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

What a journey. Excited for pomp2

Maj completed lfgss and is now playing in prestige mode.

i admit it's still a bit too well looked after by the previous owner but at the price, £180 complete, was too good to pass up

any suggestions to rough it up a bit? reversible ideally, as attractive as sandblast and clearcoat is.

@amey i will be passing this feedback onto the designers

The right/wrong stickers are working for my mash. And don't clean anything other than the chain, chainrings and the braking surface!

Durty stickers

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perfect, now i have ideological reasoning for treating my bike like this.

I have some choice overly large ones to use

maybe i will do a new batch of vinyl transfers

The right/wrong stickers are working for my mash

where in London are you moving to?

Embrace the 'beater'

Not quite

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I refuse to have any association with that one

It's the only thing stopping me from fitting a front disc, essential!

brockley, the capitol of bikepacking i'm told

brockley

Good shout, many shittier locations than that one.

amazing, very close to me! We should 'gravel'.

have you signed up for skully's RSF ride?

skully's RSF ride

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i have not! it seems to be before i've moved having just checked.

would be very down to go gravel TM !, i've missed riding with people a great deal and have booked some time off for when i move to do such, among other things.

should preface that most rides with me are usually slower than one would expect purely as you're riding with someone who has a "disability", but with that said i will drop you a DM once things are sorted to hammer it out

@psg1ben i will add this to the list of affirming responses of knowing Londoners who nod and say "ooh yes" when i bring the name up to counter my negging north london friends

Damning with faint praise.

Brockley is actually very far from shitty, a bit too far if you ask me.
It used to be a shithole but the gentrifiers and the Overground have transformed it.

Duke’s Cars lives on in our hearts though.

gentrifiers and the Overground have transformed it.

This has rarely been a pleasant experience for me.

this has 33% less mounts AND tapered steerer, it's pretty much only fit for the bin

£180 complete? Mad bargain

Aye, anxiously waiting for the lovely gentleman to tell me it’s getting shipped on x, pay y here

Keeping me up at night

Pompino still not here, assume the man will get it all sorted this weekend? I hope anyway, have some bars and a new seatpost waiting with a friend, will get a shorter stem and that’ll be it done.

As for the homer I forced myself out to change the cranks today, they’re on, they look pretty rad tbh

The cranks are not exactly “ceramic smooth” but they turn? I think it’s the spacers tbqh but I couldn’t be arsed to take them on and off, there is the right spacing on each, I watched the video 9x

Honestly it’s a mountain bike I’m sure the weather and mud will ruin the bb fast enough, they’re on tight, no play, and in exhausted torquing it all down

I found a Thomson 6 bolt for this, another bst buy with arrival date of “whenever, stop being a cop?” It’ll go on with the stooge bars, with the cranks it will essentially be that big bmx I always chatter on about.

Arkane WW is taking a look at the wheels, I’ll come back on the train or something and put them on, hopefully come back with some friends Go ride it round swinly, test it’s all ok then it’ll go back in the shed.

Maybe dump it on some poor bike person when I need it again, play coy and go “oh I dunno, just found it in the shed :)” and they can deal with all the quirks next time.

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The cranks are not exactly “ceramic smooth” but they turn? I think it’s the spacers tbqh but I couldn’t be arsed to take them on and off, there is the right spacing on each, I watched the video 9x

Honestly it’s a mountain bike I’m sure the weather and mud will ruin the bb fast enough, they’re on tight, no play, and in exhausted torquing it all down

Why do you have spacers? Plus the torque on NDS plastic bolt is only for preload, pinch bolts and the pin holds them in place so if they are not moving smoothly the preload is done up more than needed.