tpu or tubeless?

I have a 26 inch fat bike that I want to swap the wheels for 27.5" skinny tires
The only problem is that it's an older rim brake frame
I already know the wheel+tire will fit in the frame but what I'm not sure about is whether or not the rim is going to line up with the brake pads, is there any way I can be sure before wasting my money?

>>2069106
Unless I'm missing something the wheel is going to grow by .75 of a inch so measure if the pads can move up in their adjustment by that much?

>>2069106
there should be plenty of play on the calipers and even if not you can literally just get new calipers that are longer.

>older
>fatbike
what ?

are those amazon gas engine kits worth it?

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>>2069102

>>2069102
Do you enjoy walking your bike home after a ride? No? Don't go with tpu then.

>>2069106
> Rim brake fat bike
Post pics or you're just trolling

>>2069137
If its after a ride, why would you be walking? xD

>>2069141
You didn't choose to stop the ride, your flat TPU tube did.

>>2069143
spare tpu tube is less hassle to install than fucking around with a tubeless puncture

>>2069102
normal ass rubber. tubeless is horrendous to fuck around with and offers no advantages whatsoever and tpu is a meme and wont survive actual riding outside of a perfectly maintained velodrome

>>2069151
>>2069143
Works on my machine™

>>2069137
I always carry a spare tube and a pump

>height
5'9"
>inseam
34"
>weight
256lbs (i know)

i need an alloy frame bike that has allowance for 45mm fat tires

>>2069158
It's not an alloy frameset it's a complete bike but you'll probably want to upgrade to something faster and more fun like a grizl once you've gotten in shape:

https://konaworld.com/products/unit-36tk

It's designed to carry a bento box for the mid ride refuel. If you're looking for a good non-pinku bento box to go with it, ask /ck/. Make sure it's chibi (small sized) that will help you with the 256 lbs.

>>2069102
Tubeless. The first few times dealing with mounting and sealant will be a PITA but you'll get better at it just like you did with tubes. The thing is, it takes a LOOOOOONG time to get practice (like several years) because you will basically never have to do it. And a lot of the assumptions you make with tubes can no longer be used, like the idea that any tire can go on any rim. A lot of people get filtered by this and go back to legacy tech that sucks more because they feel that getting frequent practice dealing with problems is better than just not dealing with problems.

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>>2069161
You do clean out the old sealant every 6 months right anon?

>>2069164
Yeah, I made a thread about it >>2067331

>>2069164
no, I don't. but I'm using stan's no tubes sealant and don't have to

Why is it so hard to find 20 dollar chainrings
Why is there so much crap like speeds etc to match what a gross convoluted mess

can you use motorcycle chain tool for bicycle and vice versa

>>2069181
I think you could use a motorcycle one if the pin pusher is the right size but it will be suboptimal. Just buy one on amazon for 12 bucks. It has the tool that holds the chain together when you split it

>>2069181
I don't know, can you?
if you have one, why not just try it and see?

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>>2069167
>retard cant/doesnt read
many such cases

>>2069181
no the pin on motorcycle chains is like twice the diameter

>>2069181
just use a dremel nigga

>>2069181
just get the correct tool, it costs next to nothing

>>2069218
some of them come with a whole set of pins

>>2069137
>>2069151
I thought the same. I then gave TPU a shot anyways mostly because I hate tubeless so much. I have now nearly worn out my rear PZero and never had a flat with that setup. I've also done loads of gravel riding and bikepacking in the woods (my friends always include these sections but I only have this bike). It also holds the pressure better than I thought (went for a week long tour without a pump). Ride feel is great. Positively suprised.

>>2069161
Tubeless is heavier than a TPU setup + a million additional downsides on top. It serves no purpose and is dead.
Ever fucking rim is now "tubeless-ready" which makes tire mounting a massive pain in the ass for everyone.

>>2069285
This board seethes at the mere idea that a bike part purchased for any reason whatsoever might also happen to be lighter than any other bike, yet 5g of extra liquid inside the tire is the straw that broke the Pogacar's back

"I have gone through my first tire without a flat" is pretty impressive though. I think it's been six or seven rounds of new tires since I got a flat but I've stopped keeping track, so get back to me in a couple more years I guess.

>>2069290
Bro wtf is that first paragraph? It reads like you're going to make a contrasting statement but you never actually deliver one.

>>2069297
The board doesn't like weight weenieism. So it's weird weeing someone get worked up over 5g of sealant here, of all places. Not sure why it's so hard to understand this.

>>2069298
It wouldn't be hard to understand if you knew how to formulate a fucking sentence.

>>2069102
depends on how wide you want to go and which tyre and wheel you want to ride in general. There is only like three fast tube type tires left on the market and putting a tpu into a TLR tire is kinda ret

>>2069302
This is not the board for complaining about your substandard english skills

>>2069312
What ever you say ESL retard

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>>2069100
oh cool a thread about bikes, I like bikes

heres my daily rider

>got my drivers license just so I can finally say I have it + a new form of ID as my passport is expiring soon
>my whole family disappointed in the fact that I'm not going to replace my bike with a car and that I actually have zero desire to drive
???

>>2069324
>zero desire to drive
same

>>2069320
I have been looking for this picture for atleast a year. Thank you.

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>>2069326
you're welcome anon
strange bikes are cool
do you any strange images to share? or maybe bikes you like instead?

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>>2069330
Closest I have to strange is this Bianchi style of frames that not many know of in my experience. I really want one of these. Apart from that I'm building a rat bike this weekend. Rusted 700c hybrid frame that I'm building up as a deore 2x10 drop bar with stem mounted and suicide shifters. Again not really strange though but slightly unusual.

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Also here's an unobtanium Mantis

How many of you patch up tubes rather than just buying new ones? For many years I would just collect old tubes in a garage but not patch them because I felt that I would suck at it. Then last year I purchased all the stuff you need... I got sandpaper, I got the big jar of slime rubber cement, I got the Rema top of the line patches. Some of these patch jobs I complete successfully, but it seems like more often than not my first attempt fails. I feel like I do what I'm supposed to sanding the large area, cementing a large area around the hole and letting it dry, applying the patch and putting weight on top of it to press it down, but it seems to fuck up so much, especially around the orange edge of the patch.

Don't get me wrong, I have been able to save 12-15 tubes, but seeing so many of them keep failing, It's so frustrating.

>>2069348
if the tube is old it's just generally permeable and hella over

if it's a rim side puncture it's over

if it's non-round hole (like a cut) it's over

also
>sanding
not usually necessary, just clean it with some isopropyl alcohol or something
>top of the line patches
you got pwned by advertising, just use a section of an old tube of similar diameter
>letting it dry
it shouldnt be dry, just tacky, only takes like 30 seconds indoors or on a warm and dry day
>weight
useful but not necessary. pro tip get a bag of those spring clamp things, they gud
>around edge fails
put more cement so it covers more than the patch, and put some on the patch too

>>2069370
>>2069348
Why are you so poor? Just get new tubeless tires.

tubeless is the one time the cycling world was sane enough to take cues from automotive but too stupid to figure out why a thing is indeed a thing and not take the one dumbest thing they could

it works on cars because cars have fucking wide tires would make a car "tube" prohibitively expensive to make properly since it wouldn't be round, and cars sit on flat tires which are further not amenable to inflated tubes. so instead you just have a stiffer tire that seats to the rim. motorbikes still use tubes on dirt bikes and scooters and even some sport bikes and you only see car-styled tubeless tires on sport motorcycles that are weight weening or have tire profiles that aren't very round, or similarly on dirt bikes with flatter tires or thinner wheels where again a tube won't be round and won't work great unless your tire has enough stiffening that you may as well just seal and inflate the tire.

>>2069158
any random stolen ebike off of fb marketplace but then just take the electric parts off.

could you do tubeless without sealant or will it leak air or something?

>>2069382
it's very likely to leak because bike wheels have spokes that stick into the rim creating a bunch of tiny airgaps for air to escape from. It's the same reason a lot of antique cars that have spoked wheels (such as the Ford Model A for example) tended to use inner-tubes as well.

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I have a Lemond Zurich 2002 frame. It is in decent shape with paint chips and rust on the cable stops.
Should I get it restored or just leave it be? Getting the paint restored would mean 4 months wait time but it would be getting a modern paintjob and all that comes with that. But I really want to ride it ASAP.

