PYBT

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more like Peugeot edition

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Some may remember this one from the troll bike thread, I finally was able to put a road fork and 700c front wheel on it, yet the top tube still slopes forward, perhaps even more so than before. Crazy ass frame.
Also put on some cheapo brakes, they don't work great with v-brake levers but it's a low-speed commuter so no big deal. Handling feels very snappy, pretty fun to ride.

>>975902
Nice beater dude.

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poorfag coming through

not quite dont putting this shit together

>>975905

yes I know qr is on wrong side

>>975905
I like it
That foamy bar tape is gonna get filthy pretty quick though

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Just got this for $175

>>975914
Learn how to take a picture or fuck off dude I'm sick of your shit photography

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not sure if right thread but looking for some help. Is this ok bike for 500 euro? I don't know much about bikes because I had the same one for 10 years. Now looking for a new one

some info on parts: Shimano ultegra
Shimano ultegra
Shimano 105
Shimano hyperglide 8speed
Shimano Dura Ace 2speed
Shimano ultegra
Mavic MA40
wheels: Continental Grand Prix 4000
Shimano Dura Ace
saddle: San Marco BlazeK
stem: 3TTT
ITM
brakes: Modolo speed

>>975957
>>/bbg/

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>>975897

>>975957
>>975972
>>>/n/bbg

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going full-faggotry and upgrading to carbon fiber stem + handlebars very soon

>>975957
Super dope classic bike. Price is fair, if it's in good riding condition. The fork looks possibly bent but also maybe not. Test ride it and see if it rides well imo. I'd ride it, for sure. Love to have a bike like that.

>>976098
How about you get some bottle cages and some good tyres first. I don't think i've ever seen shit tyres on a di2 bike before.

>>975953
You're just a very angry person, aren't you?

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>>976120
does this pic tell if the fork is bent? and ty for info! i might buy this bike

>>976098
>ROAD RACER SLUT
Nice. And I agree, get decent tires

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>>976159
It's probably ok, i'd just check that the line of the fork blades does not angle back from the line of the head tube. Also check that the wheel tracks in the center of the fork (also for the rear). If you're good at riding no-hands, that's a good check for a straight frame also. The wheels matching is a good sign. Just don't be too eager to buy it, and scrutinize it thoroughly.

>>976122
So what if I am? Doesn't make you any less of a lazy faggot

>>975904
Thanks

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hi

>>976178
Sick. Team, 'be right back cunt'

>>976182
mirin your bar wrapping skills

>>976178

Nice frame
Shit components

>worst DA ever - arguably worse than same year Ultegra
>ergobends
>dem cages
>actual Bontrager
>mismatched tires

>>>976182 (You)
>mirin your bar wrapping skills

Ya I'll admit I'm not too good at it. I need to take my time. I also ran out of bar tape lol

>>976161
what tires do you recommend family?

>>976201

Conti GP4000s or Michelin Pro4 Service Course.

Vittoria Rubino Pro III for trainers/cheapies.

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Just finished building this on Friday; been riding it around this weekend. The gearing still needs fine-tuning a bit but otherwise rides really nice. I'm not enough of a cycle connoisseur to know exactly what is good and not so good but I know it's a hell of a lot faster than my ~13kg hybrid/cyclocross hack bike.

>>976222

Nice build.
I would peel the stickers off the wheels and go with a different color cable housing in the future. The white-on-white is a bit heavyhanded.

I would also personally have picked up a Jtek Shiftmate and gone with a Shimano freehub body & cogs, just for future availability.

>>976201
I'm sure plenty of people will call me an idiot but I only use gatorskins. I've had only one flat in the past 10,000 miles with them.

>>976233

You're an idiot.

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This'll be my beater once the Fredarello arrives.

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>>976230
>I would peel the stickers off the wheels
But then how will people know about my expensive (for me) wheels, fampai??

> different color cable housing
Black? Red? To be fair, the pic is overexposed and it doesn't look so overpowering IRL.

> Jtek Shiftmate and gone with a Shimano freehub body & cogs
Considered it but thought all-Campag would be cleaner. What's this about future availability? Is Campag 10 speed going away in the next few years?

>>976239
>But then how will people know about my expensive (for me) wheels, fampai??
Wheels are not jewellery. You buy them to enjoy them. Not to gain social standing. Undress those wheels and make your bike look nicer as a whole. If anyone is interested enough to care about what your wheels cost, they'll know anyway and appreciate the fact that you stealthed them out of respect for the sport and the build.
Nice bike. It just needs those black wheels.

>>976239
>Considered it but thought all-Campag would be cleaner. What's this about future availability? Is Campag 10 speed going away in the next few years?

Campagnolo cassettes always get harder to find the longer the drivetrain has been around. Shimano? I can walk into any bike store and they'll probably have a selection of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 speed cassettes. Same goes for the freehub bodies. It's just easier in the long run.

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New project. 1971 P-15s Schwinn Paramount. So far I have striped the paint off the frame and forks. Deciding on color. Any suggestions?

>>976249
What did you use to strip? What was the process? Was thinking of stripping a frame and the clearing it

>>976252
If it's a steel frame citristrip from wal-mart is what I used. You just brush a bunch on and wait 30mins. The paint curls up and you scrape it off. After that you wipe it with a neutralizing agent.

>>975914
>>975953
I'm with this guy. Your pics are horrible.

>>976254
Forgot to add don't use it on garbon. I am pretty sure it will fuck up the frame. I only have steel so that's all I've researched. It doesn't harm chrome. Can be used indoors as it claims the fumes aren't harmful. I still did it outside. It works a hell of a lot better than sanding for days

>>976249

Sky blue

>>976230
White cable housing looks nicer than black on that bike; while it's still clean at least.

