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charliebravo77 posted:The Revolt is about $1300 msrp in their lower trim, so a bit out of that $1k range but there will probably be some sales soon and a glut of used bikes out there as people get bored with their covid-fueled activities. Just something to consider but if it's a $1k hard cap then I get it. When do we typically see the lowest prices on bikes? Looking for a gravel bike and I'm curious how long to wait.
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Residency Evil posted:When do we typically see the lowest prices on bikes? Looking for a gravel bike and I'm curious how long to wait. When next year's models are announced and (location dependent) over the winter I tend to see stuff drop a bit.
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Residency Evil posted:When do we typically see the lowest prices on bikes? Looking for a gravel bike and I'm curious how long to wait. I think All City is basically having a going out of business sale if you like any of their offerings
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charliebravo77 posted:When next year's models are announced and (location dependent) over the winter I tend to see stuff drop a bit. A MIRACLE posted:I think All City is basically having a going out of business sale if you like any of their offerings New road bike stuff tends to get announced around the TDF, but does gravel stuff also operate on a schedule?
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tarlibone posted:Here's the cold treat bike that hits a lot of the events in my town. I got this picture the other day at our Pride event, and I figured that since some of y'all are cargo bike nerds, you'd appreciate a picture of this machine. Can they use the parasol like a sail?? 
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Oldstench posted:Thanks to everyone for chiming in with suggestions. This has made me feel quite a bit less hopeless. I'm not exactly a cargo bike fan, but the Yuba Kombi looks like it'll work for me until I drop enough weight to get back on my Specialized that I bought nearly 200 lbs ago. gently caress...don't let yourselves go. It's so easy to slip into and really loving hard to get back out. If you live somewhere with a robust local bike market a steel touring bike is going to be way cheaper than that, maybe even the cost of having heavier wheels built for it. That sounds like a better idea, I was just going straight for things that I know the manufacturer has designed and advertises that weight capacity.
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Twerk from Home posted:If you live somewhere with a robust local bike market a steel touring bike is going to be way cheaper than that, maybe even the cost of having heavier wheels built for it. That sounds like a better idea, I was just going straight for things that I know the manufacturer has designed and advertises that weight capacity.
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Oldstench posted:I live in the burbs of ATL and I'm not seeing much on CL. I also don't have any social media accounts so FB marketplace and such aren't a resource I can use. You can search fb marketplace without an account but you need one to contact the seller (and then be ignored by them)
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Oldstench posted:I live in the burbs of ATL and I'm not seeing much on CL. I also don't have any social media accounts so FB marketplace and such aren't a resource I can use. Honestly FB Marketplace is the best location for Atlanta bike sales. Occasionally you'll see someone clearing a garage on OfferUp that has things priced low but it's such a gamble with scammers, too. That said, there's a Kona Ute in Marietta for just shy of $400. https://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/bik/d/marietta-kona-ute-cargo-bike-with/7656383610.html There's a few Salsa and Surly's around CL as well, and hilariously (sadly, likely too small) Titanium Litespeed that should hold about any weight: https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/bik/d/atlanta-16-litespeed-pisgah-titanium-26/7648077785.html
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Oldstench posted:I live in the burbs of ATL and I'm not seeing much on CL. I also don't have any social media accounts so FB marketplace and such aren't a resource I can use. Just make a temporary profile with one vague photo of you on Facebook and look, you can always delete it once You're done. N'thing the recommendation for a robust steel touring bike that you upgrade the wheel set on. Steel is very robust, and actually the more down-market steel frames will have heavier and probably stronger tubes than the fancier race bikes that have butted tubing for weight savings. You'll probably also want to look for lugged joints, they spread the stress around the joint more. I'm a bit of a Clyde myself and between the load I had on and my weight, I've cracked around 380 on my old steel bike without any issues, actually the only thing that made noise was the saddle creaking a bit which is devilishly hard to make go away with the crappy seat post clamp I've got 😅. Also, go with a frame with the widest tire clearance possible, your tires are your primary suspension on the bike so the bigger and wider you can get your tires, the better. Heck, an older, no suspension steel mountain bike from the 90's might be a great choice too, they'll have tons of clearance for tires, be built to handle a lot of stress, and you can swap the bars to drop bars and make a sort of gravel bike out of it (that'll still handle around the roads just fine) Like this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKohlzth_Mk
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 Bearpope store is open for anyone who needs obscure internet bike kit. Visit the thread for info https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3885509&pagenumber=20#post534511652
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what the gently caress do i have to do to get these winspace hyper wheels to sell? i havent had a single email in a year of time on craigslist. yeah yeah they're deep dish rim brake wheels but they're fast and only have 900 miles on them.
