I had Big Apples on this SJ in probably 2009 or 2010. Great bike.
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I think it means you have a non-underbike loaner bike?
Built as a loaner bike for friend across town
A+
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Guyshoin’ the road bike, got new igorfenders. Front is proving a touch finicky to get just exactly perfect but I’ll get there.
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Warning: I first built up my clyde Bridgestone with matching powerblocks front and rear. I was rewarded by choosing light tires by double flatting on innumerable goatheads one day.
Switched to big apples front and rear, no ragrets
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the front immediately flatted a on a pile of glass a few days later and ive had trouble keeping it proud since then
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If it’s anything like my 12-year old Marathons that finally died, the carcass has been degrading throughout the tire and it’s just a matter of time before you get a sidewall bubble or blowout
no its a new tire
That big apple is unkillable. I don’t think it flatted once in the ten years I rode it.
Anyway, my coworker and I sold the company car and he bought this company bike instead. His parts bin and my wrench turning got it up and running with some new bars/stem, brake pads, rack and bell, but other than that it was in good condition, clearly a garage kept bike.
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Rode to the big box hardware store for sprinklers this morning, folded it up, walked right on in, and mostly didn’t feel weird doing so. This thing is rad. The post assembly test ride Friday evening ended up being 5 miles instead of around the block and would have been even longer had I remembered to bring the tools/tube/pump. Probably needs a taller handlepost. We’ll see what other places are okay with me bringing it inside.
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DQ: can you wheel it around folded or did you throw it in a cart?
It rolls when folded and seems stable enough. The magnetic “clip” that keeps it together needed a little adjustment and I replaced the stock skewers with something lower profile because the nut sides of each were hitting each other and causing the magnet to lose contact with the plate by the front wheel. No rolling it backwards folded tho because there’s not enough room for the NDS pedal to rotate 360 degrees.
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We have so many cargo bike threads and posts now, I feel like we almost need a new reaction icon. Like, Sheldon. Is it too late to add something like that?
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In cities where it’s normal to ride bikes we all push our bikes around inside of Home Depot
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S10 is the good spec with Performance motor right? their specs are confusing because the S has Maguras but Novatec hubs while the P and Q have Shimano/Shimano
the fact you can natively install a Yepp Maxi is pretty great, though it blocks the pannier mounts so you only get front cargo