No, it’s just a plain old Sugino 5 arm with someone else’s branding on it. Even though it has low miles on it, I checked for cracks while the arms were off.
I did consider the bars, but couldn’t get them to make the noise I was hearing when trying to torque on them when not riding the bike. I was able to somewhat isolate it and eliminate the saddle and chairpole by holding the brakes and putting weight on one pedal when standing to the side of the bike. We’ll see.
This is the UN54 on the bike now. In my limited exposure to other square tapers, I haven’t seen another with that same step/ring on it. The double version of my crank doesn’t bottom out on it, but the triple version does. Pretty sure I’ll swap BBs after getting home tonight.
So I am finally putting together my Time for riding.
I am building it up for temporarily easy days and days when my shoulder hurts so it is going to be a little gimcracky until I am confident enough that my shoulder isn’t going to go out and I can finalize the fit to my standard on all of my other bikes.
My Q is I want to try flat pedals on this bike as long as it’s going to be fuckity, what should I get? High quality, light, not gigantic. I’d be wearing official stiff flat pedal shoes
Speaking of which, which stiff flat pedal shoes
If you want options, I’ve enjoyed the Shimano PD-T8000 XT pedals and have mostly used them in flat mode.
I’ve also used Race Face Ride and the cheap plastic VPs from Riv if you don’t mind plastic retention pins.
is your shoulder issue triggered by weight, angle, or a mixture of both?
It’s really hard to tell. It does not hurt when riding, it hurts the next day. So the delay makes it really hard to ascertain.
That said, right now it barely hurts at all so I am hoping this is a temporary measure and that my shoulder is actually getting better. But for now I don’t want to cut the steerer and I’m going to use Specialized hover bars and a zero degree stem so the bars and saddle are at the same height. It’s going to look like ass
yeah, delayed stuff is tricky. Being generally fit means that you can compensate a little when you’re riding, only to have some stabilizing muscle really yell at you a day or two later.
I’m trying to figure out some kind of imbalance between SOMETHING in my hips that makes me slightly lift off of the saddle to compensate. Then a day later my lower back hurts, but not symmetrically.
As far as bike setup: better goofy looking bike you can ride than a cool looking bike you can’t, right?
Did you get the brown ADHX? (It’s the color I’d get…)
I haven’t done anything to it yet, everything is just kinda loosely stuck on there
It is brown, I got that color because that’s what you’d get. The hubs are golden and make no sound
Ever notice how my cats photobomb EVERY picture I take?
even with raised bars it’ll look pretty sweet IMO
I see Pubes replying and I’m really hoping its an image of my cat in a frying pan
Alas I feel like I’m going to be disappointed
oh i was just going to comment on a few things.
first off, gimcracky, great word, had to google it.
second, the bike you posted is a standard-ass road bike to me. and i just googled gimcracky and it dont mean standard-ass.
LOL
But I haven’t gimcracked it yet
well then get to gimcrackin’!
French carbon fiber has that je ne sais quoi.
I always wanted a Look 575 or 595. Might be what fills the long dormant road bike slot in my stable.
Yeah that just looks like a classic road bike atmo
