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A few people have suggested it. Thing is, we pay a kings ransom for a police service that's supposed to do things like investigate criminal activity for us.
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I've been reading some old bike catalogs lately and one really cool thing is seeing the Ultra-Light Schwinn Traveler, new for 1981, at 32 lbs. Good lord, our parents must have been gods to drive 32 lb bikes around for any significant amount of time.
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Nov 25, 2020 04:31
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EvilJoven posted:A few people have suggested it. Thing is, we pay a kings ransom for a police service that's supposed to do things like investigate criminal activity for us. Meet me in cspam I will tell you why you pay them.
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EvilJoven posted:Thing is, we pay a kings ransom for a police service that's supposed to do things like investigate criminal activity for us.
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Nov 25, 2020 04:59
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Ya ya I know allllll about it. Especially the fact that this stretch of highway being under RCMP jurisdiction means that any investigation is probably going to lead them to either equipping a mass shooter, spoon feeding a pair of stoners a terrorist plot and then arresting them, or more likely just straight up murdering an indigenous person. But I try to keep politics out of biek chat.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:08
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I've been reading some old bike catalogs lately and one really cool thing is seeing the Ultra-Light Schwinn Traveler, new for 1981, at 32 lbs. Tons of winter/commuter bikes weigh that or more Post some neat pictures from it
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Nov 25, 2020 06:25
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i got chirped at by a cop today for running a stop sign. Didnt look back. It's fine since I already have the money set aside for the ticket that's going to come eventually. 
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Nov 25, 2020 06:31
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I bought a lefty topstone and feel immediate regret. 
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Nov 25, 2020 07:09
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Chinatown posted:i got chirped at by a cop today for running a stop sign. Didnt look back. its kinda zen the traffic infrastructure cheat moves you can pull off on a bike would get you arrested in a motor vehicle but on a bike its ok 
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Nov 25, 2020 07:16
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Chinatown posted:Took the steel single to get a sandwich and find a nice spot to eat it and ended up doing 43 miles across the city and back. 
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Nov 25, 2020 07:18
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gamera009 posted:I bought a lefty topstone and feel immediate regret. What's bad about it?
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Nov 25, 2020 07:38
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:Tons of winter/commuter bikes weigh that or more I fuckin murdered myself to get to 20-22 lbs for the bikes my wife and I ride
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Nov 25, 2020 07:45
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im going to run my veloflex roubaix tubulars all winter and ill let you know how that turns out im not that worried about the tires, they seem very similar to the vittoria paves, im more worried about the braking surface its that first grab of wet carbon that does nothing at 50 kph into a braking point that really gets my heart going any way, yolo signed black prince
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Nov 25, 2020 09:57
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numberoneposter posted:im going to run my veloflex roubaix tubulars all winter and ill let you know how that turns out Although you might not stop, the honking sound of carbon rim brakes will definitely wake you up as you careen into Kimberly’s minivan. A life well lived.
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Nov 25, 2020 11:29
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numberoneposter posted:its that first grab of wet carbon that does nothing at 50 kph into a braking point that really gets my heart going
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:Tons of winter/commuter bikes weigh that or more https://bikehistory.org/bikes/traveler/ 
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Nov 25, 2020 15:18
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That kid's happy as gently caress about bike
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I've been reading some old bike catalogs lately and one really cool thing is seeing the Ultra-Light Schwinn Traveler, new for 1981, at 32 lbs. It's not a issue if you're over 200lbs to begin with :-) ... and yes we were.
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Nov 25, 2020 17:59
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I’m pretty confident my kona weighs more than 32lbs
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Nov 25, 2020 18:03
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My Contend AR is like 21 lbs and it's considered heavy
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gamera009 posted:I bought a lefty topstone and feel immediate regret. Return it; only the strong deserve cannondale builds.
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More like Cannonfail
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Anyone recommend any wireless displays + cadence sensors that I can slap onto my girlfriends old spin bike? We bought an older one used and she said it would help her out a lot if there was a displayable cadence. There are a number of options online but it's hard to tell which aren't going to be poo poo.
