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What kind of bike do you ride

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  • TurnerTurner Registered User regular
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  • VeegeezeeVeegeezee Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    japan wrote: »
    Veegeezee wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Oh, and Veegeezee, Klein Attitudes are never out of date. It's one of the classics of frame design.

    I'd agree if I could find a disc caliper compatible with the 22mm Hayes mount. I made the mistake of buying a set of brakes thinking I could mount them with an adapter, but there's not enough room between the chainstay and the seatstay for a caliper and an adapter. It's a difference of mere millimeters. I don't have a problem with rim brakes, though - good rationale for buying another bike if nothing else. :P

    I think Hayes still make calipers to fit a 22mm mount, though their website seems to be unclear on the subject. Could be worth asking at a decent bike shop, or emailing Hayes.

    Done both, actually. Hayes replied that they hadn't made one since 2001, and the guys at the bike shop looked at me like I'd pulled a banana out of my pants.

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  • VeegeezeeVeegeezee Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Turner wrote: »
    Veegeezee wrote: »
    Edit 2: Better picture.
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    That is the same bike I have, only mine is the 26-inch version. Mine is a singlespeed too.

    Aha. Don't I feel brilliant. I've wanted to test ride one of those (an On One, that is) for awhile, just to see what the fuss is about... how do you like it?

    The h-scroll looks fine when you've got it spoilered. Oh, also, the "Better picture" thing was just me saying I had changed the pic in my post. :P

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Veegeezee wrote: »
    I think Hayes still make calipers to fit a 22mm mount, though their website seems to be unclear on the subject. Could be worth asking at a decent bike shop, or emailing Hayes.

    Done both, actually. Hayes replied that they hadn't made one since 2001, and the guys at the bike shop looked at me like I'd pulled a banana out of my pants.[/QUOTE]

    Oh well, ignore me. I've been kind of out of the loop with cycling for a while. Given the number of tiny companies making bike components my instinct is that there must be someone, somewhere manufacturing a suitable adapter.

    You could always go disc front, rim rear.

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  • ShmoepongShmoepong Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Turner wrote: »
    Shmoepong wrote:
    I also liked the V-brakes for the quick release on the Bianchi when I'm packing the bike into a car.

    Just so you know, the brakes on your Bianchi are actually Cantilever brakes. Cantilever brakes are the ones that have the little wire 'V' going down to them. It sounds backwards, but it is true.

    V-Brakes look this this:
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    EDIT: Did I break the H-Scroll with that first picture? I honestly don't know whether it fucks stuff up if you keep it in a spoiler or not....

    That's what I meant. =] When I was purchasing the Volpe I was looking to do some long distance riding under a heavy load. I really wanted to get disc brakes because I was under the presumption they didn't need to be changed as often as pads. Was that presumption wrong? And what advantages do disc brakes offer over cantilever/ v-brakes?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    After riding handbrake bikes for so long, I once tried to ride someone's pedal-braked over to their house.

    I soon realized how many times I absentmindedly pedal backwards while riding...

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  • Enigma435Enigma435 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Been lurking for a bit but damn bikes made me go ahead and register. The darn things are addictive.

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    That's the what she looked like new back in the day.

    Anyone into bents? I build racing ones as part of a university group, they pretty much rock the house as well.
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    That was our 2006 racing season vehicle. I've been making them for 3 years now and the team is going on 8 or 9 years now. More pics of frames + fairings from different years if anyone is interested.

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  • Lord Cecil EaglelaserLord Cecil Eaglelaser Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
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    That is the coolest looking bike, where can I find out more about bikes in this style?

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Yo, has some douchebag come into this thread being all - I ride a Harley, PUSSIES!

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  • TurnerTurner Registered User regular
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  • Enigma435Enigma435 Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    But, if are a bike mechanic, bents are the anti-christ.

    Impossible to fucking work on in a normal bike stand, heavy as shit, and the owners tend to be fucking annoying.

    No offense, but I can't stand people who ride bents (of the casual, non-racing variety).

    Oh I build em and I completely agree. Most of the people out there on them tend to be crazy anti diamond frame hippies who can't ride the things. On top of that most of the ones that are commercially available are a total piece of crap not worth half of the price.

    The upside of bents is that if you do it right and put a nice carbon fairing around it you can go quick. It's really quite exciting hitting near 50mph on flat ground with CAT 4-5 riders. But if you're not trying to go damn fast on a bent there isn't much point in riding one other than to get really wierd ass looks. And if you're going for that the shaved legs tends to get one enough of those anyway.

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    Now that's a trike. Gotta say the one you posted is pretty sweet for a kids trike.

