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

one of your many hybrids

Ouch

I cried.

but then I realised Amey owns a trek and felt fine again.

Don't listen to Maj, she hasn't even got proper mtb bars

Move to Denmark. Bring Spotter

Will he fit on my front rack?

I think so

Went to Epping to do big skids for lizza and her choice to take a trip doon stairs

Love you can ride up a hill and get chips, then roll all the way down to the station

Also popped in on @spotter and their partner to have a lovely cup of tea and get a tour of their kitchen, lovely house. Oh, they sold me some new mtb tyres too.

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This optional aero position is interesting

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odd i agree, but they're adamant they were not going to be the slowest on the badgers ride this time

i'm back looking at gearing options for the xcheck now i've secured both some slick tyres thanks to @launchpadboi, some challenge 36's, and it looks like i'll be putting my old dyno wheel and supernovas on it at this point

(still no mudguards)

the raceface turbine chainrings to achieve a 34/24 set up are like £100 or so, plus the chain, the cables etc, it achieves an extra 5 gear inches and looks pretty fresh to have a 2x most importantly.

however, for £100 i could get a 11sp casette, mech; chain and crank it up to 42t which would in turn, give me ever so slightly more gear inches with my current 30t chainring, marginally, and cost less in time and sanity to install. but it would look like i have a dinner plate on my bike

steps between the casette don't worry me too much, it's the same gearing i have on my homer (other than the difference in wheel size between a 2.1 and a 36c), long term 9speed chains and casettes would be cheaper, but tbqh, i don't really ride that much to worry about a casette and chain a year.

aesthetically... 2x would be better, but the 1x would still be fine in its own way, again, looks fine on the homer.

weight wise it probably all works out the same

maintenace wise? probably 1x?

never used 11speed on friction? 9 on friction is fine sure it will be cool to have another 2 in there as the gaps are already pretty large

i think accounting for this, objectively, i should just put 11sp dinner plate on and call it a day, it would be less faff, less maintenace and make the most sense financially and sanity wise, which is hesh

BUT

to have a 2x9 xcheck with some funky friction shifters would be quite cool looking and fitting with the theme of the bike to have a rando wank looking jobby

much to think about

Riding at the back is the best, as I can't see if you're misbehaving

Just ask @Kidneys

Freakishly similar and indecisive as my internal bike thoughts.

Going 2x friction gives you more gear inches and influencer points I think?

Where can you get cheap wide range 11spd cassettes?

2x9 just for giving the bike industry the finger
...

i think i would be up to giving them the finger if it wasn't for the fact i needed super tiny chainrings (34/24) to even make it viable, and they cost an abscene amount apparently

or as much as a modern deore mech and modern casette

@Cupcakes a 11-42 deore is £50 ... which is definately not cheap, but the same price as 1 (one) chainring

@rawspuds sadly not because i have to use tiny chainrings due to not being the most athletic, but also the fact 9 speed will only take me (within mfg spec) to 34t casette, it all works out about the same with 1x, just less optional gears. between that range (fine with me)

i keep telling them it's cool to be last but they will not believe me @BareNecessities , toxic masculinity in action

What BCD are the cranks? 104/58?

Took me a minute to figure out what was going on here.

104/64, these specifically: https://www.raceface.com/products/chainring-turbine-2x-104-64-bcd

i did a look around sjs but the "inner middle outer" and sizing all messed with my mind and i gave up

Also the bike industry doesn't care, it plows on regardless like the incessant, unrelenting marching of time which eventually consumes us all

People who don't like bike maintenance should avoid front derailleurs. They are the worst

104/64, these specifically

Perhaps if you can get over the whole anti-French sentiment, these would be nicer

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Took me a minute to figure out what was going on here

The new Sheldon

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Not if used with friction shifters, set the stops and cable tension, Happy days.

Even then you still have to position it vertically and rotationally on the seat tube which I find surprisingly difficult

(Not so bad with modern stuff that has alignment markers, but older ones can be difficult)

And rear!

#SFSS