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>>976259
I already have an opaque blue '74 le tour and a pearlescent blue '74 Italvega super record. Was thinking Violet, kool orange or copper-tone.

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My beater isn't in a rideable state

>>976260

Spoilers: cable housing comes in a wide variety of colors aside from white & black.

I was thinking silver cable housing would look good.

>>976267
Any other color would look even worse. Well, i guess red could also work.

>>976215
>Pro4
My negro

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inb4 wrong way round.

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My pride n joy.

>>976329
>Cable disc brakes and shitty plastic pedals
Unless you've just bought that thing there's no excuse for not upgrading those.

>wrong way round
Gotta try and hide that double (or is that a triple?) somehow.

>>976330
What with the random red cable housings?

>>976333
Wrong way round - What is expected from someone riding a mountain bike i the city?
Cable disc brakes because beater and metal pedals as cba changing shoes when I get to work.
Red cable housings only spares I had in my toolbox when I upgraded the cables, had a couple of upgrades since.

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>>975897
Hasn't changed much in recent months. Still slow and comfy 2:1 SS for rolling around Seattle.

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>>976333
>>Cable disc brakes
>there's no excuse for not upgrading those

these are pretty decent brakes actually

>>976375

>single-piston

no

>>976375
The BB5 are not. The BB7 were the original sceptic-converting disc brake. The BB5 has never gotten anything but hate.

>>976369
I have no problems with laid back pub crawlers, but such light ratio must become infuriating at times. I'm not a mashfag either but come on.

>>976375
>>976378
This guy is right >>976376, all single piston calipers are dog shit. The only difference with the BB7 is a slightly different pad and you can adjust both pads (which you can do anyway with the BB5 by using the barrel adjuster).

There are only two reasons to use cable discs, you're poor as fuck or you're using drop bars.

>>976369
I don't know Seattle, are there steep hills there?

>>976385

Tektro has started making cable discs that actuate from both sides - Spyre SLC and perhaps others.

Have not used them, but anything is better than single-piston...

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Just finished the building my budget winter bike. Still needs a lot work (drivetrain, studded tires, less spacers) still, but it should do the job when the blizzards start.

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byep

>>976392

Why does your front rotor look so tiny?

>>976399
It's 160mm; might not have taken the pic straight on.

>>976391
Trouble with the Spyre SLC is it's stupidly expensive, for the same price or less you can get decent Shimano hydros. The only reason to consider them would be for use with drop bars.

>>976392
Damn that's hot. Is that a carbon frame and fork? What's it weigh?

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Made it to red rocks this weekend.


14 caad 10

>>975899
Front valve isn't 90 degrees

>>976414
>>976396
yee, red rock bros !

>>976417
yeah, was fun. only my second time there, last time was with my gf for a fitness thing.

>>976415
I know, it's a huge eyesore.

>>976403
Carbon frame/fork/seatpost. It comes out to about 21 lbs with studded tires (300 studs a wheel)

>>976215
This. However don't cheap out on tires to save for a carbon stem and bar, the tires will make 100x more difference.

>>976239
gorgeous

>>976369
kek did you originally build this geared with drop bars and then give up and turn it into an upright ss? Or is it a different bike? If so, kys my man.

>>976421
real nice
>>976392
Jealous

>>976249
Molteni orange. opaque green or british racing green imo

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25+kg of steel! I once hit a shitty placed steep kurb at very high speed at night, not even the slightest dent in the rim. Also glorious 7 speed rear hub that has always worked very well and needs no maintenance at all. Casing around the chain also works very well to keep it all clean and makes it require no maintenance. 10 years of abuse by me and many more by previous owner(s) and it still doesnt squeak. I understand for derailleur bikes a chain casing is difficult but why dont fixie riders have one? Probably purely for aesthetics which makes them impractical hippies desu.

I own a roadbike too but for commutes and general rides <20km nothing beats this.

>>976473
dutch? dane? swe maybe?

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'86 centurion, complete with biopace cranks and suicide friction shifters.
Shitty picture I know, but who cares.

>>976482
dutch

>>976484

No such thing as "suicide shifters".
Your bike just has normal downtube shifters, which are easy and safe to use.

Stem shifters would be the most likely to be called "suicide shifters", as using them involves raising and shifting your center of mass slightly to one side, which ranges from awkward to dangerous.

>>976602
They're also more likely to impale you in a crash.

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>>976369
Your gearing is pretty close to my ss mountain bike...

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>>976375
>mechanical disk brakes

No

>>976602
>No such thing as "suicide shifters".
A suicide shifter is a front derailleur operated by a small lever directly connected to the cage and running up along the seat tube.

What the hell is this dumb board? For some reason when I saw there was a board dedicated to transportation I knew it would be a bunch of autists jerking off over trains and grandpa bikes. I swear I haven't seen a single fucking thread about cars. This is just pathetic.

>>976643
What you're looking for is /o/

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Entry level bike, entry level phone :^)

>>975899
Gorgeous, what kind of bar type is that?

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>>976640
>A suicide shifter is a front derailleur operated by a small lever directly connected to the cage and running up along the seat tube.

Huh.
You learn something new every day.

GIS seems to have a lot of them on single-ring setups. Any particular reason for that? Seems nonsensical.

>>976653

Oh wait.
They're on what look like half-step gearing, not single ring.

wtf is going on here?

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>>976385
>>976630

I thought the TRP Spyre recently justified mech disc... better than BB7

>>976484

those are downtube shifters you fucking downtuber

>>976661
As I said, the only justification for running those instead of hydraulic is if you're using drop bars.

>>976369

Paul, thomson, Chris King(?), all on a SS surly.

