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I mean it is a show bike after all

Interesting. Has anyone figured out why the Italians have both the best and worst design sensibilities?

This thing on marketplace for a mere 10k

Oof

Here's a functional claud butler spotted in Melbourne

this is the future. as we rapidly approach peak 90's MTB I predict early 2000's alloy MTB's and hybrids will become the next zeitgeist for people making rad bikes on the cheap

Aero bars and a chainring fit for a DJ bike, yep that's pretty wanky.

Also love they went wireless with the RD but the hydro hose routing looks like a 12yo did it.

From the listing "In the last year [since most recent upgrades to hubs + brakes + disks + groupset] only used for x20 minute rides on loose gravel around the Malvern Hills, a few times per week!" hahahaha a true embodiment of the thread. Should have sprung for Klampers tho

Unf. Why did Specialized stop making the AWOL, are they stupid?

closing in on peak wank

Yep we made the same move from 3 years old

My kid did fine with a Shotgun seat- you as the rider kinda envelop them with your body/arms so I don't think there's much risk of them falling off. Having to hold on keeps them engaged and it's much nicer to be able to chat/see the same stuff.

Currently for sale!

Bike looks rad!
To save on cost I once rattle canned a silver wald, worked fine, even had some nice beausage as it inevitably wore off and the silver poked through

Right so on to current bike stuff. I decided to shelve the Trailbreaker and 3spd Pedal Berlin at my parents place for the time being, allowing me to clear some space in the shed and get working on bikes.

The first project is this Hardrock, which I believe is a 1998 A1. Not too bad of a condition, intact with brand new tyres it only set me back $100 on Marketplace.

It is a 21" frame which has me a little worried (at 187cms tall I prefer 22/23in frames), it will fit but I will have a lot of seatpost and bar situation to deal with.

I bought these Hsing Ling bars from my LBS and have ordered a silver stem of aliexpress in the same dimensions as the kalloy fitted, test fit showing how it will come together.

The shifters are farcked, so have bought some Deore thumbies from retro MTB group on FB, plan is to do the bar/stem swap, clean it up a bit, pop on the thumbies and some Oury's and go ride it around my local trails & see how it feels.

If it's no good, then I guess I'll flog it and go crawling back to the Shogun (who is a 23" boi, but has a damn 28.6mm quill stem)

Yup, Christies Beach

Hey so I did the thing where I have too many bikes/projects on the go, so thought I'd make a post about it here to keep me on track chasing that dragon of the perfect bike quiver that we all dream about.

Some context first ey, I am a 32yo sometimes social worker sometimes goat herd sometimes gardener and full time bike addict. I live on the southern coast of South Australia (Kaurna country) close to the beach and a river and loads of national parks and trails so consider myself lucky with riding options.

Given all that I still mostly ride only when I have to, which is 3 times a week to my social work job which is a 7km mixed terrain jaunt and various local trips. So hoping to get back into the fun side of riding as well.

After going full wanker mode a few years ago, with age and competing budgetary constraints I now tend towards Functional Bikes and sub-wanker builds.

I am allowing myself 3 bikes (anymore is clutter and too much hassle imo) and I currently have 6 (I think?) in various states of (dis)repair that fit into the three vibes I wish to curate.

I am currently thinking:

Bike 1: Road focused do it all bike - currently a Jamis Coda Sport, which does the job well, but had the rear wheel buckled for a while so haven't been riding it much. In the meantime I bought a Merida Crossway off marketplace and damned if it's not a comfy ride appealing to my increasingly middle aged sensibilities. Probably the Coda will stick around though I do love Hydro disks.

Bike 2: Offroad focused bike that can also do stuff - a vintage MTB obvs. I have had a Shogun Trailbreaker lingering in my shed for a while that I've been meaning to build up, but also recently got a 98 Hardrock A1 for $100 and Poppi says Aluminium is cool now? So tossing up which to build up

Bike 3: City bike/lightweight basket rig - (yes all 3 bikes will have front baskets) - Also have two competing builds for this slot, a cool fluro retro roadie that I would build up as an RGR type and a shitty chain store 3spd fixie I bought on clearance and can't seem to flog on marketplace without taking a significant loss. Soooo who knows.

Anyways a lot of talking without any pics, here are some previous projects (all moved on now) to whet your appetite

My old Cross Check, which was slick, but hated the tiny headtube and necessary spacer tower.

One of my old Shogun Builds, probably peaked FBNPNA right there, but still sold it after getting bored.

GT Beer Bike/Beater

A belt drive commuter which tickled my dorky commuter cyclist side well, too bad Nexus 8 hubs are trash

Previous Bianchi Dadbike - not a bad rig but probs a bit small for me and felt weird riding so high up with huge stem and bars

Where to begin...

This might be a smooth brain question but I had my rear tyre blow out and need a new tube, the current one is a schwalbe 16/18"

Can I just go into the LBS and get a regular ass 16" kids bike tube or do I need to order a brompton specific tube.

I bought a bike today that has a 2 tone paint job thanks to wicked sun fade and it reminded me of your bike. Ironically I'm going to have a go at painting it myself back to a single colour using the paints you recommended before.

Van Oof

Spotto in Adelaide, don't know what's going on with that saddle angle tho

I just got my bag off AliExpress ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001265692575.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802WaRz0A ), cost around 1/3 of the official bags.

Initial impressions are it's not bad, certainly less quality than the official, but stitching and zips are solid. It's made of nylon more equivalent to a cheap backpack or something, but during my commute this morning it bucketed down and the contents were still dry inside despite me not faffing around with the rain cover. A solid 3.5/5 I would have bought a used bag but here in Australia they seem pretty rare.

I bought a knockoff ebay Shotgun for like $50 ( https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/353818383834?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=jTmCI3pmR9W&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=JQUfitnJT-O&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY ) to see if my wee one would enjoy it, ended up using it for 12 months with no issues, now she's outgrown it and is on her own bike or a trail gator.

got a link to the glitter clear? I'm super tempted just to spray that straight over my black bike after seeing this haha

Nice one, it's looking so good!