I am staring unwise unplanned spending in the face here. Help?
Am I too tall at 5'7" for a small framed Ice Cream Truck????
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Bikemonger Surly Sale!
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Step Away From The Website.
Or your account will be short a couple of grand...
Posted 4 years ago # -
Doooo it. It is your destiny...
Posted 4 years ago # -
Think how many WiFi-enabled thermostatic radiator valves you could buy instead...
Posted 4 years ago # -
It's a very difficult choice that, @wingpig...
Posted 4 years ago # -
oh NO, they have a Troll too. This is a hard day to be internet
windowshopping!Posted 4 years ago # -
The Big Dummy would be fun as a long-range bike packing rig. Suspect chain slap would cut it in two eventually but it would be fun while it lasted.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Cracking price for the BD. Plus you're worried about chain slap on a forum "full" of recumbent deviants - We Have The Technology to deal with it.
Posted 4 years ago # -
"long-range bike packing rig"
That's the opposite of bike-packing surely? BD is for big loads. Plenty of "extreme touring" been done on these beasts to my knowledge.
When I owned a Kona Ute I used it for cycle camping a few times. It was pretty good for that, but a trailer is better in many ways.
Posted 4 years ago # -
The opposite of bike-packing is flying to Dubai to go to the shopping malls.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@IWRATS, touché.
You know what I meant. When I hear Surly Big Dummy talked about regarding touring I think of something like this:
Whereas bike-packing makes me think of something more like this:
Posted 4 years ago # -
Yes, the term 'bikepacking' has been captured by extremists and kit manufacturers. I have tried to liberate it to cover any outdoor overnight off-road journey by bicycle.
That would cover both images. Slow and comfortable, hard and light a bikepacker's a bikepacker for a that an a that.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I'm leaning dangerously towards blowing the rainy day fund here... If I'm eschewing plane travel for holidays I can see the appeal of some very slow off-road touring
Meanwhile, Troll desires faded a bit when I realised I could go with my drops-to-flats switch on the Disc Trucker only I now want a set of these like burning: https://surlybikes.com/parts/moloko_bar (not looking up the price, I assume it's Lots).
Posted 4 years ago # -
They sell those bars at Bikemonger!
Do you think you will sell the Genesis then?
Posted 4 years ago # -
I can see the appeal of some very slow off-road touring
I can think of a route for a fat bike.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@unhurt, maybe consider these? Only £30.
https://www.cyclesense.co.uk/m61b0s372p24452/HUMPERT-Ergotec-Space-Bugel
Posted 4 years ago # -
Do you think you will sell the Genesis then?
BLASPHEMY.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@unhurt, @crowriver
Or these - close copy of Jones H-bar?https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/HBOOGBV2/on-one-geoff-handlebar
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