>>2069385
You could probably get a second frame for the price of a decent paint job

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>>2069164
>sealant is alive and you have to clean it out every year before it lays eggs

>>2069382
Yes it is just fine to. Sealant is just cope for retarded ebikers who dont know how to true a wheel.

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>>2069394
>105
pfff, pleb

>>2069382
depending on the tire it's possible but it's not ideal. the sealant welds itself to the tire bead and that's a significant source of slow air loss

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Theres a difference between 11-spd Road Shimano freewheel bodies and 11-spd MTB Shimano freewheel bodies.
Now my new 11-spd (apparently road) cassette doesn't fit on the used wheelset for gravel use I bought although the seller said it fits 11-spd. rrrreeeeeeeeee

>>2069401
I was going to with garbon riros for my shartmart shitbike thing but the power of the aliexpress machined aero chain ring was too great.

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When I go on a longer ride and get off the bike it feels like my body cavity is trying to suck my penis into it from behind. Is this normal or is my saddle the issue?

>>2069414
Usually people blame the saddle itself when the saddle position is the real problem. Try moving it forward a bit before you fall down the rabbit hole

is it true that britbongs have front and rear brake levers the opposite side to normal people?

>>2069416
Australia and new zealand too

>>2069348
I patch everything until there's a leak close enough to the valve that I can't patch it, or maybe like a long tear or something.
it sounds like you're doing it right. it is tricky to pull off the backing near the edge. if your backing is thin plastic instead of foil, you can just leave it on.
also, you're allowed to pull off the failed patch and reglue the tube and put a new patch on.
blow on the glue and make sure it's dry? it will look cloudy. you probably are but anyway

>>2069385
ride it

>>2069416
Front brake and rd on the right fd and rear brake on the left because those are less critical

Can you make a chain whip tool with old chain

>>2069416
Actually it's right motorcycles use that layout
Also you're right handed which you should be you're dominant hand will be on the dominant brake
The opposite is actually gay french shit that you shouldn't brag about unless you also like cocks going in your bum

>>2069441
>>2069416
afaik the Motorcycle Thing is right hand is one set of brakes (usually front) and left hand is clutch, and your "panic" brake (usually rear) is on a foot pedal/striker. or maybne the same thing but left-right mixed up

actually, i have a shitty e-bike im ordering an even shittier 2-stroke engine for; what is the "correct" arrangement of controls to emulate a motorcycle in case i ever actually get a license instead of oper8ing illegally? fortnine keeps telling me to buy a REAL bike but not how to construct one

>>2069441
it just makes the cabling logically consistent during the original downtube shift days when you couldn't just move the shifter and bend the housing over to the other side of the handlebars.
so: front shift and front brake left, rear shift and rear brake right .

>>2069437
sure

>>2069455
either way you were using either a plastic tube to semi-artifically increase bend radius, or were a psycho with frame levers. the difference in travel is minimal swapping from left to right.

I've got a 3x7 gear system, and while riding on the first and third front gears runs smoothly, the second gear doesn't seem to catch properly at all and the chain jumps around. I've tried adjusting the cable tension, cleaning the chain, and replacing the front derailleur (which I needed to do anyways, regardless) and nothing seems to work.

The only other answers I can think of are replacing the actual gear shifters, or packing the rear hub full of grease. I thought I did so when I last took the hub apart to clean and regrease, but maybe I sucked at it and didn't know.

>>2069437
People do it with old pieces of wood. I did it with an old handlebar. Will post pic when I get home

>>2069461
How is packing the rear hub full of grease going to fix your front shifting? If your 2nd front gear is working like shit consider your chainring could be worn down. Im only guessing that's the problem because you write like shit.

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What the he'll is this and should I buy it?

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>>2069501

>>2069501
stolen and no

>>2069501
iunno but I want that dork disc

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>>2069501
On first glance I thought this is the cooling disc of some roller brake setup.

Just how many people are buying gravel bikes and then just ride 90% on normal roads?

just bought a new bike for the first time ever. I've always just bought used bikes for <100 euros. needed it for commuting to work.

Decathlon's LD500 for 450 euros, how did I do?

>>2069571
forgot to mention it's an ELOPS

>>2069571
nice
it looks like it has everything you need for commuting and more

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I wanted to go on a bike ride today but unfortunately it started raining
Anyways, have a cool old picture

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>>2069570
normal roads look like this now

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>>2069437
Here
>>2069570
If you live somewhere with perfect roads it's dumb but here in Montreal even the highways look like this >>2069576 , so yeah a gravel bike makes sense. I used to ride an old 29er converted to a city hybrid bike. When I would go on a ride with friends in the city, they would complain to me about my choice of streets because of the cracks and pot holes, streets I go one without even thinking twice, all because they're on road bikes.

>>2069577
american cyclist will never understand. there's a reason the Quebecois and especially Montrealers dominate rally, and are the only competent drivers in canada at all

>>2069576
There are a lot of parts with tarmac so road bike is okay

I want to start chain waxing, I've heard some people write that you can just use some old candle wax and get away with just that alone, just plain paraffin. Yay or nay?

I mean I'm just a cheap bastard anyways, and Silca wax bag is like $40 and I don't have a crock pot either, I was just going to melt the wax on a stove in an old pot and wax it that way. Also, ain't no way I'm paying for one of those tiny chain wax pot things, the Silca one alone is $100 for a shitty small crock pot, what a joke. I can just use some copper wire to thread around the chain anyways, melt the wax on the stove and do it like that.

Anyways a video I watched also said to just use Setaric Acid which is very cheap and just add that to the wax to clean the oil / grease off it too, by doing this I would only be spending like $10 since I already have plain paraffin wax candles I can melt at home.
Never done this before, so I'm probably just going to clean as much of the oil / shit off my chain with acetone, then add the acid to melted wax and clean anything else off.
Only other question is how often do people re-wax chains, because I ride over 350 miles most weeks and I don't want to be re-waxing my chain every single week, I doubt it would get dirty enough in a week to require that anyways.

>>2069570
probably most of them but it's like SUVs, people get them instead of a station wagon, not for Sport Utility, but there's nothing really wrong with that.

>>2069574
wow your boyfriend is smoking hot

>>2069577
I feel you to an extent, but this is a global website. your infrastructure is fucked because the tundra you live on freezes and contracts until you get that guy's pic.
but where you live isn't everywhere.

>>2069583
I use a $15 slow cooker I got on amazon and I'm on the same silca bag I got a few years ago. Bear in mind the wax takes a while to melt (relative to your attention span) so you can't really hover over it the whole time, and there's a small window from "completely melted" to "burning" that you are much better off automating, not to mention the fact that if your stove has an open flame, open flame and boiling paraffin is bad news. So I would suggest you reconsider your plan to use a pot and a stove.

How long it lasts is somewhat condition dependent but I generally just swap it when it feels like it's been about 250 miles or when it starts making the wrong kind of noises. You should have at least two chains so you are not waxing constantly. Since you're looking for reasons to talk yourself out of this, the other inconvenience that you're leaving out is that the chain is a bit stiff for the first 5-10 miles, this means shifting isn't always so great, and if you get a wax buildup inside one of the links/rollers, that one spot will sometimes not quite ride the teeth quite right and you'll hear soft bumping noises if your chainline is straight enough and your tires are quiet enough and so on. This may annoy you, but like, mile 20 to mile 150 is pure bliss, and then after 150 you're getting that nagging feeling like "I don't have much time left" assuming you're autistic like me.

The wax buildup inside a link issue is less so if you're good with temperature control, also I've heard less perfectly degreased chains have a bigger problem with this, so cutting corners in the short run is probably not to your benefit

>>2069100
I’d like to ride more this summer mostly mountain biking but also paved trails. Could i do 30-40 mile rides on a hard tail with locking forks

>>2069588
Thanks for the advice, think I may just hold off on waxing for now since I don't want to spend so much money being a cheap bastard like I am.

Honestly, I get around 10,000+ miles on my standard oil lubricated chains anyways, I keep them pretty clean and clean off my drivetrain regularly anyways.

