fks Splat's That (some Kuwaharas etc)

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very stylish

which style

Hard style

❤️

This is lit

Yeah I do like that!

Thankyou. Going to go bother some old stones on dartmoor tomorrow perhaps, will report back

So good!

Dreamy. Love the colour too.

:)

Tasteful is an understatement

no matter how hard I try I can't switch off my inner minimalist

also sorted a couple of donhou details that were annoying me

ps i know i need some lessons in colour grading

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donhou has gone to pastures new

so I bought this hybrid bike recently and I will soon elaborate on why

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Okay so

I sold the Donhou, the person seemed very happy with it. The reasons for this are: that I'd had it 15 months and rode it once in that time; there were some build / design / finish things that bothered me a lot, mr donhou is aware but I won't get into here, and to be honest the general vibe of the bike was one of a display of affluence strikingly at odds with my current predicament.

Which leads me onto:

this cube hybrid bike

All bike trends can be understood as a reflection of the wider economy. e.g. 26 is dad etc might be seen as:

• supply and demand dynamics in the cycling industry during peak covid years leading to obvious and experienced shortages, and the linked price increases
  
• people hoovering up seiss grants and going home to mummy and daddy's house in the home counties and pulling out dusty old mountainbikes from behind the Range
  
• "Not only are the hit songs, stars, and soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable types, but the specific content of the entertainment itself is derived from them and only appears to change. The details are interchangeable." - Adorno, 1947
  
• instagram's attention funnels
  
  

now, however, nobody has any cash, everybody has bikes, and all these perfectly adequate £7-900 hybrid bikes that, three years ago, people scrambled to get on pre-order lists for, had a few little pootles on some nice, quiet, car-free side streets and then parked in the shed when the traffic came back are abundant - and being sold for peanuts.

mark my words, 2024-25 new new labour recession years will be the time of the adequate covid hybrid bike

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Hard agree, we will also see the resurgence of the fixie. As you can flex for a relatively small outlay.

broke this rack attempting to make it fit said cube (I think this is why people have bending dies)

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Astute observations, agreed

Going from a custom Donhou to a Cube hybrid is peak lfgss haha :)

I have a soft spot for the cubes - which I think a more prevalent her in Denmark.
Lovely colour and the silver bits look good!

i think the cube is a better bike tbh

i think it's nice in a 'someone has literally gone out and just bought a bike' way

How come? Because of the weight mainly? I like the look of it

decided to 'break' the other stay on this rack, to even it out

I'd tried to bend the stay a bit to get it to meet fork blade eyelets, snapped it in the process -

I cut off the other stay, filed the rack a bit.

Flattened the ends of the stays - I'm thinking I can just drill a couple of holes in the bottom of the rack and bolt these to it, a lot of adjustable racks seem to use this approach, saves throwing it away and should be fine?

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