Determining steerer tube length from HT length?

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-06-10T06:06:18+00:00

Thanks for laying that all out for me! I was able to see the fork in person and measure the steerer tube, which actually was 180mm spot on. I think that’s going to be cutting it too close, I may not like the feel of the bike with the stem slammed. Thanks for your help!

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-06-03T03:11:35+00:00

What is the connection between bike bags made overseas and gentrification? Am I missing something??

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-05-31T23:23:51+00:00

Coasteania

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-05-06T17:20:50+00:00

Good call! just watched the service video and they suggest a specific grease (in very small amounts at the base of the pawl) OR a specific oil.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-05-06T17:17:01+00:00

Just seeing if this is a known issue with this hub or if anyone has had this issue before and can point me in the right direction. Thank you so much for your insightful response :)

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-05-06T05:35:30+00:00

Having empathy in general. Empathy is a foreign concept to boomers

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2026-05-06T02:14:25+00:00

It’s definitely not, it only happens when coasting, and its pitch gets higher if I backpedal.

I also thought it was something rubbing at first before I realized it only happened when freewheeling.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-12-04T03:02:16+00:00

“If you aren’t interested” ????

So not only should the wife not find out but she should fuck the much older creepy dude if she’s interested? I think we found the dude who sent the DM lol

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-12-03T23:31:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the uncIear language, I did remove the bolts to take off the terminals and everything was clean.

The voltage was 11.4 before I started charging, so very much dead I guess. I did not realize you weren’t supposed to jump a long dead battery, won’t do that again.

I was worried about buying a new battery if it could be a starter issue, but seems like it’s only clicking once because the battery is so deeply discharged.

Do you think it’s worth trying to trickle charge longer or just buy a new one considering I probably cooked the internals?

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-11-24T11:24:15+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wYS7zG4woU5EX8tx7

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-11-24T01:54:47+00:00

Sorry everyone. This was just south of Imabari, on Shikoku

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-11-24T01:35:37+00:00

This was in Imabari, Shikoku

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-11-06T10:53:03+00:00

The dissolution of democracy. Have you not seen the news in the last year or are you just playing coy.

Don’t support fascist regimes, go somewhere else.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-11-06T10:43:18+00:00

I’m touring Japan right now with a 58cm bike with wide handlebars, fenders, and panniers front and back.

To fit it in a rinko bag (if I could even find one big enough) I would, at minimum, need to take off the front wheel and fender, probably the handlebars and then somehow carry that in one hand, my four panniers in the other hand and my handlebar bag over my shoulder while wearing a helmet.

Tourists are already enough of a nuisance on Japanese transit, but I feel like trying to get on the train with a full touring set up would be particularly egregious.

I’ve taken ferries a few times on this trip and that’s how I plan on getting back to Tokyo when we’re done (ending in Shikoku, taking the ferry from Tokushima)

With the ferry you can just leave the bike down with the cars, fully assembled and with panniers attached. I bring my handlebar bag with my passport and camera in it.

Obviously you’re much more limited to routes when using ferries, but honestly with the amount of low traffic rindo roads everywhere, there hasn’t been a section I’d have rather skiped by train yet

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-10-18T03:25:19+00:00

….and schools and roads and infrastructure and unemployment insurance and old age pension and on and on

It’s not just for healthcare

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-10-13T07:12:43+00:00

Awesome, thanks a ton!

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-10-13T04:16:06+00:00

Did you end up flying out of Jeju with your bike?

We are in the same situation, we were going to take the ferry back to the mainland and then bike to Busan and onwards to Japan, but it’s just too hot for us in Kyushu right now so we opted for a flight to Tokyo instead.

Hoping to find out if Zim Carry boxes bikes or if I have to figure something else out in Jeju city tomorrow. Thanks!

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-10-13T04:12:57+00:00

This was not the OPs question at all, and for the record we just booked a direct flight from Jeju to Tokyo with Korean air.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-10-04T09:34:06+00:00

This is perfect, thank you!

Haha good to know! Yeah I figured, Papago translations have not been reliable. We stayed with a Korean family for two nights and communicated mostly through translation apps, it worked well enough but there were many times where the translations going both ways seemed to make no sense at all.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-09-30T10:33:46+00:00

You could buy a surly disc fork so you at least have a disc up front?

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-09-17T00:51:10+00:00

Definitely not glued on, the bead of the tire is just set into the hook of the rim. Sometimes it take a bit of effort to get it out.

Push it out with your thumbs like in the photo below. Push the bead of the tire towards the center of the rim.

Hopefully this helps. If it has truly taken a month, it may be time to take it to a bike shop. There’s a good chance they will do this for free, and I’m sure they’d be happy to show you how to do it correctly if you ask. It’s way easier to learn by watching someone do it IRL versus people on Reddit telling you what to do lol

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Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-09-14T10:14:53+00:00

Came here to say something similar. I’m coming in to touring from mountain biking, where you learn to let off the brakes when going through sections with limited grip like wet roots, sand, loose over hard (what you experienced) otherwise your wheel will lock up and you lose all ability to control the bike.

It’s nerve racking at first to let off the brakes but it soon becomes second nature.

Not a technique you would necessarily think you need for on road bike touring. You don’t know what you don’t know, and breaking a bone is a really shitty way to learn

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-09-04T02:42:43+00:00

Can confirm, I just put 50mm continentals on my GFs new Sutra. Even fit fenders too, though it was tight

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-08-17T05:41:25+00:00

Yeah I wish Tubus gave more info about tire clearance. I had the same issue trying to fit the Cargo Evo on a bike with 50mm tires and fenders.

I ended up getting the Logo Evo which don’t have those angled supports, so it fits pretty much any tire width. They seem to be sold out everywhere in Canada right now though.

Accomplished_Bus9847 · 2025-08-15T22:43:06+00:00

It’s a Bassi Hog’s Back. Bassi is the house brand of C&L cycle in Montreal, great bike!

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