it still looks fun!
also i think TNL needs to become a bicycle forum. it's time for such a thing to happen.
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it still looks fun!
also i think TNL needs to become a bicycle forum. it's time for such a thing to happen.
What kind of mud flap should i get for my trek. living in seattle and raining.. my fucking pants and bags where covered with mud.. i ned something to stop the flinging... any suggestions?
Just a set of fenders should be fine. There are those fenders that mount right under your seat and protect yore butt from mud.
dedicated fenders would absolutely do the trick, maybe one for the front wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by maruchan
for the rear SKS Extra Dry Rear Fender is one of the best. It is super easy to attach and remove, and works really well with wide coverage.
I've owned 2 other similar rear fenders and both of them snapped where they connect to the seat post.
The SKS X3 has taken a beating, and never let me down.
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one of these will be threaded to a flip-flop hub, 1 side free, 1 side fix. i am not sure if i'll save the other for a front wheel or for Sturmey-Archer's 3-speed fixie hub.
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i cannot wait!
Velocity Deep-V's are not in 26", but Velocity Aeroheats are! Non-tarck tarck bikes with 26" wheels is the next big thing.
Had my friend go over my Trek with all his massive assortment of bike related tools.
He used to ride trials quite a bit so has every little obscure tool you can imagine to fix/adjust things.
Trued the wheels, adjusted the spoke tension, and everything else that had some sort of adjustment. And DAMN it makes a huge difference. I though it rode good before, but you can just feel every aspect of it is just that much better now.
Yesterday I took another ride up the Vernon trails, took a different leg..
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Camera kinda sucks, so you cant see the water fall coming though all the rocks, but simply an awesome spot. Rock blown away and trucked out by hand or horse well over a hundred years ago for the railroad.
I made it about 8 miles before I realized I had about 40 minutes of daylight left... DOH.
Had to boogie back to the car, luckly it was 90% downhill on the way back, so what took me nearly an hour to get to, only took 25 minutes to get back from.
Silent Hill
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today...
my bicycle...
became a fixie...
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WITH A KNAWG FRAWG ON THE HUB.
SCARY NOISE SCARY NOISE SCARY NOISE
fixed isn't all that strange, it just rolls different.
A practical application for fixed gears: snow biking.
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i know you can do it with a freewheel, but unless you have disk breaks, snow gets caught between the rim and the pad and makes your stopping power shit. I was able to slow down on hills simply by forcing the pedals to slow down. It was a lot of fun!
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until the snow soaked through my coat, gloves, and hat, and the snow got too deep for my bike to keep traction on. Then it just kind of sucked.
But when it was good, i could completely skid stop into a track stand! a very short track stand, maybe 3 seconds at most, but still something notable! It was a whole lot of fun, and actually felt much less horribly dangerous than freewheeling in the snow.
There's still snow over there? That's so lame. It's spring! The girls moved back to the "barely there" clothing over a month ago here!