Bike Gripes Thread

>>1024297
>It's unreasonable that we can't make a tube that doesn't pop over the smallest things
Try pushing a 2x4 into your skin, doesn't work. Now try a hypodermic needle. Tubes pop over he smallest things because physics.

>>1024298
Sure, smaller things will always have higher chances of popping tubes, but it just seems like with modern rubber it shouldn't be too hard to stop them popping all the time. Not a chemical engineer though.

Getting goddamn mudguards on a road bike with no mounts, or a pannier rack... Fuuuuu! why can't we just plug and play everything?
And all the fucking rusting of chains at the slightest adverse weather!

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>>1024297
>>1024299

Tire sealant if you have Schrader tubes
Removable cores and it's sealant if presta

AND NOT THAT SLIME BULLSHIT

I had three flats yesterday but nothing gets past goatheads.

Protip: you never stop getting flats you only get less from not riding like such a nob.

I know you mentioned that this isn't about specific riders we hate but you sound like the type of rider that fits the category

>>1024302
>why can't we just plug and play everything?

This. Bikes need to reach a much higher level of standardization. I should be able to assemble and upgrade a bike as i do for a computer. Certainly it should be true for peripherals such as mudguards, lights, racks. Bosses and eyelets should be highly standardized across bikes.

>>1024302
I think you hit the sweet spot. I cannot imagine how much cursing, hack-sawing and sweaty pliers action i've had to get them right one even fairly standardized 26er with mount point.
>Thanks disc brakes
And some of the basic parts are so damn expensive. Sometimes you can get specialty motorcycle parts cheaper and this is knowing that bicycles are one of the most mass produced vehicles.
>mudguard standof safety link snaps
>Replacement availible only as set
>Two 80cm long V shaped 3mm steel sticks
>cost 20$, almost full cost of new mudguards
>Get matching 5m armature "beam" for 0.2$.

>>1024305
>goatheads
REEEEEEEEEE-------

FUCKING DON'T EVEN BELONG ON THIS PLANET

I swear the ayylmaos just dropped some to fuck with us.

>>1024297
Just use properly inflated (even overinflated are better than under) tires and stop cornering like a racer, as the center of the tire is tick enough to stop common sharp objects (like goatheads, btw).

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>>1024297
Gear cassets!

Why the fuck won't shimanojew just sell individual sprockets? You basterds know damn well I will be using the heaviest gear 90% of total distance, even if I ride to the woods or cities most kilometers are in the country side with no miles of uninterupted road. Why don't they just have a second sprocket of equal size so you can divide the load, why do you make me buy a whole overpriced as fuck cassette when the other sprockets are at 30% wear you fucking joos!

Nothing, bikes are perfect

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>>1024331
Because weight. Separate individual sprockets used to be a thing. Modern cassettes are now cut from a few or even just a couple (SRAM eagle notably) blocks of metal to cut weight down. Separate sprockets would mean more fitments to stick them together hence more weight. With the move to 1X i expect single metal block cassette soon.
I do agree that for city bikes where performance is not essential that would be a nice option.

>>1024297
lack of standardization.
I should be able to simply get parts and build, not untangle a 32,000-layer web of cross-references and sizing charts

>>1024331
>>1024341
Even on Eagle the smallest sprockets are separate. You can buy them separately btw, have a look on Ebay.

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>>1024297
>the state of tubes is unacceptable. It's unreasonable that we can't make a tube that doesn't pop over the smallest things, leak too much you can't ride on it in a day, and cost less than $10.
question: what kind of tires are you riding? Are these high pressure 700x23? Do you have good rim tape to protect the tubes from sharp spoke nipples. Also you may have to file down the sharp edges of the spoke nipples as they will cut through the rim tape without you being aware of it. If you are riding your bike anywhere where there are thorns, you have to put on tire liners. You are putting yourself in grave danger if you ride next to traffic and have a blowout on your front tire that causes you to lose control and veer into traffic. I know tire liners add a little weight, but its better than dying from a blowout.

SRAM has made supplier agreements with most of the larger online stores to prevent sale of components to Australia, trying to increase mark up selling through physical stores or a couple of Australian online stores that charge much more for the same product. Makes me want to build up a campagnolo bike just to spite them.

Power meters cost fuck-all to build and shouldn't cost nearly as much as they do. Shimano should make an OEM power meter in their groupsets down to 105 and BTFO of the market.