I don't know about you man. Seems like a lot of cool choices and a lot of $$$ for a low functionality bikeu

>>976661
yes, if you can get spyres always get them over avid BBs, as the set up on spyres is easier because it's a twin piston brake, rather than a single piston on the BBs and you even have to adjust the 2nd brake pad on avids after every ride,
also there isn't much price difference between them, also if you can HY/RDs are also a good choice if you can't get spyres.

>>976664
not really as you can get TRP hylex's which are drop bar hydros or you can get gevenalle brakes which are modded hylex's with shifters for either road or mountain mechs.

>>976668
Hylexs are gonna cost you like £70 more than Spyres and would mean running barend or DT shifters, and I'm guessing the Genevalles are even more expensive. So yeah, Spyres would make more sense for some people.

>>976677
TRP HY/RDs are a good middle ground as they are hybrid mechanical hydraulic brakes, and are about £100 a wheel sometimes less if you knew where to look before the pound took a nose dive.

>>976710
>TRP HY/RD
Just as expensive as Hylexs but at least you can thin use brifters. Still not as good as full hydros though and personally I'd still go for Spyres.

>>976653
Looks cool, I'd run one.

>>976652
The bar tape is Brooks leather in honey.
The handlebar itself is a stock alloy bar that came with the bike.

>>976677
Hi, I own both Sypre and Hylex brakes

The Spyres are great - waaaaaay better than BB7s or other single-piston cable-operated discs.

The Hylex brakes are super nice, hoods are long and ultra comfy, but they're the most frustratingly *@#$^%@ing hard to bleed hydraulic discs I've ever used. Holy shit, why the fuck couldn't they have put a normal bleed valve on the caliper???

I pride myself on doing all of my own work on my bike, but I threw in the fucking towel and paid the bike shop $25 to bleed them for me when I had to shorten the rear brake line.

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>>976763
Interestingly a few images on Google show the Hylex with a normal bleed nipple and the hose attached to the the side of the caliper with a banjo fitting, no idea why they're not all like that. Next time you take them in to get bled ask the shop to swap them over, or do it yourself.

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>>976777
I just checked 3 sets of these, and all of them that my friends and I own are done with a compression nut and a fill plug, like in this picture.

>>976813
It turns out the ones I saw were all stock photos, likely the same one just rearranged. I'm guessing it was probably a prototype or something like that as there are a few other minor differences. You can tell by the cutout around the plug that the originally intended it to have the banjo, I wonder if it can still be fitted or if they changed the threading.

>>976777
>>976813
See also http://theruckustestteam.com/2014/07/15/its-the-little-things/

TRP/Tektro does all of their brakes with a banjo fitting on one end and a compression nut on the other. On the MTB brakes, the caliper is assembled as shown in >>976777 with the compression nut up on the lever end. But the Hylex lever uses the banjo fitting to keep the tube tucked under the hood, and the only good place to put the compression nut on the caliper is where the bleed nipple is located.

Just so they could not have to stock more than one brake hose kit for their various hydraulic brake offerings... very cheap of them.

No idea why they didn't just replace the banjo fitting with a bleed nipple instead of a plug.

I don't think they've ever actually sold them with a double-banjo hose, that's stock photo likely shot before the product was finalized.

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1974 Italvega Super Record.

Columbus Tubing
Campagnolo drop outs, RD, FD, shifters, cranks, pedals, hubs and bottom bracket
Ofmega head set
3ttt stem and bars
Brooks Swallow saddle
Super Champion Gentleman rims
Regina freewheel
Universal side pull brakes
Sugino seat post- replacing with campy as well as head set

>>976907
If you asked me to draw a bike that's what I would draw.

>>976484
post cat please

>>976262
White bikes are so cute!
are those funny right angle grips comfy?

>>976249
Clear coat only, also document the process, I don't know how to paint a bike.

>>976182
It's adorable<3
I would get silly red rims for extra hipster points

>>975899
I always liked those diagonal stripe paint jobs

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>>976909
I think that's the nicest thing I've seen on this board thank you. I will document the painting process. I think I'm going with pic related, brown saddle and bar tape.

>>976909
>are those funny right angle grips comfy?
Very, feels similar to a bullhorn bar and I spend most of the time on them. I have my hands lower down on them so most of my hand is still on the flat bar and then my thumb is wrapped around the horn, that way I can still reach my brakes and shifter.

>>976651
nice bike

>>976763
might be able to swap the caliper out with a shimano, deore/SLX/XT or even a saint or ZEE, if you wanted, as it may make bleeding easier.

but at least shimano RS-505 brakes are pretty affordable for a hydro brifter.

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No new pics but I'll post anyway

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>>976907
Nice job on the stem and cranks, how does she ride?

>>976249
Another vote for Schwinn blue (pictured, bike that I used to own).

>>975897
Post your bike thread I'm guessing?
New to /n/
Was told to come here form /fit/
Any recommendations for a mountain bike under $200? Is it possible? Should I just go walmart and get a mongoose or something?

>>977148
You should check out craigslist. I got a high end mountain bike with suspension and full Deore XT groupset for $80.

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>>977148
Also, watch these videos if you plan on going the Walmart route:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5S7V5NhM8JSRoe6ovF2fifd5L7BsyLRF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMnk_eCDQUv

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Slowly becoming discontent with my frame. I want a 54cm with a lower head tube

>>977157
stolen

>>977177
Why?

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>>977111
She rides great! Very responsive.
I already have the blue Italvega and pic related so I'm trying to stray away from blues. You sell the Schwinn?

>>977179
It's >>977068

Some old man in the suburbs sold it to me, doubt he stole it

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I bought this crummy bike a few days ago for $15.

>>977182
Yeah, I sold that Schwinn a few years back. Since you already have a blue Schwinn, go for orange.

>>977198
Looks like a late 60's-early 70s lower end motobecane. What are you going to do with it?
It's between orange, white or violet.

