Author Topic: Members' bikes (Read 2470434 times)

mcshroom · « **Reply #7651 on:** 27 March, 2015, 04:15:30 pm »

Update - Took it for a 4 mile shake down ride over a local hill. Wow it's quick. If there wasn't lots of wind and rain forecast I'd be audaxing on it tomorrow.

Quote from: Peter on 27 March, 2015, 03:43:44 pm

Matching kitchen, too, you dude!

Doesn't everyone match their bike to their kitchen colour scheme?

Ruthie · « **Reply #7652 on:** 27 March, 2015, 04:48:50 pm »

Brill! It's really smart Marcus

antokelly · « **Reply #7653 on:** 27 March, 2015, 05:10:10 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 03:04:09 pm

Arrived today

Just need to find some pedals and get the bars t a more sensible angle and I'll be taking it out for a run

cracking looking bike enjoy.

Deano · « **Reply #7654 on:** 27 March, 2015, 05:25:39 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 27 March, 2015, 03:43:44 pm

Matching kitchen, too, you dude!

Matching clamp on the work stand, too - there's foresight.

Looks lovely.

Deano · « **Reply #7655 on:** 27 March, 2015, 05:27:57 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 22 March, 2015, 01:17:37 pm

El Mariachi has a new look ... at least until I get my confidence and a modicum of fitness back.
It'll likely get converted back to a fixed once I've got the HT560 out of the way in June/July.

Still looks good. I briefly rode my commuter as 1x9, and it worked quite well.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #7656 on:** 27 March, 2015, 06:49:52 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 04:15:30 pm

Update - Took it for a 4 mile shake down ride over a local hill. Wow it's quick. If there wasn't lots of wind and rain forecast I'd be audaxing on it tomorrow.

Nice!

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 04:15:30 pm

Doesn't everyone match their bike to their kitchen colour scheme?

Some of us have turquoise kitchens

(previous owner's choice, I hasten to add!).

Kim · « **Reply #7657 on:** 27 March, 2015, 07:30:27 pm »

And some of us match our kitchen to our bikes (that is: dirty, with oily bits).

interzen · « **Reply #7658 on:** 27 March, 2015, 07:37:18 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 27 March, 2015, 07:30:27 pm

And some of us match our kitchen to our bikes (that is: dirty, with oily bits).

Or vice versa - oily, with dirty bits.

(my kitchen contains precisely zero orange)

tiermat · « **Reply #7659 on:** 27 March, 2015, 08:25:20 pm »

Can I just npoint out that my kitchen is NOT green, nor black.

Nor am I going to buy a cream colored bike.

Hohum. I do own a jar of marmite, though. And one of Vegemite.

interzen · « **Reply #7660 on:** 27 March, 2015, 09:04:54 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 27 March, 2015, 05:27:57 pm

Still looks good. I briefly rode my commuter as 1x9, and it worked quite well.

Having spent the last couple of days poring over elevation profiles and various maps of Scotlandshire, there's a very strong chance that the bike will be sporting a 40T sprocket fairly soon ...

... as well as a 30T chainring.

I did consider 1x11 until I did all the sums. It wasn't pretty.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #7661 on:** 27 March, 2015, 09:13:01 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 03:04:09 pm

Arrived today

Just need to find some pedals and get the bars t a more sensible angle and I'll be taking it out for a run

Merida -

. I haz one (albeit very different)

That kitchen - it's too clean! Do you ever cook? Or eat? !!!

mcshroom · « **Reply #7662 on:** 27 March, 2015, 09:19:27 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 27 March, 2015, 09:13:01 pm

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 03:04:09 pm
Arrived today

Just need to find some pedals and get the bars t a more sensible angle and I'll be taking it out for a run
Merida - . I haz one (albeit very different)

That kitchen - it's too clean! Do you ever cook? Or eat? !!!

Yes and yes, but I have visitors arriving on Sunday so I decided I'd better clean it up

Canardly · « **Reply #7663 on:** 28 March, 2015, 11:36:20 am »

Just spotted the Marmite. Very nice.

clarion · « **Reply #7664 on:** 09 April, 2015, 10:21:27 am »

No marmite in this one, I'm afraid. Ridgeback Romany, leaving a very muddy towpath

P4040005m by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

Ray 6701 · « **Reply #7665 on:** 10 April, 2015, 01:14:13 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 27 March, 2015, 03:04:09 pm

Arrived today

Just need to find some pedals and get the bars t a more sensible angle and I'll be taking it out for a run

Very nice indeed! When you change your chain add a link or 2.

Torslanda · « **Reply #7666 on:** 11 April, 2015, 01:11:04 am »

Just don't ride cross-chain.

mcshroom · « **Reply #7667 on:** 11 April, 2015, 03:16:18 pm »

That's as supplied and in Big-Big combination for the pictures. I have no intention of running it in that gear IRL.

I'll probably add a link or two when I need to change chain though for safety. I may yet be looking at putting a 30-32t rear cassette on when I eventually change things as well, though I'd need to check the capacity of the rear mech if I decided to change that..

slope · « **Reply #7668 on:** 13 April, 2015, 12:43:58 pm »

The newly refurbished 1987 Raleigh 'Avanti' 531 26"er now known as 'Ravinia', the slack sporting shopper of a gal

https://www.flickr.com/photos/obswerve/sets/72157648266482689/

sg37409 · « **Reply #7669 on:** 13 April, 2015, 03:20:01 pm »

Nice.
Dynohub but no light ?

slope · « **Reply #7670 on:** 13 April, 2015, 06:23:29 pm »

Quote from: sg37409 on 13 April, 2015, 03:20:01 pm

Nice.
Dynohub but no light ?

Wheels came off the Winter 'shopper' (which had F&R dyno lights). Waiting for delivery of some 26" Sputnik rims and thence to build new Summer 'shopping' wheels

interzen · « **Reply #7671 on:** 13 April, 2015, 07:15:48 pm »

I now knows Karate!

Still got to get the steerer chopped and shorten the comically long brake hoses, but other than that we're pretty much done.

Spray tan FTW

Jacomus · « **Reply #7672 on:** 15 April, 2015, 10:02:58 am »

Looks really nice, interzen

Moultonaught · « **Reply #7673 on:** 15 April, 2015, 10:14:04 am »

It does look good.

interzen, what are the pedals please?

zigzag · « **Reply #7674 on:** 15 April, 2015, 12:50:18 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 13 April, 2015, 07:15:48 pm

Spray tan FTW

great colour indeed!