It’s not nearly as crowded as the Minuteman. When I rode the reform it was closer to the end of the day and I’d say I saw 2-3x more people than normal, but normal for me is just 3-4 people so I’d say it’s still under capacity. I’d say go for it.
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I bet the person that wanted that wheel was luck fuck yeah this wheel is gonna be so strong! Then the person that actually built it wanted to put a 12gauge to their noggin the entire time doing it.
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Craziest thing I see is that they’re all straight gauge.
oh thats fancy
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Late post, last Friday sup and I joined some friends for a social distance ride up to the local water hangout. Was very fun to do something almost normal again. Did not enjoy riding through storage of bee boxes.
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I just throw out a pocketful of Asian hornets when faced with this situation
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coastal ride today. i picked up some onions, blackberry jam, bagels and cream cheese and the san gregorio farm. absolutely A+ day out there
spotted this little dude setting up to ambush me while climbing back up Tunitas Creek
this was a bit of a bold ride for the partybike - it definitely has the least-good climbing gears for a 3000ft day out of all the bikes in the stable - but quarantimes call for weird measures
This was my first ride with the RTPs on this bike and they’re so smooth; i almost want to buy a romanceür and build a low-trail 26" tire fop chariot.
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wait is that a Towel Rack handlebar fitting around a Wald 157 with room for shakes?
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good eye, yes. It’s the widest 675cm version but i still had to clearance the basket.
let me be clear that this is not a good bike, but it is a fun bike
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i recommend you peep the dangler
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Got out on the tandem for 55mi w/ 3,000ft of vert. We are both obliterated. Did a fair bit of off-roading in the form of gravel paths and mellow singletrack on the St. Francis trail. Freaking 4 piston stoppers on 203 rotors for the win!
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Test ride of the hooptie bars on the blackborow to get a jelly bell for it and hit the produce stand. Ran into a jazz band socially distant practicing in the park. Kid wanted to watch so we hung out for a bit and watched. Worst part was having to wait til we got home to clean the bell before I could give it to her.
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I love my RTPs. I have the light-weights now, have the very old but still good standard models on my wifes e-bike. Those were the first sti levers I ever had, and I bought them second hand from a guy. They always shifted like arse, but then long after I gave them away I learnt that I mostly likely had the cable anchored on the wrong side of the bolt…
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they’re the OG shakes - 8-speed Dura Ace 7400 - and yeah, if you didn’t know what you had in your hand i’m not surprised that they shifted like ass.
6-8 speed DA uses a derailleur motion that’s not compatible with the rest of the Shimano lineup. you can do some weird cable routing (“Hubbub” routing) to make them work with non-DA derailleurs, but… it never works great.
So fun fact, Shimano used the same cable pulled per shift for 9-speed as they had used on 8-speed Dura Ace - for example, that’s why the 9-speed bar ends are explicitly labeled as working with both 9-speed and 8-speed DA derailleurs.
… so what that means, is you can use the ST-7400 Dura Ace 8-speed shakes to shift a non-DA dangler across an 8-of-9 cassette setup. And since this bike has an old, narrow 7-speed freehub body and I can’t fit a full-width 8/9/10-speed cassette on it, that ended up working out perfectly.
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I have a ton of those TT shifters in 9speed lying about too.
I guess I can use them in friction mode.