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  • tartanyaktartanyak Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Annoying about the disc mount, but I'd like to say that gorgeous klein frame will never, ever go out of fashion :)

    Nice to see some more on-ones around. Lovely bikes, though it's a shame they stopped making the gimp :( Considering where the company's from, they're insane to specialise in singlespeeds! On that point SpecialiZed are definitely American :D

    I disagree about needing SPDs for bad weather... I don't ride SPDs. I don't like them. I also don't have problems with slipping - the trick to that is getting decent flat pedals and decent shoes! Shimano MX30s are my choice, then I take them into a shoe shop and see what sticks the best... They love me for that usually...

    Kona, I've found, are not a good value for money brand if you pay RRP. End of year price cuts make them great though :D I love mine!

    My coiler (Mmmmm, red bits :D ) - could do with a new rear shock...
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    My commuter bike. Cheapest bike I've ever bought, has done thousands of miles and it's still alive. Mmmm, red bits.
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    My junkbike! No parts were bought :D Traded, scrounged and given freely!
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  • FawkesFawkes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    tartanyak wrote: »
    I disagree about needing SPDs for bad weather... I don't ride SPDs. I don't like them. I also don't have problems with slipping - the trick to that is getting decent flat pedals and decent shoes! Shimano MX30s are my choice, then I take them into a shoe shop and see what sticks the best... They love me for that usually...

    Fair enough, in fact even my SPD's can still slip when wet unless I have them tightened to a degree where I can't snap out easily enough for dodging traffic. Aside from pedalling efficiency, however, major benefit as far as I'm concerned is that the compact SPD's (I think they're actually mountain bike ones?) are so small that you have twice the room between your pedal and the curb. This matters to me, considering that as it is I'm often in tight enough squeezes that my pedal will scrape the curb / dropbar will almost be touching a bus on either side or whatever.

    They also have problems if you plan on doing any triathlon style bike/run bricks, or taking the bike on your shoulder and running, as running even for a short while in shoes with SPD cleats on them is a sure way to mess your legs up. I'm told the road bike SPD's (thinner, flatter, wider) are better for this, but still not convinced.

    For pure biking, though, I think they're invaluable.

    PS To open a can of worms, I'm interested to see what people think:

    Hats - yea or nay?

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  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Does anyone have recommendations on decent road/mountain for less than a fucking grand? D:

    More precisely, I'm looking for something in the vicinity of a tenth to a fifth of that cost. Is that too inexpensive a price range for quality to even factor in (i.e. all bikes within that range are equally mediocre)?

    Edit: US$

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  • TheFallenLordTheFallenLord Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fawkes wrote: »

    Hats - yea or nay?

    Do you mean helmets, or cycling caps?

    I always wear a helmet when I ride.

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  • tartanyaktartanyak Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Silly not to wear one really. Can't complain that one makes me look stupid, because frankly I look a complete tit riding anyway.

    What currency you thinking in by the way? Makes quite a bit of difference... I think $1000 is about £7 or so :D

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Does anyone have recommendations on decent road/mountain for less than a fucking grand? D:

    More precisely, I'm looking for something in the vicinity of a tenth to a fifth of that cost. Is that too inexpensive a price range for quality to even factor in (i.e. all bikes within that range are equally mediocre)?

    The general advice is that for cheaper bikes, you pay for it in the quality of the components and weight. I can't speak for road bikes, but for a mountain bike if you want decent quality and you want it cheap, don't get anything with suspension or disc brakes.

    I paid £600 (just over $1100, but it was probably a bit less back then) for my bike, and most of the components are on the low end of what I'd consider acceptable. The frame is fantastic though, and serves as a good platform for upgrades.

    I don't know any good US online places, but there's a rigid Specialized Hardrock that might be within your price range, or the Trek 3500.

    Rigid bikes seem to be getting to difficult to find though, so you may end up getting something with a suspension fork. The best advice I can give in regards to that is that, in my experience, low end forks made by RST are uniformly worse than having no suspension at all. Take all this with the appropriate seasoning, though, because I haven't been "keeping up" with what's good and what isn't lately.

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  • TheFallenLordTheFallenLord Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    tartanyak wrote: »
    Silly not to wear one really. Can't complain that one makes me look stupid, because frankly I look a complete tit riding anyway.

    What currency you thinking in by the way? Makes quite a bit of difference... I think $1000 is about £7 or so :D

    Heh, looking like a tit comes hand in hand with lycra, I think.

    Heres a pic of a friend and I from Friday (before I got in to my accident):

    I'm in the CCCP jersey. My buddy had just went over backward trying to pop a wheelie and snapped his carbon seat post. Not a great day for us, overall.

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  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    tartanyak wrote: »
    What currency you thinking in by the way? Makes quite a bit of difference... I think $1000 is about £7 or so :D
    Heh, edited.

    Japan, thanks! I'll take a look at the Trek 3500, that might be up my alley.

