What Did You Just Buy For Your Bike?
05-15-11, 06:10 PM
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i smell bacon
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Good thing I'll be using these on the road with minimal grime. Servicing them once in awhile should be easy enough. I'm excited!
05-15-11, 06:32 PM
#4178
Fresh Garbage
Never owned a pair before but I've read a bunch of stories of how the pedal seized up at the cage, the egg beater looking part, and stripped/ nearly stripped the crank for people. Anyhow, this seizing is caused by a lack of maintenance of the pedal itself, not the installation and tightness, but the road gunk that builds up on/ in over use. So yeah, repacking every now and then is key no matter how clean it looks on the outside, they are self serviceable anyhow.
05-15-11, 06:37 PM
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THE STUFFED
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I think it was on here a matter a fact and some elsewhere via googling when I was considering it or SPD's. Speedplay is no good for casual clipless shoes, inverted heels FTL. It was urban/ beater riding.
05-16-11, 05:46 AM
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I bought a mirror but it is worse than useless. The clue I missed was, while in the LBS and the salesman was telling me that people who had bought this thing really liked it, and I was looking at it - saying to myself 'I can't imagine from the way this has to be mounted that it can possibly be in a useful position for rear viewing'. But I bought it anyway.
So, I was able to see cars coming from behind by - first detecting them aurally then quickly readjusting the mirror so that if I looked between (in the mirror) my arm and my torso - and had the elevation just right - I could get a quick look.
It seems to me that this could add excitement to the ride, especially for the ones you don't hear until they are almost on you.
So, I was able to see cars coming from behind by - first detecting them aurally then quickly readjusting the mirror so that if I looked between (in the mirror) my arm and my torso - and had the elevation just right - I could get a quick look.
It seems to me that this could add excitement to the ride, especially for the ones you don't hear until they are almost on you.
05-16-11, 06:32 AM
#4181
Your cog is slipping.
From what I've seen working in a bike shop, mirrors tend to only make the people using them more paranoid and squirrelly. You should be aware of your surroundings using your senses, not a jiggly little mirror hanging from your handlebar end.
05-16-11, 08:35 AM
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mirrors are for aging hybrid riders...
05-16-11, 06:56 PM
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05-16-11, 07:26 PM
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My name is Alex
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unless you have these rear view glasses
05-17-11, 07:27 AM
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Fibre Flare (Yellow)
05-17-11, 09:42 AM
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chrome backbone backpack about 4 years too late
05-17-11, 02:11 PM
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I decided to skimp out on getting **** shipped to me so I went to Affinity and got myself some holdfast straps and odyssey pedals.
Holy crap what a huge difference straps make! I was able to skid without lifting my ass from the seat.
Holy crap what a huge difference straps make! I was able to skid without lifting my ass from the seat.
05-17-11, 03:52 PM
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yeah...but when you do that you don't get to stick your ass in the face of whoever is riding behind you and say "stop looking at my ass, stop looking at my ass. don't look!"
05-17-11, 06:12 PM
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05-17-11, 08:56 PM
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Picked up some eggbeaters. Officially clipless now and enjoying it. It was nuts of me to ride them right out of the store, no practice, but it worked out okay. 4-sided entry helps.
05-17-11, 09:03 PM
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05-17-11, 09:08 PM
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What are you looking at?
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^ How are those helmets? I may want to get one.
05-17-11, 09:26 PM
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I have one and I totally dig it. The adjustment system is super easy to use and it fits my ginormous head well.
05-17-11, 09:27 PM
#4195
Still kicking.
A freehub body that I didn't even need.
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Appreciate the old bikes more than the new.
Appreciate the old bikes more than the new.
05-17-11, 10:53 PM
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05-18-11, 02:03 AM
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i think going on three weeks straight now i haven't worn anything over my boxers cept my 4season og's and my swrve knickers on nights/weekends.
really don't need any other pants.
also, my ebay catlikelike came yesterday and it's hilarious. pretty light and good but the cinch mechanism is super uncomfortable and it doesn't fit my head shape that well. super lame.
05-18-11, 02:27 AM
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I bought a used crankset and two hours worth of labour to re-bend my rear triangle. Hopefully that'll be the last thing I have to fix after a crash on Saturday.
05-18-11, 03:07 AM
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been wanting those gloves a few posts up
picked up some entry level tires for the panasonic I picked up earlier today. two knog beetles, some white lightning wax based lubricant and some bar tape
picked up some entry level tires for the panasonic I picked up earlier today. two knog beetles, some white lightning wax based lubricant and some bar tape