>>2069590
Yeah you really want to be doing this when you're changing cassettes, it's wasted on a contaminated cassette but a forever-new-looking cassette is really satisfying and gives you a wonderful sense of superiority around other cyclists or if you ever need to take it into the shop, just if you ever do walk into a shop watch those fuckers because sometimes they'll dribble a bunch of oil all over your perfect chain because "it felt dry"

>>2069583
Yes you can use regular wax. You'll probably have to apply it more often than special wax for the research I did. No you don't need the special silca heater. Go to a thrift shop and get a ricer cooker or crockpot for $5-10, will be more convenient than doing it on the oven. 350 is the max limit for a waxed chain from what I read, people recommend getting a couple of chains and swapping them out. Yes you can use any cable to thread through the chain for waxing it. I just did all this research since I too want to switch to waxing. Mainly for looks and to avoid the fucking disgusting mess. My city is always under construction so there's always dust.

>>2069589
personally if I was doing that, I'd want a second wheelset with slicks on it. then put the MTB tires on for trails.
but if so, yeah, I don't think 35 miles on a hard tail with the fork locked out is a big deal. doing it on knobbies is not something I'd want to do regularly

>>2069586
Hence why literally in my first sentence I said it's fine if you have perfect roads you illiterate fuckwit.

>>2069596
ok, well, double dumbass on you, pal

>>2069597
You're alright for an illiterate fuckwit, buddy.

>>2069582
Yeah they have cars in

>>2069570
90% of MTB owners never take it to any kind of trail. They just buy it for looks and attitude.

>>2069570
i love my gravel bike's wide tires, lots of shitty paved brick roads and such and on asphalt it doesn't feel that slow at all.
>>2069571
from shit to shit, good job

>>2069608
Whatever happened to underbiking

I've bought some ZTTO tools off AliExpress and they've been pretty good in terms of quality.
What about their parts like headsets and BBs? Are they safe enough?

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>>2069570
I ride old converted rail lines that are flatter than most roads but covered in crushed limestone

>>2069158
Ozark trail explorer size large if you want a cheap bike.
https://youtu.be/u87OWbaTbI0?si=xcg7KMyiCXxI5AAX

>>2069297
>never actually deliver one
>parable of the straw that broke the camels back
Youre illiterate and a projecting buffoon

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>>2069441
Motorcyclist here
I have yet to see anyone do a rear brake mod lever, theyre almost always on the right foot for a lever not hands, those that do this have a clutch and rear brake lever to feather for dank hooners

Anyways

Hello /n/ibbas. I visiting from /dbt/
I need some advices on whether or not i should get a triathalon bike again, i had one and it was fast and fun, but my tire sizes are unobtanium for tubes and tire rubber anymore which ia kinda gay
Worth more effort to try and find replacement parts than just buying a new one with more common parts availabiloty
That being said
Should i get another triathalon bike, or a gravel or a road bike?
I liked my triathalon bike alot because it was fewtherweight and lift it with a finger, plus it was extremely fast and i would pass people climbing uphill
If anything of my requests; its that i am the fastest hill climber

Im 5'11 about 200 poonds, butnill probably drop down to 185ish with a few weeks of haulin ass
When i had my old triathalon bike i would easily do 30-60km in a day multiple times a week and various elevations
Im hesistant on more of a mountain bike but ill hear it out if those options are good
Wasnt planning on many trails or downhill off road but ill consider what you have to say
Im mainly here to get better cardio again, i miss the ease of cranking out miles and feeling great, so hoping to do more of that this sprinf and summer

My main weakness is im brandname illiterate when it comes to bicycles, i only know what shimanos are because everyone has them, theyre like the brembos of /o/tists

>>2069649
whats the actual use case? if you're just having fun biking on the weekends just get whatever is light and you can have it shipped out with an appropriate gear cassette for climbing. if you are actually participating in triathlons then you probably need a dedicated triathlon bike to satisfy regulations. if you're just casual-tryhard riding on well-maintained roads, then dont get an mtb since you dont need a crazy suspension and dropper seatpost and other mtb-specific features. but if you're commuting on shitty roads, an mtb is nice for being able to take potholes and not burst into treats. gravel bikes are a meme btw, they're just road bikes with mtb tires on them, maybe front shocks but still hard tail

also thank you for explaining motorcycle controls. i am running out of space on my handlebars for controls and need some inspo imagery for how to rearrange my shit because i have an ebike i am about to bolt an engine to and there are just too many levers for how much space i've got and my foot already hits the front wheel if i am pedaling through a turn so foot levers are right out

>>2069650
>ebike im about to bolt an engine to
And you jist telling me gravel bikes are larps- this is about as larp as it gets for motorcycles lmao
Just get bike dude, wtf??

Again, my main criterias were going fast uphill and exercise, i really enjoyed my triathalon bike and i had a similar experience on a ex gf rosd bike, but mine was still leagues faster and lighter and fun
So maybe a mountain bike if i can maintain speeds uphill? Or is that wishful thinking
When i did a road trip to kelowna last summer i met a few euros in their gravel bikes and i thought they were insane for doing that shit in the middle of grizzly country and relying on mace ffs
Absolutely retarded
But they managed to trek long distances on them, so im at a loss of whether speed or longevity is a cost/benefit analysis i need to make first before searching another triathalon bike up
I also liked triathalon bicycle because it used a different subset of muscles for fatigue purposes, maybe thats also why i was faster on one

But yeah its like me broaching to compare dual sports with cruisers and sport touring or adv, many differing usecases and ive ridden all those but not so much bicycles

>>2069653
>kelowna
BC boy, huh. east coast beast coast sorry m8

>And you jist telling me gravel bikes are larps-
you misunderstand. a gravel bike is fundamentally just a road bike with different tires on it and MAYBE a front fork with shocks, but are invariably hardtail. it's not "LARP" it's more that if you have access to cheap road bikes you can just get a quality road bike and throw mtb tires on it if you need to go on a tamped dirt path once in a while. bicycle tires are not very sensitive to rim width mismatch and even if they were you can just like get marginally wider wheels. and forks are cheap if you're a motorcycle rider already

you can indeed just get a gravel bike off a rack and call it a day if you really need a suspension at all (not trying to be an asshole; local road conditions may prefer it) but from what ive seen, high quality road bikes are better at a given price point than high quality gravel bikes.

i dont know a lot about motorcycles but its like, do you want a proper dirt bike, a scrambler, or a cafe bike? for tooling around in the hills of hongcouver a cafe bike makes more sense than a dirt bike, if you're banging trails get the dirt bike, if you want one machine that does both the scrambler exists but is a bit of a meme (but is only a successful meme because it does still have a use case)

>Just get bike dude, wtf??
im gay, poor, and dont have my Class 6/M Endorsement/etc

>Again, my main criterias were going fast uphill and exercise,
the more important thing to consider is surface, if you're doing it on trails, get a proper mtb, if you're not, get a road bike and appropriate tires. for climbing frame geometry and gearing matter more, but those are both really trivial to fix. for gearing you can just like get a different cassette, and for frame geo the seat and handlebars are adjustable or trivially cheap to replace entirely.

also dont talk shit about my bike. it's a shitty bike but it's MY bike and i love him.

as geromy clarkston of top gear said about a particularly shitty luxury sedan
>it smells weird, makes a lot of annoying noises, gets into trouble if you take your eyes off it, and does basically nothing good for you
>but if someone took it away from you, you'd kill them

But anon, ebikes arent motorcycles
Putting a motor on a bicycle is not a motorcycle
And finally, scooters arent bikes either

Anyways, i had a search for some faceberg marketsneed ads and most triathalons are 1000$ CAD or close to that 1.5-2k mark for something modernized or well maintained

Should i just go carbon road bike instead? I dont really want to spend that much unless im guaranteed to be the fastest amateur hour racer in town

>>2069661
>But anon, ebikes arent motorcycles
>Putting a motor on a bicycle is not a motorcycle
good, that means i dont need a license, plates, insurance, nor the light of the lord to ride

>Should i just go carbon road bike instead? I dont really want to spend that much unless im guaranteed to be the fastest amateur hour racer in town
like i said, get a dedicated triathelon bike if you need to satisfy regulations, otherwise a road bike, and if you ever encounter gravel, just get tires that aren't more bald than your mom. they still fit on road bikes

>>2069662
What kind of regulations?
Is there a way to setup the ergonomics on a road bike to have those same muscle focused alignments?

