Well, ya gotta get the marketing guy, and the product guy and the finance guy to all sign off on it.
(Guy is a deliberate usage, unfortunately)
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Lol
Just wait until I do the same to my knobby bike! 29" of tire goodness and the rear has been milked three times. The front only twice.
I had a click in my bike after my last ride so I took apart the bottom bracket looking for issues. The drive side was pitted af. Which makes sense, itâs GXP. So I put a shimano bb on the drive side there because thatâs a fine thing to do. I ordered a new GXP bb and will swap the whole thing out when that arrives. I rebuilt the whole front end and put a -17 stem on there just cos. The headset was super gross inside. So was the topcap and stuff. I guess I havenât done that since I built the bike? Oh well. Itâs all clean and crisp now. I also dropped some lube in the cables but it needs a recabling.
Decided to go full dork on my big Sam and started to install Albatross bars yesterday, only to realize that I didnât have enough cables to do the whole job. The only thing I could get on the bars was the rear brake lever, so on it went, along with some clampy grips, and I rode around the neighborhood to test the stem length. Probably needs a shorter stem.
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I finally installed the bike Friday hooptie kit with some modifications. Welded on an adapter to the front bracket and drilled the rear bracket for the wider spacing on the blackborow rack. Such a light system. Most of the time was spent dithering bolt on adapters vs welding to current bracket. Ended up with the latter to avoid impossible to either remove/install bolts.
Edit 52.81lbs. Not bad with the seat, hooptie, and rolling jackass kickstand, and widened fenders
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Got these wheels on the trek. 105 to a23. Opens up the 28s nicely. Lubed the old derailer into dropping to the small cog. Gives me a fuzzy feeling.
Put some ergons on the sweet hybrid.
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I smanged a pannier rack onto my Bullitt for MAXXXIMUM CARGO.
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sold it. my wifeâs crosscheck of like 10 years. $725 from someone who drove DC to PHL to pick it up. i fucking love a long distance craigslist- they ainât leavin without it.
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The joke is that they went all that way for a cross check. The Surly cult is real
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he said they were bored AF and someone stole his bike. so time to rent a car and go for a road trip i guess
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Put some fenders on the kid bike
Never put sks fenders on a bike before, not a fan
Took the Lorry on a little ride
It felt great. But I definitely need to do something about the gearing. Maybe a smaller ring?
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feels reg enough even with the wicked slack STA?
I mean, it definitely feels like a cruiser/old mtb. Wouldnât want to ride anything technical on it. Doesnât feel snappy like a road bike but it is stable and maneuverable.
The only time I was uncomfortable was on the mile long 4% climb. And standing to crank up hills kind of sucks.
Putting on wide bars and a longer stem helped a ton. The stock setup felt twitchy as hell
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Rebuilt the Sektor on the Honzo, bumped the travel from 130 to 150 and dropped down to 2.5wt oil.
Also put on some SQLab 16 degree bars, sooo much better. Did need to go to a 60 stem to put my hands in about the same place.
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45 mi w only 1100 ft of elevation makes me conditionally jealous. You get that much in ten miles around here. But I also know Iâd miss the hills if I moved somewhere else.
That route is particularly flat because 70% of it is either rail trail or along a river. All of that elevation comes in a 10mi section that is one long climb followed by a series of tall rollers.
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That is basically the flattest route possible in the area. It follows water the whole way, except for when itâs floating on the water.
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