Originally Posted by
masi61
My 3 ready to go road bikes require a good amount of prep work to keep them optimal. I spend more time than my fellow club members & weekend riding buddies on this. I have been doing full road tubeless on 2 of the bikes & all 3 have waxed chains.
The hobby has gone viral though & there are 8 (…OK, full disclosure - ten!) bikes in the build stage & 5 or 6 are @ ~90% completion.
Like with tubeless tires & chain waxing, there is contemporary tech (think hydraulic discs with hidden cables) that I stubbornly must deal with myself & won’t hurry it by having the LBS. mechanic finish my build for me.
Jeeze, you guys all seem to be procrastinators! I have 9 of my own bikes in the garage (including a tandem), my wife’s 4, one for my daughter, my bike in Tucson, my wife’s bike in Tucson and my daughter’s 4 bikes in Tucson that are all ready to go. The only thing I need to do any any bike is to pump up the tires. I do have 3 frames at home that are just spare frames, although as part of the “On the Road Again” Challenge, I put one together from parts in my garage and had it rideable in 3 hours