>>2069663
>What kind of regulations?
idk i dont race nigga probably the same sort of arbitrary shit that makes Group A cars only legal if it's a "production model"

>Is there a way to setup the ergonomics on a road bike to have those same muscle focused alignments?
yes buy an allen key set and then consider suicide briefly after using an allen key once(1ce) before buying a driver set that has hex drivers in it. then you move your seatpost and handlebars around until they're nice, then briefly consider suicide again because they're never quite right no matter what you do, then cave and buy a 30$ motorcycle-styled but bike-standardized handlebar and two centimetre longer seatpost off of Amazon to make things actually good. then you stop considering suicide and achieve satori realizing that the chase for a perfect fit is an eternal struggle, but you kinda like it

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>>2069665
Damn, you nobikes really think about suicide alot
And are wrenchlets
I dont think you should buy a motorcycle and im gonna ask if i can bring a gravel bike to a triathalon race, but ill be sure to bother several organizations and if they dispute me ill cite them on the allan key process of logic, thanks

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>>2069666
>nobikes are wrenchlets
yes but this is how we hopefully grow up into proper motorcyclists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMjjTK-yZy0
i am actually very upset that most cyclists are wrenchlets and am even more upset that I am one too. but the only time i can talk about my trials and tribulations maintaining my piece of shit are with the motor pool people, while most Cyclists™ just throw their shit away as soon as the chain gets dirty

>and im gonna ask if i can bring a gravel bike to a triathalon race,
if you can get whatever bike is race legal then do it, but afaik cycling orgs tend to have pretty stringent rules much like motorsport does, even enforcing specific chassis design and powertrain specs like F-whatever does. this just goes back to >USE CASE. if you can participate in local events with something more appropriate to the rest of your life, do it. I would still say get a high quality road bike and throw proper tires on it to deal with tamped dirt, and if you truly need a suspension, forks are cheap.

>you nobikes really think about suicide alot
Do you see the radiant light?
>ancilliary electrics lose connection after terminals freeze and fall away
Do you hear the beautiful chant?
>spokes contract and snap, brakes freeze absolutely solid, tubes are flat, tires are cracking
Do you feel a tender warmth?
>0.00001hp motor is the only thing holding above -10C from freewheeling alone
COME TO ME, TEN BILLION AMPS IN AN INSTANT, AND I'LL COME TO YOU WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT; I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE YOU SMILE, BUT I'LL NEVER MAKE YOU CRY, NOT EVEN ONCE, NOT EVER

I would have thought a motorcyclist would understand the love and hate shared between man and machine, even where the machine is fundamentally simple and maybe even a little bit boring

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hitting my shitbike with a non-impact driver and giving up to get the 20" adjustable wrench out as my cordless drill strips its clutch, all of us roaring into the night as i beat the shit out of everyone involved like we're at a BDSM club

hick lathing every bolt, then getting the dremel out

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>>2069667
Damn bros, you need an internal combustion engine on an proper motorcycle frame and then we can schizoposting together as frens in deebeetee, cause youre about as insane as i am
I thibk i need to just grt a triathalon bike

Ok
New question though
I always see these cyclist shoes with like clip on inserts and these meme shoes arw absolutely uselesa for any other usecase, including walking
Which makes no sense to me
While my old triathalon bike had those, i was too lazy to swap them out so i ended up using my under armour cletes from old highschool football days, which they suprizingly still fit, but anyways they had fit these cuck pegs and i could still just plainly walk in them

Is using a clete soccer shoe like this the meta or do you guys also frown upon the cuck shoes solely designed for cuck pedals?
Or are you all CLIP ON CLIP OFF enthusiasts around these parts?
Do shoes really matter for you guys when you ride? This facet confused the fuck out of mr because one would think you would have the same shoes as the ones you ran the half marathon part of the triathalon with
Not so
You run, then swim, exiting your shoes- although i have no idea if there are flipper or floaties regulations either, and then you have your triathalon cuck shoes unlaced and already clipped onto the pedals
Time is everything in a race so running barefoot and lacing them while you get started was the meta when i discussed some of these things with my bicyxles previous owner

It just seemed so convoluted and gay, i would swim in my shoes if i ever had to compete like this; fuck that

What are your guys thoughts on the cuck shoes?
Fwiw i ride tech7 astars on a zx14r so i already mog people in the bootfucking department, ive only met one other vifferlet owner who used mx boots on his motorcycle

>>2069676
>Damn bros, you need an internal combustion engine on an proper motorcycle frame and then we can schizoposting together as frens in deebeetee,
That requires becoming a dog of the shogunate through licensing and registration, and I've done enough of that in other fields. i'd sooner find a cruiser frame, install some 200-300cc engine off a generator, and cut it apart enough to fit a swing arm than get a dual sport and have to report myself

>clip shoes
essential for competition, but obviously retarded for normal commuting. like you seem to understand, it's a good way to maintain torque but awful if you need to do something insane to the average /n/ poster like "walk around without sounding like a tap dancer" or "have warm feet"

personally i wear old milsurp winterized parade boots to bike, because they look nice enough in the office but still offer some ankle support and tough enough soles to shred. my pedals gouge the soles out well enough that i experience more wheel or drivetrain slip from over-torquing the derailleur than i ever slip off the pedals. for a multi-sport competition, yeah, I'd either wear my summer running shoes or winter combat boots if i plan on getting off my bike to run or shoot.

>I thibk i need to just grt a triathalon bike
if regulations and fit allow, do it. fuck regulations, actually. if that's the form factor you want, do it and race anyway. I can't besmirch you for a triathelon bike as much as I can for you getting a cafe racer, same as you can't stop me and my hub motor or two-stroke.

>>2069676
>Damn bros, you need an internal combustion engine on an proper motorcycle frame and then we can schizoposting together
https://www.princessauto.com/en/212cc-mini-chopper-bike/product/PA0009158890

>>2069678
I would never make or own a cafe rqcer, the zx14r is a supershoomer and sport touring at best and clocks 300kph stock
And remains in ECONOMY mode for up to around 176kph in 6th gear, which is hilarious efficiency for mpg

>>2069681
No stop being a poorfag and just buy a bike proper
You dont have to register and insure it
Just be a REAL AMERICAN MC 1%er, and buy a dirtbike for offroad use only

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>>2069683
>No stop being a poorfag and just buy a bike proper
id just buy picrel straight up but ive already sunk enough effort and money into my clapped out Canadian Tire Special with a kit on it that i dont care about having an objective limited-by-actual-physics top speed of 35, it's my wife and i will beat her as much as I want to (and honestly, 35 on standard 26x1.5 mtb wheels genuinely feels unsafe and even if i could go faster, i have to slow down so tractor trailers don't swing their trailers into me as they pass misjudging their own speed/distance)

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trips or better and i illegally ride after legally purchasing a half-liter bike

>>2069682
Lil bro's bike isn't geographically inaccurate. SMDH

>>2069686
I literally did this when i got my first bike for the first month and a half
As long as its insured and registered etc. Nobody cares unless youre a dingus
>>2069684
If you buy that POS everyone will laugh at you
And you will deserve that ridicule
A used mid 2000s jap 600cc i4 is literally like 2500 usd
Same for a dual sport drz400 with a 25+ production run and billions of all mods and kinks already figured out, find a clapped out one with what you need for less than new mrsp
Or buy your cuckbike and never feel what its like to go fast and be free from charging cuck booths for 4 hours when you zip in and out of gas stations on a bike

Hell even a smol bike is acceptable, but for the love of God dont ever buy that pic or anything alongside it
The only exception to ebike cuckery is something like a surron for offroad use because the torque on demand is practical- that and special forces who need noise reduction behind enemy lines
Which
You sound like niether because you need a truck to take those toys to the trails for that usecase
You get what you pay for, i learned that with tthe triathalon bike timeline
Also i went like 40-70kph on my triathalon bike, i could do 40~ sustained pedaling for a few mins all out, but any decline and i was flyyyting bros, good times
Having 35kph on tap with the triathalon bike experience and minimal effort was what draws me to one again now, and going uphill fast even though youre busting ass is equally satisfying when you zip past other boomers struggling hahahah

>>2069689
>If you buy that POS everyone will laugh at you
>And you will deserve that ridicule
that's already the case now, whats the difference
>charging cuck booths for 4 hours
i already charge my e-bike at work so again no new problems. and i have the 2stroke kit coming, just need some fittings to mount the engine properly, maybe an overpriced proper jerry can to buy/carry extra fuel without terrorism charges

> i could do 40~ sustained pedaling for a few mins all out,
well i get ghost pedaling as it is on my shitbike at around 20 because smol cassette and am a fat bitch incapable of pedaling much faster than that for long anyway so

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Anyone here commute 20 mostly flat miles each way for work? Any tips? Not sure if I should get a e-bike or just use my roadbike. I work in an office. My longest commute so far was 10 miles each way. For that commute in was like 1200 foot elevation gain, the way home was fun and easy.

