MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

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  • having now done a shake down ride over some glorious uk gravel hauling a full bag set ups worth of gear, i think it's really the ideal machine to carve through the wilderness and set me right on any troubles and adventures i face

    (i went to the the park over to road to make coffee, outside, and look at peoples expensive dogs in jumpers)


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  • Making coffee outside when you're not camping, crazy. Fair play.

    Loving the pomp.

  • Nice frame pump workaround.

  • thank you guys!

    honestly loving this bike a lot lately, while chances to ride it are few and far between, i've ordered some big sealskins lobster claws to increase the chances

    i was BULLIED into ordering a dynamo hub and rim, which will get built down the line, the pomp fork isn't drilled but after digging through google this was also an issue someone had 9 years ago, someone with what i can only assume is an absolutely gigantic brain said

    "put a brake booster on and attach the mount to it?"

    honestly, nobel prize for bicycle engineering

    ofc this means buying some special bolts if i want to put paul brakes on as a future plan....but damn would b sweet

    in other news i got some new stickers to "create artistic moments and help better narrate the story these bikes tell, applying a fingerprint to an otherwise commercial, soulless good"

    (crust.....hire me......please.................i'll do your uk cs)


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  • goretex boots?
    lobster mitts?
    flat japanese pedal
    hoodies and vests?
    wizard works bags?
    mis match but some how working parts?

    you guessed it, it's that girl who photographs their bike for every mile they ride


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  • Loving the paint and overall colour scheme of this. I think it is a shame however that the silver stem was replaced with a black one..

  • now you've said this it's for sale, i cant take it anymore


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  • Seems like a fair price too! GLWS!

  • It's just too short at the front for me

    Yoga :)

  • please, stop skewering my absolutely flimsy excuses for offloading a bike i've only just built

  • You get a pass if you have plans for another build. That's how it works

  • i messaged the guy at clandestine, does that count?


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  • Definitely, sounds rad

  • 2 bottle cage mounts

    Are you even taking this seriously?!

  • @amey I think this is one of those situations where you @fizzy.bleach

  • any more than two bottle cage mounts you're telling the world "i get all my bike packing information from road.cc and gcn"

    no self respecting person would actually need more than two, if they did they'd use full frame bag and low rider mounts for dry bags rather than waste space on such a dedicated single use item.

    everyone know's you're only going to ride it on that same semi flat local loop 70 days a year (if that) because you're perpetually chasing that "tour" like some form of cycling sisyphus. why have your bike look like it has an STI?

    really sorts the posers, from the posers who've read more

  • can...
    can you say that?

  • Hayley's next project

    • Quill stem skinny steel 90s mtb drop bar conversion. Like the original Crust romanceur, but without discs and cheaper. 5/1
    • Same as the above, but paying 10x the price to get clandestine cycles to build her one from custom, rim brake ofc. 8/1
    • SSMTB, 26 or 27.5 with a rigid fork, single speed with disc front, v brake rear if 26, just front disc if 27.5. 10/1
    • Another steel "do it all" bike but this time with 650x47 clearance, honjo fenders, rene herse tyres, all silver finishing kit. Probably import a crust lightning bolt or find a deal on something. 12/1

    Place your bets now.

  • I don’t care as her threads are excellent and the truth bombs she drops burn deep.

  • mancunians of lufguss saving lufguss from itself, one sarcastic comment at a time

    your welcome

  • raleigh is sold to a local bike womans sister and they're planning some tours together, it's replacing her sisters old, raleigh she is currently underbiking some fine british "gravel" on

    couldn't be happier :>

  • i went to the the park over to road to make coffee, outside,

    Would rep. I'm into that.

  • muddy canal pic from todays pootle, first time i've enjoyed riding a bike in about 25 years and all it took was lobstermitts, Gore-Tex boots, flat pedals and no gears

    it was premium uk gravel tho, absolute bliss and to do that you have to ride to the ride.

    cruising some absolutely lovely Manchester cycle infrastructure with a pal (an inner city dual carriage way), cars howling past, no chance of a natter about the woes of love or how Christmas is "terrible every year but we keep doing it", just the fine purrr of hatchbacks

    alas a brief bit of disassociation and we're at the end of the tracks and hopping onto the path for some of that sweet sweet gnermeck'. i'm on the fine bike below, my friend on his brother allday with some lovely slick terravails, cnc'd parts within an inch of our lives, ovnight parts from japan, i'm in arcteryx trousers and hoka boots, a tnf vest i've put cycle patches on, he's wearing a puffer vest and flannels, jeans and knitted giros, let me tell you people, we looked like a couple of GRADE A tossers, you would have loved it.

    never the less, the ride, turning the corner we entered what could only be described as the somme, im talking bits of dog sticking out the mud, yummy mummies dragging their children around looking to be crushed by less considerate cyclists, the path was 10% mud, 90% water.

    now me? with my swept bars, dropped saddle, semi knobblie tyres? absalutely gliding through it, quick skid in the mud, little hop over a root, if i saw myself in third person i would have seen a gangly girl awkwardly failing to bunny hop a crack but luckily i was in camera 1.

    reaching the end of the path and without the sound of hatchbacks i went "damn sweet where to now?", there was noone behind me, hello? i said, it took me a while but about 200 miles back there was the brightest light i could see, the unmistakable engineered beam of a son deluxe II awkwardly navigating the minefield of sunday walkers, avoiding the puddles and nursing the supple, plush terravails over the land beneath them

    it was clear from this point this wasn't going to end well, regret was creeping in for my pal. he's genX tho so unlike a millennial he didn't moan about it he just kind of sucked it up and replaced his thoughts with his happy place (when japanese electrical companies designed products to last and not to be replaced), me being a zoomer just wanted to die.

    this process repeated 5x or so, i'd stop wait for them to catch up, we'd have a natter about life, the lfgss interior design thread, the next Japanese made good we were buying etcetc, you know, wanker stuff.

    At one point the mud got too much and front brakes had to be unclipped, inhibitions were lowered and what was sold as a quiet gravel spin in the golden hour (3pm) actually turned into another way to depress oneself, we cut it short headed home and it was a great decision tbh, i was just in time to start work on sweet potato curry for tea.

    however in the face of all this, i had a great time, the bike is ace and for the the first time in a few years i felt i was on a bike i didn't have to be putting effort into have fun on, look forward to more of it :>


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  • Nice write up. That gate looks familiar, Kenworthy, edit or by Chorlton Water Park?

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