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

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I rode the 10mi to work today on my sleek lightweight OG Terry Dolan road fixed with 23mm Schwalbe Ones, instead of my heavy-ass Salsa Vaya with 54mm Marathon Almotions. I was no faster.

#csb #anecdotalevidence #samplesizeofone

after all this chat decided to put the folding tyre on, along with a wide brooks,

still not buying new tyres for this yet, but it's good to know a 29x2.1 fits the fork, and a 2.2 should if i ever do buy new tyres because 29x2 premium tyres seem rare, and the options of 700x50 are slim

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i got this saddle from spa cycles, along with a replacement post for the pomp, when i ordered it they called me and said "we're just going to cut down a 400mm one, that ok?"

love a functional approach

do new/better tyres feel better?

i've only gone up and down the culdesac, i wouldn't say they felt faster, but they feel nicer in hand and a bit more flexible, you can tell a little, worth the 20 minutes or so to change.

i think if i spent £80-140 on new tyres i would be a bit more critical about how much was tyre and how much was more volume/ lower pressure (which has also changed) in addition to the material

i've only gone up and down the culdesac

thats enough

and yeah you are right, 29x2.1 and 700x50 are a little rare.

new bike?

agreed, time for the electric trek mtb and putting this out for the binmen

There is no need to spend £80 on premium tyres

good tyre but tubeless

Be lovely with some latex tubes

this is nice but my brain will not allow me to have specialised/ sworks on this bike, it took a lot to have this WTB branding on. terminal brain worms.

i think i will get GK 700x50 when the time comes, they have been great in the smaller size around my local trails and i liked them at 700x43 for the brief time i had them on

Did get some new tyres tho

Had an inner tube explode setting them up? No idea what happened, was under max psi, inner tube might have been damaged as my old tyres had a gash in?

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Pompino with Paselas brings back sweet memories. Oh why did I sell you, the regrets haunt me to this day...

Probably caught the tube. Teething problem with the new tube plus technology. Think they'll design special rims to get around it in the future.

is it wrong to say that I like your pomp more than homer?

Its more pure.

yet more things to chalk up to being on the cutting edge of early adoption R+D @Belagerent

in regards to the bikes @amey i don't think you're wrong, i think the difference is best explained by two theoretical heavyweights,

the pomp falls best when put against the work of yohji yamamoto:

“The pomp is modest and arrogant at the same time. The pomp is lazy and easy but mysterious. But above all The pomp says this: "I don't bother you - don't bother me".” “For me, a bike which is absorbed in its own work, which does not care about gaining one's favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive.

the homer on the other hand is more in line with Rei Kawakubo

“The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting bikes can thrive.”

there ofc is room in a bike shed for both approaches

That said i think the homer is rough around the edges, it needs some work, both fiscally and natural wear and tear, in time it maybe becomes something a bit more natural,

maybe less pure shock factor of Rei and more reliant on esoteric and obscure refrencing seen in Jun Takahashi's builds:

“In my work I want to express not something merely pretty or cute, but to find something behind it,” ... “I think it’s very human. I take that cute steel tourer and I give it a bit of a shock — that bit of violence. The combination is something that gives it real beauty. I am not denying beauty, but presenting it in a different light.”

Possibly also drawing in the meticulous, if somewhat civilian work of Tetsu Nishiyama:

[It] really is from my intuition. To me, “placing things where they should be” is the basis and the foundation of design. That’s why I use it as a slogan. As I did bike design, I got a bit exhausted with the repetition every season. Things could be the same, the same and the same… I needed quite some motivation to keep going. And … whenever I think of the motivation I return back to the origin, to the foundation … “placing things where they should be." This is my starting point when it concerns bike building."

currently the bike is shocking and unconventional to the media, deliberately so, but it does not seem to have that little violence to shake up a conventional tourer into something a bit more aggressive and reinstate the beauty differently from a twee, whimsical and understated blue lug inspired build, or even the practical and economical build which adorns the frame. to steal a phrases however, things are not currently where they should be, and i think in time they will begin to be, much like the pompino.

It turns out you are very much on the edge, potentially middle, of the culinary zeitgeist

https://www.eater.com/22395682/why-you-should-freeze-your-baked-sweet-potatoes-recipe

I am a big fan of the humble Nano 2.1 for general riding. Seems fast rolling with a bit of grip when greasy, yet not as puncture prone as some of the fast rolling 29 x 2 tyres (tubeless though...).
Merlin have some good deals on 29x2 tyres at the moment?

when will the bag makers catch up and offer insulated snack bags? seems so obvious, for hot and cold snacks/ drinks? they're forever fighting over a seam here, copying a cut of fabric here, but there is fresh, unbroken land to move in on!

@velosaurus they do have the aforementioned rocket rons, maybe in due course. or maybe not now the nanos have support

when will the bag makers catch up and offer insulated snack bags?

Most are, fairly sure your WW stem bag is padded with foam for insulation.

i'm going to investigate mine at lunch

Mine is. Has done a great job of keeping a bottle of rose at drinking temperature in the past.

Or cut up a bit of cheap sleeping mat to create your own foam insert.