>>977202

No way is that crankset 60's/70's

>>977214
The components were obviously replaced with newer ones. Check out the AVA death stem, Huret downtube shifters, the motobecane M on the fork crown, the old ass headset and the type of lugs used.
This most likely had cottered Stronglight cranks, atom 440 rat trap pedals, Huret alvit RD and FD with Mafac center pulls.

>>977217
The fork rake is very Motobecane/French as well. Can't see the bb but it either has the original French or Swiss cups (dependent on age) with a newer spindle and hopefully if they converted it correctly 15/16 bearings.

>>976249
>dem lugs

super sweet. that honey-brown leather is looking nice. due to that I'd go either British racing green, maybe an earthtone wine-colored red, or a rich butter-cream color. the frame is the star, you want the paint to be low-key.

>>976369
kinda neat but I kinda agree with these guys>>976665 >>976379, too

anyway, may I ask if you know what the weight rating is on that front rack? just curious.

>>976396
that's a hell of a view, brother.

>>976473
I like the practicality but that rake and geo must be like steering a boat. can you tell me the make of the rear light on the fender? do you like it?

>>977068
those bar ends are cool

>>977179
Since the guy claim's it's this bike >>977068 in his comment here >>977184, I think it's plausible he got it legit for $80, not stolen.

By "high end mountain bike with suspension and full Deore XT groupset" he meant an old hardtail - from 1994/1995, based on the M737 groupset

>inb4 autism

>>977351
Yeah I like to tell people I got a high end mountain bike for $80, of course I never mention it's 20 years old lol

Other than being slightly heavier, I don't see how it differs much from the average modern hardtail

>>977353
kek your bike doesn't even have a front brake. I think you would be shocked at the performance difference between that and a high end modern hardtail. It is immense.

>>977320
I may go with the off white it was. Thanks bro

>>977361
I have the front brake on now, that's an older picture

>>977353
Modern hardtails actually have very different geometry than hardtails of 20 years ago. Shorter chainstays, much slacker head angles, and much longer travel forks are the basics.

>>976369
wtf is the deal with the picture in the rear wheel?

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Posted this last week but hey ho.

One bottle pleb reporting in. Taken during commute home. I got a lot of funny looks from fat guys on Colnagos

>>977589

It's le gay star trek azn because quirky hipster

spoke cards were given out for "alley cat" illegal fixie races in cities but people sometimes just stick stuff in there for the epic lolz

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>>976369

>>977198

Those shifters are fuckin massive. I like it.

>>977640

Holy shit i just realised my left rear brake pad is fucking ultra squint. Yikes.

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Orangebike is orange.

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>>977715
Cargo hauling mode with the racks

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>>977715
>>977716
Great for beer runs

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>>977177
fucking story of my life

>>975902
looks fun, would ride

youre that guy who got like 9 similar bikes lol

>>976379
I rather like it for Seattle, but in the one or two flat spots we have here it's blah.

>>976385
>I don't know Seattle, are there steep hills there?
Yeah, it's got a lot of hills. Frustratingly enough seems everyone lives at the top of a different hill.

>>976446
Yeah it started out as a 1x9 with drop bars and 40c knobbies. I got tired and lazy I guess. Also the friends I used to ride with moved on to MTBing.

>>976665
Functions great for cruising around town without feeling like I'm working too hard. Also I work at an LBS that sells used parts. I got that King and Thomson for a combined $50 or $60 I think...

>>977322
Well, at least however much a 24-pack of beers weighs I suppose...

>>977589
It's an old headshot of George Takei. Also Welcome to /n/!

>>977650
wut?

>>977715
>>977716
>>977718


This thing is rad.

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Mine on the left

>>976385
Seattle has some steep hills. Not as bad as SF, but still

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/steepest.htm

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>>977715

Love that saddle.

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>used to be gud with my walmart tier bike because was poor but loved cycling all the time
>kept up with some trained expensive bike fags
>really abused my bike for what it was but it still always felt safe and reliable because of constat tuning I did to it
>happy as shit
>4 years passed since
>sold my old bike long ago
>due to work left cycling for almost 3 years
>coming back now I got myself a decent bike
>can't even keep up with the rock next to me
>feel like my bike is not good enough in comparison to my old pice of shit even though it costs 6 times more
>already fell of my bike on light trail

I just want to kill myself now. No matter how shit your bike is don't let it go if you like it you will improve.

>>978009
The problem with BSOs is not that they are particularly slow. That's up to the rider.
The problem is that they are fragile pieces of shit.

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My brakes are going on my next beater bike, but since this is my only bike now I guess it has to be my beater too.

>>978017

It's not even necessarily that their are fragile. They can be decently durable, or fall apart on the first ride - there is no way to know, because there is no quality control whatsoever in the manufacture or assembly process.

Aside from that, the main problem is simply that replacement parts are usually not available or compatible with real bike parts. When your plastic walmart BB shits the bed, that's it. You're done. Buy a new bike.

>>975905
Did a similar thing before I could afford a new road bike. It gave me many KMs of joy. Looking clean pal, hope you have fun on it.

>>978064
>pluralising and capitalising unit symbols

Please re-read the SI brochure.

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>>977946
Yeah, it's great. I also have it on my mountain bike!

Super jealous of how clean your bike area is.

>>978081
>Being this mad

Please blow it out your ass

>>976233

Your an idiots.

>>975897
Is that Aberdeen?

>>976655
I have a bike with half step gearing and i HATE IT.. waiting on my amazon parcel with a 36t chainring

>>978042
How the fuck is new full suspension Trek a beater? fuck off

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>>978042
I have that helmet- comfy, looks good but its hot as fuck.

>>978299
>I have a bike with half step gearing and i HATE IT.. waiting on my amazon parcel with a 36t chainring

Interesting. What do you hate about it? Never used it myself, but it seems interesting.