    Still taking suggestions, though. :)

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  • tartanyaktartanyak Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The one Japan's thinking of is the Specialized Hardrock Rigid XC. £280 (I think they're about $500 over the pond there). I also agree with avoiding cheap ass suspension forks. Dampened as well as pogo sticks and about as useful as a kite on the moon.

    May not look fancy, but what it doesn't have in pimp value it does have in quality parts for that sort of money.

    I've got a thing against carbon seatposts or rims... I get kinda bad images of what happens when they snap gonig through my mind - and I'm not too light on components :( Lycra, also, is the work of devils/lawyers/whatever. Evil stuff!

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  • TheFallenLordTheFallenLord Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    tartanyak wrote: »
    The one Japan's thinking of is the Specialized Hardrock Rigid XC. £280 (I think they're about $500 over the pond there). I also agree with avoiding cheap ass suspension forks. Dampened as well as pogo sticks and about as useful as a kite on the moon.

    May not look fancy, but what it doesn't have in pimp value it does have in quality parts for that sort of money.

    I've got a thing against carbon seatposts or rims... I get kinda bad images of what happens when they snap gonig through my mind - and I'm not too light on components :( Lycra, also, is the work of devils/lawyers/whatever. Evil stuff!

    I'm leery of carbon components myself. Given that I'm a pretty big guy, I'm hesitant to ride anything that isn't steel. :P

    If you're not on the bike, Lycra shorts look terrible. Once you're riding though, the function overcomes the form, in my opinion.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I go for Lycra undershorts myself, with longish normal shorts over them and a relatively fitted top. Slightly more appropriate for the average Scottish weather than the full "power ranger" look.

    Also, long grass and ferns tend to mean you get wet from foot to thigh. There's nothing more unpleasant than wet lycra.

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  • TheFallenLordTheFallenLord Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    japan wrote: »
    I go for Lycra undershorts myself, with longish normal shorts over them and a relatively fitted top. Slightly more appropriate for the average Scottish weather than the full "power ranger" look.

    Also, long grass and ferns tend to mean you get wet from foot to thigh. There's nothing more unpleasant than wet lycra.

    I'm not going to judge anybody based on what they're wearing (some road bikers will!). I could care less what people wear when they are cruising around. For me, I find that the Lycra shorts are just more comfortable on the bike. The cycling jersey provides pockets to hold gear that the shorts lack. Thats my rational, anyway. :)

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  • GihgehlsGihgehls Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I ride a Haro mountain bike, I think it is an EX1. The '99 model had a defective swingarm, but they replaced it with the 2000 version of it for free when I broke it. It has been an absolutely stellar bike, I'm thinking of putting disk brakes on it.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    Okay, so is there a real advantage to wearing cycling gear, like the lycra pants and the tight jackets? I have like a 15 minute ride to work right now, but I might end up working somewhere much further away (about 15 km away from home), so if I have to ride that far, would I find it easier than wearing normal clothing?

    Also, if I were to buy a new bike, what does the tire size do for you? Is there an actual advantage to 700 cc tires vs. 26" tires? What kind of frame materials should I look for?

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  • tartanyaktartanyak Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The lycra shorts help stop chafing and painful, erm, bits. As for the rest, I couldn't tell you. I usually wear a base layer then my Gill jacket over the top.

    As for tyre size: 700c wheels and tyres have much less rolling resistance, so you've less against you when you pedal. Higher top speed, less rotating weight... But say bye bye to any chance of the tyres smoothing out the road a bit for you :)

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    Okay but I'm using 1.5" slicks on my mountain bike, so are you saying I'll have less resistance because 700cc wheels/tires are narrower? That'd make sense and all but does the increased size of the wheel do anything for me or would I get the same effect from a narrower 26" tire?

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  • FawkesFawkes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    I meant helmets. Hats = derogatory term, because I don't like them at all.
    Is there an actual advantage to 700 cc tires vs. 26" tires?

    Faster, easier, smoother, better.

    Honestly, I don't even understand it when people say fat tires smooth out the road; the vast majority of road surfaces are quite smooth enough for my overpumped, thin, kevlared 700cc tires which absorb about 0 shock, and my rigid frame with no suspension, and if you can't slalom potholes, you shouldn't be on the road anyway. What's more, the glide you get from those tires and the ease with which the bike runs is a thousand times more 'smooth' than pushing along some slow fat tire bike which makes every surface feel equally 'smooth', ie like cycling through molasses.

    Road bike, road tires. Easy. Save fat tires for mountain bikes.

