ojwithbikes

10/10 fixie

Was a great ride
48:17 was the sweet spot for me being brakeless, straps was annoying. Sad I couldn’t get my cleats sorted in time.
Fastest deal with it ride in 10 years.

Did a little 50-something KM ride into the Surrey Hills for the Seabass ride about. I tried out a comfy camping setup i.e. a tent instead of a bivvy and some extra casual clothes so I maintain some cool points amongst SE London’s fellow finest bike hipsters. But then stripped all the luggage and mounts off for two days fun riding around the hills with lots of nice people.

I need to make a point of going SW more often. Really great riding there; steep n loose up n downs for days. Reaching into really fun underbiking territory. Good stuff.

That big Shazam and the struts on the bagman really let ya carry some shit.

I met a couple forum guys too who recognised my bike from this silly thread - reveal yourselves!?

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Somebody ain't been using the granny gears #gosteeper
Edit: soz for givin ya some shit, just felt right since everyone else is singing songs of praise 😂😂

Enjoyed the late night read and posts of epic bike rides. Thnx for the pedals n peace out ✌🏻

tbf I’m not sure how pointing out how someone isn’t using their easy gears is giving them shit?

Surely this is a compliment!

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Now that's a flex 💪🏻

P.S. check your DMs 😊

rain shmain

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Is acceptance of not having a silent bike a mandatory part of mudguard bike? My front tyre juuuussstttt whistles on the edge of the mudguard enough to be annoying. Wheel is maybe not the true-est and possibly mudguard is not totalllly straight (cit.). Can’t hear it once the winds blowing in your ears and it doesn’t really cause any drag but it is annoying when I hear it. Shall I just accept this and move on? Probably just put headphones on every time I ride this, that’ll do it.

But yeah anyway, flipped the stem, it looks awful, in an ideal world this steerer wouldn’t be slammed but we gotta do what we gotta do. Itwas fine the other way but kinda only when actually putting power down to relieve my weak upper body. For commuting it’s much better like this. Maybe I’ll get super strong over winter after #stay[ing]outsideforlonger and #outsideisfree’ing up my Instagram stories and and flip it down again.

I’m about 176cm tall with proportionally much longer legs than torso so why I keep buying these bikes with long top tubes and small head tubes is beyond me…

Jokes aside, I’m actually really looking forward to cruising round autumnal lanes on this thing and bright n cold winter days. Less so the rain. But I really am going to try stick out cycling this winter and not fall off for months like I did last time because of work hectic-ness and the shit weather.

I do have plans to go tubeless on this bike also. However I tried it with these gravel kings and it just totally fkin sucked. These tyres are so loose and floppy that I had to use CO2 to seat them and then they would leak a little around some patches of the bead. I’ve resigned myself to waiting for my first puncture of the winter when I will then be fuelled by rage to go and buy some good tubeless tyres for it. Some Pirelli Cinturato Velos maybe, or some Teravail slicks.

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this is Hard Day in January ready !

gravelkings work great in tubeless, imo. part of tubeless life is accepting those user-error moments

I’m on it this year for sure!

It looming in the distance will hopefully be what drags me outside the first half of winter

me and bikes are one big user error

Some Pirelli Cinturato Velos

GP5K All Season

ahhhh nice! I was gonna ask people what other slick 35s existed. I never knew about this tyre, does seem pretty good for purpose

Corsa NEXT also

ooo nice, available for collection from Condor, interesting stuff… Thanks man

It looming in the distance will hopefully be what drags me outside the first half of winter

As will Moderate Day tune-up rides!

Great looking bike! If you like GKs (apart from the tubeless faff) you'll probably like Terravail Ramparts. I love them. They're like a smoother, faster, less fragile Gravelking.

Yeah I’m stoked for these too, some group fixed stuff will be fun

Seconded, plus the Teravail tan wall looks significantly better to Panaracer tan wall IMO.
Good to see others getting their summer bikes mudguarded-up as it’s going to be a wrench fitting them to my road fixed. FWIW, I have wear marks on my other guards consistent with rubbing the same spot over and over again!

I’m about 176cm tall with proportionally much longer legs than torso so why I keep buying these bikes with long top tubes and small head tubes is beyond me…

This is literally the story of my life, even the height is spot on.
That Brother is very cool nonetheless.

These tyres are so loose and floppy

More tape is the answer to basically all tubeless trouble.

Looks like you could bring in the front guard at the bottom, which should lift it up at the top.
Consider that the opening where the tyre enters the mudguard should be smaller than the exit to allow debris to exit instead of getting stuck.

Also, bike looks great.

looks great, I've always liked that bronze colour.
just need some flaps for those grim winter rides.

your future dry feet will thank you.

@ltc @vthejk Yeah the ramparts are v cool. A touch on the pricey side and not so easy to come by but they’d definitely be my number 1 choice aside from all that

@vpCogworks yeah a bit annoying ennit! always means big saddle->bar drop and friends who ride the same size bikes as me telling me my seatpost is too high haha

@Tijmen yeah I have heard this from tubeless thread, maybe I’ll give it a go

@MisterMikkel ah good spot. I had a shop fit these as I don’t have the tools to do so. But yeah I have heard the odd thing rattling/scraping its way out the mudguard.

@bigshape yeeeaaaah I do kinda regret not getting the shop to do it at the same time. I guess it’s not the most complex job, just need to borrow a drill and cut some flaps out or somethin