@Jackson Priest - looks like a good pourer
@crowriver - looks like a good birler. If alfine better sealed than nexus which I believe is true. Non matching front and rear tyres? But that is not illegal.
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Non matching front and rear tyres?
If the owner has been parking it like that from new, maybe the original front wheel was nicked? Might explain a new, non-matching front tyre...
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I was really hoping that was going to be a picture of my helios still safely parked at Waverley...
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@Crowriver, maybe the back was getting a bit worn so s/he fitted what they prefer?
As to parking expensive bikes, maybe it's a sign of their increasing popularity, after all, it's got a chunky(ish) lock on it, and people leave thousands of pounds worth of car around with minimal security...
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maybe the back was getting a bit worn so s/he fitted what they prefer?
Probably. I looked a bit closer at my pic (taken while in a bit of a rush), and the bike appears to have 'security skewers' on the front wheel (need a special tool to remove) so scrub my first explanation...
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I may know that bike's owner...
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Non matching front and rear tyres? But that is not illegal.
Neither are "crud catcher"-type guards on a drop-barred bike.
But that doesn't make it "right" :)
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I use crud catchers on mine for off road. Full mudguards seem dangerous since you might get stuff caught in them.
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Neither are "crud catcher"-type guards on a drop-barred bike.
But that doesn't make it "right" :)
That is blatant bike snobbery of the highest order, and I have to say that I completely agree with you.
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Have to say however, I rode / pushed / carried my audax bike (25c tyre in a close SKS P35 mudguard) across a very muddy / clayish ploughed field to reach Auldcathie Kirk and had to remove both wheels after to get them spinning again due to amount of accumulated / lodged mud build up. Perhaps wider, more RADICAL mudguard stylings have a use after all :)
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I may know that bike's owner...
Is it you then, Uberuce? Did note an aside a few weeks back where you mentioned you had bought a Day One...
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Newps, but well remembered; I've got the flat-barred singlespeed flavour in a more subdued shade of blue. I certainly wish I'd had the Alfine 8 last Tuesday; gears>>>fixed for HT night, and no-one would have seen that fugly orange.
My 'possible' and I were talking about the rubbish* tyres that both the single and Alfine come with, so it's possible he's swapped out the front but left the back alone because of an unwillingness to tinker with the hub and brakes until that free 30-day service comes around.
*On the road, anyway. Maybe they're lovely offroad, but I dunno.
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I am pretty sure that I am seeing more bikes with childseats these days (any stats?).
Two apparently unrelated seen in Innocent Tunnel this morning, both with child occupants. One child complained to their "driver" as I passed "why is he going faster than us". The "father" said diplomatically that I had stronger legs. If I were in that position I might have been less diplomatic and said something about going up hill with a lot of extra weight.
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Amir, yes I'm sure I'm seeing more too. Good news!!
I saw a guy on a bike on the Forth Road Bridge (from the bus [embarressed]), then again on the A90 where the cycle path joins, then again at Cramond Brig as he passed us, then again at Craigleith opp Holiday Inn as he got a green light whist we waited on Red. We then followed him in on the A90 across Deam Bridge, and he peeled off towards Queen Street....
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Looks a bit like Schwalbe Marathon or Marathon Plus on the front of that orange machine. I have Marathon Pluses on the Vienna 2, but as you can see the reflective sidewall on the rear tyre is obscured by road dirt and dried brake pad 'juice' (brake pads dissolve in the rain I find).
The Day One pictured looked older than 30 days: quite a few nicks in the top tube paintwork, presumably from locking up/leaning against lamp posts etc. Also that rear tyre looks a bit worn. I presume originally it had a semi-knobbly cyclocross tread?
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Asked the owner today; it can't be his since he has full mudguards.
They both come with Continental Speedkings, and mine wore down at a pretty alarming rate; the rear tyre was just about bare on the crown after three weeks at only 9 miles a day.
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I think I spotted Wingpig tonight. In front of me, turning left at Jock's Lodge. Lots of lights and hi-vizness, incorporating a Lothian Buses jacket.
Chatted to another bloke further down t'road, wearing the same jacket as me, heading home to Dunbar on his Dawes. Hope he's ok, it was a bit blowy in variable directions once on the coast.
Bar end lights are definitely a good icebreaker.
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Must work: first time I've worn my freebie tabard and I get spotted in the dark.
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Just spotted Storybike's Andy on the High Street, resplendent with a new Surly front rack.
Never mind your Brompton Zombie bashing - that rack is built to survive any post-apocalyptic scenario...
Robert
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Dave's bike's spookily similar brother; at Waitrose half an hour ago.
White Pompino frame, hub gears, bullhorn bars, brown saddle.
I'd have listed this as a Dave spot, except the bar tape was brown, the saddle a Brooks, the brakes weren't hub/coaster and the gears had a bigger cylinder than the Sturmey Archer.
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Spotted in the bike racks outside Scotmid Portobello. These Day Ones are getting quite common round here!
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Interesting. From the look of the brakes, the owner's changed from the drops that come with the yellow model to flat. Seems odd that you'd change from drops when there's a flat bar flavour already.
2012's line has the drop model in a fetchingly deep shade of red, which I like more than my blue. Ah well.
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Another oddity is: mudguard on the front, but not the rear. ??
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Well, it's not the easiest thing to take a wheel out of full guards when you've got track forks, but since the owner doesn't seem to have changed the tyres from the originals or added a fixed cog, I'm not sure if that'd be a big issue. Either way: yes, I don't get it either - why not a clipon/seatpost effort?
I've got a crudcatcher on rear and nowt up front, which I need to do something about.
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Well I thought I'd post on here asking if it was Crowriver who spoke to me outside Scotmid in Porty since he mentioned in another another thread being on bike with tag-along there today.
Quite surprised then to find a picture of my Genesis further up the page. Some of the choices may be peculiar, but I bought it with the drop bars for a change as other bikes all have straight - however, I found I wasn't using it much as I didn't take to the drops, figured I'd see if I prefered it with straight bar and do. The single mud-guard at the front is because that was lying around in the garage unused when I needed guards and now I only need a back I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy a new pair. The red brake cables and bottle cage (before somebody else mentions these) were going cheap when I needed some in EBC sale and I thought why not?, I can always change them.
It's funny because I often admire the way other people have modified their bikes, but while I'd like mine to look good, so long as it rides fine I guess I don't care too much.Posted 13 years ago # -
@Exciteableboy you get my vote for matching bottle cage, cable outers and the quick release for your bar bag! I appreciate such attention to detail when specifying one's boike :)
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Hi there ExcitableBoy, nice to chat briefly at the bike racks. Wondered to myself if you were on CCE at the time. I took the snap while I was packing my shopping in the panniers. Hope you don't mind. I did kind of drop a hint I suppose when I commented on interesting bikes being seen outside Scotmid of late: just wish I had snapped the home made cargo bike last week.
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Suddenly everything makes sense...
I wub my Genesis to bits, although since I've still not taken the Marathon Winters off, it's pretty much shelved until the roads ice up enough to justify the stud wear.
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I think I saw the orange one on the previous page being ridden past me on the cycle path at Silverknowes thia afternoon.
I also saw a man on a hand trike and a young lad on a unicycle down at Cramond.
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A folding bike heading from Glen village down towards Falkirk abour half six tonight.,
If you are on here, I was in the car following you, cracking back light, but imho you should have moved out and taken the primary position once you were on the downhill, much too rough on the inside line where your front light got shaken off(!)
Hope it was ok, no offence meant if I'm wrong, but you looked quite new to commuting, if I might be able to offer any help/advice drop me a pm :-)
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