    Also, lycra is fine, but far from necessary; for example, look at how many messengers wear lycra (none), and they spend more time on their bike than Tour pros. Any clothing which won't rub but is loose / open enough to let air through is good. I wear those windproofed material skintight running tops are good for torso (anything more than that makes me a greenhouse tbh, even in winter), something light, baggy and ventilated as a 3/4 trouser. Lycra shorts underneath if you like. In summer, wife-beater and baggy cycling 3/4 shorts with a thousand vents. Also: not looking like quite such a tit.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    My helmet, for the record, is a bright yellow and white attrocity that looks absolutely ridiculous and makes my girlfriend laugh whenever she catches me wearing it. The upshot of this is that the only way someone is going to hit me is if they lose control of the car because they're laughing too hard.

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  • FawkesFawkes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    pheezer FD wrote: »
    That'd make sense and all but does the increased size of the wheel do anything for me or would I get the same effect from a narrower 26" tire?

    The increased size of the wheel makes the tires fit...not sure what you are saying? You pretty much have to get a 700cc rim for a 700cc tire, or you are going to have serious problems when changing flats etc.
    The upshot of this is that the only way someone is going to hit me is if they lose control of the car because they're laughing too hard.

    Interesting thing is that may be close to the truth. Lot of research on how people view / react to risk, and how it affects actual risk calculations, suggests that being 'safer' may not actually make you safer. Someone published research last year (if I remember right, think in the Netherlands) about cycling safety. Turns out those people wearing all the safety gear had more people run into them etc, the theory being that a driver sees someone wearing fluorescent stuffs, assumes they are a safe cyclist, and pays less attention. This is probably because the vast majority of pedestrians & drivers have zero idea of what constitutes a 'safe' cyclist.

    By comparison, I don't wear any gear, dodge'n'weave, play chicken with buses, generally ride like a messenger, and this clearly scares the crap out of most drivers who avoid me like the plague. They rarely realise that riding in heavy traffic, supreme confidence, becoming blase about the big fast heavy deadly things speeding close by, and working up enough skill to do all the stuff that looks dangerous, actually makes you a thousand times a safer cyclist than the 30-min-a-day commuter wobbling by in his gucci safety kit, who jumps and swerves and brakes at every unexpected thing that startles him.

    EG the running red lights example that every city cyclist should know: taking off from red lights is statistically where most bicycle accidents happen; you are surrounded by cars & other cyclists, you have the least control over your bike pushing off, cars are in a hurry to accelerate, etc. Running red lights or leaving early, if done correctly (ie be 100% sure nothing is coming, know the lighting pattern at that junction specifically, be sure the opposite direction is not moving / red light, etc) actually makes everyone safer by lowering the chance of those accidents; however, most non-cyclists use this as an example of unsafe, bad cycling.

    Similarly, riding on pavements in certain situations. Amusingly, I'm often been told by policemen on a certain street (very thin, lots of cars parked, steep uphill) to either ride on the road, or get off and walk, when I've been cycling uphill on the pavement at about walking pace (steep!). Their various reasons being it's unsafe; too fast; take up too much space; ride on the road. I've started just getting off, smiling, then pointing out that to ride on the road would halt traffic for 300m or so, I'm moving at the same pace, I am now taking up twice as much space on the pavement since my bicycle is alongside me.

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  • The SaviorThe Savior Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I have an old Schwin touring bike that I messed up th derailer on. I would like to turn it into a fixed wheel, rather than actually fixing the bike. Is this possible, given that I have about 0 bike-specific mechanical knowledge?

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  • FawkesFawkes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2007
    You probably need a new hub for your rear wheel, so I wouldn't think so, no.

    On the bright side, it's a fairly cheap job to get your local shop to build you a wheel and fit it; if they are any good, they should be able to use all the parts of your existing wheel, so you just pay for the hub (cheap) and work.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    The thing about my helmet is, I don't think it makes anyone assume I'm a safe cyclist, I think it probably just makes them think I'm a goofy looking cyclist. Either way, I'm not too proud to ride on the sidewalk on the sketchier roads anyhow.

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  • The SaviorThe Savior Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Turner wrote: »
    The Savior wrote: »
    I have an old Schwin touring bike that I messed up th derailer on. I would like to turn it into a fixed wheel, rather than actually fixing the bike. Is this possible, given that I have about 0 bike-specific mechanical knowledge?


    How old is 'old' ?

    20-25 years or so
    Fawkes wrote: »
    You probably need a new hub for your rear wheel, so I wouldn't think so, no.

    On the bright side, it's a fairly cheap job to get your local shop to build you a wheel and fit it; if they are any good, they should be able to use all the parts of your existing wheel, so you just pay for the hub (cheap) and work.

    I know I'd be better suited asking this actually at the shop, but how cheap is cheap? People here are talking about getting a "cheap" bike for about 500 bucks, which is certainly not cheap by my standards.

    Thanks for the help!

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