shinkuu_kiss

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• Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 weeks, 2 days

  

  not saying they don't look cool but this person has like 10 bikes that are all exactly the same bike

• In Which I Attempt to Build a Sensible Road Bike + other bike content

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• In Which I Attempt to Build a Sensible Road Bike + other bike content

  in Current Projects • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  It turned out fine tho and I'm not really sure I can be bothered to buy a new derailleur and set it up again so I might have an SSMTB for this summer.

  I finally fixed this sometime last month? but the post where I broke it says 5 months ago so it definitely went as predicted.
  It spent much of the summer carrying things/friends and also getting crashed in the course of it, all in all has been a great investment considering the initial cost wasn't much more than a set of good tires for my road bike.
  

  New derailleur not only has the advantage of looking cool but also of having 32t capacity so I got a new cassette at the same time.
  I had been planning to take it out on some dirt roads in the mountains in Izu and camp a couple of nights but shit happened and now it's too cold for the sleeping bag I bought specifically to do that. Oh well, maybe next year.
  

  I also got the new tires for my fixed bike but then almost immediately put risers on it.
  

  This is basically because of one ride around the beginning of august that I thought would be fine but which absolutely destroyed me.
  Since I had been riding much more consistently this year I decided to look at my data and see if it was just a bad day, and on doing so I discovered that since starting to ride consistently and with purpose I have been getting steadily slower and worse at climbing.
  This is the exact opposite of what was supposed to happen.

  I can only assume I was consistently riding more than I was able to recover from, but I was never riding a crazy volume and if I need more time to recover then I would have no time left to actually ride the bike.
  This discovery did not inspire me to figure out a better way to train or change up my life or anything it just made me sad and so I've only been riding riser bar bikes around the city for the last 4 months

  Anyway I rode my road bike for the first time in ages yesterday and remembered how much I like it.
  Unfortunately I discovered not only that not riding properly for 4 months doesn't help your fitness (seriously I'm the slowest I've ever been it really sucks) but that the freehub is completely 100% fucked now. And although I have a replacement the old one is absolutely not coming off.
  Current plan is to get a new hub and rebuild the wheel, then see if I can build up some fitness again over the winter. I would like to get back to doing this shit:
  

  If it doesn't work out this time tho I'm probably just going to accept that I don't have the time to get good at riding and give up, at least until I get sick enough of everything to quit my job and go live on no money in the countryside.

  I also put drops back on my fixed but it completely fucks me up now, I need to put a bigger cog on till I get my legs back at least a bit.
  Oh and I changed the chain for an Izumi Kai I bought for no reason at all in the summer, it does feel quite nice tho.
  

• Road fixed / fixed road

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months

  

  I like long stems but I think 500mm is too much even for me

• Fat tubes & skinny rims

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  nice, gumwalls and classic bend bars complete this look

• MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  same era shamals and bartape/saddle on the opposite side of the color wheel to the main frame color
  @Ordinata is right it's the only way

• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

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• Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 months

  

  you take 1d6 psychic damage as you are violently flung back to 2009

  (yeah i know this frame wasn't out then but still)

• Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 months

  

  yeah this is sick, makes me want to go out and ride (around the city with a track bike and risers)

• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months, 1 week

  

  toilet graffiti