Straps inside the BIGANT. Do it right and it will still fold flat.
itās early, so i read this as āI have a cybertruckā and my interest was piqued.
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Iāve been passively looking for an alloy frame to replace my steel one as a clydsdale platform. Should I get this ridiculous thing?
Thatās a 9/8 headtube, right?
edit: hmmm, Iād loose my kickstand. Not sure I wanna deal with no kickstand on a cargo bike.
edit2: this one has a confirmed 9/8 headtube:
E-stay bikes love to crack seat tubesā¦.
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Why?
And where do they crack?
cruising the avenues in my big silver pyramid
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chain tension twists the seat tube and they find a stress riser at either weld or sometimes somewhere in between
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ive never actually used the fold down capacity, and i always keep a 1" thick layer of closed cell foam (because it was free) in there to stop rattling. I actually even hide my pump and the security allen key for wheel removal under it too. but if i had to i would have no qualms throwing the foam away
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Holy shit that Proflex! Want.
Iāve folded it down once, maybe twice, and only before it was electrified. Now I DGAF about air resistance. Plus, anything big that I might have had delivered to the office (to portage home) gets delivered to home now because of the stupid pandemic.
RIGHT?!?
SQ: do e-stay bike plane like crazy before they crack?
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i imagine this being the reverse of my katu issue
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@orloved help this fellow out
edit: he sent me this earlier https://fortmyers.craigslist.org/lee/bik/d/cape-coral-offroad-752-bike-for-sale/7391137996.html
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oh yes ā if you need this picked up Iāll be around Ft Myers around xmas!!! Always happy to help with a horrible bike decision
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I had an 857 in college. It wasnāt good, but it sure was cool.
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That or the BB falls out.
So lets say I want to move away from Shimano Hollowtech cranks in the future, what do I get instead? I have a pair of Rotor cranks (from @rancid_burple ) that are pretty decent, and @EndpointBraden has recommended Easton EA90 before.
This is for road biking, either mid compact chainrings or compact, I care more about stiffness and relative ease of replacing chainrings more than I care about ultra low weight.
If there are super fancy options that are actually worth it, tell me all about it. Oh and they have to work with a bsa thread normal ass road bb.
Gotta say, Shimano is doing almost everything in its power to break my 20+ year streak of automatically buying whatever Ultegra group is current when Iām putting a new bike together.
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my quarq with Shimano rings seems pretty decent, but Iāve only got like 10 hours of riding on it total
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itās got me fucked up. the obvious answer used to be āsays shimano right on itā want carbon or 30mm axle? wade into the sea. want good and no nonsense? shimano.
now i just donāt even know
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Easton is still great if you want a sub-compact. EC90 is absurdly light (but expensive). EA90 is cheap for what it is. Their BSA bottom bracket is probably the best option for a BSA30 unit from a longevity standpoint.
Praxis aināt bad, but proprietary rings and bottom bracket are something to be aware of. Their mid-tier carbon cranks have a 48/32 option and are really good for the price.
For 24mm spindle cranks Rotor Aldhu24 is really good. Proprietary rings are annoying, but thatās pretty normal these days. Can be used with a Shimano BB and their power meter is aggressively priced if you are into that sort of thing. The power meter can only run a standard or compact but they do make a direct mount sub-compact 46/30 ring system. NOT cheap. But exceptionally well made.
RX600 and RX800 cranks are pretty much impossible to beat for the price if you just want a sub-compact to bolt up and forget about. Replacement rings can be annoying to source, but not all that expensive. Probably still your best overall option unless chasing grams. The slightly wider chainline is not an issue for current-gen Shimano road pushers so you donāt have to get the GRX pusher for it to work properly. Same deal with Sram pushers. Supposedly the GRX one is optimized for the 46 or 48t big ring, but I have yet to encounter an issue running R7000 or R8000.
If you want to run a power meter and donāt want to fart around with AXS you can run Sram DUB arms with the Quarq pie-plate for Shimano 4 arm rings or 110 BCD 5 bolt rings. There are some third-party spiders that work for this too. Power2Max pie plates often pop up for cheap on eBay. The DUB BSA bottom bracket is also very decent for an aluminum spindle system.
If you are wading into the 12s campy world keep in mind Rotorās 11s round and Q rings for regular-ass cranks are 12s compatible (I had to confirm this before deciding what crank to put on Chorus equipped Night Moves).
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