>>2069692
my commute is about 10k and comparatively flat and my bottom dollar ebike can handle it. did it pedaling properly a couple times in winter and it was fine. just ride whatever

>>2069669
people gather around to watch you fix your bike and let you beat them up?

>>2069656
>you can just get a quality road bike and throw mtb tires on it
How many road bike do you know with clearance for 2 inch tires?

>>2069701
i guess if you have a frame and fork that can accomodate even a road bike tire inflated 1 psi more than usual it just becomes a grabble byke by definition

>>2069705
....what?

>>2069692
Triathalon bike like i used to have, and pack a 3L waterbladder and be sweaty and stanky at work
Thats if you want to get there FAST


>>2069691
Bros step your game up and just buy a motorbike
>>2069701
Like fatbike tires?
I basically ran into the problem with my old triathalon bicycle because the tubes and tire sizes were a niche market when it was trendy to have super small ones
Whatever stock is out there is the last of it, wish i lnew thwt before buying it, but truly that was the best 800 syrup tokens i ever redeemed for excecise
Its so much more difficult to modify bicycle frames for accomodating different wheel bases or shit like that

>>2069725
Fat bike tires start at 4 inches, 2 inch tires are large gravel bike tires or small.mountain bike tires.
Tell me, why can't you just put different tires on your triathlon bike?

>>2069727
The tire size is just very small and nobody manufactures that diameter for shit anymore
Or if they do theyre hard af to find

I guess ill try one last time to find tire and tubes and just load the fuck up on them if i am successful, but i tried a triathalon specific local bike shop and theyre a couple that both compete and race and had their own of that tire size and theyre keeping them all to themselves its so hard to find them :(

>>2069728
I guess you bought a 650c bike. That's rough.

>>2069682
I'm normal
most of the voices in my head agree

>>2069729
No i have a crf45rl and zx14r

Referring to the triathalon bicycle tire size

>crash into e-scooter with rear wheel
>two spokes torn off, two bent
>wheel bent as well
Will I be able to repair this? It's a Mavic Ellipse aluminium wheel.

>>2069529
>he doesn't have a cooled cassette
Ngmi

>>2069761
650c is a tire size, like 700c, 29”, 26", 650b, 27.5". The only way you can't find tires for your triathlon bike is if it has 650c tires, because if it has 700c you absolutely can. It would also be weird if your bike has 650c tires because you're not short and 650c was typically put on smaller frames to keep them proportional for short riders. At 5'11 your bike should be 700c. Can you post your unobtanium bicycle size, should be something like 700c x 23 or what ever

>>2069776
The guy is a moron. I dont get why youre replying to him lol

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what width of tubeless tape should i get if my rims have inner width of 24mm (the rim tape that's currently installed is 17mm)? i was thinking maybe 21 - 22mm? is that okay?

>>2069777
I honestly don't know. I guess I just want to help. I'm naive I suppose

>>2069778
No your bike will burst into flames

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>>2069776
Oooooh i misread that as cubic centimeters lmao
Yeah that makes more sense, id had to travel up to parents house its in their garage
I might have a pic though if the model helps
Yeaaaaah theyre 650

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>>2069779
Das mah baik
And yeah, it wqs very small, but the rider i bought it from was about my height, competed back in the day, said these were what was being used and popular for those racers, and then the industry shifted and abandoned my tire size
Idk
Maybe i can scuttle the parts that are good on this and just abandon the frame?
Didnt feel small unless i sat upright, my legs fit fine and when i was in the tuck position i was comfortable, agile, and no ergonomic issues

>>2069782
>Maybe i can scuttle the parts that are good on this and just abandon the frame?
You absolutely can strip the frame of all the parts and transplant it onto another frame. I don't know much about triathlon bike geometry but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to just transfer all of this onto a 700c road frame and have it fit the same. Idk if you'll be able to find something as aero as this. Also swap out your pedals for flats instead of fucking wear cleats like the most ungodly autist on earth. I'll give you props that it's impressive you came up with that to ride that bike without clip in shoes and anyone you passed must have felt sheer bewilderment. Alternatively you can look into adidas velo samba sneakers if you don't want the gay cycling shoe look but want to use the clip in pedals. You say you're not a wrenchlet so you can learn a lot about the ins and outs of bicycle mechanics from the park tool youtube channel. Maybe $100 on speciality tools from AliExpress and decathlon and you should be able to do 95% of your own bicycle maintenance and even transplant all the parts. 1 year ago I used to bring my bike to the shop for a tire change, now I can put a bike together from parts. This can be you too.

>>2069782
Here you go you beautiful retard.
https://www.modernbike.com/650c-tires#:~:text=Filter,28mm%20Tire%20Folding%20Black/Tan
I honestly think it would be a shame for you to abandon that frame because you're too much of a noob to find some 650c tires. You can get 650x23 instead of 20, I doubt 3mm will fuck up your clearance on your frame. I would keep riding that frame until the carbon cracks on you. I don't know how much maintenance you've done on her but consider getting your hubs repacked with grease and maybe changing your cables and chain.

forgot to say, make sure you but 650c tires and not 650b, they won't fit, double check before buying. Also double check that you have tubular tires or clinchers with tubes. I think you have clinchers with tubes by searching up the tire you have but I could be wrong. It's up to you to figure out what all these terms mean because I can only spoon feed retards so much. Keep riding that frame and Don't strip it, if only to make roadies on their modern bike seethe that some autist on an outdated antique is passing them on the climbs.

>>2069778
You want to go a bit wider. 17mm is just enough to cover the spoke holes for an innertube, for a tubeless setup the idea is sealing everything up. 22mm might work if you do it all right but wider will be safer.

>>2069782
Like other anon said you can def put everything except the wheels onto another road frame, at least in theory. Maybe the bb width isn’t the same, maybe the fork steerer tube diameter isn’t the same, its these little things we can’t tell you and are natural hiccups you’ll encounter with a project like that. But with this era of bike, i’d say go for it. Odds are in your favor

>>2069784
I just found some tires and tubes and ordered, so around 420 blaze it time they should be shipped here, but yeah im am hopeful now, when j went to the triathalon specific store they just shut my hopes of finding tubes and especially tires because they had their own stash and didnt stock any on the floor
I got the 23 since im not too worried about that fitment difference and a bit of pressure should make them fit
Installing these tubes is a cunt though, last time i did i popped 2 for 1, sucked
Ordered 4 tubes amd 2 tires so hopefully i am not full retard and have a good season
And since ill be doing a full teardown to do the tires ill take care of the other maintenance, hope my chain and gears are good for another couple thousand kms at least, but i ride the shit out of it when i do

>>2069785
Yeah i got the c from the site i was on
And yes, the seethe is bretty funny hahaha
>>2069786
Would be nice if i wqs able to swap the front forks and lengthen the swingarm but thats impossible with carbon fibers

And fwiw
>im not swapping the pedals
Ill just get some other cleats lmao
But if i were to swap the pedals out, thats only like a $50 swap eh? Wonder if i can use old spare motorcycle footpegs and make the autism abomination seethe machine that much more disgusting


Well ill keep you retards archived and letcha know what happens later in april
Maybe i can get another season or two out of this cunt before these size tires and tubes become fr fr no cap unobtaniums

>>2069765
probably if the rim is just bent but not kinked. you basically have to loosen all the spokes about as far as they'll go, manhandle the fuck out of the rim to reverse the bends. I like using a door frame that you don't care about, it'll mark up the door frame. then you replace the 2 broken ones using the same lacing pattern.
now you're basically building a wheel from scratch except all the spokes and nipples are already laced. so you have to bring up the tension and true it until the spokes are correct tension. if you don't have a tension meter (you don't, unless you build wheels all the time) check the tension by feel from a known good wheel of the same spoke count, which is usually the other one on that bike.

