Cleaned and did some maintenance on my filthy filthy bakfiets.
Clemmy helped.
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WTH: I forgot to replace the frayed dropper cable that I put the bike in the stand for in the first place! What is wrong with me?!?
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Drivetrain and front brake is on so I actually got to ride it around a bit.
Confirmed that the handlebars are indeed way way way too low. Trying to decide between getting a new fork with a longer steer tube and keeping the sweet original cockpit or just buying a set of Surly Sunrise bars.
Sunrise bars will give at least 76mm of additional height, and if I remember correctly the Sunlite forks at JBI have 250mm steerers so that would give me 65mm additional vs the fork I have now.
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Here’s alternatives to the Sunrise bars with the same vibe, with butted tubes that are probably lighter:
Stooge Junker 85mm
Stooge Junker 100mm
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I’ve got a set of bobbed surly clunkers I could measure if you’re interested
Long overdue seals and wipers for fork and shock plus pivot bearings.
Knew it was bad but damn, it was bad.
That’s looking damn good. It’s really hard getting old school forks with any height to them too. Crank looks mint too.
Thankfully this frame takes 9/8 forks - I ended up having a cheap unicrown CRMO fork ordered so I can get the bars up a little higher but still keep the original cockpit.
Rumor has it the fork might be here today, so I can finish everything while it rains all weekend.
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They have some fun clamp colors available too for adding flare.
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Recently installed tires/tubes/milk on the newly-ish built 650b commuter wheels and put them on the Mod Zero in place of the 700c wheels. Rode that bike to work today because finally cooler weather/good air/not having to portage any packages home and that setup works pretty great on that bike. Looks funny though because the 700x45 fenders are still on it.
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Transferred the guts from a non coaster 2 speed auto hub into my coaster hub wheel. Will give the donor hub back to the person who gave it to me, as all he wanted was a coaster anyway, and I didnt. Very straight forward, hub bodies are identical.
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Your partner is very tolerant.
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It cuts both ways. She had a melt down last night because apparently after 38 years of marriage I still dont know she doesnt like flavoured potato chips… that was before I got my wheel out. I dont normally do that kind of stuff inside.
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Took the drops off and got flat bar stuff set up, daily dithering new bars until I find something I’m happy with.
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ugliest of the bunch, but the most comfortable, sadly it might not last just aesthetically…
edit: already changed them again
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Installed a PNW Pine dropper on the Jones tonight. It drops, does not pop. Nowhere in its range will it return to full extension, even when out of the frame, without me pulling on the saddle. The internal cable is fine. 