On the flip side, I know it'll be pricey, but Rotor Uno gives me a massive hard on.

Campagnolo Power-Torque cranksets and PF30 bottom bracket.

This is the most annoying bicycle bullshit. If there is some gain in stiffness I cannot perceive it. Pulling the crankset off requires what looks like a claw from an arcade game. The only PF30 bottom brackets I would consider are expanding-type, e.g. Praxis design, that don't rely on a headset bearing press to install..

Most LBS aren't any better than the high street stores, with the exception of those offering frame building services or other specialist work. My LBS is run by a lunatic, who remains in business solely because people think he provides a better service than the chain stores.

Bottom Brackets. What a clusterfuck of incompatible designs.

>>1024297
There is no purchasing experience between big box store garbage and super-elitist hipster ripoff hucksters.

>>1024297
There is nothing inherently wrong with tubes,especially the a-brand ones.
Unless you regularly ride on goathead/woodscrew ridden terrains lmfao

Shimano external bottom brackets should totally be user serviceable, but those fucking plastic sleeves break apart if you try prying them out.

>>1024475
The part that goes between the axle and bearing? I didn't even realise it comes off until it did accidentally when I was removing the cranks, didn't realise until I put the cranks back and and they were loose. It didn't break so I just pushed it back in.

Why do lbs rip consumers off so much?

>>1024540
They don't really, it's just once they add all their costs for physical space, stock and employees and profit margin, they are not competitive at all with online retailers.

>>1024375
>Shimano should make an OEM power meter in their groupsets down to 105 and BTFO of the market.

They already added it into the new dura ace, so it would make sense for at least ultegra to get it as well when they next refresh that.

SRAM thing is so annoying.

>do a google search for "bike" get lots of motorcycle links
>do a google search for "bicycle" still get the same motorcycle hits
Fucking Google

>>1024700
don't use google, use duckduckgo or bing instead
the google search results have gone to shit

>>1024297
>I'll start: the state of tubes is unacceptable. It's unreasonable that we can't make a tube that doesn't pop over the smallest things, leak too much you can't ride on it in a day, and cost less than $10.
Sounds like you'd benefit from investing in better tires rather than better tubes.

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>>1024762
Or tubeless, or slime filled tubes?

That they are so easy to steal due to improper infrastucture, not only in paths making in it unfavorable and dangerous to commute but in the way the bike racks are just tubes un the concrete, and there aren't even enough of them, I sometimes wanna ride to a place I need, but I find myself unable to do so because I know there wont be a proper place to even place my bike, not only that but insecurity and shit.

Headwinds.

Toured island this may, had a headwind (icelandic winds are fucking brutal for that matter) straight on the entire south coast for more than a week. I was super close to quitting out of sheer frustration, it wasn't fun at all

>>1024766
yeah, theft is a massive problem for me - terrified whenever I leave my ride!

>>1024766
No sign posts in your neighborhood?

>>1024765
No, just better everyday clinchers.

>>1024824
any specific suggestions for older rims? I like riding treks from the 80s and those shallow old rims seem especially spiteful of tubes.

>>1024843
What's your wheel size and size tires do you have clearance for?

>>1024795
Sign posts are among the worst things to lock to, they can be easily uprooted and shit.

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The snail pace at which the industry "innovates".
I mean surely someone must have ridden hydraulic disc brakes at some point and thought "this feels great, I bet it would be awesome on a drop bar bike" or taken a road bike to forest paths and thought "this is fun, I bet it would be even more fun with wider tires". Why are we only getting these things now?
Also still no brifter compatible front doubles with realistic gearing, we'll probably have to wait another 5 years for that while nigger rigging MTB parts to sorta-kinda work. And then we'll get 1x16 with a 9-50 cassette instead.

>>1024945
Oh man, fuck these

>>1024945
>>1024951
da fugg is that?

>>1024952
Look up cotter crank, you will never complain about a bottom bracket again. They are satan's cranksets!

>>1024946
>And then we'll get 1x16 with a 9-50 cassette instead
There are 9-44 and 10-50 casettes now, so i doubt you'll have to wait so long for 9-50... Basically just until 12 speed becomes more popular

>>1024331
Miche sells individual sprockets

Not related to bikes in terms of parts and shit but....
> tfw it takes her 1 hour 30 minutes to get me to cum on a day i rode
even short distances, Shit gets numb and it feels like shes fucking someone else's dick. She gets all pissy saying i take too long and shes tired. On days i dont ride, 10 minutes is all it takes.
Is it worth it to skip a ride 4 times a week for her to ride me?