>>978301
I sold my beater on thursday to some fag with a boner for it. Now I only have one bike.
>fuck you

>>978432
ugly cunt

>>976369
do you ever see that JDGESUS guy from instagram cos his old 27.5+ fargo was the best thing ever

>>978367
Chi-carb?

>>978598
Nice frame

>>978704
Yep, I did months of research and am very happy with the frame. I'm sure some of them are shit but the Deng fus are quality.

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1973 Schwinn Suburban I got for free today
really good shape except for a little rust that was easily cleaned off

all it needs is a new chain and some new tires and its all set to be a pretty good cruiser

I tried to take a pic with my cat in the basket, but he was afraid of my bike in general

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Shitty garage photo but just rewrapped bars in brown and got a somewhat matching saddle. Not sure if I'm digging it though.

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Here's the senpai.
Image quality is really shitty, but I still love them.

>>978889
She's pretty.

>>978889
The saddle's too bulky, something about the bars and brifters looks off (I don't know shit about drop bar positioning), and a stem with less drop but lower would look better. Align those damn tyres too.

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Today ride. Windy, cloudy, almost rainy.

>>978962

>mud everywhere except on the bike

I mean, I'm glad you weren't out there destroying the trails...

but...

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>>978965
Low quality pic in which lights-effect doesn't reflects reallity.
In fact that 43km trip was almost full urban with no more than 20% of rural paths so not so much mud in bike. Surface looks pretty wet but it's just little damp, and it's like a pretty compact soft and slippery instead like that mud which sticks everywhere in bike and tires.

>>978962
buena wn

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Added to the stockpile this weekend.

>>978971
You should move your brakes levers inboard on the bars a bit & brake with 1 or 2 fingers. That way gives you more leverage and better control of the bike

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I recently got this from a pawn shop.
Are the handle bars supposed to be like that?

>>979441

Yes.
Yes they are.

>>979441
They're on backwards. Check out the fixed gear thread for some inspiration.

>>970167

They're just more comfortable and faster like that.

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>>978962
>>978971
This will be a good thread to show some "interesting" things i've done with some accesories of this bike.

In this pic, a 6-years-old cateye velo 5 odometer in the stem. The odometer worked, fine but plastic shit were fucked up at all and the electric contact points too.

The "thing" in which the cateye was mounted was fucked up (just plastic). And the electric contacts between the cateye and "that thing" there fucked up too (the metal points never pop out when pressed). So i welded the cables directly to the electric contact points of the cateye and put a connector in the middle of the cable in order to unmount when required. After that i took a plastic ring and filed down in order to perfect the fitting between stem and plastic ring, and between plastic ring and cateye with welded cables. Finally a piece of tuve rubber to avoid slipping and a red plastic clamp as you see. I cared to do the welding in the way you still can remove battery with fucking up the welding and even mounted rear setting button is easy to access.

There are a lot of other things like this in my bike.

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>>979457
sometimes is hard to say if there is 3:x1 pm or 3:x7 pm (x is any digit between 0 and 5) when you read what time is it in the cateye because the clamp, but it's only a Little detail. You can see the speed with no problem.

Well, you just have to cut the red clamp to unmout and service it, but it's a Little detail too.

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>>979457
Someone droped a heavy metal tool in the frame and scratched the frame paint. No problem, 3M reflective "band aid" to the rescue. At least 3 or 4 of them in the bike because the storage place is not enough good.

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Love my bike gets me to school everyday no problem

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>>979469
And as you can see here, reflective 3M band (the same you buy for trucks and busses) red (rear) and White (front) is placed in order to make bike more visible in night. Even the toolbag has reflective shit. Also there are 1 rear position silicone light and a front AA-batteried light.

The rear rack is made of aluminium covered with rubber to avoid the slipping of the selfmade steel nest installed over it. The stainless steel nest make easy putting annoying loads like sleepbags. The nest also increase useful Surface of the rear rack.

The rack can resist off-road in light loads, but i try to avoid off-road all i can when using it.

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>>979471

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>>979473
Here you can see a Little old-tire-made mudguard to protect wires and front deraileur against mud and dust.
The rubber in the chainstays is from old tubes.

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>>979475
This is how a added a bottle cage in the down tube. Tested off-road with 750 ml of water, and in-road with 1 lt of water.

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>>979478
And the bottle cage of seat tube.
I know this shit can endure offroad with 1 Lt of water, but due the frame dimensions is possible to put only 250 ml bottle. No significant wáter volume in that thing, so i converted a 250 ml nestea bottle into a cage for storing Little stuff like batteries, some extra tools for long trips, and stuff like that.

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>>979479
The plastic attatch for toolseatbag was fucked up in no time, so it was replaced with a Steel one. No more problems.

>>979478
Why didn't you just use 2 hose clamps

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Not only did I fuck up the photo with the shitty angle, but I also just noticed that I ruined by not posting the bike on the drive side.

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>>979499
This one came out a little less shitty. New Tiagra is best tiagra.

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=^^)
>lock
>nondriveside

>>976237
hello, dentist.

>>979501
Sweet bike. I can respect not giving a fuck about your paint.

>>979570
Motobacon?

>>979570

All that for a clean aesthetic and you couldn't be arsed to replace the fucked up front derailleur cable?

Triggered.

>>979570
sexy as fuck

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>>979500
I have a question about your lights and rubber bands: Are the lights fixed well in theirs postions? or are they capable to rotate respect the center of the place you attached them (seatstays or handle bar) if you pass over bad shaped terrain without reduce the speed? It looks simple and great.

