The Smallest Change, The Biggest Improvement

Blaki maudlinity seat do question past bacon et al.

New cables.
More of a gears thing than a brakes thing, but shifting with new cables almost = new bike.
At least, it does if you've let them get really shitty first.

Riding more. Marked change in mood and fitness = smiles all round.

For me more than riding more is having a better riding, atm I'm just commuting and I feel quite guilty in not taking my bike for some more sweating stuff, I lost all my fitness and I got back to smoking(wanker), it's all about having a start and get addicted to an healthy life style, not a such small change, unfortunately.

But the laughing time is not bad at all, I have nothing to complain.

rhEPO

My "lucky" coffee mugs

and latex inner tubes

^hah

cut-out saddle.

slicks on the townie mtb.

(except when I decide to take it out of town)

i/ Mudguards.

Less cleaning // Moar riding // Makes you invisible to Hipsters

ii/ Hoods & Dropbars

Why have one riding position when you can have them all?

iii/ Moving my cleats back

Now behind the ball of the foot

iv/ GPS

Am I allowed this many?

Those coffee mugs are AMAZING

Want!

dynamo lights

Small changes for me are generally getting things not slightly wrong but just about right, like small repairs that I used to get just wrong but later learned how to do ever so slightly better that I was actually happy with the result. I re-wound my bar tape the other day, having got it wrong the first time around (didn't put double-sided tape under it, so it slipped). That annoyed me on every ride since it had slipped, and I'm now so much happier with it, simply by virtue of having paid a little more attention to it. It's similar with adjusting brake blocks, the aforementioned tyre pressure and saddle angle, chain tension, etc. I'm never going to be a good mechanic, but I can do these to my satisfaction now.

For me it was just a simple readjustment of my bike saddle. Made such a difference.

Small changes for me are generally getting things not slightly wrong but just about right, like small repairs that I used to get just wrong but later learned how to do ever so slightly better that I was actually happy with the result. I re-wound my bar tape the other day, having got it wrong the first time around (didn't put double-sided tape under it, so it slipped). That annoyed me on every ride since it had slipped, and I'm now so much happier with it, simply by virtue of having paid a little more attention to it. It's similar with adjusting brake blocks, the aforementioned tyre pressure and saddle angle, chain tension, etc. I'm never going to be a good mechanic, but I can do these to my satisfaction now.

Want to come around and help me with this front mech which required minor adjustment and is now COMPLETELY FUCKED?

Last working bike too... Gonna have to spend the afternoon cobbling together some transport. :(

Sure, you're just round the corner, right? It'll be a short trip which will make a big difference.

Hang on, 'front mech'? You mean you're ... geared?

going clipless, then getting a nice modern road bike, but I constantly get joy from riding fixed/geared for a while then swapping back to the other.

Hang on, 'front mech'? You mean you're ... geared?

Not anymore... i just threw the fucking thing on the fire.

Getting new tyres after using the 15 year old ones off my mums road bike for over a year which although never punctured (which is why I didn't replace them for so long) I could never get higher than 70psi

Then getting gatorskins at 120psi made me feel like I was flying along at the speed of light and I still haven't had a puncture :) although the back one is beginning to wear through...

Not anymore... i just threw the fucking thing on the fire.

Try this site for some inspiration:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/

Ditching the gears!

Ditchling on gears!

It does help.

Very good Oliver.

Try this site for some inspiration:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/

grrrrrrr!

Lots of other small changes (credit to DJ for some of these) have made a massive overall impact:

a decent ladies' saddle
handlebars which fit me
getting the right sized stem and tweaks to the headset
going clipless
spending a couple of hours having a bike fit done - changed everything!