Crust Romanceur. I hate road bikes edition.

Like Subaru but ultimately owning an ‘outdoorsy’ car never made a difference as to whether or not I spent time outdoors.

Same vibe, I and my partner was oo and ahhing on whether should we get a small van for the "outdoorsy" shit we like, sleep in it, carry bike, etc.

Turn out the best thing to do is just keep her old Ford Fiesta* that take 16 second to hit 60mph which suffice in all kind of outdoor stuff and put a bike/tent in it.

*The Pyreneans seemed to be exclusively driving on 80's underpowered hatchback on mountain gravel road rather than big American style 4x4 that get stuck a lots.

fucking hell scoble you are on some journey for sure

Exactly. I’ve become pretty anti car tbh. Somewhat necessary here to own one, but people here use them so unnecessarily. For like the shortest journeys ever. And more often than not it’s one person in every car - never more.

You are a thought leader. I'm also going car free. Ideally I would also have a stump jumper.

Ignore the saggy saddle. Going to be returning it to Selle Anatomica I think. That’s an R2 on ‘max tension’ lol. Piece’a shit.

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I try.

I’m currently sat at a cafe with about 20 tables in it. 17 parking spaces. All taken. Cars currently jostling for a space waiting for people to leave. I rolled up and just locked my bike up. Same thing happens at Trader Joe’s. Kinda makes me cringe. Bet most of these people live within walking distance.

Big moves with a family. Will you still have a car in the family? If so, that doesn’t count 🤪 kidding.

In other news my front tyre on the crust isn’t holding air. I knew I’d regret tubeless before I’d even ridden the bike >>>>>>>

I gifted one of the early 90s Stumpjumper Comp (battle grey with red decals) to a friend. He ran out of space, tried to gift it on with no luck so gave it to a recycling place in Manchester.

Obviously a super cool story but the essence was that I’d have traded for one of your Geek’s (would have let you choose, I’m not greedy) plus a little beer money my way.

Serendipity I guess.

Car-free nuclear family. Offsetting my boomer parents with their three cars for two people.

lelz

Sensational stuff. Getting a cargo ebike? I ask because @spotter likes to make out that he’s anti car but he owns a diesel white van. Scam artist.

@revenant. - looks like you were right about the Stumpjumper being more appropriate for the kind of riding I wanna do ☠️…. From a 1990 brochure.

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Already got a Load 75 Rohloff HS.

Spotter is a classic white van man.

This is the greatest photo

It'll seal, just take it for a ride, let the tyre milk work it's magic.

Yeah, that would require having all of the parts I need 😂

@revenant. damn. This guy cargos.

I’ve still got one of those helmets but with a royal blue cover. I may need to start thinking about the possibility of replacing it soon.

Then just flip the bike upside down (or put it in a workstand) and keep spinning the wheel, it'll eventually work.

I had one of those terrible fabric covered specialized helmets as a kid. Think mine was acrylic blue.

This is weird, not that I know anything about these saddles, but it looks like the bolt hasn't taken the tensionning carrier (?) into the direction that would give you tension.

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Yeah. I spoke to customer services and she’s asked me to send her photos. Explained something about them probably just needing to send a different length tension bolt. They have two different lengths. I don’t remember why she said that they started using the short one.

If your leather has irreversibly turned into a hammock because the wrong bolt was provided with the saddle they should just give you a new product.

Whatever, lovely mtb, and I can't wait to see more of the crust

Oh, and were frog legs considered in the previous pages for the cantis?

It's 2 weeks old and its rubber, not leather. FYI. Issue specific to the rubber one according to customer service woman.

No they weren't. Hadn't heard of those. XTR cantis arriving tomorrow anyway.