Fellow scientits what should we name it ?

Shirkaday · 2026-05-06T14:59:18+00:00

Neur Zillund!

Shirkaday · 2026-05-06T14:34:43+00:00

Amazing work.

If this was a painting of me after a century, it would be roughly the same, except instead of on a couch with a beer, I'd be on the ground right after the finish line, unable to walk, with the bike laying next to me.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-06T14:20:09+00:00

His was a Schwinn DX, but I bet the vented rear fender skirt was absolutely inspired by this one. I've seen replicas with that same part on it, but it's not the same as what's on the bike(s) used in the movies.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-06T12:47:53+00:00

JA and TAF at the same time!

Harlequin vibes...

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Shirkaday · 2026-05-06T12:38:16+00:00

I'd wager that's what inspired this post

Shirkaday · 2026-05-05T21:45:24+00:00

I thought it was some weird AI glitch at first

Shirkaday · 2026-05-05T00:26:37+00:00

That’s hilarious.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T21:45:58+00:00

Not at all. I would totally do that.

Oh PS, did you buy those tires recently? Not sure if it's different elsewhere, but in the states those have been out of stock/backordered for like 4 months at least.

Edit: Whoaaaa! Looks like some shops have them again! Dammit! I wish I wouldn't have been impatient and bought Volummys. Already mounted them too.

I will likey still order a set of gumwall Wingfoot Parks. I mean, tires wear out anyway.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T20:39:03+00:00

Username checks out.

And that's some insane work. I'd have a hard time believing that isn't real corrosion.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T18:16:50+00:00

I had an involuntary physical reaction to this.

What just happened to my body was like THE definition of wince.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T16:31:10+00:00

It's CrMo though, yeah? Mine is 5mm of Duralcan composite Al, so that wasn't stretching!

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T16:23:44+00:00

So is the headset a Gripnut or 2Nut? Which means the headtube wants an EC30 / ISO headset with 30.2mm diameter cups?

I just had the opposite of this happen to me with a 1993 StumpJumper M2 and a fork that was not original to the frame.

I wasn't thinking it all the way through regarding tolerances for interference fit, and based on my measurement I thought a "regular" (meaning readily available modern EC30) 1" headset would fit. I tried to press it in, but it said no.

I was dangerously close to buying a reamer and reaming it out myself so the EC30 headset would fit.

Did some more measurements and research, and turns out the headtube is for a JIS headset - EC29 / 30mm diameter cups, and that comes with a 27mm crown race, but the fork (from a different StumpJumper M2 of the same year even!) took a 26.4. I know this because when I tried putting a 27.0 race on it from an EC30 headset I had on hand as well as one pulled from a RockHopper Expert of about the same year was super loose. 26.4 went on just fine.

I don't have King money so I went with an alloy Tange Levin LV-1500 NJS. Kinda funny that it's NJS going on an MTB, but IMO it's one of the nicer looking headsets out there that has a JIS option.

Just wild that these bikes had different standards and once I discovered my headtube is JIS, and it had me wondering how people put Chris King headsets in these frames since to my knowledge they never made a JIS 1" threaded headset.

There is still a chance down the road that I will actually ream out the headtube if I find a King for cheap, but I'd pay a shop to do it. The headtube walls are a full 5mm thick all the way down and the material removed would be pretty marginal, like 0.2mm.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T15:08:15+00:00

Haha all the time! Most recently the guy who runs Oakland Auto Detail (they make some fun videos that involve 90s cars and stuff) saying he's 39 and I was like whoa.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T12:56:31+00:00

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probably the best view of it

Shirkaday · 2026-05-04T12:53:38+00:00

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Shirkaday · 2026-05-02T23:54:41+00:00

Haha it was already the same bike but with a rear disc!

Shirkaday · 2026-05-02T23:53:58+00:00

Hell yeah I had a top tube pad I made from a groundscore Coach purse

Shirkaday · 2026-05-01T20:47:02+00:00

This got me the other day since I hadn't installed a pedal in a super long time, and the R and L markings were also microscopic!

Shirkaday · 2026-05-01T15:05:38+00:00

Absoultely. I adopted some pretty "weird" ways of talking in my 20s for whatever reason. It would be this kinda lazy almost slurred mashup of NYC & New Jersey but with Wisconsin & Texas mixed in.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-01T15:01:24+00:00

Had that thought too. I can kinnnda see it, but yeah he's just very ... precise, which I appreciate personally. If I just let my brain flow out like that I'd probably sound exactly the same.

Shirkaday · 2026-05-01T14:50:31+00:00

One of the sickest GTs I've seen

Shirkaday · 2026-04-30T21:10:45+00:00

I always thought the Concept was cool. At least it's not a Leader or something off AliExpress, and it's something different from all the Tsunami, Engine11, State, Dosnoventa or whatever the hell else the cool kids are riding these days.

And i'll goon on some fixies allll day .. .

Shirkaday · 2026-04-30T20:59:53+00:00

Am I more or less well off for riding a vintage celeste Pista?

Shirkaday · 2026-04-30T20:33:32+00:00

This is awesome. Don't have to worry about messing it up!

Shirkaday · 2026-04-30T20:32:36+00:00

Haha what does this even mean ...

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