>>2069784
If what i can remember about maintenance backlogs from three yeara ago, i might just need new rear sprocket set /gears changed but i dont think theyre honestly all that worn out, i have enough tools to probably make it work and only need the odd speciality shitter
Probably just be good with some lube on the cables at any rate, idk gives me something to do while i wait for the order alongside my motorbike ive been neglecting to rebuild

>>2069788
Thanks.
Can you gauge the tension by the sound when you pluck the spoke?

>>2069787
>But if i were to swap the pedals out, thats only like a $50 swap eh? Wonder if i can use old spare motorcycle footpegs and make the autism abomination seethe machine that much more disgusting
You can get pedals for $20 on amazon. You won't be able to use the pegs because the drive side pedal is normal right hand thread but the non drive side pedal is right hand thread.

>>2069790
Your cables could snap on you which is why I would recommend you change them if it hasn't been been done in years, they're probably stretched and weakened at this point.
>>2069791
>Can you gauge the tension by the sound when you pluck the spoke?
Nigger what the fuck. That's the most autistic shit I've ever heard. It's not a fucking harp. You just pinch 2 spokes together of you want to get a feel for it.

>>2069787
>lengthen the swingarm
You mean the fucking seatstays and chainstays? Nigger learn the correct jargon please, helping you is giving me a fucking brain aneurysm.

>>2069793
Hes not wrong though
When you have slight bends or loosening of already tight spokes theyll make a flat sound or thud if theyre not even threaded in and tightened
But im coming from dirtbike world too, and obviously getting your wheel true'd isnt something to fuck around with

Anyways, yeah maybe the cables are fucky, but if they snap i can just handbomb the bike back from wherever i rode it to and address it then im not too worried
Like i said, ill eventually feel it out when i get the chance, otherwise ill slap the new set of shit i ordered on amd sell it for anotther with more common parts

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>>2069794
>learn the correct jargon
Silence nobike, i come from motorcycle land, and i used cleats on clickers, bow to your sensei

>>2069795
Atleast fix uour fucking brake cables it's not that hard and it would be a shame to lose a fucking weirdo like yourself to your own retardation.

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>>2069786
>22mm might work if you do it all right but wider will be safer.
you know, thinking about it - i measured the 24mm with a caliper but the topmost part of the rim (don't know the technical term sorry) has a very small part sticking inside, so the actual inner width may be like 2mm more (making it 26). i made a crude drawing which i attached

>>2069797
I'll come to your house and steal the tires I helped you find you fucking whore, the least you could do to show your gratefulness is make it easier for me to help your dumb ass. I don't give a fuck where you came from, you're in my house now bitch.

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>>2069798
>fix your brake cables
Aye, if one goes i have an extra
Im only worried if my front one is obviously kinked, but its probably fine
>lose you to your own retardation
What a legend, then picrel will help save me from myself

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>>2069800
Like to see you try, cupcake

>>2069802
This is the thanks I get for helping retards on the internet. It's a thankless job to keep you idiots rolling.

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>>2069803
I mean while you were typong a lengrhly reply to spoonfeed me a retailer i had already gone about searching for the tire and tubes because i forgot the pics i saved from way back when included the sizes in them
So i guess im a full circle retard in remembering things, i have you to thank for that?
Ok thabk you

Ill just call it bad timing on my end

>>2069804
It's ok baby I forgive you

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>>2069805

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Spent far too long trying all the stupid solutions to this that the internet kept suggesting me, until I figured out the real solution. Made this infographic for my fellow fuckbrains.
It counts for the thread because I'm probably answering SOMEONE's question.

>>2069570
I've owned my graveller for a year, and have spent way more of that treating it like an MTB than what it's meant for.

>>2069809
That's actually pretty cool if you don't have a quick link handy and you fucked up.

>>2069791
>gauge the tension by the sound when you pluck the spoke
not really. you can hear the difference between loose ones but the tighter ones tend to sound the same.
the way you gauge it is go to the good wheel and squeeze a pair of spokes on each side with both hands. choose a pair that are parallel in the lacing pattern, not angled from each other. they'll be in different positions on either side of the hub, so one hand will be above the other.
give them a good squeeze a couple times with both hands simultaneously until your hands start to feel uncomfortable. maybe go around the wheel and get a sense of the average.
then tension the wheel you're working on the same way until they feel more or less the same.

if you've never built a wheel or trued one, I highly recommend you use the park link in op to watch their wheel videos. RJ , too.

>>2069797
none of the "arms" on that tri bike swing, you fucking dunce. just fuck off already

>the motorized jew is destroying /n/ again

>>2069791
Yes. You should be able to hear the difference between 10nM and 15nM if you aren't a retarded cagie reject whose ears have been ruined by electric buzz and exhaust "notes".

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>>2069819
No shit you retard, i wqs being a facetious idiot on purpose
>>2069822
Ikr?
Im just going to continue calling them swingarms cause i think its both cute and funny

how many of you balance your wheels with some lead tape?

had 8.10 gram imbalance on both, with tires mounted

>>2069849
>I was only pretending to be retarded
gay

>>2069860
No, i just know a term for something im familoar with and decided to call it that because the guaranteed seethe from faggots and nobikes like you is too good to passup

I replaced the shifter cable to the front derailler after it got damaged and now I can't get it tensioned enough to shift. I'm loosening the barrel shifter as much as it goes, putting the shifter in the small-ring position, pulling the cable tight, and then screwing in the bolt on the derailler arm and tightening the barrel shifter, but when I push the levers it just twitches a bit and doesn't move enough to actually shift; when I go and poke at the cable after trying to shift a few times, a lot of slack seems to have come out of nowhere. Any ideas for what I might be getting wrong?

>>2069692
What's up with the previous pic you posted. Is that you?

>>2069865
Possible you're not actually shifted into your small ring on your shifter. Pull on the cable as you shift to actually get it down into 1. Other than that, maybe you either installed the cable poorly somehow, absolutely suck at getting tension on the cable before tightening it down on the FD or your shifter imploded and is dead. Also if you're using an ancient shimano shifter it's possible the grease inside is has completely solidified and you might need to flush it with WD-40. I had one shifter that just wouldn't shift no matter how many times I did it and I had to immerse it into a special industrial degreaser.

>>2069873
Thank you, innumeracy-kun. I just had another go at it and made sure the shifter was going all the way down. I think the shifter isn't the problem - I didn't open it up when I was installing the cable but it looked fine and moved okay, and the damage wasn't at that end - so it's probably me sucking somehow. Once I tighten the barrel shifter, it feels nice and taut, but then there's all this slack after a few attempted shifts. I'm tightening the bolt as much as I can (literally, the allen key slips and won't turn more) and, just eyeballing it, the cable doesn't seem to be getting pulled through it, so it may remain a mystery.

>>2069864
you're gay

>>2069865
kinked cable or housing?
cable not seated properly on either end?

>>2069874
Your problem kinda sounds like you're just not getting the inside mechanism in the position of having released all the cable (the smallest chainring position). You're saying you've tried pulling on the cable as you shift to 1 (smallest chainring). I ran into this problem a few times when first installing shifters. If it's not this then somehow your cable bolt in the FD is getting loose. I had that problem recently and after closely examining it I saw i had a fucking loose helicoil installed and the bolt would just loosen with time.

>>2069877
And i dont think about you at all? Lmao

>>2069882
because I'm anon and unknown to you.
you're the retarded /o/tist who came to this board and immediately posted his life story and was a prick to everyone, then he posted his bike so now we'll always know it belongs to an offboarder gaywad.

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>>2069884

>>2069331
In italy we call those old Bianchi "cancelli": fence gates.
It's like riding a fence gate.

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>>2069799
Get some 30mm tape and call it good.

>>2069892
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

>>2069884
Stop being a cry baby. The moron wanted help fixing his bike. He was kind of entertaining in a retarded way. Elitist faggots are worse than bike illiterate gaywads.