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I need to know if my rim wear is normal or if I'm doing something wrong! I never wore through a rim with braking before, not even when I had lovely $30 wheels that busted spokes all the time while I carried groceries. But then I got a job that was 8 very hilly miles away, and even with some nice (Mavic A719) wheels, I find myself wearing through the braking surface in about 1.5-2 years (to the point that I actually blew a rim!). This is very frustrating as when I bought the nice wheels I was amazed at how they never, ever went out of true and figured I would never have to buy another wheel again and that it was very worth the, what was it, $150 or so per wheel  but after blowing a rim and replacing those wheels, the rims on the new set are getting pretty worn again and I'm hurting about soon having to replace them, againAnyway I'm trying to figure out of this rate of rim wear is normal or if I did something weird or wrong. Conditions that might contribute to fast rim wear: 16 (8x2) mile commute that includes some very long downhills with a lot of braking I do (or did) that year round so it's about 4k miles per year, so I'd estimate I wore through my rims in about 6k miles Carrying cargo some of the time Wintery place with salt on the roads about 4-5 months out of the year I changed my brake pads pretty regularly, u no i'm rockin the kool stop salmon  Are those factors enough to wear through rims in 6k miles or is that still crazy fast?
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Nov 25, 2020 23:02
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That seems fast but also all of those things will accelerate rim wear
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alnilam posted:I need to know if my rim wear is normal or if I'm doing You get a lot of grit? How often were you replacing pads in the winter? 6k on a set of wheels in those conditions sounds pretty decent.
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kimbo305 posted:You get a lot of grit? How often were you replacing pads in the winter? 6k on a set of wheels in those conditions sounds pretty decent. Yeah a fuckload of grit in the winter and spring for sure. Not sure how that can be avoided on Pittsburgh streets. Good news is I have moved to the PNW where it may rain a ton but at least it does not get super cold and icy, so hopefully that won't be as much as an issue in the future. I replaced pads about monthly... that's about 500 miles I guess, perhaps not often enough but it felt like a lot of changes!
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alnilam posted:Yeah a fuckload of grit in the winter and spring for sure. Not sure how that can be avoided on Pittsburgh streets. Yeah, I think the winters did you in. Sometimes I spray my pads with the water bottle to try to knock some of the grit off.
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Makes sense. It's good to know at least, I don't really know how long rims usually last. Hopefully I will be able to do better in the PNW. Any recommendations for good 700 mm touring wheels that can hold up to a fair amount of cargo (groceries, toddler) but are cheaper than the Mavic A719s?
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alnilam posted:Makes sense. It's good to know at least, I don't really know how long rims usually last. Hopefully I will be able to do better in the PNW. If you just replace the rims, you're going to save like $20 per rim to get something entry level and rubbish (going by prices here, where the A719s are £50 per rim and it's difficult to find rims below about £30)
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alnilam posted:I need to know if my rim wear is normal or if I'm doing something wrong! I used to make fun of disc brakes but not wearing through your extremely expensive rims sounds like a win
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I used to make fun of disc brakes but not wearing through your extremely expensive rims sounds like a win and ive put 10,000 km on my belgium plus wheelset and i could probably put at least another 10,000 km on them before getting concerned about the front rim being unsafe i actually wore through a front velocity deep v once, but that wheelset had like uhhhh 30,000 km on it or something insane. in the middle of the night the kinda edge of the rim tore itself from the rest of the rim, popped the tire. numberoneposter fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Hawkline posted:What's bad about it? No garish color combinations. All they have is black and grey. I wish they had gulf colorway.
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alnilam posted:Makes sense. It's good to know at least, I don't really know how long rims usually last. Hopefully I will be able to do better in the PNW. I don't want to discourage you, but roughly 8-10k miles was about the most I ever got out of rims on my commuter bike here in Seattle. Even though the cost isn't a big deal, it was annoying enough that when I was buying a new commuter bike, disc brakes were mandatory. The only way you won't chew through rims is if you don't ride much, live somewhere it doesn't rain, or don't have hills. As to your other question: Mavic A719s are about as cheap as I would consider going. Personally I dislike Mavic wheels quite a bit, but if they're working for you, they're a good value. I think DT's offerings are superior, but it's splitting hairs at that pricepoint.
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While rim brakes are perfectly fine, in the year 2020 there's no reason to not get disc brakes for most people. If your bike sees wet and grit at all there's no discussion, discs are better. Plus my engineer heart just can't stand having rims be wear items when discs exist.
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Yeah i always avoided disc brakes cause it's the only think i don't know how to install or work on (... yet  ) but i kinda regret it now.
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numberoneposter posted:outside of carbon even the most expensive rim is only like $150 dang alnilam posted:Yeah i always avoided disc brakes cause it's the only think i don't know how to install or work on (... yet I was worried about this too, once I figured out that I could fold a piece of cardboard and stick it in the caliper when I took the wheel off it wasn't such a big deal
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