Living in China - bought a bike...
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Living in China - bought a bike...
Here it is!
Bought it brand new for about $52 American (360 yuan) yesterday. It's a decent clunker of a single speed and I enjoyed a nice short ride through the country and around the city today, and carried a couple beers back in the basket (I found some Budweiser and PBR here!).
Bought it brand new for about $52 American (360 yuan) yesterday. It's a decent clunker of a single speed and I enjoyed a nice short ride through the country and around the city today, and carried a couple beers back in the basket (I found some Budweiser and PBR here!).
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cool beans. You are lucky to have found a frame in your size. My friend lived in Japan for a while and could never get a frame bigger than 54cm.
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Ok, I'll be the one to turn this into every other thread on this board...
You need to flip your bars forward and fix your saddle angle. Lose the chain guard.
J/k Looks like fun
You need to flip your bars forward and fix your saddle angle. Lose the chain guard.
J/k Looks like fun
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I'll probably just take it to the place I bought it from soon and have them fix it real quick. However, when I ride it feels perfectly fine and I don't notice the skewed angle really, so it's no biggie.
The full coverage chain guard is nice but I have no idea how to lube the chain! Ah I'll only be here for a lil while so I'll live.
Also, I'm living in the city of Shuizhai in Guangdong province which in the southeast part of China. I'm doing an English teaching internship through my university and I'm staying here until the end of May.
The bike is nice to ride and pretty comfortable, and close enough to my size to fit. It's a bit heavy and fairly inefficient to an extent, but I think it'll make me appreciate my LHT and fixed gear even more when I return home this summer. I figure it's good for training ha.
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Also, check out my thread in the Gen Cycling forum "Some Bikes in China"
https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/515177-some-bikes-china.html
I've been taking tons of photographs while living here including many of bikes. I'd estimate that 99.9% of the bikes here are single speeds, so they make this forum proud.
https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/515177-some-bikes-china.html
I've been taking tons of photographs while living here including many of bikes. I'd estimate that 99.9% of the bikes here are single speeds, so they make this forum proud.
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很好!
Is that a Feng-Huang? I had one like that when i lived in Chengdu 2004-2005. I had the really huge one that you see farmers and postmen rocking/running. Heavy as a mf'er, but a sweet ride none the less. I still kick myself for not shipping it home. Ah well, 慢慢走呵!
Is that a Feng-Huang? I had one like that when i lived in Chengdu 2004-2005. I had the really huge one that you see farmers and postmen rocking/running. Heavy as a mf'er, but a sweet ride none the less. I still kick myself for not shipping it home. Ah well, 慢慢走呵!
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Cotter pin in the wrong way? Believe I fixed a bike with the same problem quite a while ago by pulling the pin out and putting it in the other way.
[]====H < looking from the side of the bike, this is the pin
H====[] < flip it and put it in the other side
had a few beers and illustration sucks, think this is your problem...
[]====H < looking from the side of the bike, this is the pin
H====[] < flip it and put it in the other side
had a few beers and illustration sucks, think this is your problem...
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If I brought a beater fixie to China... how practical would it be?
2 summers ago I was carving through traffic.... on a Giant 5-inch travel trailbike with what seemed like the widest bars I've ever handled.
A cross bike would probably be a better choice though, considering how sketchy some of the roadways are.
2 summers ago I was carving through traffic.... on a Giant 5-inch travel trailbike with what seemed like the widest bars I've ever handled.
A cross bike would probably be a better choice though, considering how sketchy some of the roadways are.
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I had a similar bike when I was living in China 10 years ago (wow, hard to believe it's been that long). Good times. Used to ride all over Beijing.
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Supposedly bike theft is rampant in the cities in China, be very careful with your new bike.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og6_b...layer_embedded
Olympians took the flying pigeon out onto the velodrome in the past Beijing Olympics.
well.. sorta...
Olympians took the flying pigeon out onto the velodrome in the past Beijing Olympics.
well.. sorta...
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They have a shop in LA --
https://flyingpigeon-la.com/shop/
https://flyingpigeon-la.com/shop/
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I'm not paying more than 50USD for a Flying Pigeon. Sorry.