Post pics of your bike thread

[hozn]

Ah, got it. Yeah STA is such an important factor; I have learned (as I imagine you have too) to look at that first when looking at a frame. I have short femurs, so anythibg more slack than 73 is really hard to compensate for. 73.5 with a 0-offset post is perfect for me. Luckily this is an easy fit aspect to take care of with a tape measure and online calculators.

My knees started hurting last week and I was puzzled about what had changed, thinking it was clear position on the winter boots. Then I realized my saddle had slid back on the post. Fixed that and knee pain immediately went away.

[jrenaut]

IMG_20160124_133142641_HDR by Jon, on Flickr

Team 1 ride to Capitol Hill sledding. My newish Bianchi Volpe and sammyiam’s newer one.

[Powerful Pete]

Old ride, new studded tires, lots of fun.

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[Rod Smith]

@dkel 133134 wrote:

I read online that people have put a segment of pipe over it and used that as a lever, but I don’t have any pipe around the house…

Use a flat handlebar?

[dkel]

@Rod Smith 133158 wrote:

Use a flat handlebar?

I actually have an old seat tube on hand! Thanks for the idea! I may yet leave it to the professionals, though, since they’ll be back in the shop tomorrow (I hope).

[hozn]

@hozn 133117 wrote:

Used some time extra inside time this weekend to finish up my new 1×10 hardtail mtb build. Luckily got my rear hub from the UK right before the snow. 24lbs, so not super light, but reasonable.

Took it out for a short ride today. Tires aren’t big enough to ride the uncompacted snow, but it does great on the well-trampled stuff. (Yes, hydro cables are too long; I’m waiting on the oil, bleed kit, and new olives, etc.)

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[rcannon100]

@Powerful Pete 133154 wrote:

Old ride, new studded tires, lots of fun.

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Can you believe that house is already sold???

[dkel]

Finally a pic of (part of) my new Straggler:

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I tried using a spare seat tube to spread the dropout, but that didn’t work. So, having gained some confidence (or reckless abandon), I went with Jan’s suggestion of a large allen tool (8 mm, per his suggestion). I’ll be a monkey’s uncle: it worked! I couldn’t see that it made much difference, but the wheel slipped right in. Beautiful! (There’s an implicit plug for Bikenetic there, BTW. Jan truly knows his stuff.)

[Dirt]

Silly snow plows.

[Powerful Pete]

@rcannon100 133169 wrote:

Can you believe that house is already sold???

Nope. I can’t. But I don’t pretend to understand the real estate market in this area. Or in the US in general, for that matter.

[huskerdont]

The new CX bike. Will be selling a 61-cm Bianchi eventually.

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[Tim Kelley]

@huskerdont 135703 wrote:

Will be selling a 61-cm Bianchi eventually.

Tell me more, non-normal sized human.

[huskerdont]

@Tim Kelley 135721 wrote:

Tell me more, non-normal sized human.

I usually ride a 58, but this is what they had when I really needed something besides my mountain bike for snowy days. It worked fine, but in the end I decided I wanted a smaller frame for a lower center of gravity, and I wanted disc brakes.

The bike is a 2014 Bianchi Volpe. I’ve attached a pic. I’m going to put it up in the classifieds probably on Monday once I take a couple of things off like the pedals I had put on (will replace with some other pedals).

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[hozn]

Sad day for my commuter/cx bike. Strava says 28,500 miles, but that isn’t quite right since this is actually my second frame (I think it’s probably closer to 24,000 on this frame). First one broke in a similar place, but on the weld; that seemed more clearly a defect. On one hand, the pattern urges me to consider another frame. On the other hand, the geometry & clearance of this frame are perfect and I ride this bike on/over/through anything. It hasn’t had an easy life. And I’ve broken MTB frames with far fewer miles, so maybe this isn’t such a bad lifespan. And even more expensive namebrand frames break; heck, a buddy broke his carbon Ridley frame just riding over a speedbump. It may be under warranty still, which makes the decision easy; worst-case it’s 50% off for a crash replacement (which means $500 for a new frame). Vicegrip also suggested repairing the titanium, though since there was no immediate trauma here, I’m a little worried that this isn’t the end of the story. More importantly, though, they now offer tapered head tube options, so I would happily pay the $50 difference to get that option if I were replacing the frame.

I guess I’ll be commuting on the MTB for awhile, since the trailer hitch doesn’t fit in the dropouts on the carbon road bike.

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[vvill]

@hozn 136475 wrote:

Sad day for my commuter/cx bike. Strava says 28,500 miles, but that isn’t quite right since this is actually my second frame (I think it’s probably closer to 24,000 on this frame).

Booo! Although 24000 miles is a lot more than a lot of people put on a bike, and I’m guessing the amount of energy that’s absorbed on a weekly basis by that frame is also a lot more than average. Glad it didn’t fail catastrophically! And yay for a tapered headtube.

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