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I've almost completely stopped using my car now, it's nice. I will drive to work for my one midnight shift (since I'm uncomfortable riding at night, even with safety lights and very little traffic). I may look into a rack and grocery panniers for small store trips, since that's my last real car necessity on a regular basis.
It also helps that my car is completely falling apart and I don't want to pay to fix it... :)
It used to be inconceivable to put more money into my bike than my car, lately my car is being neglected for the benefit of upgrading my bike. :tu:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Panniers are one of my next purchases as well.
A few friends and I did an overnight ride after work on Friday.
Some sort of proper rack would have been thoroughly helpful.
Duct tape held my tent to the cross bar of the frame, and a sleeping roll to my handlebars. Of course the one guy with panniers also has 29" tires and was setting a heart attack pace for the three of us with backpacks weighed down with beer.
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crazily enough, these two pictures were taken in almost the same spot.
above is right in the middle of a 700 vertical foot climb.
below bears the results of a handlebar malfunction while bombing the hill on Saturday morning. (maybe it was bad karma for giving me the bird ~ he wrecked at almost that exact spot)
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Whoop whoop, Just got my first "real" bike. A TREK 930. found this at a local thrift for 20 bucks.. everything seems to work except the back tire has a flat and a few scratches on the frame(might before riding on the trunk and hving the trunk scrach it). otherwise really nice bike..
What would guys recomond? just replace the tube for the tire.. or go to a bike shop... My school has a bike shop where things are cheap as hell..
here is a picture
Get yourself a set of tire irons (cheap, like $3.50 for some good ones!), a tube, some tire healing liquid, and look up a tire changing tutorial. Bike tires should last a good while. Also get your bike shop to look at your chain. A worn out chain will eat your drive train!
I think i will take it to the campus bike shop and see what they can do with it...
ps your bike in the other page rocks finch...
if you get them to change your tire, watch them do it! It's a very useful thing to know. i have often had to change a flat on the road! It's not hard and it doesn't take long and you will save a few bucks whenever it has to be done!
and thank you! :D
i got a snow ride in today and a few days ago! it's fun, you just have to watch out for ice and use your back brake to control your speed! and have a not shitty back brake that disintegrates when it gets wet. and watch your fenders for ice pile-up that will tear up your tires!
i also went into the bike shop today to ask about going fixed gear. It'd be about $250 for a cheapie wheel-swap conversion. My main concern is me messing up the chain line and the chain jumping off and wrapping around my crank going down hill.
Really i think i'm just going to get the Paké candy pink 165mm crank set for right now and sit on the fixie swap until the Sturmey Archer 3-speed fixie hub is out.
I know how to change a tire, when i mean first "real" bike i mean first non department (huffy/murry/magama) made in china shit.... I know shit about gears and chains though, and if they need alignment and shit.. I had a cruiser.. but living in Seattle sucks balls for a bike like that.. with all the hills... otherwise really excited about my trekQuote:
Originally Posted by Finch
whats with fixed gear bikes? how the hell do you go downhill with no brakes??
Shabs, i'm sorry. I didn't read you right.
You keep a front brake usually!
): and the stupid hex screw Shimano cable housing just stripped because i over tightened it. i'm a single speed for a while anyway, yay! and i suspect it's a piece of shit not meant to be able to stand up to my ham-handed meddling. i usually ride in 3rd gear anyway, the only thing that ever gives me problems is wind. Hills are fine, distance is fine, pedaling into the wind kills me.
So I'm looking to put an orange chain on my bike, but I cannot seem to locate them in a local shop, nor online. Does anyone have a site where I can custom order an Orange chain for my bike?
I'm looking at you Finch!