike and so many 20 year old vsalad threads make sense now.
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I bought this for $10 from a neighborhood listsev at least a year ago. It had no wheels or seatpole but otherwise mostly in tact.
Spent an unquantifiable amount of time getting the siezed crankset and BB out. Maybe put $150 into getting it ridable? A bunch of real cheap shit from forums and local marketplace plus some nice things from the parts box (shifters, thumbies, saddle, seatpole, pedals). I think the only things I bought new were the uber cheap cantis and headset.
Took it around the block after finally setting it up and the damn quill slipped in the steerer and I almost went ass over tea kettle. These stock Trek handlebars are either weird AF or I set them up wrong. But she rides. May take it out on a bike party ride this weekend to see what else I screw up.
It definitely needs better rubber.
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It’s nice to see another steer stopper on tarck. It’s the dorkiest bike accessory I own but it works great.
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i don’t know how i used to own basket bikes without them. Billings was fascinated by it.
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Heck yes, this bike was a big inspiration for my weird HRXC build. Except I went for Jones bars… although I’m still considering these Towel Racks I have laying around.
Sometimes we:
And sometimes we:
I’m pretty sure the Dummy weighs more than the three bikes combined.
@heath, the co-op bike is on its third kid and will be on its way to its fourth this coming spring/summer.
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perhaps, but it’s your rolling trash pile
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Yeah, and at least it rolls
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Your Bullitt is beautiful and major inspiration to use mine. The only reason its so clean is it’s spent the last month sitting at my shop getting cleaned and serviced and pampered.
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The day I picked up mine, it snowed two or three inches in the seven mile maiden voyage. I have to assume that your bike is cleaner right now than mine has ever been.
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I don’t trust a Bullitt that’s too clean. They’re like 70’s station wagons but everything useful/necessary that usually ends up under a seat is out where people can see it.
There’s a lot of crap under the seat of my Bullitt too.
the higher the nose of the saddle, the closer to god. you’re basically god.
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That’s as high as it goes on that seatpost.
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