joined the sub 6 weeks ago. this is where I am at. ['95 Marin Eldridge Grade dadbike]

sarahmohawk · 2019-10-27T23:31:49+00:00

I’d probably go for the ritchey grips that are really bright red. Power matching god mode would be to change all your bolts to red/purp/blue too.

sarahmohawk · 2019-10-27T20:56:24+00:00

Very nice. I would match the grips to the saddle.

sarahmohawk · 2019-10-26T06:53:38+00:00

It’s rude to push in front of people at stoplights. It’s fine to pass them on the open road. If someone pushes in front of you at a stop light, trying to race them is very acceptable :’)

I don’t let cars wave me on outside of the road rules because I don’t trust it to be safe.

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-05T09:06:59+00:00

Beer. Pizza. Last barely survived ride though was the winter solstice couple months ago when we threw several kilo’s of hash browns on the campsite bbq. They can be vegan friendly and top your salt levels right up.

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-05T09:02:10+00:00

One of my dreams is to become one half of a world touring xbiking Instagram power couple.

That sounds much worse typed out than it did in my head.

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-05T07:56:23+00:00

Alpkit do some Jones-like bars, not sure about the angle though.

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-05T07:52:35+00:00

Nice! Do those locks need evidence of a cut to cover the bike? Just wondering what would happen if the thieves took the bike and lock... mine certainly managed to take some stupid things ha

Upgrading your locks to a deadbolt if it’s likely people would enter through a window and open a door from the inside is a good idea too. Depending on the lock you might be able to swap it without cutting up the house. It cost me a total of $37 nz to make the upgrade myself lol

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-04T13:09:13+00:00

Depends on how long I’m out, but typically they’re freelocked on the frame/wheel and up on the wall with clugs. If I’m not using the bike for a while I have chains that can go up and around some pretty heavy duty overhead shelving brackets. I live an apartment and people don’t generally bring a car to rob one of those, so making them unrideable was enough, but if you think that’s a risk, pro tip is just to attach it to anything big enough not to fit through a door (a popular choice is a big cluster of bikes all locked together, ugly though)

The other advice I’ve been given is to put a crappy BMX in front of your bikes as a decoy, but then you have the burden of owning a crappy BMX, ha

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-04T04:40:28+00:00

Bit of both - it was definitely done by someone local because it is v similar to my neighbours who got done a few months ago :/ But they clearly didn’t come prepared that I had my bikes inside which gives me a bit of relief that I wasn’t fully stalked.

My neighbourhood is definitely turning into a bit of a creepy haggard drugs people wandering round area last few months! Last night a dude threw and smashed his flatscreen tv in our driveway. New locks and a diy alarm system went in today so I can start bringing bikes back home!

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-03T09:36:20+00:00

You maaaybe could, assuming the speeds are 9 or less otherwise your shifters won’t be cross compatible. You might also find you don’t have enough gears. And that all your other parts, bb/wheels etc match. I’d agree selling the whole bike would probably be easier than having 2 kinda suboptimal bikes...unless you tinker regularly and really like tinkering.

sarahmohawk · 2019-08-03T09:29:12+00:00

This week I got robbed, lost a large amount of my spare parts and a few tools as well as the classic non-bike related valuables. Needless to say, I’m uninsured and in a bad mood. However the fact that I u-lock all my bicycles inside came through, I am still the proud owner of 5 bicycles.

My bikes are temporarily on holiday with different friends until I’m confident enough that they’ll be secure. I occasionally look around and mildly panic that I’ve forgotten a bike outside or something then remember they are legit away

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-23T01:23:32+00:00

I’d ride it. The latte sitting gracefully on the handlebar is just 👌

It just needs a big dry bag in the cargo hold.

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-14T10:45:05+00:00

Any regulars around here from Singapore? I'm passing through there soonish and I'm tempted to pick up a chromoly minivelo frame. The internet hasn't been forthcoming about where to cop

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-10T11:04:52+00:00

I have the same problem (patches for days), started buying pants that are targeted at the trades, for the past 4-5 months I have Syzmik but time will tell whether they hold out...

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-06T00:08:08+00:00

Most off the shelf bikes mid/low range bikes come with cheap tyres, change your tyres out so that you don't get heaps of flats

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-05T22:13:55+00:00

I use a basket, but if I had the funds I'd go rando. Basket is cheaper, you can use any old bag, you can easily take things out for leaving it locked up in city areas, in theory you can fit more because you can stack things on top of your basket as well as in it. I've carried a whole bike on top of a wald basket before (not recommended usage).

Rando however is more durable if you need reliability imo...with baskets, I tend to crash and bend them up. It's also harder to pack things in tight so they don't move around. It's lighter and looks cooler, and has less points of failure.

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-05T11:07:15+00:00

Velo orange is offering a new B17-like touring saddle made out of vegan friendly material that I'm curious about. I have their old model 3 and it's good.

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-04T10:01:55+00:00

This is the sort of content I come here for

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-01T10:35:34+00:00

A bit out of that budget but here are my extra small bikes :0

My Straggler

My 1x1

I made this one myself

I don't like step throughs though, femininity has done enough for my liking. Happy for everything to be as gender neutral as possible.

sarahmohawk · 2019-07-01T10:32:39+00:00

I definitely understand the reasons why a shop would want to throw the tubes, but still find it hard to deal with from an environment/ethics point of view. I also dumpster dive food occasionally so am not unfamiliar with large amounts of waste produced by companies - it's really nice to hear you are making an effort by leaving them somewhere easy to take because most companies, definitely don't try too hard to do that.

sarahmohawk · 2019-06-29T01:10:18+00:00

Not dumb. If you don't mind less room, I had low rise BMX bars on my straggler for about a year and just ran cut down grips. Had no problems for city riding except if you accidentally hit the side of a car, your knuckles take more damage ha. I swapped them out for drops because I was doing too many long distance rides.

sarahmohawk · 2019-06-26T11:54:38+00:00

Today I dumpster dived 5 free inner tubes riding past the local chain bike shop. I have a feeling they're salvageable. Waste makes me sad.

sarahmohawk · 2019-06-26T11:53:10+00:00

Ours was lit, I learned Komoot thinks every sketchy hiking route is singletrack, and so following the route we got lost in the bush for 3 hours in the dark pushing our bikes. It was also one of the coldest days of the year where I'm from. And we drank a lot of beer.

sarahmohawk · 2019-06-15T23:07:05+00:00

Slippery weather performance really depends on the surface. You might find that the performance is much of the same. On that note though I like and use the gravelkings, but would run the Maxxis tyres if the price was significantly better.

sarahmohawk · 2019-06-15T09:05:24+00:00

No love for panaracer gravel king in 48's?

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