Oh good that Hardrock sold so I can stop thinking about it.
Boooooooooooo
Go find a new bike to dwell on
This just frees up time to dwell on existing bikes.
Or ride them?
I’ll do my little 8-mile commute but motivation is low for anything else right now. Not sure why Sunday and Monday are so low on this forecast. We’re under an extreme heat warning for those two days.
This is still WAY better than last summer, so far.
Ride in the morning then take the bus back home?
Might have to do that with light rail instead since that’s better in my area.
Contemplating switching over the build from the vintage trek with drops to the rrb with shorty stem and chill bars. It would effectively replicate the rockhoopy but skinny.
Already dithering a 650b conversion for this. Lots of clearance horizontally, none vertically.
Cant have too many sick hybrids.
what’s the conduit/track like object on your floor?
It’s a ring of conduit enclosing a parking spot to stop snow melt from running all over the garage
Who here has done a 2x1 road bike?
Have 46/30 chainrings, might do something dumb.
I helped someone do it. They stamped their shifter and I set the dangler midcage. 50/34 x 17 or something
What about purposely putting a bike together that way?
I have a feeling that I would absolutely hate it but also I really want to try. My gut is telling me that a 46/30 jump would be too wide to make it practically rideable. With a 17t freewheel it would be 72"/47"
Wouldn’t it just be a single-speed with a bonus alpine gear? The huge old jump wouldn’t be that objectionable if it was for grinding up steep ramps and nothing but.
I feel like @DDYTDY did this for a gnarly hillclimb bike once?
Mt Washington!
Yeah, thats a dumb jump to overcome for usefulness based off your location. Unless you were like, riding around and then climb mount mitchell. Or maybe that is your game.
@cousinmosquito built a dingle speed recently
I recently built a 2x1. Works mint. Mtb tho. 44/22 with an 18 on the back ( or something like that ). Also built a road bike like that once too.
I guess thats effectively a 2 speed as well, despite having 4 sprockets. There were only two usable combinations. It was my buddies bike, i just helped him crunch the gearing numbers.