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tildes posted:Could I get thoughts on these bikes? I've been looking at bikes on Bikes Direct since that was in the OP. My main constraint is that I need like a 61 cm frame, ideally 62 cm but that's a bit of a pipe dream. I was looking at local bike sellers, but they have few to none in my size at a reasonable price -- e.g. they had some options if I went up to like $3k, but I was really trying to spend more like $1-1.5k on a bike. I had been just sitting on Craigslist for a few months, but failed to find anything in the right size. If you want a flat-bar gravel bike, that's a reasonable price for the spec. IF it actually fits. The nominally 61cm frame has a 59cm top tube length - which, if you're really wishing for a larger size will only exacerbate things. If a 59cm top tube works for you, and you want a gravel bike with drop bars instead of flat bars, the "55cm" size of this bike: http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/disc-brake-roadbikes/mulekick-cf-rx600-discbrake-roadbike-xx.htm is also a 59cm top tube. A bit over your price range, but wanted to point it out as an example of how nominal sizing really is deceptive. You have to read the geometry chart and understand it when buying online.
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spf3million posted:Hell yeah this is rad. Sorry you had to DNF, valiant effort. I've heard about these things, but I can't recall the brand name, that are like a little one-time-use toothbrush you roll onto your finger like a condom, and can brush your teeth like that? That might be super refreshing for these long rides that have a lot of sugar consumption.
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bicievino posted:If you want a flat-bar gravel bike, that's a reasonable price for the spec. Ohhhhh- that’s really helpful! I’ll have to spend some more time figuring these sizes out relative to the geometry of the ones I’ve been able to try in person. Maybe an argument for waiting longer and doing it in person after all, ty!
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tildes posted:Could I get thoughts on these bikes? I've been looking at bikes on Bikes Direct since that was in the OP. My main constraint is that I need like a 61 cm frame, ideally 62 cm but that's a bit of a pipe dream. I was looking at local bike sellers, but they have few to none in my size at a reasonable price -- e.g. they had some options if I went up to like $3k, but I was really trying to spend more like $1-1.5k on a bike. I had been just sitting on Craigslist for a few months, but failed to find anything in the right size. You sound inexperienced, but also very sure you need a 61 or 62cm frame. Just to check, are you 6’5”+ with long legs and short body/arms? If not you don’t.
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"I used to bike a bunch but not for a while" to me sounds experienced enough to not question what a person says their frame size is
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Hydro discs: can be annoying to install (needs a lot of specialist stuff), but once up and running have better and more reliable brake power and you don't need to worry about adjusting the pads as they wear.
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wooger posted:You sound inexperienced, but also very sure you need a 61 or 62cm frame. Just to check, are you 6’5”+ with long legs and short body/arms? Unless a seatpost min insertion limit isn't met, long legs + short torso = lean toward the smaller of two sizes. Short legs + long torso = lean towards larger sizes. People with the first kind of body morphology have shorter reach, and reach is a much bigger concern than standover. TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip That started from this Aboard this The mate was a mighty The skipper One bicycle For a The weather The If not for the courage of the The ....... Fedex, thank you for managing to lose another package, wife really was hoping to get that bike today.
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Anyone have recommendations for CO road rides? I’ll be in SW Colorado and making my way up to DIA eventually but I’ll have about 3-4 days to ride. This will be late May/early June so hopefully the roads are open. I’m thinking Pikes Peak and Mt Evans, but ideally something in between geographically would be good. Would love to drive 2-3 hours, do a big ride, spend the night there then move on and repeat.
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nwin posted:Sanity check- good deal or not? the Huckberry stuff is overpriced
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Anyone have recommendations for CO road rides? I’ll be in SW Colorado and making my way up to DIA eventually but I’ll have about 3-4 days to ride. This will be late May/early June so hopefully the roads are open. Aspen to the top of Indy Pass or to Twin Lakes and back. Ride of a lifetime. E depending on when you go and how fast you are, I'd ride with ya Eejit fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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wooger posted:You sound inexperienced, but also very sure you need a 61 or 62cm frame. Just to check, are you 6’5”+ with long legs and short body/arms? Yeah I'm very tall- this was the sizing which worked best when I went to local bike shops/matches up with what size guides say. Unfortunately the specific models I was able to try were all too expensive, and they didn't have those sizes available in anything cheaper. It has been a pretty discouraging experience so far. If there are things I should be looking for beyond frame size which hint that bikes might fit I'd be interested! TobinHatesYou posted:Unless a seatpost min insertion limit isn't met, long legs + short torso = lean toward the smaller of two sizes. Short legs + long torso = lean towards larger sizes. People with the first kind of body morphology have shorter reach, and reach is a much bigger concern than standover. E.g. I haven't thought about this really- maybe there is something I should be looking for in terms of bike geometry I'm missing?
