Tijmen's Bikes and Related Projects

It's stylized text, the full piece of fabric read Cyber. Pretty neat graphical work.

Thanks!

No not really, I think I'll make myself one of these duffels as a daily bag but I really should make a big simple tote for the basket folks.

Awesome stuff! Like that pattern and the backpacks

Oh and another one, I'm really getting into it. I'd love to reach a point where backpacks make up a decent part of my week.

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God damn these backpacks are looking really good!! Great work.

Single fidlock for easy side access is very nice.

Edit: whole thing obviously very nice. Helmet pouch? Little valuables pocket?

Thanks both!

The small valuables was your input actually! @cheekysnaker

love this

wow! looks greaT!

putting MLD into shame soon with these backpacks, great work!

Big words! What's interesting to me is that as soon as you get into performance oriented packs you're restricted to that square shape they all do. If you're going to hike with a bag 8 hours a day, you want the weight as close to your body as possible and the way to do that is with a rectangle that's just narrow enough for your arms to swing past, not so tall that it sits below your waist or towers too far above your head, and then as deep as the desired volume dictates.

It reminds me of my time in a solar car racing student team: There was an optimal shape from a performance perspective, a squashed sort of aerofoil in this case, and any addition for styling, deviates from it and reduces performance. (I urge the form-follows-function nerds to sit back on this one and not lecture me about the beauty of a utilitarian shape, a condom car doesn't look good. ) So then you're in the tricky position where you're trying to justify a non-quantifiable improvement, aesthetics, against a quantifiable measure. How much aerodynamic losses are acceptable for the car to look good? If I recall correctly we settled on me being allowed to deviate no more than 4cm from the optimal shape, and only on the sides.

Backpacks are much the same, and now the two wolves are both inside of me. By adding that taper on the bottom and the rounded front I permit myself a "sub-optimal" bag from an efficiency perspective to let my aesthetics wolf sparkle. If I were to get into Mountain Laurel territory with big hiking packs, I think I'd cave for the utilitarian wolf and end up with a boring rectangle much like an MLD or a Z-Pack.

What I hope to figure out through making these EDC'ish, less performance oriented packs, before even starting to think about hiking packs, is a "form language" and "signature styling" so even the boring squares will be recognisable as a me-bag.

wise words, i guess i was just starstruck on the MLD style accents in the checkered-looking fabric. for you it defo makes sense to live and prosper within the midlife crisis in the city - back to the nature market, which subscribes to aesthetics over maximum performance.

My university group project was a human powered vehicle - recumbent bike in an aero shell. We tried to paint it red. It came out pink. And was, as you put it, condom shaped. So, we lived that life

Swapped out the Hope clamp for a Thompson clamp which seems to have sorted out the slight seat post slipping issues I've been having. And it's back on the rigid fork as the SID is finally away for service, about 3 times over the 200h service interval by my estimate.

Celebrated with an all-road 100k ride around Dresden. I always forget to take pictures on the bike but we had a great cake-breakfast and this green drink is amazing, it's literally water, sugar, and e-numbers.

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I've tried to make my own Waldmeister Brause at home, as my parents had brought me some Waldmeister sirup as a present.. it was....... not by favourite carbonated beverage

Out with the old.

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You are soooo much better at bags than you are at bikes

Did you find those at an archeological dig?

Both @Maj and @Belagerent gave me shit over the state of my brakes today. The bike gets me where I need to go and usually stops within a couple meters so I don’t get the fuss.

Guards need replacing first, if I do a closeup of how the front tire has worn into the guard you’ll lose your mind. Maybe I could treat myself to new pads, non-AliExpress levers, new brake cables, and a BRS202 in the rear to replace the ancient single pivot brake. They’re super long reach brakes ans performance will always be a bit shit, so I don’t think it’s worth the hassle.

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I lovingly encourage you to try replacing the cable outers and inners.

The Huls is still amazing but I also want a Neutrino now.

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riders vs. their spirit animals

It's Leipzig, not London or Denmark!
If it's like Berlin you don't fit in unless your brakes make metal on metal sounds when you try to stop.

Also that pedal still has a platform attached, looks good to me.

Wow, this is incredible. Exactly what I've been looking for. Where can I get more info on it if you don't mind?