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Yeah those Schwinns are likely to do more damage to a car than the other way around They're also joined together using a totally unique electro weld process whatever it's called
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If you want to be able to brake from the tops, the proper way is to add in-line brake levers. The problem with suicide levers is that the way they are positioned don't give you enough braking power because of leverage so you don't get full braking power.
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HamburgerTownUSA posted:If you want to be able to brake from the tops, the proper way is to add in-line brake levers. If anyone is riding on the tops long enough at times you need to brake, their bike fit is way off. Sure use them for a bit when cruising long distances to change hand weight, use them while climbing. But if your hoods aren’t comfy to be on 90% of the time there’s something wrong with the fit
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May 12, 2024 06:04
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They're good levers. Its like putting smaller rotors on the rear wheel to avoid accidental lock ups. Maybe in some weird corner case for an inexperienced rider, but mostly fiction. I had them for years, very convienent for touring. Not more dangerous than not having them.
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May 12, 2024 06:17
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I ran cane creek cross top levers with claris Brifters. Mostly to see if I could. They work rather well. To install them you'll need new bar wrap which can cost as much as the levers
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May 12, 2024 06:28
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Cross top levers can kinda gently caress with the brake power and feel since you're adding flex and friction to the system. Also I personally feel they're completely unnecessary. The Shimano hydraulic inline brake lever probably works great but with that too I kinda don't see when you would need it.
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May 12, 2024 07:01
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wooger posted:If anyone is riding on the tops long enough at times you need to brake, their bike fit is way off. you ever ridden one of those? the hoods are dogshit. they're just flattened cylinders with zero consideration for ergonomics besides a rubber cover
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May 12, 2024 07:10
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Cactus Ghost posted:you ever ridden one of those? the hoods are dogshit. they're just flattened cylinders with zero consideration for ergonomics besides a rubber cover Yeah, the hoods on this are not what they are on any modern bike. When I first hopped on this bike, my hands immediately went to the tops, because that just felt like what I was supposed to do. These handlebars also have a little bit of rise to them, believe it or not. The "hoods" are nothing more than brackets that hold the main brake levers out so you can use them when you're in the drops. It doesn't look like they were designed with the idea that riders would hold them while riding.
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May 12, 2024 14:28
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I put 20k miles on a schwinn le tour III and you'll get used to the hoods. The soft spot between your thumb and index just has to grow a giant callous and then its fine.
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May 12, 2024 14:51
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Salt Fish posted:I put 20k miles on a schwinn le tour III and you'll get used to the hoods. The soft spot between your thumb and index just has to grow a giant callous and then its fine.
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May 12, 2024 14:57
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Wow! The Schwinn is a Chicago-made bike from 1976! Pretty cool. Well, I think it is. I will be swapping out the wheels for some aluminum ones. These look to be the original wheels, which is nice, and I'm sure they'll look great on a wall somewhere. But I'll get some modern wheels and maybe some tan walls, if they make those, which I think they do.
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tarlibone posted:Wow! The Schwinn is a Chicago-made bike from 1976! If you wanna read about electroforging: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/varsity.html
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kimbo305 posted:If you wanna read about electroforging: quote:Schwinn performed virtually all the operations to produce a frame in house. Schwinn made the tubing, made the frame fittings, joined the tubes and fittings into a frame and painted it. The only products Schwinn bought were coils of 1010 steel strip. Value-added manufacturing is no longer allowed in America, sorry
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A few weeks ago a goodwill store near me in a wealthy town that regularly gets good poo poo dropped off had a his/hers pair of British-made Raleigh cruisers/city bikes at $125 each and I debated getting them before somebody quickly snatched them up. Still kicking myself about it a bit, they needed some cleanup but they were nice. No idea where or when I would ride one.
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Could somebody with disposable income here pick up one of the $250 Ozark Trail gravel bikes that half of bike YouTube got really excited about over the past few weeks and give it a try before reporting back to us? If it’s as solid as people say/as good of a mild upgrade platform as people say I’m wondering if it would be a good fit for a commuter that you wouldn’t have to stress out about leaving outside, or maybe a good bike to help get my dad back into riding. Maybe you slap a flat bar on it or something. There seem to be only two sizes, 44cm and 50cm, so there’s that against it. https://youtu.be/bYMFKzA9E8M?si=EEkOC7ftnY9NLzBw
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Value-added manufacturing is no longer allowed in America, sorry My wife has a 1969 Schwinn Breeze that was electroforged. The frame looks very slick, it weighs a ton though.