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:what the gently caress do i have to do to get these winspace hyper wheels to sell? i havent had a single email in a year of time on craigslist. yeah yeah they're deep dish rim brake wheels but they're fast and only have 900 miles on them. The market for non-name-brand rim brake carbon wheels in 2023 is vanishingly small. If you're asking more than like $250, good luck. Also, all buy/sell activity in the Seattle bike community is on Facebook marketplace now. I hate it, but it just is.
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tried a tier ebike because my city offers them for cheap rental and i left my bike at my old place when i moved this past weekend. poo poo loving sucks!! i expected to be able to turn off pedal assist, but no dice, and the seat that came with it was so wide that i ended up developing blood blisters after only half an hour of riding. all of you in here who told me ebikes were useful need to face me in the ring
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w4ddl3d33 posted:tried a tier ebike because my city offers them for cheap rental and i left my bike at my old place when i moved this past weekend. poo poo loving sucks!! i expected to be able to turn off pedal assist, but no dice, and the seat that came with it was so wide that i ended up developing blood blisters after only half an hour of riding. all of you in here who told me ebikes were useful need to face me in the ring
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evil_bunnY posted:you're telling a startup is bad at human-interfaced hardware? i've decided instead to blame the posters of something awful. hope this helps! i still havent figured out why real bikes arent the go-to for these lovely rental companies but when i do ill let you all know
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bicievino posted:The market for non-name-brand rim brake carbon wheels in 2023 is vanishingly small. Yeah, you want a specialist buyer, go to Facebook. Preferably list in a (few) local cycling specific groups as well as marketplace in general. It has won.
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w4ddl3d33 posted:i still havent figured out why real bikes arent the go-to for these lovely rental companies but when i do ill let you all know It's the intersection of: techbro disruption refusing to accept an established technology is established for a reason stigma that bikes are for children stigma that bikes are for elite lycra-wearing weenies
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w4ddl3d33 posted:i've decided instead to blame the posters of something awful. hope this helps! same reason public phones aren't just re-purposed wired handsets. Lord knows I throw any e-scooter on the bike path and sidewalk into the street. If you're going to enable people to litter, I'm going to put it where my disabled pals, and people with strollers etc aren't bothered. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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w4ddl3d33 posted:i've decided instead to blame the posters of something awful. hope this helps! You can rent bikes at many vacation spots in Europe, since over 100 years ago. Such old tech does not draw in investors.
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VictualSquid posted:You can rent bikes at many vacation spots in Europe, since over 100 years ago. ebike rental in my city is about 5 euro an hour, road bike rental is about 13 euro an hour
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evil_bunnY posted:Lord knows I throw any e-scooter on the bike path and sidewalk into the street. If you're going to enable people to litter, I'm going to put it where my disabled pals, and people with strollers etc aren't bothered.  Would love to be done with both scooter users and the scooters themselves because both are annoying, but at least they're not driving cars the wrong way up a bike lane or parking a car in it.
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w4ddl3d33 posted:ebike rental in my city is about 5 euro an hour, road bike rental is about 13 euro an hour Mauser posted:Would love to be done with both scooter users and the scooters themselves because both are annoying, but at least they're not driving cars the wrong way up a bike lane or parking a car in it.
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i found a bike for 40 euro on willhaben (very good site for any AUSTRIAN BIKER'S), bought it and cycled through a bunch of corn fields. even the shittiest bike ever knocks cars out of the water man why'd i wait 20 years to get onto one
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holy poo poo i had a real question but i just went all gooey inside thinking about <3 bikes <3. anyways how do i safely ride on roads w tram tracks because i just went arse over tit multiple times
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w4ddl3d33 posted:anyways how do i safely ride on roads w tram tracks because i just went arse over tit multiple times keep an eye out for them, and cross them intentionally (as opposed to wandering close without realizing) at as transverse an angle as you can.
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first thing I did when I got my gravel bike was go ride it on a road with tram tracks and eat poo poo within ten minutes. That was awesome
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w4ddl3d33 posted:holy poo poo i had a real question but i just went all gooey inside thinking about <3 bikes <3. anyways how do i safely ride on roads w tram tracks because i just went arse over tit multiple times Yeah like Kimbo said, always approach as close as possible to being perpendicular with the track direction, and slow down too. I also do one of those MTB bunny hops with my front wheel and take my weight off the saddle into a sort of MTB ready position so I can bail off the bike easier if I have to. Also, never be afraid to dismount from your bike and walk a hazard if you have to. A fall from a bike can kill or maim you in the weirdest ways, there's a lot of energy involved and your head and face are still very vulnerable, even with a helmet. Saving 10 seconds is never worth risking facial reconstruction surgery or brain trauma(not to mention plain old broken/fractured bones and joint/soft tissue damage).
