Bike Commuting: pickin' and flickin' to keep it clean

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Sab669 posted:

Last Fall I bought a ~$400 commuter bike just to get to the gym and back. I didn't use it a ton last year, and then Covid happened so I had nowhere to ride it, so there it's sat. I walk a lot, and have been running for about a month but do no cycling. 5'8M and ~160 pounds with a belly so while I'm not super fit I'm not in bad shape either. The gym is finally open again and I biked there last week and holy cow it was so hard on my legs. Only 3.8 miles according to Google. Also I feel like I'm really slow. I know it's a commuter bike so it's not going to be super fast, but along my way a very overweight man absolutely flew by me and it made me wonder how much of my slowness is the bike itself VS me not being a strong cyclist?? I'm sure it's a combination, but drat I was really surprised at how quickly that dude was going. I found out my local bike shop rents bikes for only $15/hr so I think this weekend I'm going to rent a road bike and time myself doing a lap VS on my commuter bike.

It's a Jammis Commuter 1 for whatever that's worth

But the real reason I'm posting ITT today: Does anyone have any advice for storing a bike outside? It's a pain carrying it in and out of my apartment, and I don't really have anywhere good to put it so it's just been awkwardly chilling in my living room. My back yard is basically just a cement square so I was thinking just a tarp should be fine? Should I also spray it occasionally with some sort of insect repellent so no jerk spiders set up shop under my seat or whatever?

overweight people can actually be really strong. after all, his muscles have to carry that extra weight around all the time. and you can't see how much muscle he has because of all the body fat. that said, your bike is definitely more of an upright geometry, made for comfortable commuting rather than pure speed. imo the easiest way to make it go faster would be to change out the tires from 38 to like 25 or 28.

i've never had a bike i stored outside stay nice, but the tarp should work i think. if you hose it down once in a while that should keep the spiders at bay

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imo the biggest advantage of steel is repairability. there are great bikes made out of aluminum and carbon, but any serious damage to the frame and you don't have a bike anymore. for example, in the mountain bike thread, there's a guy with a cracked seat tube. since his frame is steel, he was able to get a local welder to fix it for $45. if the frame was aluminum, it would have been trash. if it was carbon, you'd have to send it to a carbon repair specialist, and it would take several weeks plus several hundred dollars

# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 20:03

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theoretically you could make a bike with steel-like tubing sizes out of carbon fiber, yeah? it's just that nobody does because it isn't aero

# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 21:23

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u-lock hanging from the handlebars, smashy smashy

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 07:07

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