Fuji Jari gnarmac (n-1)

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When my cadence gets just too high for a gear, I shift up once and it’s perfect in the next.

Yeah but dont you have relatuvely tightly soaced cassettes on all bikes? Biggest you run is a 28t on the rear, right?

I was refering to having to have a much larger cassette on the back to account for the single ring on the front. (If you dont want to compromise the higher gears with 1x)

Anyway now all that nonsense is sorted, which bottle cages @yemble ?

better off shaving their legs

for those sweet aero gainz

I have an old Carlton Corsair with "in between" chain rings and a five speed block.

The idea is that you change chainring and sprocket sort of in turn* to work up through ten gears. It's a stupid idea and doesn't really work. But, it exists.

* 1S, 1B, 2S, 2B ... 5S, 5B.

No, 30t but I use that as a road bike, if it had fat tyres I wouldn’t get to the smallest gear and would go for less than a 50t and it’d be fine. No gaps.
11-42t is for children

I meant if you were accelerating, you wouldn’t shift down at the front and up 3 or 4 times to give you a middle gear between two cogs in the big ring.

um, ok, yeah nobody does that.

Your cassette is tighter on a two ring setup and still cover the range.

Haha exactly. My only point before all this is that 1x doesn’t make your gears gappy at all, a big cassette does. And if you just HTFU then you don’t need that either

I ride fixed because it’s fun.

A fun thing about road bikes is they’re fun to ride fast on roads. Keeping cadence where it needs to be when your on the rivet is nice.

Other opinions are available.

[comment about wide range cassettes being necessary for some people and about gatekeeping from Velominati types being bad for cycling overall]

No, I didn’t say there was anything wrong with 32t cassettes. You shouldn’t jump to conclusions fella.

I know you like a poorly backed argument but I can’t really be bothered. No, I didn’t say anything about mountain biking, that’s not what we’re talking about.
I don’t have any injuries or disabilities no. Should we all be riding tricycles because some people require them?
You gotta stop taking exception to everything anybody says on here that you don’t agree with dude. Most of the time they’re taking the piss.

I think you’ll find though, if you’re going to pluck something out of the air to back up your argument, that most pros use 28 or 30t cassettes in mountain stages and go down to 38t chainring

I’m building my girlfriend a 1x bike with 42t chainring and 1-36 cassette. Do you still think I’m trying to be macho? Do you think I tell her to htfu?
Before you were irritating, now you’re being fucking rude.

should just relax and slow down by 1kph if they feel their cadence is wrong

This is me. I target a cadence/effort, not a speed. Could be awkward on a fast group ride I guess.

@hp93 sticking with lezyne side loaders. It's really hot here half the year. High 20s - low 30s from June to September. So I carry a tall vacuum flask with ice water in summer and need a side cage for access in my size frame (52 btw).

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Gotcha, then my apologies too

Big fat alloy welds, seem tidy though. Unusual semi-clear paint shows the metal underneath. The faux-raw look is bit naff so I'm gonna put hot pink bar tape on it to start with.

Hopefully get bars and gears later this week so get get into cable shortening & routing this weekend.

@Jaap yar, I see the rings are available. Could be an option down the road as I get older and slower :)

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it's a more general point that was triggered by you typing the letters "HTFU". It's just something that gets my goat and you see enough of that nonsense on the rest of the internet

"HTFU" as a term has a long and venerated cultural history on this forum. You may not be aware of the depth of that and how it may be used differently here to its face value meaning.

In other words: HTFU or fuck off.

@PhilDAS, @frankenbike

HTFU

The seatstay bridge is different, would look much better than a ~traditional~ one though if the mudguards are compatible!

Yeah bit weird. Going to use the PDW plastics I already have if they fit, but may need some bodging to work with that vertical bolt hole. Either fold the vertical tab over or maybe put a small bolt right through the fender and up.

Unusual semi-clear paint shows the metal underneath. The faux-raw look is bit naff so I'm gonna put hot pink bar tape on it to start with.

I really like that tinted clear coat look / effect! Sharp.
I do agree with hot pink tape too, though

Steerer cut (as little as possible) and wheels showed up so quick check of clearance. Looks like space for 40mm tires with fenders.. though width may be tight at the chain stay bridge. Sans fenders, there appears to be loads of room - officially the frame fits max 42mm.

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SRAM bits showed up too. Looks like the shifters come with shift cable outers, but not inners for some reason (I think this happened when I bought the Apex group for my commuter last year and totally forgot). Annoying. Hopefully LBS has some 1.1mm cables.

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