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tildes posted:E.g. I haven't thought about this really- maybe there is something I should be looking for in terms of bike geometry I'm missing? The longer your legs are in relation to your height, the higher your seat needs to be relative to your frame size. You'll tend toward the left: https://i.imgur.com/L0OiK8U.jpg Depending on flexibility, you could keep your bars in a normal position or might be to raise them up since your torso is higher. The longer your torso is, the further away the bars need to be so you don't feel cramped.
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kimbo305 posted:The longer your legs are in relation to your height, the higher your seat needs to be relative to your frame size. Also the dude on the left has an arched back and is rolling his shoulders forward as a result of worse hip flexibility while the dude on the right has a straighter back and more relaxed/dropped shoulders. All this has an effect on effective torso lengh / reach. Leggy people are generally better off with “endurance” geometry. Like someone looking for a race bike, I’d steer toward a Cervelo Caledonia, the last generation Cannondale Synapse, the upcoming new Trek Domane, etc. Also neat to see a geared bike with a BB located chain tensioner. TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Anyone have recommendations for CO road rides? I’ll be in SW Colorado and making my way up to DIA eventually but I’ll have about 3-4 days to ride. This will be late May/early June so hopefully the roads are open. Yeah, roads are already pretty open. The best ride out of Denver (well, Golden) is Lookout Rd. You can then start adding on from there. Mt Evans is epic but it's all pretty broken pavement and can be crazy windy. The road leading up to the road to Mt Evans is another favorite though. Squaw Pass. I prefer it from Bergen Park. But you can do it as a loop: https://www.strava.com/activities/5916997169 Feel free to hit me up when the time gets closer. dema fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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dema posted:Yeah, roads are already pretty open. The best ride out of Denver (well, Golden) is Lookout Rd. You can then start adding on from there. Squaw is a great ride. Bunch of ways to loop it into other stuff or just do it on its own. Vail Pass has a rec path that will probably be clear at that time too. It's very road bike friendly.
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Hey bike thread, I have a bike story to share. You meet the nicest people on bikes. My uncle has spent a career as a pro a/v guy, working in live music, tv, and movies. He is a guitar nerd and also a bike nerd. Years ago he was working on the 1997 film "Flubber". On the weekend, he was riding some mountain bike trails in Marin County and came across Robin Williams at the trailhead. He gave my uncle a sort of I-know-you-from-somewhere look and said, "hey, I recognize you. Are you working on the movie?" He replied that he was, and they chatted for a while. About comedy, showbiz, fame, or acting? No. They talked about pedals. Bike nerd stuff only.
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TobinHatesYou posted:Unless a seatpost min insertion limit isn't met, long legs + short torso = lean toward the smaller of two sizes. Short legs + long torso = lean towards larger sizes. People with the first kind of body morphology have shorter reach, and reach is a much bigger concern than standover. I’d say the opposite, due to the fact that reach hardly changes between frames sizes from 56 to 62 (maybe only 5-10mm in lots of frames) while the stack height goes up a lot. And you can vary reach a bunch via stem and bar choice. Tall people with long legs need all the stack, so the largest endurance geometry frame suits best. Meanwhile even really tall people with shorter legs and a long back can cope with a 58 as long as they fit a longer stem. All varies with flexibility and arm length of course, but that’s what I’ve seen.
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wooger posted:I’d say the opposite, due to the fact that reach hardly changes between frames sizes from 56 to 62 (maybe only 5-10mm in lots of frames) while the stack height goes up a lot. And you can vary reach a bunch via stem and bar choice. Cervelo Caledonia 58cm = 396mm reach, 605mm stack 60cm = 405mm reach, 630mm stack But what do you think happens to that 396mm reach when you make up that 25mm stack difference with spacers? The reach effectively drops to ~388mm thanks to the 72D HT. 388mm reach is still within the norm for someone with a short or effectively short torso. So after normalizing stack height, that's a 17mm difference in reach between adjacent sizes...a far cry from your claim that the 56cm to 62cm frames have only 5-10mm in reach between them. Now imagine a 58cm Caledonia with 25mm worth of spacers and a 100mm/84D stem. That doesn't seem weird to me. TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Rode up a volcano last week   
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jamal posted:Rode up a volcano last week Hideous ... I don't know how you didn't get to the top and did not decide to throw yourself off after seeing how ugly it all was. I am jealous
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jamal posted:Rode up a volcano last week gently caress. Yes. How was it?