>>979495
Well, two main reasons for do it with heavy plastic clamps instead hose clamps:
-first, the hose clamps works in a good way if you use them over circular section tube. This downtube doesn't have a circular section at all. If you use a hose clamp, it will "touch" the downtube's section "harder" in some places and "softer" in other places. Try to imagine a hose circular clamp arround a triangle-section aluminium downtube (like botleg eclipse frames you can see in internet). That is an exaggeration case, but works to see the problem. So heavy plastic clamps offers a more uniform downtube "strangulation" for non-circular section, in order to dont damage the aluminium frame.
-second reason: it would be required a very long hose clamp or 2 joined hose clamps. The section of hose clamps were are the screws was designed to circular sections. So, no matter the rubber i put there, that curved steel thing will pass through rubber even the frame itself while tighting the screw.

>>979471
My sister had a bike like that in 2005. She sells it (and other unused bike we had) in about 60 bucks in bad shape. Those were good bikes, i still remember them with love. ;__;

Well, another pic. Here you can see a shitty setup made of thick steel wire mounten over rubber again to put the air pump (black plastic in background "zefal france") and the defense weapon (350 grs stainless steel bar covered with 2 layers of tube rubber). Before this, both (pump and wepon) was mounted only with velcros but they were slow and noisy to extract (in the pump case it doesn't matter). some times they fall out the bike but not too often.They was in top tube.

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>>979593
Detail of onehanded-"click and take" selfmade system do not steal. Easy to extract the "wepon", not too easy to put it there again.

Street dogs are a serious problem here.

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>>979558

I couldn't handle a job where I had to help people. I work for the government so I can "help" people.

The new bike is built, but the wheels haven't arrived yet. The shop loaned me some spares for now.

>>979593
>and the defense weapon (350 grs stainless steel bar covered with 2 layers of tube rubber)
>>979596
>Street dogs are a serious problem here.


my sides are in orbit

>>979597
Dentists do help people but it's at great fear, pain and expense. No one likes going and a lot of them are probably sadists.

It pains me that a slow new roadie with fucking spds is riding this. How many weeks until you upgrade to di2?

>>979597

In the past I've always found Pinarello's design philosophy & aesthetic direction to be profoundly loathsome, but that one is pretty slick. The red/black colorway is boring, but the paint is nicely executed and the old exaggerated Pinarello curves have given way to cleaner, more subtle lines.


>2016
>rim brakes

It's probably nicer than any bike I'll ever own, but if someone gave me one for free it'd be going straight to the dumpster tbqhf.

>>979602
>new roadie


Blind with jealousy?

The dude clearly has a well equipped and organized home workshop. Hardly the mark of a newb.

>>979596
would ride with and beat off wild dogs together

>>979597
would hiss at and cat 6 the shit out of

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>>979599
Serious problem for motorcycles and bicycles.

Considering that the concept "street" involves everything which is not a home yard, "street" dogs live in streets but in hills sometimes. Street dogs can be agressive and they are smart. If they see a weapon in your hands they pull back but stalk you anyway. Hill's dogs could be even more agressive niggas.

Point: every piece of land here has its owner, a person, not the goverment. All this place is under severe legal property speculation due to population boom of last years. Sometimes plp develop farming in their lands. So even the nowhere hills has owners whose protect them against "guests" like thieves, bikers and "occupies" (plp who stablish inside your property and in some circunstances [law 2695] they can become the legal owner of your property without paying you, to live in it or sell the land to anyone else). To avoid guest they have heavy guard dogs, and sometimes they escape to the hills too. Sometimes the nature is just inside those lands so you access that lands in order to access nature. In that cases, wepon is very useful too, not only "to show" it to them, but use it to infict pain to the dogs avoiding their aggresive behavior.
it's common too that people drop their pets in streets when they get bored of them, like trash.

>>979611
No. Just show them the "wepon" while riding and it works almost always.
SeatBag doesn't slip over seatpost anymore.

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Bought this one for cheap cause my bike got stolen and needed a new one quick.

Not bad though for only $400.

Disregard pedals.

>>979618

The dude is laughing at you for believing that a dinky piece of metal is going to protect you from a pack of wild dogs.

And he's right to laugh. You're insane.

>>979602
Right after I get a size XXXL skin suit, a TT helmet and clamp it by the top tube.

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>>979626
> a pack of wild dogs
In that case i'm fucked up. sometimes i think it will happen soon or last.
>insane
Maybe.

Lonely dogs are common instead packs. Is not about crush them with the bar, is about dissuade them.
Look this friendly dog i found in a regular bike trip.
This dog was lovely and he wasn't the only pal i found that time.

>>979635

You should pick up a can of bear spray or something similar. It would not be expensive.

>>979636
It's just dogges you big sissy

>>979593
The front light is capable of rotating, but only because I set it up like that. The rear one is pretty damn secure. It's a pretty nice setup but the battery life ain't great.

>>979602
What's wrong with spds on road bikes?

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>>979636
No bear spary here, but pepper spary can work fine. i've never think about buy that but it could be a very good idea. Thanks.

>>979596
This is another good shit. Those are PVC/rubber fabric bands used to make these boats http://www.ribsforsale.com/images/boats/main%20pic%20of%20ex%20military%20boat_l.jpg . They are good for avoid punctures. They can resist plant spines, glass, edgy rocks, glass-alike little rocks and those wires enough hard to penetrate the tire. They cannot protect you agains nails, screws and other metal garbage. They are very cheap and lightweight. I put them between tire and tube, 2 rounds. That's all.

>>979398
es chileno?

>>978298
Yeah, u from here to?

>>979647

Nothing. Next they'll be claiming there's something wrong with using a MTB seat.

