My commute is also over an hour. Two tubes, levers, emergency stick-on patches, multi-tool w/- chainbreaker, quicklink, framepump. I don’t think this is excessive, and all fits in a pencil-case-sized pencil case which rides in the bottom of my rack bag. The most I’ve ever had to use is a tube, except for one time when I had to dig a wire out of a Hetre and my multi-tool came in handy.
[quote=Rusty Piton][quote=that guy]I never ride without a spare
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This is just good sense.
Here’s my setup:
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whenever i see a brompton with a front bag i like to imagine it contains a spare brompton in case of flat tire
god damn it.
I am all about wide-range weird Gevenalle conversions. Why doesn’t Tarck like Gevenalle? I would think that weird friction turkey setups would thrive here and I’ve spoken with “The Goats” a couple of times and they seem like nice folks to do business with. What don’t I know?
One of the most on-topic posts in a thread ever.
We love turkeys with terrible ergonomics, as well as aluminum forks. Why would you think we don’t?
Have you ever even used road shakes, Mr. Singlespeeds?
Holy shit.
I like that frame because my first craws bike was a conquest pro from the following year and it gives me good feels. However, that build is jackass. If you’re going to go 1x on an old Conquest it better have a 9s sti lever hooked up to a mega9 XTR dangler with one of those double bash guard jawns cyclocrossworld used to sell.
And Empella froglegs.
If you don’t hate gevennelle from an atomic level, you need to really question whether you’re ready to post here.
A better way of looking at it is: what reason is there to like them? What problem do they solve that hasn’t been solved better already? Do they look cool or fucking stupid?
I don’t care if they’re nice guys. Being a nice guy doesn’t mean the shit you’re selling is good.
[quote=Endpoint]I like that frame because my first craws bike was a conquest pro from the following year and it gives me good feels. However, that build is jackass. If you’re going to go 1x on an old Conquest it better have a 9s sti lever hooked up to a mega9 XTR dangler with one of those double bash guard jawns cyclocrossworld used to sell.
And Empella froglegs.[/quote]
I’d be okay with a 10sp campy ergo with big ass xtr deraingler as well
I stand with emor
Just to spell it out for Max:
Can’t shift from drops
Can’t brake from hoods
Looks like ass compared to every practical alternative
I had this whole thing typed up and then realized that emor had it covered.
Those things make no sense at all.
[quote=ShartAttack]Just to spell it out for Max:
Can’t shift from drops
Can’t brake from hoods
Looks like ass compared to every practical alternative[/quote]
Can’t use brake lever qr function
It’s cool, guys. Eventually Max is going to find a bike with real shifters that shifts well and in a few years, he’ll be back saying, “what the fuck was I thinking?” In the interim, he can opine about whatever weird fucking combination of bike parts that can be amalgamated together into something that’s barely usable for any given purpose.
A friend used them in a 3000km Poopbarning event last year and was a big fan. I haven’t used them myself but my gut feeling is I’d prefer them to bar end or downtube. No doubt they look weird, but not as weird as the Russian variant.
I actually like bar end shifters because a spare fits in your pocket really nice leaving more room in your bag for an epoxy kit and some sheet metal in case my frame cracks so I don’t have to bail on my commute.
If there’s one thing I don’t know, it’s shifters!