Today I had the day off because of rain so I went on a journey to find horizontal dropout screws and whichever shop had them would I would also buy a few other things from.
The first shops website said they had them in stock and I paid for them online and when I went to get them they were classic bike shop surly and disinterested and then didn’t actually have them in stock anyway. Okay, refund.
The next shop is always friendly and my preference but they didn’t have them. They recommended the last shop which I figured would have them but is my least preference because it is run by the archetypal old school bike pendant whos shop is full to the brim with old steel bikes and wheels hanging from the ceiling.
Not only did he have them, he asked me if I knew the thread pitch lol. He had multiple sets. No, I didn’t know the thread pitch. Very skeptical to sell me them without having the frame. But I said I’d take the surly variety and take my chances.
I got some other things and he also accidentally charged me for five sets of the dropout screws. Which I did get a refund for over the phone.
Shopping at local bike shops is always a process. Often have to go to more than one, but not always all three.
Did some crank swapping between the the two Rivs this morning, thinking that the longer 178mm crank was coming off the Sam for the shorter 175mm crank from dork Riv and vice versa. Once the Sam was all swapped and the dork bike had its cranks off, it turns out to be a “3” on the Sam’s original crank and not an “8”. I must have been thinking of the cranks from the 62cm Sam that was sold instead of smaller 58cm Sam I kept. Whatever, it’s like 1.1% difference either way and I wanted the cheaper crank on the Sam anyway in case it gets sold in the future so I continued.
Did some pusher dithering on the dork Riv and the chainline was wide enough now to fit a 2x10 Deore with a smaller cage in place of the cheap 8-speed triple that was at least a half inch above the big ring because it couldn’t be moved down any further because of cage / chainstay clearance.
Replaced my quickly deteriorating brooks leather bar tape with some of the brooks microfiber tape. Finally matches my B17 and should hold up better.
Yo, did that saddle show up? Gonna fuck up your matchymatch.
yeah it did. Will throw it on anyway, or maybe on the new gravel build.
Yeah, put it on the gravel. The blue bike looks great.
Put the Rockhopper in comfort mode to commute on until I’m no longer all banged up.
Swapped the cranks, raised the stem and finally put on pink pedals I’ve had for a while.
This is hot as fuck
I like that cute little basket.
It’s my second smallest basket! It hauled 4 cabbages, 6 carrots, 9 avocados, 9 bunches of cilantro and 50 ibuprofen tablets to work this morning.
what pedals are those?
I find it interesting how much of online bike culture is focused on old S. While most of the old S people have zero brand loyalty to new S and S does nothing to try to take advantage of it.
Odyssey Twisted PC. Not great.
looking for some pink platform pedals. guess I’ll keep looking
Deity def traps? Or the Race Face ones if you don’t want metal pins
Good bikes with very cool period appropriate paint schemes, and there’s hundreds of thousands of them out there. The closest Big S has come to fan service was the SJ reissue in 2007.
Did a road ride yesterday after a gravel ride a few days before. Didn’t wash or relube the bike between them because it was clean and freshly lubed right before the gravel ride.
5 min into the 80 mile road ride, there was a creak that got worse throughout the ride. 50 miles in and the chain was squeaking like it hadn’t been lubed in months.
Today I washed and lubed my bike.
I washed the Hatchet, put on some fresh tape, tuned the gorillas after the earlier recable, and bled the back brake. Once that was done, I took some pretty pictures to put it up for sale.
Put my $8 refurbed GX dangler and shifter on the Superlight, with matching 11-46 cassette. Replacing the 2x9 11-34. I had a new 12 speed chain lying around so threw that on. Half a turn and it was shifting mint. Unfortunately the front ring was a straight cut 34 and it was derailing when dumping gears downhill for taller gears, and the axel was quite wide, so I found an old 3x 110 bcd crank. Put on a N/W 38 tooth. Unfortunately the crank had a shitty wobble in it. Threw back on the 94 bcd with the 34 tooth and a much narrower axel. Took off the 2x gripshift. That nokon cabling is still mint. Been on it since I first got that bike. Will take it back to the bike shed at work where its stored for my lunch time rides. Doh. Forgot. Put a 180 rotor on the front. Fork also takes a 27.5 so should keep an eye out for one.
I hauled everything down to the stupid bike room to work on the bike, rather than work on the floor of my cramped apartment. Hopefully to finish the Evasion or at least get it rolling around so I can dial in the bars and levers. Lol nah.
Crust has sent me the wrong stem twice now and I’ve got nothing to fit a 26.0 bar. So I figured I’d get the BB and cranks installed so I can make sure it all fits. Haha I don’t have the tool to install the MT-800 bottom bracket. Ok fuck it I’ll at least get the chainring on the cranks oh no the Race Face ring I got doesn’t fit the Middleburn spider.
Bikes are the worst