>>978962
Deja de meterle cachureos a tu wea de bici y comprate una botella por la cresta

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>>979662
Sí. No es que esté tan mala la cosa, pero de noche se ponen maricones los perros weones. Además me voy a meter a lados juleros o hinóspitos porque sino me quedo siempre con las ganas de saber "qué habia para allá". Un cerco de alambre es un estímulo a la curiosidad y a veces así uno se mete en problemas, jaja. El fierro ha sido usado muchas veces en total, 1 sola vez para golpear un can, y las demás para disuadir. Tampoco es que sea algo muy frecuente pero es mejor estar preparado que no estarlo.

>>979650
I was searching for this. This is a jeans bag which uses the free space between brakes/shifter cables and the headtube. This was "handcrafted" as well as the velcros to attach it to the handlebar (only two in pics, 2 more needed, thinner than the two in pics). I use it to carry even more water (2 bottles, 1lt each one), and other stuff. The idea is to load compact and "heavy" things in this bag, so i have more space in aluminium rear rack for clothes, sleepbag, tent and soft things hard to compress and store like jackets. Maybe it could be a good idea to add reflective fabric to the bag.

>>979666
>666
Triples satánicos.
¿Para qué comprar botellas si éstas calzan bien en las jaulas y aguantan más agua? Las otras weás valen dinero y en cambio las de gatorado son prácticamente basura en cualquier casa. La única razón que me han dado es "muh astetics". Una vez alguien mencionó que eran muy sucias por dentro pero no me dió mucho detalle y quedé ahí.

Quizás sean menos durables y eso lo he notado, pero cuando la disponibilidad de estas botellas y su costo son irrisorios, me parece razonable aprovecharlas.

>>979447
kek

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havent done anything to dolan, got ceramic bearings on the way for the sugino super lap bottom bracket though, in the meantime here is the jamis fully built up for commuting purposes running 48x14 because too lazy to buy a lighter gear and thats what i had lying around my gear bag

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Just picked it up, $20. Haven't adjusted it yet or anything so don't give me crap about the slammed seatpost. Pristine condition too

>>979703
damn I wish used bikes were that cheap around here. Downsides of living in a hipster infested city

>>979707
I saw it through the window of a thrift store and had to get it. They are rare to be found this cheap and in such good condition around here though. They had some other shittier, more expensive ones there though so I'm going to chalk this up to getting really lucky

>>977828
>Mine on the left

seems cool


( •_•) that bike on the right
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■) looks like a real drag.

>>976414
If you go up towards evergreen and Thornton there are some really nice long mellow climbs

>>978886
a real beauty, too bad it's a total boat anchor. at least you got better gearing than the standard cruiser; pretty nice, that.

>>978889
>rewrapped bars in brown and got a somewhat matching saddle. Not sure if I'm digging it though.

I love that color brown for trim, generally. but speaking as an artfag, I don't think it goes with that frame, if I'm being honest. browns are too earthy, this bianchi colorway (or usually any race-y colorway) is sporty. usually a matching saddle and wrap on race-style graphics and colors has got to be black--or white, but hard to pull it off and really only totally works if you do the cablehousings, too. Or you could do a black saddle with celeste wrap or yellow wrap could work with your particular frame since they're using yellow where usually you would see white paint for accents. that might be _too_ much yellow but it'd work better than brown, anyway.

/unsolicited advice.

>>979703
What tubing?

>>979679
Es por el plástico, las botellas desechables no están hechas para ser reusadas tantas veces, se empiezan a degradar y te empezai a tomar toa la mierda. Una caramayola vale como 2 lucas loco, no seai cagao

>>979405
sweet

>>979471
good quality old MTB. cool color

>>979611
>beat off wild dogs together

gross. squirting each other with dog jizz is perverted.

>>979684
jesus christ, are you colorblind or something?

>>979703
was not aware that Lotus made a bike with entry-level/casual componentry. makes me wonder if the frame is hi-ten crap or a nice double butted cromo like their usual stuff. even if the whole thing is crappy, it's still a p. great bike for $20, I don't mean to sound overly negative.

>>980039
>>980050
It says 503 chromoly, iirc

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>>980063

I don't think you remember the exact number correctly, but 5XX CrMo and what I can see of the decal means it's Reynolds. the numbers look pink which might be a good sign but those don't usually start with a 5, though. it's certainly better tubes than the components indicate, for sure. you got a deal, yo.

does the frame actually fit you?

>>980087
I'll have to check when I get home, then

>>980087
okay, so i got home and took a look at it and it actually says Cromalite 503, not 503 Chromoly, my bad. and yeah it fits me. If im being /completely/ honest it's a touch on the small side but i like my bikes like that anyways so it's basically perfect

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>>980142
>>980087
i found a little stat sheet on it here. looks like nothing too special but it was only $20 and looks like it just rolled right out of the factory

Made in Japan too, not Taiwan, which im assuming is good for the time it was produced

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What's a beater?

>>980180
a bike you can beat up on. maybe a second bike when your other bikes are nice racers, the beater is what you ride around town and aren't afraid to lock and leave. but it could be your only bike. could be a total piece of shit. could be a good bike but old and fucked up looking. maybe you fuck it up on purpose to deter theft.

>>975897
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>>979703

nice relics

>>980148
so Chromalite is a Tange-made tube, but it only seems to have been on Lotus frames since that's all the results that come up. anyway, that's a great frame for $20.

Also learned Tange is Japanese and therefore pronounced something like "tong-gay." I'm no expert weeb but I assume the "y" is prob passively pronounced, not exactly like the english "gay", but like the "ge" in "get" but stretched out longer?

>>980254
The Surly, Bianchi, and four bike guy's bikes aren't very old.

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>>980254
your opinion is meaningful and well-received.

>>980255
It's more like tahn'-geh but only weebs don't just say tange like flange.

