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@RabiCycle
Uff thanks y'all for the compliments! Consensus in the real world seems to be that it looks like something a homeless person would use to transport a mattress.
But I liked the way it looked. Definitely theft proof! The problem was it rode terribly. Firstly the wheels were shot. I got them for free from my neighbour who found them in the scrap metal bin. Turns out the front needed new bearings and the rear had what "the internet" calls the "Mavic death squeal". It manifests itself as a high pitch squeal when freewheeling at higher speeds. Also the cassette rotates in the direction of the wheel rotation and the chain goes slack. I could have taken the freewheel body apart, apparently some thin oil can fix it, but the rims were also too narrow to take 38s. Next, the brand new panaracer tyres had I kid you not 4 flats in 4 commutes. And lastly the gearing was way off to the time- trial end of the scale and the RD had a wimpy spring and let the chain go too slack.
Here's a miserable photo of a miserable commute along the swampy november tow path.
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