I adapted this screw pouch from the hardware store to go on my handlebars. The relevate is so clapped out that I might make it a matching set.
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These folks (or similar) would be a good place to ask too.
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The deep dish is nuts and I love it.
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Put it mostly back together after removing (almost) all the vintage Suntour. Waiting on spacers for the front brake. Thought these Pirellis were TLR but I guess not.
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Opened the box for the Open UP I bought used. Hung some wheels on it so I could hang it on the wall.
Thought Iād finally finish the 1970s Italian road bike Iāve been putting together. All it needed was bar tape. But the quill wedge was stuck in the head tube and I figured now is the time to get it out. Now the bike has a quill wedge removed but is in significantly less ridable condition than before. Thereās also significant machining marks on the lower half of the head tube, which is why the quill wedge was stuck to begin with. So now Iāve got a ball hone on order to see if that fixes it.
My goal was to have the 70s road bike done and passed on before the Open UP arrived so my partner couldnāt complain about more bike projects. Oops.
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I have two 2/3 built bikes laying around and two bikes that are unrideable without some work from just laying around unused and one bike that I need to take apart and sell the frame.
I have all these bike projects to do but no time/energy to do them.
I almost want to sell the whole mess and start clean, but thatās more work than just fixing the bikes.
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I have so much stuff waiting to be sold and no motivation. If I could snap my fingers and make that stuff just disappear I would.
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deep wheels on bikes āthey donāt belong onā is extremely my shit
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I have considering consolidating a lot of my āniceā parts into one grab-bag auction/transaction. I have a bunch of nicer stems/seatposts/saddles that Iām realistically never going to use and could be turned into cash for other stuff, but I donāt have the time to deal with 30 different transactions.
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Same here. I have a bunch of random stuff thatād be ideal garage sale fodder.
Thereās enough skeletons and parts in my mess to build up three fully rideable bikes and sometimes I think about doing just that and donating them to the local bicycle collective. They might already be pretty full when it comes to used bikes tho.
A bike swap might be a great place to get rid of some stuff, but I keep forgetting about them or donāt ever know theyāre happening.
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The problem with this is every damn bike nerd has the same stash of unused bits that they want to sell. Last bike swap I went to there was at least three of everything that I would have taken to sell, all for good prices, and nothing was selling.
Iām at the point where Iāll probably just donate anything Iāll reasonably never use, and stash the rest at the back of the garage.
Lol there was a bike swap here a couple weeks ago and the whole buyers market for the weird bike shit were also the people selling. I think we all just played musical chairs trading parts bins to each other
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at least in an irl swap nobody pays shipping and you might make a friend
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good meme I think that stuff is all too nice for what weāre talking about.
Kalloy Unos in obscure diameters, square taper 105 cranksets, uggo-era 8s deore danglers, tektro V-brakes are the sorts of things I expect to borrow from my dither friends and have them ask ādid you wind up installing that? can I have it back?ā
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tarcklebee photoshop of the year
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