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It’s also ok to just crash riding over them because you weren’t paying attention that’s what I do
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A MIRACLE posted:It’s also ok to just crash riding over them because you weren’t paying attention that’s what I do https://i.imgur.com/9ywraB0.gifv
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A MIRACLE posted:It’s also ok to just crash riding over them because you weren’t paying attention that’s what I do I wasn't looking and nailed one of those plastic foldy posts in the middle of the bike lane and it yanked the bike out from under me and I landed on my knees a few feet in front of it. Bike was fine, but I had two nasty open scrapes on my knees about an hour before I had to head out the door for about 22 hours worth of airports and plane rides
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Someone near me has a XL or possible XXL 80's Fuji Espree for sale. I found an old sales brochure that lists this as triple-butted steel tubing, so maybe this could be a possible for hauling my fat rear end around. Any thoughts? (Best picture I could get from the listing) 
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w4ddl3d33 posted:holy poo poo i had a real question but i just went all gooey inside thinking about <3 bikes <3. anyways how do i safely ride on roads w tram tracks because i just went arse over tit multiple times There have been good posts about this so far. The way I think of it is this: if there are tire-width slots of any kind, don't ride over them in the direction of the slots. In my area, I see these kinds of hazards in mainly two forms: drainage grates and rail tracks. In my neck of the woods, most newer storm sewer grates have the slots going perpendicular to the road surface, so riding over them is usually safe. Some older ones have the slots going in the same direction as the road, so I avoid those. At the Giro Della Montagna fun ride a couple weekends ago, a little group I was in was making a lazy right turn, and we narrowly missed a grate in the middle of the street with slots angled perfectly to make us crash. Most railroad crossings here are not much of a problem to cross. But there's one that got me back in April--it's a private rail that is seldom used, and it crosses the road at a very slight angle. I've driven over it about a billion times, but this was my first time riding over it on my bike. I realized that the angle would be a problem way too late, and the road was too busy for me to swing out and cross it a 90°. I hopped the front wheel over it, but the back one caught, and down I went. Pavement, curb, and gravel on pavement. Got some good road rash that day.
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More butts - more flex. Also longer tubes more flex so that thing will probably feel like a wet noodle under most riders half your weight. Older bikes in general are flexier too because of smaller tube diameters so I'd look into more modern lower end steel touring bikes. Something like a surly long haul trucker or a disc trucker, trek 520 or a kona sutra (not the Ltd model).
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Oldstench posted:I'm going to vent for a moment. I'm a big dude now - 6'6", 395lbs. Quitting alcohol and dealing with serious mental health issues was the trigger for me ballooning to my current lovely state. It's my fault that I cross-addicted to food, so I'm not trying to push blame anywhere. I'm finally ready to get back out on the bike as it's the only exercise I can actually stand to do. Unfortunately, there are no road bikes that will support my fat rear end that I can find. Sure, I can probably get someone to custom make a frame, but that's gonna be $$$$ that I can't afford, and that would just be the frame. I honestly don't even know if they make tubeless slicks that would support me. The other option seems to be high-end touring ebikes. Those are way outside of my price range and I don't want an ebike. This is probably not your current answer, but here's something to put on your horizon if you win the lottery or decide you want to dump a couple grand into a nice bike that will probably treat you right. Clydesdale Bikes and Zinn Cycles in Boulder, CO specialize in bikes for big and tall guys. My boss, who is 6'9" but not heavy has a Zinn-built KHS Flite 747 gravel bike and a KHS BNT 29er hardtail and loves them both. They're pricey and then you'd have to deal with shipping, but their reputation is good as far as I know. Could you also get a stationary for home alongside this? Indoor training can be made fun, but it's also a whole other thing to add to this rabbit hole.
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Oldstench posted:Someone near me has a XL or possible XXL 80's Fuji Espree for sale. I found an old sales brochure that lists this as triple-butted steel tubing, so maybe this could be a possible for hauling my fat rear end around. Any thoughts? Worth a shot. You'll might want to squeeze the spokes in pairs to see if they're all in similar tension (all left spokes vs all right spokes) before hopping on. And of course also checking to see if the seatpost is unseized so you can set it to an appropriate height.
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Oldstench posted:Someone near me has a XL or possible XXL 80's Fuji Espree for sale. I found an old sales brochure that lists this as triple-butted steel tubing, so maybe this could be a possible for hauling my fat rear end around. Any thoughts?
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A MIRACLE posted:It’s also ok to just crash riding over them because you weren’t paying attention that’s what I do this is how i flipped my bike this afternoon. back wheel very suddenly ended up in front of me
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w4ddl3d33 posted:this is how i flipped my bike this afternoon. back wheel very suddenly ended up in front of me Don't take the warnings of head injury Grimm this kind of hazard too lightly. One badly positioned fall and you could get permanently brain injured.
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