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>>932415
E. None of the above.
Bicycle motors are a waste of time. Just get a scooter or actual moped.
If you really want help with your shitty project, go talk to diy.

>>932416
what this guy said
clumsy fatties on e-bikes belong on /o/

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Is there a reason you care about it being electric?

Why not just get an old fashioned moped with pedals?

>walk
>walk home

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Bike to work:
1 mile on neighborhood streets
3 miles on fast arterial roads (downhill)
final 5 miles through quiet, grid-layout pre-war neighborhoods and downtown (pic related, it's very pleasant)

Bike back home:
8-9 miles on a less-busy main/arterial road that gently gains elevation
Last 1-2 miles either a MUP or an easy singletrack trail or another moderately busy road, depending on stops I need to make

>having a job

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tandem track bike

>>>/toy/

>>929659
autist detected.

There is already a /bqg/ on the front page, faglord

>>941779
>>941780
Learn to link, doofus.
Also, starting a new one because the old one is almost at the post limit.

>>941782
>almost
And yet it can still survive a while after the bump limit, cuntface.

You swerve because you are putting too much weight on the bars to control it with your shit arms. Instead of trying to stand straight up to do your stupid yoga breathing exercise and leaning on the handlebars so you can "relax", you use your muscles instead to keep your upper body from flopping about so you can put power out

pearl izumi elite

>>942973
Why do you use these? Any negatives about these?

>>942968
I get mine off eBay. I've got a few pairs of these ones specifically:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SHADOW-CYCLING-BIB-SHORTS-jersey-cycle-Padded-tights-coolmax-rowing-triathlon-/180628754598

Pros: cheap
Cons: maybe not as good as super expensive $100+ ones? I dunno, I've never even tried a pair of more expensive ones. I have some dhb ones from Wiggle that were more than these but don't seem any better.

Ortlieb if common sense
Carradice if image-obsessed retrogrouch
Axiom if you love regret

Better and cheaper to get a bike trailer. Panniers have many drawbacks.

>>939688
> Going downhill with a trailer

ishh

>>924848
>implying anyone would catcall these women

Who do they think they are fooling with these videos, Bernie Sanders supporters?

>>924848
>https://vimeo.com/155497525
Is one holding a lager can?
If it is a 0.5 probably

>>924849
Wow, way to be a sexist pig! They are all extremely beautiful in their own way, which is why they are catcalled because men catcall any female that is attractive, so by saying that they couldn't really be catcalled is extremely insulting and offensive, but people shouldn't be catcalling anybody anyway because it's objectifying and disrespectful.

>flat bar
Well there's your problem.

Sure the bars arent fuckhuege wide af?

>>941208

Have you tried tilting your saddle back a bit?

Saddle position has a very big impact on hand comfort.

An aviation company named boom, in a world where aviation is the edgiest about terrorist attacks. Ok

Anyways, as long as they have the funds, it'll probably take off at some point.

I can't help feel that calling an aircraft company "boom" was probably misguided.

>>936127
>>936148
I want to see another supersonic airliner but if they can't even name their company right I'm not sure.
Hopefully they change it and get a marketing department instead of engineers thinking they're witty.

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>>938297

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>inb4 "NONDRIVESIDE REEEEEEE"

It's shimano Acera, Suntour XCRSix cranks. Cheap and very reliable.

Fixed gear bikes?
Are those bikes these kind of bikes where you cant shift gears?
But why no brakes? o.O
Well as far as i see, the only benefit is that the pedaling power has the minimum loss of energy(hub gear has mostly more than derailleur gear)
No brakes = i rather run across a speedway blind than riding this.

At least in my case, I dislike fixiefags because they're assholes on the road. They disregard every rule, ride against traffic, smash mirrors and scratch cars, plus they can't stop in time in emergency situations (brakelessfags). They just give cyclists a bad rep.

Of course I'm generalizing, but most fixiefags I've met meet that criteria.

