ojwithbikes

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.