>>1025030
Buy a SmemeP saddle before you damage your nerves permanently.

>mfw 100 kilometers a week and no flats since august 2015
Lrn2tires you fucking peasants.

>>1025030
Your bike fit/saddle is bad and causing damage to your genital nerves.

I simply cannot even being to fathom how goddamn retarded you have to be to not have figured that out after the first fucking ride.
How little regard do you have for your own health if you consider a numb cock a normal thing and just KEEP DOING THE SAME THING?

What, you think everyone who rides bikes has numb cocks? It only happens if you do it wrong. It baffles the shit out of me that this has to actually be pointed out to some people.

By the way, you may have already caused permanent nerve damage so congrats on wrecking your junk due to sheer stupidity. You deserve no sympathy for that.

>>1024375
The thing with power meters is that they don't cost much to manufacture but the R&D costs a lot. So the cost of entry to the market is high and it means that there won't be a lot of people trying as you need a lot of capital to get into the market.

>>1024946
Weight. Problem with all those innovations is weight. In an industry that is obsessed with weight trying to justify adding more weight to your product is hard. Disc brakes become a massive pain in the ass if you change wheelsets regularly, so anyone who races. Fatbikes are a meme and pretty much the only places they have any use in is sand and certain snow conditions.

If you have all those innovations why don't you start up a bike business?

>>1024946
When it comes to road bikes a lot of the slow innovation has to do with racing and the UCI.

Basically UCI races are advertising to get people to buy bikes. That's why every bike in their races needs to actually be available to consumers. At the same time they have a lot of tight regulations and bike (part) companies want their products to be visible in those races so they design them according to the UCI regulations. So when the UCI says "no disc brakes" it takes forever for someone to risk developing them because if the UCI doesn't approve of the new technology it won't gain as much popularity due to pros not using it.

Sports in general and road racing especially is a very conservative field where old farts try hard to keep things from ever changing,

Luckily companies have started to realize people will buy bike parts even if they're not used in the pro peloton which is why we now have things like disc brakes on road bikes even though the UCI still has a ban on them.

Progress would most definitely be quicker if the UCI pulled their heads out of their asses though.

>>1025095
Except disc is not banned by the UCI. Road disc is a thing because the UCI is phasing in discs

>>1025096
Really now?

http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/news/uci-will-indefinitely-continue-disc-brake-ban-in-road-racing

>>1025095
You still need some regulation. Because if the UCI removes all regulations, that is both allow disc brakes and removes the weight limit, this would instantly kill disc brakes for road bikes.

>>1024297
>the state of tubes is unacceptable. It's unreasonable that we can't make a tube that doesn't pop over the smallest things, leak too much you can't ride on it in a day, and cost less than $10.
Agreed. How hard would it be to make a wheel system that doesn't need to be pumped up every week.

>>1025086
Bike fit is good and saddle feels fine
How can i possibly find a saddle that's made for me if they all feel comfy?

Press fit bottom brackets are a complete failure.

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>>1025097
This was posted the same day.
>www.bikerumor.com/2016/09/08/rounded-rotors-rescue-uci-allows-disc-brakes-back-pro-peloton-2017/

I hate that I have sram force on one of my bikes
it sucks

>>1025114
If your cock goes numb it doesn't "feel fine" goddamn it. That means your nerves are getting squished. Just because you don't have pain doesn't mean the saddle is a good fit.

You find a good one by trying out different models (and riding them for a while, not just five minutes) until you find one that doesn't make your dick go numb. Yes this is a tedious process but unfortunately there's not really a way around it.

You should look at saddles from SQLab, they're designed in a way that puts the least amount of pressure on your genital nerves and there's doctors involved in the design process and shit. Good saddles also come in different widths because the width of your seatbones is important for support and, again, keeping your dick nerves out of harms way.

If your saddle fits correctly there should be NO pain, NO numbness, no discomfort, nothing. Unless you go on really long rides, at some point your ass is always gonna be sore.

>>1025128
Something not mentioned here that's equally important is that even if the contour of the saddle fits you properly, it won't matter if the saddle is not adjusted properly. Along with putting a few miles on every saddle you try, try a myriad of adjustments as well.

>>1025097
And all the R&D was put in because of the UCI trials that led up to that ban, which was only temporary after they realized it had nothing to do with discs.