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makes no fucking sense to force your feet to spin constantly when you could just slap on a freewheel and coast when you don't need to pedal.

enjoy your pedal strike.

also, there is an entire thread on fixies already with >100 posts on it.

It was ok, I guess. Had a burger after classes, also started reading the new King's book

>>924791
Recent immigrants are some of the worst, most angry cagers out there, in my experience. It's because cage ownership, much like large television ownership, and wearing Levi's jeans, and having the latest Bob Dylan cassette tapes, represents an outward signal of Real American Success to members of their community, and they are very self-important about it.

The other really bad group is blue collar workers. They're mad at anyone who has a white collar job and makes a special point to use a method of transportation involving physical exertion. But they're not as violent about it, they yell sometimes and honk a lot, but they don't do dangerous maneuvers like the first-generation immigrants who think they're still in their lawless ancestral homeland as they flaunt their 3,500 pound American Dream.

Anyway my day was fine. I am working remote today due to some meetings in another time zone, and had no compelling reason to get on my bike. Feeling a little "caged" from being indoors, though.

>>924791
I passed a bus on the left, looking back it was a stupid idea. Nothing happened but I felt bad about it.

>>925543
yes, much so. Traffic in Seattle is some of the worst in the country. The Link will be slow, but beats being stuck on I-5 for hours

>University Link nearing completion
>East Link beginning construction

It would be nice to have a Ballard/West Seattle line too.

>>925543
Yeah in fuckin 2035.

Why do people ride a 53-39 in the first place?

Do you spin out with your 50-11 gearing?

>>939855
>Why do people ride a 53-39 in the first place?
Because 13-25 is a tighter grouping than 11-23. Because there is insufficient overlap on a compact chainset, leading to too many front shifts in some terrain. Because 39t gives you more usable cassette range in most normal terrain, where many gears would be too light to use on a compact.

On the high end 50→5[3,2] is only a 5% increase in gearing, so that's quite obviously not the reason, anon.
You'll note that the new groupsets are gravitating away from 50/34 in favour of 50/36, or even 53/42. Compact everywhere for everyone was just a trend phase.

>>939858
>Because 13-25 is a tighter grouping than 11-23.

Enough reason alone. Altho 53-13 is lower then 50-11

>Because there is insufficient overlap on a compact chainset, leading to too many front shifts in some terrain.

Then you have your drivetrain set up incorrectly. More specifically, your small ring is too big.

>Because 39t gives you more usable cassette range in most normal terrain, where many gears would be too light to use on a compact.

By whose standard? If you use your small for more then 5% of your riding, or for anything else then climbing, then you failed at using a bike.

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Has anyone here owned a Diamond Back Topanga? I bought this one for 40€, in fairly good shape. As far as I know all the frame is chromoly except for the rear triangle.

I'll be putting on it some new Shimano cantis, Schwalbe Marathon tires and a road handlebar with new stem and brake levers. I will do some light touring on it (no panniers) during spring and summer, while keeping it as a commuter for the rest of the year.

It currently has a 3x7 groupset and basic, single-wall rims. If I go on any long tours I will probably build a new wheelset with Novatec hubs and ZTR rims, as well as upgrading the groupset to 3x9, probably with downtube indexed shifters. Does this sound as a good idea?

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>Does this general have a pasta?
Nope, but you could take a shot at making some.

I guess I have a question, has anyone here ever refinished a carbon crankset? I may be getting some Red cranks that are scuffed up, I've had one suggestion that they can be cleaned up by sanding clean then respraying with clearcoat - does that sound like BS or has anyone here tried it?

Pic tangentially related, if this arm hadn't failed I wouldn't be looking to swap cranks around on my fleet.

>>937768
Yep, you're on the right track, that'd make a fine bike for light touring with a better wheelset. I wouldn't recommend going to dt shifters on that bike though, you'd have to rig up new cable stops to do it and odds are the geometry of that frame isn't going to make them easy to reach in any case.

What makes a "good" groupset? How does an ultra so better than say, a 105? Is it Mainly weight ?