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Pelago seems to be the perfect option... luckily came across a bargain as Amazon had a used medium steel rack for £60 so I've nabbed it. Tubus for rear also seems great, albeit crazy post-brexit prices.
There's one of the transalp racks on FB marketplace for a fiver, so if it's still avail I might nab that Friday then start the long haul of watching Tubus on Ebay - although they've all been going for ≈ £100 used at the moment :(
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SOLD ! @jmg412 hope ur partner enjoys it 🫶
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Took the Broad Lane route yesterday - not perfect, but ten fold better than the alternative!
Back on the bargain train. For some reason Jeff Bezos website had a "used" medium steel black pelago for £60.63, couldn't pass it up given the going rate of Pelagos / front racks generally being pretty steep.
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Ooooh rear rack is a shout to be fair... the ultralite doesn't have a bendable strut/mounting for the fork crown but might ponder that.
I reckon though to be fair I'll go for the pizza rack, it's tried and trusted, and could see potential worms about getting the rack to sit flush with the strut design. Will see though, not gonna be a this month purchase :,< will simply cope with the 25l backpack for now
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Damn ugly, but functional , haven't had issues with it getting blocked or anything but it's all very simple. Setup was a PITA with changing the wifi over to 2.4G and back to connect to the app.
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Picked up this lovely little thing yesterday - officially achieved my dream bike!
I'm going down to one bike to do-it-all (how many times have I said that now...) so I'm looking at front and rear racks.
Had a tortec ultralite rear to hand, but sadly it won't fit around the disc caliper.
Now looking at options and not looking to spend a ton of £££ - Tortec Transalp Disc seems like a great option (especially given I'll usually be using either my carradice rack pack or panniers when I get a pair of my own, so I'll be able to do both at the same time, if I ever ? need to ?) - anyone had luck getting one on a Straggler?
Front rack wise, most likely going to go for an Omnium, although BLB T rack and Spesh Pizza rack or also contenders.
Gonna keep peepers out on the bay for deals, but saw an M18 go for £111 so f#ck knows if there's even deals to be had anymore on there!
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Yeah it's a literal hellscape, wish Haringey was better at cycle routes but alas. What gets me is the amount you'll go through some nice infrastructure, only to have to do a 5 min trip through hellscape to get to the next cycle lane???
Next routes I'll try will be West Green Road to Broad Lane, would rather avoid the Lea Bridge way because like you said sketchy park and it's just very pedestrian heavy/too narrow. We'll see!
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@ltc @Jonny69 doing alright really! Thanks for asking <3
Reckon I'll take the bike down to SBC to get it looked over but I think my saving grace might have been a slightly loose rear skewer and horizontal drop outs taking the grunt of the impact.
I'm alright - arms clicky and achy but nothings broken so it'll just be rest, tiger balm and the occasional ibuprofen for me. No way this will put me off riding it, had a few near misses before and I've always hated that road. Just going to do a route rejig for when I go to Walthamstow from now on :D
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Started a full on storm, only for me to race to the pub, manically lock the bike, and dash in for it to then... stop.
Had a nice pint and some nuts, oggled my bike for an hour or so.
Rode home, got rearended, then as they swerved so they didn't crush me, hit my arm. Lucky that I have EDS in this case because otherwise that would have gotten torn off. ABSOLUTE PRICKS. annoyingly wrote the number plate down wrong and all I remember is white hatchback with a timestamp and location, no obvious cameras nearby so I'll drop it but I'm gonna avoid that shithole of a stretch for a while.
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After a metric crap ton of moaning, and accepting my tiny weak little arms doesn't want to carry a 26'er, the trek is up for sale.
After originally planning to try make the pacer as my do-it-all and pondering whether I could squeeze in some 33c cross tyres so I could still take trips off the beaten path... I got bullied into impulsively buying a straggler.
0 REGRETS. NONE AT ALL. IT'S PERFECT IN EVERY SINGLE WAY.
Copped it off a lovely guy on facebook marketplace for a lovely deal, SRAM APEX 11speed drivechain, Shimano SLX hydraulic brakes, Kinlin rims, Hope Pro 4 rear hub, SON 28 up front, WTB resolutes. It's all... incredibly fetching.
I spent my evening hacksawing off a stuck bolt-on grip clamp, and thanks to @Maj have traded the existing brand x stem & noname flat bars for a hope stem and on one Mary's.
Switched my saddle over, popped on my trusty otter, and going to spend my morning cleaning it up and then maybe a pootle over to Walthamstow marshes.
Tried fitting my tortec ultralite btw and it interferes with the disc brake caliper, so I'm in the market for a rear disc rack, but until the trek's gone, I should seriously refrain from spending more £££. Just gonna keep peepers out for bargains.