>>2069900
>The moron wanted help fixing his bike.
Why are you helping retards like this? Do you want this to become /n/ - Motorcycles and E-Bikes?

>>2069899
i was unaware of the brand but just looking at it its obvious

hard everything, but mtb tires to call it an mtb. rattle your ass apart on a hard frame holding onto sharp bits that move wildly when they arent supposed to and dont move at all when you want them to, much like a fence gate

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>>2069906
I disnt meant to be so controversials i just like two wheel thibgs because i go fast on them

>>2069882
>normie from the most normie board thinks his personality is interesting, important, and special.
typical

Kill yourself you cagie wannabe ebike retard. Imagine being so fucking poor you can't even get a car and have to fuck up actual communities of actually competent and fit people who know how a two wheeled vehicles work because you are literally too retarded to buy a car instead of destroying our hobby.

>>2069906
Why wouldn't I help someone who needs help making his bicycle work? Get fucked you absolute faggot.

>>2069914
>helping ebike niggers
How fat are you?

>>2069907
What? What bits move that aren't supposed to? It's a rigid steel frame. Nothing fucking moves that isn't supposed to. You make no fucking sense.

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>>2069914
>bicycle
Behold, a bicycle!

>>2069915
What the fuck are you talking about? Want e-bike nigger? I helped the triathlon bike guy who rides motorcycles. Who the fuck are you talking about with an e-bike?

>>2069918
ebikes are motorcycles. neither belong on /n/, fuck of

>>2069917
>you only get half a chainstay
lol

>>2069919
Shut the fuck up, you're actually retarded.
>E-bikes are motorcycles
Go screech autistically to someone who cares you elitist loser faggot. I'm actually going to help people who have questions about their bicycles instead of throwing a fit because someone posted something I don't like in my super special secret Micronesia wheel building messageboard. Go suck on a motorcycle exhaust until everything goes black.

>>2069858
I was using tungsten tape for... a period of time, until I found out it was latex boogers bouncing around in there and that's why I could never get them to balance

If it's 8.10 grams of imbalance I think you should be looking for a root cause

>>2069919
turns out that your ideas are simply wrong and the entire legal question around ebikes was resolved by people that will never give a shit about what you think or how it effects anyone

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>>2069919
Ebikes are NOT motorcycles

>>2069912
If you think im a normie, ive got terrible news for you retard, lmao
Ive been on this site since 2005/6
>>2069918
And fwiw i rode the triathalon bike before i ever purchased my bikes and now im going full circle
I think buddy's problem is one of many, namely inferiority complex and im not anyone special just a visitor he doesnt understand- bwcause he barely understands himself and every projection and accusation turned out to be a confession
>NO U are the normie
Hehe

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>>2069896
ye, i ended up buying 28mm. i checked the manufacturers website and they recommend it be 2-4mm wider than the rims inner width.
guess i wrongly assumed it should be a little narrower, not wider - i originally thought it should not touch the edges.
ty guys

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Ok, now that i got my bicycle posting pass back from the elitiest jannies, i hams another question
What is your favorite bike tire size and how fast can you pedal on it without mechanical assist, i.e. ebikes are not bicyxles and theyre not motorcycles, we have this conmon ground of hatred of ebikes, and an enemy of my enemy is my fren

>>2069941
38mm, slick.
I can do 15mph on road pretty normally.

>>2069917
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvesqJP1e4

>>2069941
700x32, but my speed record was set on 700x28 descending the col d'aubisque

>>2069956
>babylon bee
you forgot your trip, bacon

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>>2069941
700x50. Don't care too much about being particularly fast so I can't answer that. I just like the large tires to help deal with the Montreal roads.

>>2069934
>Ive been on this site since 2005/6
>NO, I'M IMPORTANT AND SPECIALLLLLLLLLLLLL

>>2069981
Can you stop your fucking sperg out. The only one acting like they're special here is you like you have some kind of privilege to post here. Shut the fuck up already you lame ass bitch. Not the anon you're replying to.

>>2069941
26x2.0 slicks. I haven't had a computer since highschool so I can't tell you how fast they go, but they feel lively handling-wise and don't limit your rolling resistance like smaller tires do.

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>>2069984
Step up your game son and get some 2.3 slicks

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>>2069941
my bike has a 2.25 on the back and 2.35 on the front
And I don't know how fast I go on them, fast enough

>>2069965
cool bike anon

>>2069985
>>2069984
>>2069983
You literally don't even bike if you think this is acceptable. fatbiker gas guzzlers need to go any stay go.

>>2069965
>montreal
Kill yourself you brown french cuck.

>>2069965
>>>/qb/

>>2069989
I love watching you sperg out you're so incredibly impotent, crying that your secret club is being ruined. I laugh at every one of your posts.

>>2069989
>fatbiker gas guzzlers
This doesn't even make sense. 2.3 tores aren't even fat bike tires. Go for a ride instead of crying like this online.

If you ride anything wider than 19mm you are a fat faggot and I revel in your failure.

>>2069988
Thank you. I need to figure out what yo do about the stem and handlebars, ultimately it's not really comfortable but I love how it looks with that bmx style stem. Unfortunately my thumbs start hurting within 20 minutes of riding so I know the position I have now needs to be fixed. I need more reach and I need to make it taller, problem is finding a quill stem that fits a 1 1/8 threaded fork
>>2069989
Why are you so angry at nothing?

>>2069994
I guess it wouldn't be a cycling board without the worst of the worst of cyclists on here.

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>>2069994
is it fine if I ridde 1.75x2 front and rear?

>>2069995
i see a couple of options
you could get a stem adapter and that'll make it easier to experiment
Or just get different kind of bars
maybe bmx bars and do something sorta like you can see here
https://www.vintagemtbworkshop.com/1983-moto-cruiser.html
I know it looks strange but it might work also you might find that if you get more height on the bars then shorter reach won't really an issue you can feel

>>2070001
>is it fine if I ridde 1.75x2 front and rear?
No. Leave.

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I bought a 2026 Giant Revolt Advanced 2. Am I a stupid boy? Am I a big fat dum-dum idiot?

>>2070006
>headset cable routing
yep, a certified silly billy

>>2070009
I don't like repairing my own bikes anyway. I'd rather pay a wagie

>>2070001
I appreciate the advice, I've already considered those things. I don't want to do a threadless adapter, want to keep it old school but I guess I could use the one I have lying around to experiment with height and lenght. I don't want to do bmx/moto bars as I've already done that on a few builds and want to do something different instead of building slight variations of the same bike. I'm considering maybe getting something swept back but then I lose the vision I had for this bike in the first place.
>>2070004
And if we stay what happens? Endless autistic screeching? I think I can live with that. I clearly bother you more than you bother me.

>>2070011
>lose the vision I had for this bike in the first place.
what your vision anon?

>>2070006
Is that a battery compartment!?!?

>>2070006
The bike is nice but you need to learn how to photograph your bike before showing it to online, otherwise you will get hazed

>>2070006
>chain has a giant part of it missing but is still held aloft
>no pedals but is apparently on a road next to a fast moving suv
>sustaining this speed with no rider
>dork disc still installed
>wheels(rims) aren't round and have gouges taken out of them
>two different valve caps
ai slop ass bike

>>2070015
That's a storage compartment, you nincompoop!
>>2070016
That's not my photo. If I took the photo of course I would orient the groupset towards the camera!

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>>2069992
Same
>>2069953
>>2069958
>>2069965
>>2069984
>>2069988
Well ive done lots of downhill on motorbike, bicycle, longboard with pucks
Still, nothing beats a straightway or uphill as fast as you can pedal
>>2069985
I like this purple ones tires they look cool
Also the neon green frame one looks fast too

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>>2069989
grandpa lives in 1985 and thinks his rubber bands are not entirely obsolete lol

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>>2070012
Something like a '90s 29er, a flat bar ATB with larger diameter wheels. Something swept back or a bmx handlebar just changes the look too much for me.
>>2070027
It's kinda fast, I don't have really fast tires on there, they're schwalbe green marathons. Got them for several reasons: I wanted good puncture protection, ok for all terrain use, it says "green" on them in the same shade of green as the bike, and I needed tires that come in multiple sizes. A 700x50 fits on the front but doesn't fit in the back but a 47 does. I was thinking of trying out panaracer gravelking semi slicks this summer with TPU tubes but then I sacrifice off road capabilities a little.