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They're all gorgeous pictures but I really like this one
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:gently caress. Yes. How was it? Pretty good, I started at my hotel on the southern part of the island so I went up the haleakala hwy to start instead of going to paia and up baldwin. There was a huge shoulder, but it's basically a freeway and was- hot and into a headwind. Says 86f and I was going like 8.5mph, so that was annoying. Once I got off that part of the highway and into the first town it was better. When I hit the switchbacks I got into the clouds and that was really nice. The top was hot again, like 84 from park entrance to the top which got a bit rough by like 8500-9000ft when you start feeling the elevation a bit too. Still overall I felt pretty good all day, the day before I'd done the west loop which was like a 96mi day and from the hotel and back the volcano was 104. Then I chilled a bit the day after, just rode south through the lava flow again which is really cool   Day after that I did the big loop all the way around haleakala but I don't have time to make that post right now. jamal fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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 New saddle and a slightly longer stem are a big success. I switched out the Power Arc I had for the last 4 years to a normal Power and it feels so much better. Wish I hadn't let the guy in the shop convince me to get the Arc over the normal one I had gone in to buy. I could never find a secure spot where I had both sit bones properly supported with it. Also: shoes for wide feet come up a lot, but does anyone know where I can get wide insoles? I started using some blue specialized insoles again for some arch support, but my foot goes over the outer edge. I glued the edge of some running shoe insoles there but the foam isn't the same density.
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Heliosicle posted:
https://icebug.com/icebuginsoles https://www.superfeet.com/en-us/widegreen TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Sweet, thanks!
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So, about that last ride. When I got invited to go to hi I looked around at the rides on maui aside from haleakala and heard about the big loop around it. And that there was some dirt and rougher roads back there, so I I brought my cx bike with 40 slicks and a half frame bag instead of the road bike thinking I might want to do that. I remembered reading something like a 112 mile loop, which, not too out of hand. Only thing is my hotel was like 17mi from the starting point of that loop in paia kind of by the airport. I think I got going before 730am. It's easy to get an early start over there because sunset is at like 6:45 and there's a 4 hour time change. So that 730 start feels a little more like a casual 11:30. I probably should have left even earlier. Anyway, it was a coolish morning, better than the volcano day that started out at like 85 and stayed there except for that break in the clouds mid mountain. I ran into a guy by the airport and we rode into paia together and got rained on. He was meeting people to go up. So I was wet less than an hour in and then put on my light rain jacket. Stopped at a store and ate a pastry and cleaned off my glasses and got a banana bread for later. The wet feet and chamois at that point were not ideal. But off I went along the north shore on the "road to hana." The first picture I took seems to be this burnt out jeep. It was nice riding along the coast but I had a jacket on and was wet and so I guess I didn't want to be constantly getting my phone out.  There are a lot of trashed and burnt cars along the roads once you start getting out there. I assume partially as a warning to tourists but maybe driving old cars out to the middle of nowhere and wrecking them is just something you do with your friends for fun. The north and west sides of the islands catch all the moisture and are like jungle rainforests where the south and west are much drier and where all the resort areas are. You get up there and are riding along the coast, crossing all these drainages, where there's usually a waterfall.  There's a good amount of traffic and the road is very narrow but it's mostly tourists going slow and trying to park at the waterfalls so you go just as fast or faster than the cars and it wasn't really an issue to me. Then you climb back out and see another burnt car  This goes on for a long time. Super tight and twisty roads and a ton of climbing and descending. I got more vert on this ride than I did going to the top of haleakala. But it's all pretty short and doesn't seem like it at the time. You're just in awe at the scenery.   I got rained on again around here, really hard. But only for like 4 minutes.. I had taken my jacket off and was already soaked by the time I stopped and got it back on. Phone went in frame bag to try to keep it drier. I think it's fairly water resistant at least. Did give me a notice that it was safe to plug back in after detecting water the next time I checked it. Here's Keanae, the next place I stopped after that pastry and a water refill.  The line for Auntie's banana bread was long so I didn't get any. Plus had some wrapped up in my bag. This was mile 45 or so and it had been going fairly slow, like 3.5 hours to this point. I was wet and uncomfortable and my chain was making bad noises and I seriously considered turning around. But I did some bad math and convinced myself I was close to halfway around anyway.  