Will post pics later, either sulking indoors due to wind and tiredness having cleaned up the bits or I might be posting it looking pretty by the marshes. We'll see 🫡
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It's a no-go for @Richtea (too small) so still available!
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Here we have a very fine early 90s 18" Trek Singletrack, retromodded to filth.
It's got...
- Front: SP dynamo hub laced to LX17 rims
- Rear: Deore LX hub laced to LX17 rims
- 9 speed Shimano Casette
- Deore Derailleur (note it's 7 speed, but works with the Sunrace shifter)
- Sunrace shifter (a fun moot point of the perks of friction, but it clicks like indexed, idk why it works, but men online talk about it a lot)
- ? 110BCD square taper cranks
- aNoDiSeD purple chainring bolts
- Bikepunx 34t chainring
- Orange n purple DMR V6s
- Deore V Brakes & Levers
- Ritchey slim pads
- Premier cables in a fetching orange and purple scheme
- Ergotech stem (note: it's a rare 1 1/8 threaded stem), tons of adjustment to be made to suit your needs.
- Ergotech Humpert Moon bars (cut down)
-Orange n Purple oury grips - 26.8 OG seatpost
Charge Ladle, doesn't suit the bikes aesthetics v well, I just wanna keep my DivaBrand X women saddle- B&M Lumotech IQ front and rear lights
- Blackburn rear rack
- RSP /semi-secure/ skewers and seatpost bolt (regular hex)
- Assorted stickers, a silly cat cable tie, and some fetching splatter blue n orange cages.
£340£330
(if this is way off lmk, but I've spent a grand total of ... £658 on all the bits, and will now be deleting that spreadsheet for peace of mind)I've got some fat mudguards I can include in (SKS 60mm if you want, they just cleared 2.3s when I had those on), may be missing some odds and ends.
Cash is king
Collection N15 only (not posting)
I reserve the right to engage with tyre kickers at my discretion
Overall a great bike, I'm just moving and spatial requirements are seeing this gone.
Not even been used that much because I'm too in love with my Pacer. It is the perfect grocery getter, kid picker upper, popping to the pub and forgetting your lights and getting home safe, throwing around some singletrack. If you're going to have one bike, this is the logical decision, I'm just not logical.Better pics incoming when it stops pissing it down.
Jim 💫✌️
- Front: SP dynamo hub laced to LX17 rims
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Collection from N15 near Turnpike Lane station <3
No postage bc I've got too much going on atm and wouldn't want to flake.
Cash is king, first to collect gets it :)
Pics in here.Let me know if any of the prices are really off.
We have...
Nitto M12. Still pretty clean: £45
Deda 1 inch quill adapter. Has a funny shim on it for different sizing. Call it £7.50
ETC open face plate 1 inch quill: £5
Nitto B206 Nordeasts, used for maybe 3 rides: £20
3x7 Shimano trigger shifters: £10 (no splitting take or leave sorry!)
"TRUE TEMPER" 25.4 flat bars, taken off the Trek and just want them out my hair: FREE(づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ ✧°. ૮₍˶Ó﹏Ò ⑅₎ა
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aaaAAANNNDD... so what you're saying is that no sportsperson would want to put their all into trials and * checks notes * this particular trans cyclist differs why?
There have already been various studies which evidence that transgender women's ability is comparable to cisgender womens. E.g. This study found that in a study of eight transgender women's performance decreased after starting hormone therapy - with their performance being comparable to cisgender womens. , This study found that that transgender women who had been on hormone therapy for at least one year had similar muscle mass and strength to cisgender women , there's more studies, but something gives me an inling you're not really the type to actually care about those.
Fundamentally - transgender women are women - so they should compete in women's sports. It's not like many people hold genetic advantages naturally who are allowed to complete regardless anyway, oh wait! No one cared until some people got riled up over the prospect of someone's genitalia not being the same as other racers...
I'VE MOVED TO SOUTH EAST!
AND! THE BIKE HAS RACKS!
AND! ORTLIEBS!
Racks are stellar, would eventually like a black basket. To justify being frivolous I'll probably upgrade to a Manivelle ALTHOUUUGHHH.
To get the bike in the new house, it's a right PITA... so I've been pondering "would going skinnier with the handlebars make much difference?"
I'm hoping... it might. Although who knows. Maybe I'll just throw a paddy every time it comes to getting it in the house.
Took a ride to Peckham LIDL yday and got a few days worth of shopping in the ortliebs and in the basket, was pretty seamless really. I'm really chuffed with the whole set up. Tins/cans and bulky bits in the back, awkward shaped bits and light stuff in the basket.
It's great. I love it. It's perfect in every way.