Your latest bike purchase?

[americancyclo]

@ShawnoftheDread 102031 wrote:

Watch it, man.

Weren’t chrome bags cool back when we both lived in CA, before hipsters existed?

[americancyclo]

@ShawnoftheDread 102004 wrote:

I may have just gone full hipster.

Was this the one on DC Used?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@americancyclo 102032 wrote:

Weren’t chrome bags cool back when we both lived in CA, before hipsters existed?

Yeah, but just pointing this out makes one a hipster. I dated a girl in SF who had one handmade from whichever bike messenger it was who started the company. I was carrying it for her in a bar one night when a woman walked up to me and asked me what I ride. Good times.

[dkel]

@ShawnoftheDread 102035 wrote:

Yeah, but just pointing this out makes one a hipster. I dated a girl in SF who had one handmade from whichever bike messenger it was who started the company. I was carrying it for her in a bar one night when a woman walked up to me and asked me what I ride. Good times.

Told you. Long time ago.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@dkel 102043 wrote:

Told you. Long time ago.

Facts: too old, too suburban, and too right-wing to be a hipster.

[dkel]

@ShawnoftheDread 102045 wrote:

Facts: too old, too suburban, and too right-wing to be a hipster.

Beard, FG bike…just sayin’.

Seriously, though, is anyone on this forum really a hipster? Everyone I’ve met has serious disqualifications, suburban living being a common one, and age being another.

[vvill]

@hozn 101973 wrote:

I would also own another SS for commuting again if I didn’t want to also pull the trailer or ride off-road, but haven’t found gears to be that big a lifestyle cramp for all-weather commuting. Was it just the increased frequency of cassette replacement that was annoying? I suppose cables have to replaced every 8-10k miles too.

What I really want, but cannot justify is a proper SS CX bike like the Traitor Crusade. But choosing the gearing would mean it would only be good at one thing and I would want that to be the off-road bit. Maybe I could find a compromise ratio that would let me ride to the trail too. And which bike would I give up? Sadly that will have to wait until the kids are in college or something

I use 39-18 which is slightly low for off-road but ok, and I have one of those White Industries 16/18 dos freewheels. I also have a cheap BMX 41 chainring, so I can switch to 41-16 fairly easily (same chain) which is fine for casual commuting on bigger tires. That said, I’ve only done that once. Usually I just make do with lots of spinning. There are companies that make purpose built double chainring setups for this purpose too – I think Dirt has one set up like that on a FG MTB for riding to the trail and on the trail.

I suspect 39-18 might be ok for trailering with a kid too but I haven’t tried that. My “SS CX” is just a flat-bar hybrid with an eccentric road wheel and the CX fork you gave me (and drop bars) and the rear wheel seems to have been not-so-great offroad with CX tires (lots of flats this year), so if I do SSCX again I will need an actual SSCX bike.

[cyclingfool]

@dkel 102051 wrote:

Beard, FG bike…just sayin’.

Seriously, though, is anyone on this forum really a hipster? Everyone I’ve met has serious disqualifications, suburban living being a common one, and age being another.

Living in the suburbs is superbly ironic, ergo, still hipster.

[dplasters]

@dkel 102051 wrote:

Beard, FG bike…just sayin’.

Seriously, though, is anyone on this forum really a hipster? Everyone I’ve met has serious disqualifications, suburban living being a common one, and age being another.

My last two purchases made me a hipster… but the nearly THREE WEEKS for delivery (thanks, UPS Surepost) has turned me into a retrogrouch.

Now let me check the temperature in my house using my Nest app….. And now I’m just a millennial again. Damn.

But seriously…. Cyber Monday deal that will finally be arriving today. That is torture.

[baiskeli]

@dkel 102051 wrote:

Beard, FG bike…just sayin’.

Seriously, though, is anyone on this forum really a hipster? Everyone I’ve met has serious disqualifications, suburban living being a common one, and age being another.

Wait – Arlington is suburban?

I’ve been into cycling and brewing beer and making my own stuff and facial hair and all that for a long time – I think I was a hipster before it was cool.

[cyclingfool]

@baiskeli 102109 wrote:

Wait – Arlington is suburban?

I’ve been into cycling and brewing beer and making my own stuff and facial hair and all that for a long time – I think I was a hipster before it was cool.

I think maybe Arlington is DC’s Brooklyn…

[Lt. Dan]

scored a sweet deal on some Time Axion pedals for my road bike! No more swapping pedals back and forth!!!!

[dkel]

@baiskeli 102109 wrote:

Wait – Arlington is suburban?

I had the same thought about Falls Church City (where I live)…and the answer is yes. Meh. What can you do?

@baiskeli 102109 wrote:

I’ve been into cycling and brewing beer and making my own stuff and facial hair and all that for a long time – I think I was a hipster before it was cool.

My wife would love to make you a deal on some brewing gear!

[KLizotte]

I thought this was too weird/cute to pass up; plus it was cheap ($12!).

https://www.etsy.com/listing/84375518/tour-de-france-2-giclee-print-poster?ref=shop_home_active_1

[IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7216&stc=1[/IMG]

[dasgeh]

@dkel 102311 wrote:

I had the same thought about Falls Church City (where I live)…and the answer is yes. Meh. What can you do?

A friend who lives in Charlotte (in a neighborhood with density similar to Fairfax) recently posted something about having a deer in her yard and “I don’t even live in the suburbs”. The fact that Arlington isn’t part of DC is historic accident. If we were further south and in the same state, Arlington and probably Falls Church would be part of the city. What’s more useful is to talk in terms of types of density, and I’ve never heard a good term for what Arlington is. It’s not urban, in the sense of, say, Chinatown, but neither is much of DC. It’s not suburban in the sense of Fairfax. It’s in between, and I think much of the population of the US is going to live in situations like Arlington in the mid-range future, so it would be nice to have an easy name for it.

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