After more of the same twisty back and forth I came to a roadside stand outside of hana. I needed a lunch stop and it was the first place. I got a sandwich and a coffee and pet this kitty and gave it some turkey  A+ catte would pet and feed again Then I got to hana. Seemed like a neat town. got a gatorade and refilled water and filled my 3rd soft bottle that had been in my bag, empty. Here's the ocean from like the most eastern part of maui  Still going through waterfalls and rainforest it's like jurassic park or some poo poo  Once you get past hana things become a lot more remote. There was some traffic to some waterfalls and a beach and part of the national park, but then it was just nothing and a single lane dirt road along the ocean for a long time  I didn't see many cars or people for awhile.  But I was making my way around and now headed back along the south side of the mountain. Nice pavement began again but there was maybe one store I went by and probably should have stopped at.  Had a lot of snacks and that banana bread and was staying on top of eating and drinking and felt good. Chain was making horrible noises. Taint not thrilled. Feet generally ok. It was cloudy and cool and I had a tailwind which helped.  Ah, getting closer to civilization  Once you get around the back you have to climb to go above some ranch land and a lava flow and "government property keep out" and stuff.  It's pretty annoying being "almost there" and then having to climb 3000ft and look down at your hotel knowing you are still like 40mi away from it. I got some drinks at a burger cart but was running out of daylight and didn't want to stop and eat until I was closer to home. My rear light had died but had limited emergency blinky use, and I didn't bring a front light either. So yeah that last part getting back over and around wasn't great but it was mostly just annoying and I didn't like blow up and bonk or anything and was able to keep a good pace going all the way back and then stopped for tacos. They were ok  It was this many https://www.strava.com/activities/7025616478 jamal fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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A very good ride, thanks for the post. Would love to be able to do something similar one day What's up with all those cars though 
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I was kicking myself for not bringing my bike and kit when we went to Maui a couple years ago. Confirmed it for next time. Nice rides!
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This pic made me finally dig into how a bike company in the Pacific Northwest picked Kona for its name. quote:The company itself had to change its name from Cascade to Kona shortly after it started to avoid trademark infringement.
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Heliosicle posted:A very good ride, thanks for the post. Would love to be able to do something similar one day My wife is part Hawaiian and still has family there. I can confirm they are just awful drivers on all levels. Inattentive, aggressive, and they speed like crazy. When people have nicknames like Johnny Bullet, Lisa the Arrow and Flameout Max, and those are just the ones I remember, you better believe there is a problem. The roadsides are dotted with clusters of tacky memorials to road fatalities. They are worse than Bostonians, and even worse than Kiwis. That is saying something.
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I have a Park Tool AK5 kit. Are there any Park Tool tools I should add to it? For Reasons, I'm looking at Park Tool only.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I have a Park Tool AK5 kit. Are there any Park Tool tools I should add to it? Just buy the occasional thing when you need it. There’s a bottom bracket removal tool with the plastic knob to set preload on hollowtech cranks on the other end that’s useful if you have Shimano cranks and want to swap in a power meter. I see a chain quick link tool, but do you have one to both link and unlink whatever quick link you have on your bikes? Do you know how to service your hub bearings and take the freehub off? One of my wheelsets needed an odd size 11m hex to undo it, most don’t.
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Both of my Promax 330s failed on a steep mountain road last night within minutes of one another. My right shoe now has a significant amount of rubber missing from my automatic response of jamming my foot down into the asphalt as hard as possible to slow myself down (ineffectually). Somehow managed to to skid stop on a dirt shoulder by furiously stomping at the ground and miraculously didn't eat poo poo, but that was probably one of the scariest adrenaline dumps I've ever experienced. Check your poo poo and don't ride on budget critical parts 💀💀💀
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Objurium posted:Both of my Promax 330s failed on a steep mountain road last night within minutes of one another. My right shoe now has a significant amount of rubber missing from my automatic response of jamming my foot down into the asphalt as hard as possible to slow myself down (ineffectually). Nightmare fuel right there. How did they fail?
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PRADA SLUT posted:I have a Park Tool AK5 kit. Are there any Park Tool tools I should add to it? Torque Wrenches
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wooger posted:There’s a bottom bracket removal tool with the plastic knob to set preload on hollowtech cranks on the other end that’s useful if you have Shimano cranks and want to swap in a power meter. I like it, as it works with a lot of bbs with the same cutp spline pattern, but it doesn’t come with its own adapter for the new smaller Hollowtech bbs. If you have a prebuilt bike, you might not get the plastic adapter Shimano provides with those bbs. https://www.parktool.com/product/bottom-bracket-tool-bbt-9 Park says in the reviews that the mono-tasker tool for it is 59.3.
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