Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Actually the best use of a top hat I've seen.

Nice bike.

Le Petit Porteur

18 days layer, what have you learnt?

grocery bike done

Very cool.

Lovely. Really big fan of these Crust forks. Did you buy it direct from the US?

My cdf was flawless round France and Belgium apart from a slipping seat post.

Cobbles were a pain too.

1 Attachment

So solid. <3

A maxxis grifter 2.0 would be sick if it fits

No, bought it off a local fellow online.

That is lovely.

How do you find the handling with that much load on the pizza rack?

I have one too, but have been hesitant to load it up too heavy, because I easily feel the load sits more in front of the feel than on the wheel compared to my Tubus Tara low rider. So instead of turning the load, it feels like im "swinging" it around, if that makes sense. But maybe I'm doing something wrong, and I would love ot be able to take advantage of the awesome platform for more than just daily commutes.

Yeah I felt like swinging the front end a little when it was fully loaded, I probably had 15/17kg of weight on the front.

But after about 15 minutes you forget about it and it becomes a natural feeling, which I guess it's a good thing!

I now use the rack on my single speed for commuting and it's Fine!

I had a Pizza Rack on my Vagabond and the swinging sensation was too much. Now I've a rack from a 920 with a wald ziptied on and its fine. The pizza sat too far forward

Lovely Kona spotted in Paris

1 Attachment

Nice bike.

Is that some sort of Biopace chainring?

Absolute Black oval direct mount chainring

Is that some sort of Biopace chainring?

Still no

Biopace is a trade name for a type of ovoid bicycle chain ring

In a nutshell, it really is though isn't it. Biospace was just wobblier.

Wikipedia says

*Biopace chainrings have a reduced chainring diameter coinciding with the cranks being horizontal. This is supposed to smooth the pedaling action, allowing the rider's feet to carry more momentum through the power stroke, and having it smoothly removed at the bottom of the stroke rather than encouraging riders to push bigger gears and risk knee damage due to higher knee joint loadings.[3][4]

This is different from the design of other oval style chainrings, which have the smaller effective chainring diameter coincide with the cranks being at top and bottom dead centre (TDC and BDC), thus making the crank easier for the rider to turn through BDC for a constant chain tension. By having the chainring at its peak effective diameter with the cranks level, where the rider has maximum leverage over the crank during the power stroke, these designs are supposed to make better use of the rider's power output.[3]*

To be honest I don't really get it.
Had a Cannondale with Biopace back in the day but can't remember what that was like exactly.
Have a SS with a Biopace chainring in the front right now as well because, well, the bike came with it and I couldn't be bothered to swap it for something proper, also my chain is slacking like a fucking hammock so yeah.

Sounds like a bunch of marketing wankery aimed at freds looking for microgains on their weekend group rides to me.

More importantly how do we get more/better pictures of that seat post/bag mount?

Essentially, it's supposed to help you during the weak stroke when you pedal. Two sides of the same coin.
Whether it actually works on not, seems to depend on each person and the billion and one forum/video/blog/tweet/article you can be arsed to read.

I have, and wish I didn't. @Vbulman summaries my thought on them now quite succinctly.