all purpose gear thread

those are just english steamrollers, right?

pretty much

not according to GIS

no, the on one is way better for a utility bike imo. it has cantilevers and rack brazeons to make racks and fenders easy. i very nearly bought one but ended up getting a better deal on the since discontinued robroy.

not according to GIS

― jaxon, Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:17 AM (30 minutes ago) [IP: 24.5.84.161] Bookmark

lol!!!

i guess pompino means blowjob in italian

my current fork is a 300g profile ac that is 10 years old and has seen many hard miles and even a couple lay downs. as i was descending deer creek in a tuck at about 50 mph, i thought, is this fork really safe at 10 years old?

light 1" all carbon forks are really hard to find now, and expensive, if you can find one at all (you can still get _beautiful_ woundups, but they are sorta heavy). anyway, i should have bought an easton they were blowing them out in november at half the going rate. now they are all gone afaict.

after much searching and soul searching, i just bought an easton ec90sl straight leg.

straight leg forks, c/d? i say dud, but it's all i could find.

"very nearly all gone"- obv, i found one.

Thank you for your recent order. This is to inform you that your order (#140687) has been cancelled. It was cancelled due to our being out of stock of this item.

guess not. fuck.

to get a fork, im now tryna order a columbus minimal from uk. this is crazy. nice looking non-integrated curved blade fork, except im not loving gloss finish. my seatpin is matte, this could be aesthetic crisis.

our thoughts and prayers are with you u_u

quiddities and agonies of the rolling class - a ruling iltrmb thread

can you sand the fork back a touch to get rid of gloss finish??

i picked up the garmin last week and did a couple of rides over the weekend, pretty good! hunt3r have you seen strava? googlemaps, comparison with other ppl on local climbs, power estimation etc etc. this link should still get you a 3-month trial.

also they just released a free iphone app today iirc

thanks haitch, i've been thinking about strava. last night, i used wordpad to edit a file. i forgot to turn off my garmin and it recorded part of my drive from the mtb trailhead. i fixed .tcx file and uploaded back to garmin connect, mostly successful. it's weird, i know nothing of xml, but it's very intuitive and clear to do.

I just got bar ends and SPD peddles and shoes for my bike. I will fear hills no more.

I can't get my old peddles off!

My new peddles are on!

Just did a lap of cmapus with the SPEDs clipped in; didn't fall off, but I did really enjoy it. Only irritation is how hot & hilly campus is today.

Had my first "SPD moment" on the way to work this morning; unclipped left foot as I approached a pedestrain/bicycle crossing so I could stop in time, lights changed at the last minute, and I tried to carry on rather than stopping. Que slow topple to my right...

Despite many years of SPDing had one of those last week, after two beers. With many spectators.

Need to bring this thread down to earth for a sec: I need a new saddle for my 3-spd townie. Now that I live 5-7 miles from anywhere, I can't ignore how painful the old two-tone seat is anymore.

Who makes a decent sprung saddle that's not inappropriate for an old bike WITHOUT being a "cost of my firstborn" Brooks? Looked at Electra's options, so far they're winning. Anyone else I should check out?

Velo Orange have their sproingy saddles on special for $65 right now

http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/components/saddles/vo-saddle-model-5-sprung-touring.html
http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/components/saddles/vo-saddle-model-8.html

anyone in UK/europe want a free set of KEOs?

anyone in UK/europe want a free set of KEOs?

Which Keos? (would pay postage if they are better than mine)

will take a pic and post them up laterz; couldn't tell you what model, came with pub bike

I'll pass then, was hoping you had gone off your nut and wanted to give away some blade carbons.

loooooooool nah just standard scumbag keos I think #spdforlife

any takers yet? i'd get use out of them tbh.

no takers, they're yours if you want them

dwh0w13 at g00gl3m41l dot c0m

minus all googleproofing natch

http://www.outdoortrekking2010.de/out/pictures/1/menpaceeventjacketblack.jpg

love the aesthetics, eVent fabric, ayo im gettin it

(ebay has a few larges very cheap if ur a looking a for a minimalist but real rainjacket)

took 20s off new dayglo pink beater, tubes looked pretty old, pretty crusty

put on 25s. front tube just exploded (shit myself basically) in my kitchen. pinch flat? or...?

bad rim strip?

Rough bit at top of rim, if there were only 20s before you may have friction where previously there wasn't any? Or yeah, pinched it

Wasn't the valve, was it? Exactly that happened to me last night - only to discover that the valve in my Continental tube is removable (??) and it had just shot across the kitchen and could be popped back in and all's fine.

shiiiii... don't know. will have a look tonight. that sounds potentially dangerous

anyone experienced with dmt shoes? thoughts?

btw the vaude jacket arrived and is awez. not tiny, but more packable/thinner than expected. close fit (def. not club fit), but not _race_ fit. s'alright, i need it as all rounder anyway.

where is my mantis jersey goddamit

other than aesthetics, is there any thing to stop me cannibalising my old read (stx) mech from my marin muirwoods and putting it on the new beater with friction shifters? (for which I'v found some dirt cheap wheels and a 5 speed cassette - which I worry is all the frame will take...)

anyone? Bueller?

but also - meant to say yesterday - I introduced the beater to Autosol and autoglym polishes yesterday - this stuff is unbelievably awesome, what were dull grey brake levers destined for the bin/ebay, are now gleaming, shiny levers of wonder that I can see my face in - seriously magical stuff - so much so I've decided to keep them.

If it's a pub bike/beater, I don't see what you care about aesthetics. Friction shifters work, period. Other than having to trim sometimes to make it smoother, your shifts won't be that much slower.

As far as five speeds go, measure the rear dropout. If it's 120mm, stay with a 5-speed. If it's 126, go ahead with a 6. Hell, if it's 120, you might even be able to find an old Suntour "Ultra-6" freewheel that has 6 cogs in the width of a standard 5. You'll need a narrower chain for that, but all modern chains are narrow enough. A SRAM PC-850/870/890 will likely do the job just fine. It's what I had on my c. 1974 Peugeot UO-8 before giving it away.

(I've heard/read of people bending out their rear stays and dropouts to 130mm to take modern cassettes. I'd be wary, esp. if you don't know the specific tubing/metallurgy of your frame. CrMo can be bent, but MnMo like Reynolds 531 can't.)

oh, it's only a beater, but it's my beater, and I like a nice-looking (serviceable) bike. (in fact have changed my mind on the brown saddle bars, am going with....orange, I reckon it'll look nice with the silver frame, and orange tape = way cheaper than brown leather)

Thanks for the call on drop-out width, it looks hella narrow by eye, will measure it up when I get home. There's no way I'm bending the tubes, with my clumsiness, that way el disastero lies.

^_^

^^^^my face when i got my first new sidis in 13 years

oooooh

are they white??

hunt3r:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lli0jnIwNV1qhxs03o1_500.jpg

TS: that advert vs pippo's epic wheelsucking - what is more offensive

lol btw they are not white
well dag! i think northwave did better w/ cipo and his ladiez but hey

anybody got a favorite method of taking your bike on a plane? this looks pretty nice:

http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2009/07/bike-cases-softshell-or-hardshell/

i like my cheap perf hardshell for airline travel, but i think cardboard is just as good.

domestic usa air charges are obviously typically off the charts now. if you can pack and ship in advance by ups/fedex, it's def cheaper. cardboard works just as well or better here if you do it right, and is free. one problem i have with shipping the hardshell is that its dimensions are juuuuuust over a shipping pricing breakpoint, so the smaller cardboard box works better in that respect too.

obv, if you dont have a backup bike, shipping makes you bikeless for a while.