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Slavvy posted:Surely they didn't actually make a bike out of mild steel Hadlock posted:What do you call the grade of steel Huffy uses https://www.xometry.com/resources/materials/mild-steel/ According to this, 1008, 1010, 1018, 1020 are all classified as mild steel According to the post above, the Schwinns were made from 1010 steel One more link https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6115 Having trouble finding high quality sources to support this hypothesis
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The Schwinn Le Tour III was made from high carbon 1020 steel.  it weighed only 35 pounds which was a light weight bicycle back then.
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trilobite terror posted:Could somebody with disposable income here pick up one of the $250 Ozark Trail gravel bikes that half of bike YouTube got really excited about over the past few weeks and give it a try before reporting back to us? Didn’t we establish that it has a freewheel?
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The racing bikes apparently used Reynolds 531: 
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Platystemon posted:Didn’t we establish that it has a freewheel?
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Sure, but with that and the weight, isn’t it kind of a bad platform for upgrade? Cheap, widely available, and usable? Sure. Good for upgrades? I’m not seeing that.
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Oh yeah I think it would be silly to upgrade it. It does look decent for a $250 walmart bike though.
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quote:In the early 1990s, the industry moved to 8-speed clusters with 130 mm spacing. 8-speeds were available in both freewheel and cassette hubs. As with the move from 4- to 5-speed, and from 5-speed to 6-speed, this required adding spacers to the right-hand end of the axle to keep the chain from rubbing on the frame. This is from Sheldon Brown. Seeing these 135mm disc brake hubs with freewheels makes me cringe since it's a broken axle just waiting to happen.
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 Yesterday I rode my road bike for the first time in 7 months because of (Post-)Covid bullshit. Turns out, bikes are still awesome. gently caress this stupid disease.
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May 13, 2024 09:35
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I rode a bike, to the Pub!
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Good thing you didn't ride to The Short Arms, you'd have had to put a shorter stem on.
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mikemelbrooks posted:I rode a bike, to the Pub! Love this biek
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aye, i rides me bikes ta da longs arms. Yuk uk uk uk uk uk
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mikemelbrooks posted:I rode a bike, to the Pub! Did these early aero/monocoque bikes come in different sizes? Or were you expected to just get the fit right using stern and seat height alone?
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I hate you, derailleurs. You will never be perfect and I cannot accept that.
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Bike is roughly in one piece now. Brakes and deraileur need adjusting, among many other things, but at least it works. I bought a new crankset because old one has stripped threads. Tried to dislodge the crankarm with a cycling trip. Without a crank bolt, meaning nothing is holding the crank to the axle, the crank just stays on. Seems I need to invest in a hefty 3 jaw sliding arm puller 
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Slavvy posted:Did these early aero/monocoque bikes come in different sizes? Or were you expected to just get the fit right using stern and seat height alone? Just one size for the MCR. mikemelbrooks fucked around with this message at 22:12 on May 13, 2024 |
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26 mile ride today felt good. Gotta keep making number go bigger.
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kimbo305 posted:If you wanna read about electroforging: Thanks for this! This is the kind of don't-need-to-know-but-glad-I-learned stuff that delights me. As for the weight of the bike, I can confirm that this is one hefty steed. I found the 1976 Schwinn catalog online, and they have a sizing chart. How does Schwinn measure the frame size? Center of crank to... where? Middle or top of the top tube? Top of the seat tube? I think the crank to top of the seat tube is right at 24", if I'm remembering correctly. I can comfortably ride the bike, so I'm not worried about fit too much--I ain't taking this on a century ride. I'm just curious about whether I would have bought this size at my local Schwinn dealership in 1976 or so. I mean, probably not, since I was a baby at the time. But still.
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    Bike mostly works now. I got the stuck crank off with a 3 jaw heavy duty extractor. Next I need to figure out how to get the saddle to stay level, or buy a Deda RS01 or some other 2 bolt micro adjustment seatpost. 1 bolt systems suck. It says 22nm and I tighten it really good and it's nowhere near enough. Maybe the indexes got smoothed out by previous owner because he didn't tighten the saddle well enough.
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been riding consistently again this year and i forgot how absolutely hungry you are all the time
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Sunday we did this big mostly gravel loop and stopped at a bar that's kind of in the middle of nowhere along the route. there was... a lot of fried food and burgers and beer and even some tequila and the remaining 25-30ish mi home kinda sucked. 
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Ihmemies posted:... I am not sure if I have seen that color handlebar tape much before, but I love it on this bike.
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Ihmemies posted:1 bolt systems suck. It says 22nm and I tighten it really good and it's nowhere near enough. Maybe the indexes got smoothed out by previous owner because he didn't tighten the saddle well enough. Yeah, I rode the first 30km of a century the other week with my saddle at the wrong angle because it moved after some gravelly stuff the day before. Pro seatpost, 12Nm indicated max, has hosed me over multiple times. And is impossible to adjust angle and fore/aft separately. I don’t think it’s possible to make a good 1 bolt seatpost.
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