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Ffs, this is what I get for phone posting
>>2070028
Maybe I should go tubeless.

>>2070028
I don't know what kind of witch craft continental used to craft that king series of MTB tires hut it's actually ridiculous how fast rolling they all are. I rode the fucking knobby mountain kings on the street and couldn't believe how fast that rolled. Race king XC tires with small knobs are even faster while still providing offroad capabilities. It's actually nuts.

>>2070028
>55 psi

ah yes, I too ride my mountain bikes exclusively at a velodrome constructed from a single gigantic slab of tempered glass

>>2070034
>Missing the point this much

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>>2070001
I didn't look too much at that link when you first sent it but that's a super cool bike thanks for sharing that. I hadn't realized that's a bmx bar until really looking at the pictures, I thought at first it's a ritchey bullmoose and thought you were high for telling me they're bmx bars. The way the front derailleur is actuated is really cool too. Big thanks for sharing that.

>>2070035
one of us seems to be
the point I was making is this; btrr offers unique and interesting information but that information is invented from observations made in a wholly imaginary fairyland

>>2070040
> Comparative product testing is done is controlled standardized environments, more news at 11

In my rush I made the retarded mistake of buying a pedal adapter, and threading said pedal adapter backwards on one of my cranks. Will it hold down without snapping on me or am i properly fugged?

>>2070049
What the fuck do you mean you threaded it backwards. Do you mean you put it into the wrong side?

>>2070047
>Missing the point this much

>>2070049
nah you're fucked
I've never heard of such a thing so I'm not sure if you (not you - someone with tools and common sense) can get away with re-tapping the pedal threads somehow. If you're poor enough and stupid enough I suppose you could just apply red loctite and ruin the situation unrecoverably.

>>2070051
You're telling me that if they test tire A and tire B in their perfect non existent environment, you can't extrapolate those test results to the real world? Will the faster rolling tire A still not be faster rolling in the real world compared to tire B?

>>2070053
>Will the faster rolling tire A still not be faster rolling in the real world compared to tire B?

pretty much never, no. there's no correlation and never could be.

you can make useful conjectures from their bullshit though; any modern multi-compound top-tier tire is likely better than conti GP 4ks because those tires always sucked. for example.

>>2070055
So the relative performance won't hold? I don't see how that could be. What do you know here that I don't?

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What's the difference between these two, exactly? I came looking for some good quality tyres that would be puncture resistant.

>>2070067
One is made from recycled material that's what I gathered. I have them here >>2069965. Fuck all difference aside from that. I rolled on big apples before that and for 5 years had zero punctures.

>>2070034
Balloon slicks at 50 psi are still far more comfortable than roadie tires at 100. And yes, I do ride them that firm, 50 rear 40 front.

>>2070068
Anything else? I'm put off the second one because it doesn't have the word "plus" in the description. I believe the first one has a special kevlar layer or something to resist punctures but IDK about the second one. Got burned last time and bought the wrong tyres.

>>2070077
>And yes, I do ride them that firm, 50 rear 40 front.
I was about to day 50psi is a bit much if it's like a 2" balloon slick, they can do like 30psi without losing a lot of speed, it's around 20psi when they start slowing down big time. When I was a 9yo kid I ran mtb tires all the way up to their maximum rated pressure because I thought that writing on the sidewall was the operating pressure, I didn't know I was wrong until like my 30s lol, I now run 2.4" at 16psi and it really isn't until 13-14psi it started to slow big time

>>2070077
>Balloon slicks at 50 psi are still far more comfortable than roadie tires at 100. And yes, I do ride them that firm, 50 rear 40 front.

no, they aren't

So the other day I was riding in top-gear but I had to unexpectedly wait at a light to let a bunch of kids who were going the wrong way (on e-bikes of course) pass me, so without thinking I started pedalmaxxing in top gear from a standstill and I felt the chain slip. Are my sprockets fucked? Is my chain fucked? Or was I just pedaling too hard and should just avoid that?

what kind of geometry would suit someone how longer legs in relation to their average total height?
>>2070067
>>2070078
the plus is more puncture resistant but is also harsher in ride quality due to being stiffer

>>2070067
3 vs 5 mm punture belt

>>2070084
>Are my sprockets fucked? Is my chain fucked?
Probably. Classic symptom that they are. Probably need to replace both chain and sprocket cassette.
They are both consumable parts that wear out from time to time. The typical advice is to prolong sprocket life by replacing the chain more often, when the chain has reached 0.75% - 1% stretch, since the chain is usually cheaper.

>>2070088
I'd rather a harsher ride quality and not get punctures, I can always fix the former with a different seat.

>>2070089
Presumably the 5mm is the plus one? You didn't make it clear. I want as much as I can get but the difference doesn't sound big enough to justify getting the more expensive one.

>>2070097
You have to be riding through literal fields of nails and broken glass to put a puncture in a regular marathon. Plus is overkill imo, especially of you're wanting to save money like you are now.

year ago I bought new tubeless road tires but could not pop the bead on with floor pump, but this year they went on very easily

other tires I could mount 2 years a row but on the 3rd time needed a compressor

>>2070098
There are parts of the road and pathways in my area that have broken glass, and worse still parts where it's 98% been cleaned away but a few hidden shards remain. My most recent puncture was from a glass shard several mm long shaped like the head of a spear, but I've had plenty of punctures before this.
You talk as if it requires fucktons of glass shards to pierce your tyre, but it only needs one and some bad luck.

>>2070101
>You talk as if it requires fucktons of glass shards to pierce your tyre
I talk as if it requires fucktons of glass shards to pierce marathons

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>>2070102
It was a Marathon Winter, picrel. No visible glass on the ground, didn't matter I still got a puncture.

>>2070104
Impressive. I guess get the plus. I ride my green marathons through Montreal completely care free about glass and what not and haven't had any problems, and before that it was big apples. Zero punctures.

>>2070084
hard to say if it was the situation or your chain or gears are starting to wear, or both.

if you've been riding the same chain the whole time AND your gears are worn, then the chain is also blown. if your gears are still decent, you should probably just get a new chain.
in other words, chains wear out faster than gears.
look at pictures of new cranks and cassettes to see what new looks like. then look at pics of really worn ones, they'll be skinny and pointy and the worst will look like shark fins.
some wear and rounding is ok, but the skinny ones are blown.
if you keep up with it, you can replace the chains several times which will keep the gears in good condition longer.
if they've all worn out together then everything may be fucked. also, the cassette usually wears out faster than the chainrings on the crank

>>2070097
golly gee which one could the plus one be

>>2070114
>My pic: plus or green?
>Your comment: 3mm vs 5mm
I mean you tell me, if you'd said 5mm vs 3mm then yeah it'd have been clear.

>>2070120
Literally takes 5 seconds on google you fucking idiot.

>>2070121
I'm here in this bike questions general to ask a general bike question.

>>2070123
And it was answered. It took me 5 seconds to figure out which one has 5mm of protection you absolute retard. Fuck you.

I took a Strava KOM and a second place loser (I presume) reported my activity. Thought I was cheating with an e-bike or something? I appealed it and I'm still #1 king on that segment by 10 seconds. What a dumb boomer!

>>2070124
>Ask for simple clarification
>Sperg spergs out
Back to anger management classes you go.

>>2070125
Where's the question?

>>2070104
Did you pump it to max psi?

>>2070130
I usually do about 60 to 70psi.

>>2070132
Is that the max pressure rating for your size of marathon? That's the only way I can see you getting punctures in a marathon is if you ran them as hard as they can go.

>>2070134
The max is 80 or higher I believe.

Hi I’m retarded want a bike for road and trails nothing fancy casual riding but long ones. What to get. I’m in leaf land

>>2070136
Look for gravel and allroad bikes in your size and get the cheapest one you like the looks of that has fully hydraulic braking (no spyre shit, no hy/rd shit). This will usually mean GRX or Tiagra but 105 is nice too

You can sperg about details once you've been riding enough to know what you like and dislike about it, most of the shit can be changed later as long as the frame is right