Two bikes -- two tool bags? Two locks?
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Year-round cyclist

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All my bikes have 1-2 blinkies.
In terms of rear blinkies, I liked the Vistalite 5-LED taillight very much, but it's a bit weak compared to newer technology. The new BLT Rear Flare DX is as brilliant on-axis and has a wider beam than the popular Cateye TL-LD-1000, but due to a different design, it can be bloted through onto a rack, whereas the Cateye cannot be bolted through (I don't trust a blind screw to resist our potholes).
In the front, I have a generator hub with a headlight on each bike.
I also have a "standard kit" in my pannier, with a Road Morph pump, a 700c and a 20" tube (the latter for my daughter), patches, an extra blinkie and a small LED headlight.
Oh, one of my bikes has one Shraeder rim and all others are Presta. My easy solution is to carry a couple of doughnuts so I can safely use a Presta tube in my Shraeder rim. These doughnuts are vailable at $0,10 at your favourite LBS, but you have to order them...
For highway cycling, the BLT Rear Super Doppler DX is the most powerful on-axis taillight I have found yet. From what I have seen, the same design is also available under two or three other names.
In terms of rear blinkies, I liked the Vistalite 5-LED taillight very much, but it's a bit weak compared to newer technology. The new BLT Rear Flare DX is as brilliant on-axis and has a wider beam than the popular Cateye TL-LD-1000, but due to a different design, it can be bloted through onto a rack, whereas the Cateye cannot be bolted through (I don't trust a blind screw to resist our potholes).
In the front, I have a generator hub with a headlight on each bike.
I also have a "standard kit" in my pannier, with a Road Morph pump, a 700c and a 20" tube (the latter for my daughter), patches, an extra blinkie and a small LED headlight.
Oh, one of my bikes has one Shraeder rim and all others are Presta. My easy solution is to carry a couple of doughnuts so I can safely use a Presta tube in my Shraeder rim. These doughnuts are vailable at $0,10 at your favourite LBS, but you have to order them...
For highway cycling, the BLT Rear Super Doppler DX is the most powerful on-axis taillight I have found yet. From what I have seen, the same design is also available under two or three other names.
#28
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Originally Posted by JohnBrooking
Were you able to order extra headlight mounts by themselves, or do you have an equal number of lights that all happen to use the same mount? Blinkies are cheap, but I don't want to buy another expensive headlight just to get an extra mount.
If you are using a less expensive light like the Cateye EL series, I don't know if you can get spare brackets but you might try contacting the manufacturer of your system to see what they offer. Most of the ones that I've seen will sell the bracket direct to you rather than make you go to a shop, if you like.
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Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
#29
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Originally Posted by dynaryder
9? How can you live with just 9?
If she'd just clear her car out of my garage I could get another 20 or even 30 bikes in there, easily
Selfish woman!
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Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Stuart Black
Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
#30
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From: Oztraylya
Bikes: '03 Fuji Roubaix Pro; '03 KleinGi Attitude; '06 Soma Rush; '04 Surly Cross-Check; '06 Soma Rush; '07 Scott CR1 / Chorus
Originally Posted by cyccommute
If you are using a less expensive light like the Cateye EL series, I don't know if you can get spare brackets...
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#31
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Joined: May 2002
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From: Near Portland, OR
Bikes: Three road bikes. Two track bikes.
Originally Posted by zonatandem
Keep the one you like the best. Sell the other one.
I'd never sell a bike! There's always more room for one more bike.
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Cat 2 Track, Cat 3 Road.
"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
#32
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From: Near Portland, OR
Bikes: Three road bikes. Two track bikes.
Originally Posted by genec
That two bike two everything situation is what I have... but I do it a bit differently. One bike is the commuter, and it has all the bells and whistles... and redundant, redundant lighting. Racks, bags, you name it.
The other bike is my "true" road bike and it has just what it needs to fix a flat and that is about it. No lights, no mirrors, nothing extra.
I enjoy each bike for different reasons.
The other bike is my "true" road bike and it has just what it needs to fix a flat and that is about it. No lights, no mirrors, nothing extra.
I enjoy each bike for different reasons.
The problem with cycling is I always want another bike. I got the fixie not even a year ago and I'm already forming long term plans for another bike. Have to decide where I want to take this cycling thing. It will either be a better quality road bike (it's always nice to have a rain bike) - which will suit my ideas of getting into centuries or racing; or it will be a touring bike so I can take a week to ride around and not have to answer to anyone but myself... decisions, decision... but I digress.
Rule of thumb I have is that expensive and universal stuff (headlight, multitool, spare tubes, frame pump etc.) I share between bikes. Unique or inexpensive things I buy redundent. Beyond that, I buy redundent if there is a chance I will stash the bike at work permanently; for instance my fixie, during the summer, will probably be stashed at work since most of my commuting will be with my long distance commuter. Because of this, the fixie gets it's own repair kit.
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Cat 2 Track, Cat 3 Road.
"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
Cat 2 Track, Cat 3 Road.
"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter





