Finally took our bikes out of the travel cases. First time since October that we don’t have a bike in a case in the living room.
Also cut the prolapsed ends off the housing on my bike friday and finally emailed them about the bent fork that I’ve been living with since I got the bike but have been too lazy to address.
I need to do this too. And check for damage after my crash to fork/frame. Dunno if i could even get parts for a tikit anymore
Finally laced the swanky gold Stans Arch rims I got from @jimmythefly
SON dynamo front and the relatively new “gravel” Bitex BX108r rear. Still gotta tension and true.
surely they’ve got a deep archive
They def have or can make what you need.
They also want me to ship the fork back to them to realign but I dont really want to deal with all that
yeah, shipping to and from US-AU is $$$^$, if it’s cooked I’ll see if a local retired effbuilder can help otherwise it’s going on the wall next to the cast of my broken jaw
I’m so jealous that you got these rims but glad they stayed in the tarckfam.
Don’t worry now all three of my 650b steel commuting/gravel/touring/whatever bikes will now have dynamo wheels. Because clearly there isn’t any overlap there at all.
I have typed out but not sent messages asking to buy them back about three times since I sold them. Thankfully they’re built into wheels now and in use and I am over it.
Tarcklebear for reneging
I de-gravel king’ed my carbon fiber wheelset (I needed to chase the tape because the front wheel was not holding air and a spokehead had popped off on the rear wheel) and put on a pair of 28mm Pro Ones. I couldn’t find any of my CO2 heads so I had to try a floor pump, which, shockingly (to me) actually worked at filling the tires and popping (most of) the beads onto their shelves.
The air didn’t actually stay in the tires, due to my not using tire goo, but baby steps. Maybe this will be enough to get off my butt to glue up my 650b skinny tire travel bike?
(And it most certainly will be skinny tired; I have a couple of Henry James crowns that need to be used before I have to flee the pogroms, and I don’t think they’d comfortably clear even a Confrérie, let alone any of the more portly tires that are the fashion in the 650b world these days)
Spokes too short?
No; I think it may have been a defect in the spokehead
On the Banshee, I swamped 175mm Atlas cranks for 165mm Shimano XT. Been wanting to try shorter cranks since I’m getting relatively frequent pedal strike, and the positive results people are getting with short cranks.
I went with those since they’re relatively cheap and have good resale, so if I don’t like the Short Crank Life™ it’s not a big deal to flip 'em.
That said, I think I like the way they look with the bike a lot - the overall shape harmonizes with the flowing lines of the Banshee tube shaping, and they have much smaller logos.
I noticed 165mm’s on my short travel trail bike, not sure if the feeling was more spinny/ power through the hips / less crank strikes through tech -but definitely felt some kind of difference. Feels
Played bike polo. Don’t need to think about what I’m doing as much and it’s getting more fun.
Swapped out the B17 on the disc trucker for a B68 over the weekend and rode it today. Yeah, that’s the stuff.
Rebuilt the loose ball bearing front hub. Only dropped one ball, found it and didn’t get the tan wall tire dirty.
The Peugeot Country Randobike 100 lives!
New 30tpi Kenda Khan takeoff tyres, brake barrel adjuster and a cast potmetal rack from the tip shop, rear chrome fender from under the house, greased and adjusted the bearings, recabled/ adjusred brakes and gears and it’s “good enough”.
Ready to donate or give to a friend to live at their beach shack.
Love the looptail!
