Making my Ti bike a "trophy bike", deep cleaning, long-term storage, lessons learned
05-29-20, 07:28 PM
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05-29-20, 07:41 PM
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Received my trophy ti spork today. Going to box it up and entomb it in the plastic storage bin that holds a lot of my bike touring do dads.
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05-29-20, 08:03 PM
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Spork definitely too nice to use. Would just be wrong having that thing rattling around in a pannier for thousands of miles....
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05-29-20, 08:21 PM
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05-29-20, 09:01 PM
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You should go with disposable plastic, you'll save a couple of grams. Plus you won't have to **** a hillside of earth to procure the raw materials needed to produce. The plastic option will use a drop of crude, which is negatively priced these days.
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05-29-20, 09:03 PM
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If they shaped the non-spork end to function as a tire lever, then that would be cool.
05-29-20, 09:26 PM
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You should look up two threads by one guy who was either way far out on the spectrum or else a Grandmaster Ninja-level troll. One was about him using a hammer and screwdrivers to break a chain because he insisted it would be a waste of money to spend $5 on a chain-breaking tool that he would only use once. It went downhill from there. Oh, and broke one of the screwdrivers. The other thread from that dude was the one where he announced that he'd discovered that lubricating bike chains (at all) was entirely unnecessary, non-beneficial, and how astounded he was that he was seemingly the only one in the world who'd realized this. These were epic threads, and you can see them resurrected from time to time every couple years just for the lulz.
05-29-20, 10:39 PM
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While I understand that everybody has their own reasons and methods for doing things, this thread is nonetheless mind-boggling. Favorite bike ever but just 5k miles on it? I rode my first bike until I broke the frame. The bike that replaced it will pass 20,000 miles long before its 4th birthday.
If I had a custom frame, that thing would never lose sight of the road-- it would be a slim shade away from the Ship of Theseus, because at some point only the original frame would remain.
If I had a custom frame, that thing would never lose sight of the road-- it would be a slim shade away from the Ship of Theseus, because at some point only the original frame would remain.
If you read my first post, I said I want to explore wider tires and gravel bike types, disc brakes, subcompact chainrings. This doesn't mean I don't want to have a bike that is pure road bike with skinny tires, full size chainrings, no suspension. So I'm giving the road bike a break, but keeping it safe in the meantime.
This year I plan to do an 8 day tour which will require 8 campside breakfasts that will use a spork, 8 lunches of which a couple will need utensils, and several dinners that will need utensils; so I could use at least a dozen pieces of plastic that each use a little more then a drop of oil between extraction, transportation, and processing and then sit in the ground for the next thousand+ years or I can wash the ti one which has already been used previously sparing the use of more plastic and when I'm done it'll be put back in the camping bin to pull out for a possible second camping trip this year and/or next year's tour. How is plastic a good idea?
05-29-20, 10:59 PM
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This year I plan to do an 8 day tour which will require 8 campside breakfasts that will use a spork, 8 lunches of which a couple will need utensils, and several dinners that will need utensils; so I could use at least a dozen pieces of plastic that each use a little more then a drop of oil between extraction, transportation, and processing and then sit in the ground for the next thousand+ years or I can wash the ti one which has already been used previously sparing the use of more plastic and when I'm done it'll be put back in the camping bin to pull out for a possible second camping trip this year and/or next year's tour. How is plastic a good idea?
05-30-20, 02:08 AM
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Not sure why things are getting to ugly or why some people are going out of their way to crap on the guy's bike.
I also wouldnt pack it away, but if the OP wants to do that for now and set it aside for some later time, and it makes him happy, more power to him.
What, a group that spends stupid amounts of money on something that is 50gm lighter or 3W more aero in test conditions is suddenly a bastion of rational behavior? GMAFB.
I also wouldnt pack it away, but if the OP wants to do that for now and set it aside for some later time, and it makes him happy, more power to him.
What, a group that spends stupid amounts of money on something that is 50gm lighter or 3W more aero in test conditions is suddenly a bastion of rational behavior? GMAFB.
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05-30-20, 03:41 AM
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And if you’ve ever spent weeks on the road you’d know that disposable utensils tend to not hold up well over time. And I already have a Lexan spoon that’s my go-to. Figured a spork would be useful for those times when the only pasta I can find in a small grocery store is spaghetti.
05-30-20, 03:50 AM
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05-30-20, 03:57 AM
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He has a bicycle that he really, really likes; so in order to save it, he packed it up in a box.
OP, it's your bike and if that's what make you happy then by all means that's exactly what you should do. However, my "forever bikes" have paint nicks, bruises and clear signs of wear from enjoying them. Each one of them has special memories of the things we did together. If you asked me to pick one bike it'd be my 7-Eleven Merckx Corsa Extra; it's sitting here in my office at this very moment. Just last year on two different Bike Forums outings, that bike and I rode down a dirt bike path with Chromemoly going as fast as we could and later that year bombing down bumpy descents with Robbietunes like synchronized swimmers.
I can have whatever happens to the bike repaired with enough money. What I can't do is create memories that I'll take to my grave if it's packed away in a box for safekeeping.
OP, it's your bike and if that's what make you happy then by all means that's exactly what you should do. However, my "forever bikes" have paint nicks, bruises and clear signs of wear from enjoying them. Each one of them has special memories of the things we did together. If you asked me to pick one bike it'd be my 7-Eleven Merckx Corsa Extra; it's sitting here in my office at this very moment. Just last year on two different Bike Forums outings, that bike and I rode down a dirt bike path with Chromemoly going as fast as we could and later that year bombing down bumpy descents with Robbietunes like synchronized swimmers.
I can have whatever happens to the bike repaired with enough money. What I can't do is create memories that I'll take to my grave if it's packed away in a box for safekeeping.
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05-30-20, 04:33 AM
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Wow, 6 pages. I’m impressed!
05-30-20, 06:24 AM
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05-30-20, 06:43 AM
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To the o p, I understand your sentiment of wanting to preserve a trophy bike, I have a 3rensho that one of these years I'm going to strip and repaint in the original colors, but then it is going to become a wall hanger, as others here have recommended. Put the bike In Your Den or man cave and look at it every day. As long as the bikes indoors, it will last forever. Dust It Off once a year and it will be good as new.
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Il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace
1980 3Rensho-- 1975 Raleigh Sprite 3spd
1990s Raleigh M20 MTB--2007 Windsor Hour (track)
1988 Ducati 750 F1
