Old barn find I breathed new life in because gravel bikes are too expensive so fuck it I’ll make my own.
Just waiting for the last parts since i lost some plastic thingamabobs I need for the STIs.
Sometimes I think I should keep my bike shop like surgically clean so I don’t lose the small, crucially important plastic bits in the mess of parts and old boxes but alas, if your personal shop doesn’t look like you could outfit a frame with parts you find on the ground, is it even a shop?
I’ve been looking for a vintage BMX bike to fix up with my nephew. Like a real wreck we can bring back to life. Tried yard sales and swap meets but no luck so far. Any advice on where I can find one?
maybe 2 separate motorbike and cycling threads
a thread about bikes and bike maintenance as well as a thread about motorbikes and motorbike maintenance
A part of me wishes I had enough space to mess around with bikes. But alas, I don’t. I do have a folding bike that I bought new around the summer of 2020.
I used to just wrench on gym mats in my old flat, 1-2 bicycles never really took up too much storage for me to worry about and it protected the floor, easy to lay out but also easy to stow away, maybe that’s something for you if you wanna tinker with your bike? A folding bike is still a bike in the end and much of tinkering with bikes doesn’t require you to turn your living room into a workshop, imo
Just got an electric bike recently, been really enjoying it so far, although I managed to bend the back rim a bit somehow :/ planning to take it to a bike shop to have the wheel trued sometime this week, and maybe get fenders installed too.
i got a new back rim toward the end of the season last year, and I never brought it back to the guy to ‘true it’ after some riding like he said.
went for my first ride of 2022 this past weekend and it seemed fine :shrug-outta-hecks:
It’s probably okay. Spokes settled after a couple rides and tensions may differ slightly. Good builds don’t move much. True isnt so much important as balanced. Even spoke tension is a strong wheel. Pluck your spokes originating from the same side hub flange and they should have a similar tone. Like a guitar string.
So your spokes are connected to the rim, which connect to the hub. Every spoke on the rim goes to every other side of the hub, traditionally called drive and non-drive (the side with gears and side without gears). So the first spoke after the valve might go to the drive, the next spoke goes to the non-drive, next spoke to the drive, so on and so forth. The spokes that come out of the same side of the hub should have the same tone as one another. So all the spokes on the drive side of the hub should sound the same, and all the spokes coming out of the non-drive side should sound the same.
