I’m game, yeah.
Albatross bars / controls were taken off the big blue Sam and the stock derpbars are going back on. That bike gonna find a new home. Maybe there’s a situation where I’d enjoy being an upright dork cycle rider, but this ain’t it.
Those bars / controls are getting setup to be used on the smaller orange Sam. Also started setting up a set of narrower Noodles with a shorter stem for that bike.
Maybe it’s dumb to have three different full sets of bars/stems/brakey+shifty levers to be able to swap in and out on the same bike. Looks like I’m gonna find out.
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fuck around and find out
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It’s costs exactly zero dollars* to do it, too!
* zero future dollars
i campan-yolo’d a campagnolo ekar group. should be here by the end of the year. will be going most likely on an anti-hambini bike
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saw ice this morning, so put on the winter tires. i’m probably a month too early but i felt like doing a nice project.
also cleaned the drivetrain to get it nice and ready to be completely destroyed by road salt.
Spent 30 minutes scrubbing tape residue off a set of Noodles in prep for long weekend dithering.
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Put a gas-tank and a stem pouch on the Cannibal last night. I hadn’t thought of the clearance issues I was going to get with my aero-pads v stem-pouch, probably why so many people use Fred bars for extra height. Maybe I wont be jamming my 950ml bottles in them after all.
Stuck on my new dynamo “wheel-build” with lights and aero bars. Commuted for an hour to work this morning and was reminded how aero is my most favourite and relaxed position, and I certainly needed it in a shitty head-wind, and trying to recover from the “boot-camp” classes we are doing at work. I need a lot of recovery from that stuff right now, because my body sure ain’t used to it.
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Older child decided she can ride a bike now and did a 4 mile ride with me on foot telling her to stop and wait over and over. So I built up the old FTW Endpoint Monstercross thing with flat bars today to ride with her. Parking lot test ride went well.
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I got bored and painted a cheapo stem pink and put it in my Traffic. What’s the Tarck verdict on this? The jury’s out over here.
Also, should I paint the stem in my cargo VooDoo purple?
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Stem looks appropriate for the bike, as for the cargo, 100% yes, the more weird shit on a cargo bike the better.
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That’s all the permission I need!
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put a new big but not as big runny arse on the back of the trucker, along with 46t cassette and new chain, and switched the bars back to FSA metropolises.
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Cabled up the big Sam and moved it to the cellar of forgotten bikes.
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The spacer height is consistent with our expectations.
Guess what I did? That’s right, I straightened my derailleur hanger.
Actually, I replaced it, and then straightened. Pretty sure the old one was fatigued and was moving just from the tension of the derailleur.
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Hang on, are you straightening aluminum hangers? Is that a thing you can do without destroying it?
A+ color, needs more patina to match the rest of the bike.
They usually need to be straightened out of the box. It’s little tweaks, not one big bend. Usually.
Yes. A little as mentioned. This thing was never tweaked very much. I straightened it a couple times and that was all it had in it.
New one wasn’t perfect out of the box. Straightened it as little as I could manage.