Think I’m gonna make my dynamo’d 26” single speed into a fixed gear townie. Who has a 135 fixed hub?
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6bolt track cog atmo
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Yeah I run a 6 bolt track cog on my fixes too.
I forgot that I already had that setup on this bike but threw that cog away at some point
Dither q: should I flatbar the Secan? Currently Rival 2x11. Thinking of going to Cues 2x11 with Shimano hydros. I could finally mount the aerobars I have and use them for strapping a bag under. No real need to right now, but curious nonetheless.
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Every day is a good day to put alt bars on a bike with drop bars… I say send it.
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If the goal is just flat bars, you can get apex flat bar shifters so you don’t have to replace the whole drivetrain
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I have an apex 1x11 shifter and never could find a left side, I guess the model number I was missing was SL700
isn’t SRAM the same rear derailleur cable pull across Road/MTB for 10s and 11s shifting?
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Exact actuation yes 1:1
Shimano SL R700 is 30 bucks on AliExpress, dare I? Cheap enough to get into a Shimano rear derailer
As long as you map the “Actuations”. [Exact actuation]
Mtb 11 speed shifting is where it falls over but all the other combos work. 10/11 speed road shifters and 10 speed mtb shifters all play well with the 2x 10/11 speed danglers of the right actuation. The GX 2x 11 speed dangler doesn’t work but the GX 2x 10 speed dangler works for 10 and 11 speed shifters.
Unrelated but I now have a 1x11 speed sram gx [x-actuation] and a 1x12 shimano dangler. I have heard that 12 speed has converged across the big S’s and that 11 and 12 have the same pull anyway, so I will test at some point.
Also unrelated but I just discovered that I think I have just about every 10 speed sram dangler released. Half my bikes. I dont really even like modern sram.
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A stream-of-consciousness bike-stable-dither update. I sold both these bikes in January of this year as rolling chassis for basically what I paid for them several years ago. Not great but better than it could have been.
Unfortunately I also built up a new bike so I am not in an appreciably better situation.
2 lugged cyclocross-gravel race bikes
1 650b gravel race bike
1 650b gravel rando bike
3 dropbar hardtails
1 700c road rando bike
I need to get rid of several more bikes but it’s hard.
I’ll only ever do 1 or 2 dropbar hardtail events a year so I clearly don’t need 3. But I need 2 right? What if one breaks near an event? That’s a lot of time and money down the drain if I can’t get a bike in time. But then, each event has had it’s own cancellation some years and I’ve been left with nothing through no fault of my own.
The 650b gravel rando bike is basically only ridden a handful of times a year when I drive out to ride gravel. It’s also unsellable due to frame damage. So I get rid of it and just toss the frame? Sell the components? That can’t be right it works as a complete bike just fine. But I hardly ride it.
I need a road rando bike because otherwise after a while having the smallest available bike tire of 700cx42 feels terrible on pavement and sometimes I have to ride a lot of pavement.
The lugged cyclocross bikes aren’t going anywhere they’re basically my AAA+ bikes. And I need the 650b gravel race bike as back-up or if there’s a really rough course.
So I guess I can get rid of my worst dropbar hardtail? The one from 2013 with 135 QR disc, 72° headtube angle, 2x10, on which I’ll stick an old Suntour Raidon? Should be a fast seller, great idea.
What I really need is a frame or two to crack, and then I can lament the much too short life of those most worn bikes with an excuse to move on with less.
Every bike has been partner to at least a handful of incredible rides and races. All-day adventure far out into the unknown, going places people haven’t ridden in years, not on any map. Riding through the night under a full Moon to watch the most colorful Sunrise I’ve ever seen. A sky so blue and full I truly feel like an ant taking in the majesty of the entire universe all at once. Or battling other racers for hours all to come down to a sprint decided by inches. Collapsed onto the ground immediately after. Pushed to reach new levels of fitness, technical skill, daring, to gain even the smallest advantage.
How am I supposed to willingly part with these machines? Sometimes I think it would be better to take the monetary loss, put them up in the attic under a sheet and forget about them for a while. Maybe that way the memories won’t fade. Of course that wouldn’t work, they need to be ridden or whatever connection is there disappears. I guess that’s the solution. Stop riding the ones that need to go and they’ll find their way back out into the world soon enough.
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Don’t stress. What ever you decide will be wrong and you will regret it.
At least 3 of my bikes have come back, after ive given them away, so you cant always win even giving them away. I think I am back to 10 again.
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I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who feels this way sometimes.
In a similar boat with too many bikes but not wanting to get rid of any of them for various reasons.
Getting rid of my fatbike was bittersweet.
Sometimes I see a picture of a sweet fatbike, I play through the emotions I had of owning it - from the euphoria of riding in a magical twilit snowfall, to the frustration at the rarity of those conditions, to the annoyance of swapping bikes to and from my attic storage every winter, to the realization that it stopped being worth the maximum one dozen rides per year. All that flashes behind my eyes like some ‘right before a car wreck’ movie montage.
Then, I remember all the spare wheelsets, racks, fenders, sets of tires and whatnot I used to have in the attic. They allowed me to set up this bike to do this AND that, so twice a year I’d spend half a day going back and forth, pulling parts down, wrenching, putting other parts back… only to end up with TWO bikes that were perfectly capable of doing the same job, ultimately creating analysis paralysis of which bike to take out that day.
Selling the fatbike and spare parts took a few passes, and it was tough at first, but after I was done I felt MUCH lighter.
Now, I look at my perfectly curated quiver of three bikes sitting in my foyer. Each one is the best it can be. No trips to the attic, no wrenching, just grab and go. My only decision now is 'overbike, underbike, or ‘just right’?
My rumination-prone ADHD brain is at peace. As much as it will ever be.
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(I still ruminate on a certain drool-worthy Tumbleweed Stargazer build at times, but then I think it through - all that would do is make me pack the Vaya back into the travel case. I’d have the smoothest-riding bike I’ve ever owned sitting in the attic gathering dust, after I spent €2000 making it fully modern and amazing, that’d be dumb! So, I remember there’s a French phrase saying ‘the anticipation is better than the reality’ or something like that. And close the browser. Again.)
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Oh man, this year was such a bust I never even ran my fat wheels on my fat bike. I did swap out the 29+ WTB Ranger summer tires for Duro Cruxes, and got a whole 2 snow rides in on them. And on either crappy snow or firmly packed XC ski groomed trails they were about as good as the 26 x 5s and 27 x 4s. Conditions seem to be all or nothing.
The Crux in the back is a little overkill for how I ride trails, but it seems like I could almost get by with something ATBesque that fits 29+, and just swap out the rear tire seasonally.
I also have sand here so I’m still holding out pending some summer tests to see if it maybe makes sense to keep them for desert touring, but it would also be nice to get rid of 4 wheels and another 4 or so backup rims.
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Yeah, I feel that. Ten years ago, the snow was much better around here. 2020-2024, it was awful. This winter was great, but not counting on that - and the 2.6" studded tires worked just fine.
Maybe this is just me, but multiple wheelsets made sense when I had only two bikes. Once I got to 3 bikes, one wheelset just sat more often than not.