>>980148
>>980255
Just took her out on an inaugural ride, about 44 miles all up and around mine and the neighboring city

rides like a dream, zero ragrets. I forgot how comfy steel is, best $20 i ever spent on a bike got damn

>>980256
>four bike guy
EXCUSE ME
I'm a girl

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>>980376
proof

>>980378

You look like a man, also no time stamp? Either way just gtfo you attention whore.

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>>980378
Tits or GTFO

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>>980382
>>980384

it's a fuckin meme ya dip.

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>>980564
Very clever.

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Any bike polo bros in here?

>>980716

You're about six years too late.

>Seatpost worth more than bike

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>>980729
>tfw i took it from a $250 Craigslist purchase

More like PYBT: People with no money edition.

Oh wait, that's every PYBT on /n/.
Damn.

>>981026
So you blew all your money on a nice bike aye. I bet you can't even afford a defense weapon to beat off wild dogs.

>>976403
>Trouble with the Spyre SLC is it's stupidly expensive, for the same price or less you can get decent Shimano hydros. The only reason to consider them would be for use with drop bars.
Uh, some people don't want to replace their entire groupset and maybe just want a drop-in solution?
Let's see
>under $200 for a TRP cable actuated dual piston setup
>$800 to switch to RS685
Yeah I think I'll stick with my hy/rds that work fine

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>>981026
Where's your bike at mr.moneybags?
There's a bunch of nice bikes in this thread. Please go fuck back off to/b/

>>981047
>Uh, some people don't want to replace their entire groupset and maybe just want a drop-in solution?
If they've got flat bars then they're not replacing the entire groupset, just the brake levers and calipers.

>under $200 for a TRP cable actuated dual piston setup
>$800 to switch to RS685
>Yeah I think I'll stick with my hy/rds that work fine
Like I said, if you've got drop bars then that's a reason to get them. If you've got flat bars then, as I already said, you can get decent hydros for the same price.

Learn to read mate, we both have the same opinion.

>>981026
Crit babby

Please kill yourself

Where do you have your pump stored? In case of a crevaison, do you use CO2 or a normal pump??

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Still building it but here's the headset and stem that cost more than the frame.

>>981265
Are you going to leave the frame raw, with no painting? It's not such a great idea

>>981267
It has a clearcoat over the raw parts.

>>981269
You know clearcoat doesn't protect against rust right?

>>981269
people say that clearcoat is porous and will let bare metal oxidize under it. clearcoat is supposed to be a finish coat over regular paint.

maybe not true, maybe true but a negligible effect, or maybe true. I dunno, just passing along the accepted wisdom.

this is one of those Miyatas?

>>981291
It's worked alright for the past five years. I know it's not as good as actual paint but it does help prevent rust and I like the look of the raw steel.

>>981293
Yes, it's the Team Miyata.

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>>979501

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fucking piece of shit horses

>>981408
surely with those babby rings you could raise your stem a bit

>>981408
When you desperately need to raise your stem but refuse to in fear of losing your meme cred

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My beater is an old huffy roadside cruiser. I use it to get to work, get groceries, and I even took it mountain biking once. After years of neglect I recently did a major overhaul on it. Replaced the entire bottom bracket assembly and installed a new one piece crank, pedals, and chain. New rims with a beefy sturmy archer s1c coaster brake installed. Replaced the split leather on the seat. Cleaned/polished most of the bike and then coated it with a microcrystalline wax and protecta clear on some bare metal areas and most of the hardware. Debating whether or not to redo the paint or just apply wax every now and again as I kind of like the worn/rusty look.

>>981413
>>981412
uhm, it just feels comfortable that way, i tried different stempositions so its alright. I may need to change the Brifter position a bit

Anyway, thanks for your advices \o

>>981409
This looks like a job for FATBIKE

>>977177
Give it to me then. I'll ride it until it breaks

>>981446
FATBIKE? More like GAYBIKE

>>981506
Go ride your skinnies under a cage.

>>981415
lots of work and $ to spend on a huffy but good for you if you enjoy that, it looks comfy,.. I have a comfy beater here in my parents garage... CCM (canadian tire brand) beach cruiser

>>981516
More jewish divide and conquer tactics...

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>>979569
I'm so envious of all these nice cross bikes I'm seeing
>>979703
Old bikes in good condition for the less price of some bartape is a good feeling. Im close to finishing this bike that I got for 35$

>>981415
cool ＼(＾ ＾)/

keep the paint IMO

>>975957
very cool bike, def worth 500 euros

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Went on a nice trail ride through the mesas this morning :)

>>981947
w2c tires

>>981948
Maxxis Ardent Skinwall

https://www.amazon.com/Maxxis-Ardent-Skinwall-Folding-Bead/dp/B00GOTUVPK

>>981947
Looking good, I really need a mountain bike I think.

>>979441
they are on just perfectly

>>980378
fuck off i like my fixie

>>981988
I've got some news for you then

>>981989
then please explain, what are those news?

>>981991
You have the gays

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>>982036

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>>982167

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>>982395
Dork disc update

Peugeot Princeton with original Aris derailleurs

>>981561
big mike?

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Klunkin' ain't easy.

>>982395
Rotate your seatpost so the clamp is in front of the post, that way there won't be as much leverage on the seat rails. If you ever decide to upgrade the post get one without any setback.

Nice handlebar mounted dildos btw.

>>982405
Did you weld that frame yourself?

>>982415
Nope. Asylum cycles Hank.

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Shop beater. Works really great for lunch and coffee runs.

>>981947
Oh shit waddup i love that trail

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1994 Marin Muirwoods, single-speeded. Still a very capable mountain bike.

>>982461
Yeah it's capable alright...capable of being shit

>>982483
It isn't fast but it climbs like a bully goat and handles tech really really well. Tiny little wheelbase, too.

how does it climb like a goat if its a single speed. you probably couldnt even pedal it up an uneven hill

>>982534
I have it geared to climb well. 32:17