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I got interested with this bicycle because of its heavy duty stands. I had it newly painted and the rims polished and mounted new National White Side Tires. The bicycle has heavy duty center stand and by tomorrow I'll be installing the Heavy Duty Side Stand along withe the center stand. By next week the Heavy Duty Carrier will be installed.


Heavy Duty Center Stand

Holy crap that's a crazy stand.

Sancycles, you've posted a lot of your projects. How are they selling lately? I love your pictures and stories!

Sixty fiver, I had a Raleigh Twenty as a project bike in 1980. Inspired by John S Allen, I imitated his somewhat. I built wheels with alloy rims and a Sturmey Archer 5-speed hub. I put on drop bars and BMX tires. 36 spoke, 20 inch wheels! I was able to go downhill faster on gravel than cars were! But in the end, the bike still didn't ride well, sorry to say. Heavy and flexy.

jaxgtr, your wheels go out of true because your spokes are too loose. Your wheels should not go out of true. Also, be sure your tire pressure is up there, but mostly, it's a spoke tension deficiency.

And the Brooks is installed. Is it as expected? I got the B72 I ordered, but painting the bike(s) so not tested yet.

Picked up my new Surly Long Haul Trucker from Sacramento yesterday. I've rode 36.58 miles so far. Still waiting on all the bags (Carradice Long Flap, Arkel Big Bar handlebar bag (blue), and Ortlieb front and rear panniers with outer pockets).

I'm not done coating her handlebars...and cross posted from the utility...


Batavus Old Dutch traditional omafiet.


Everything is mostly stock except for the grips and the brooks.

It's considered a woman's frame but I'm comfortable enough to sport her, and I love look and the easy dismounts of loop frames.

Yea, I thought so too. I had them checked by a solid wheel builder I know and he told me that the rims are really soft and were even hard for him to get proper tension and trueness. They stay true about 400-600 miles, so I had them re-spoked with 14g straight gauge as a last ditch attempt to see if it would help, but in the end, they still flex a lot. I get very little if any flex from my Deep V's on my CAAD9 and I am a big boy at 287 and outside of the initial re-check at 400 miles, they have caused me no issues in the last 1500 miles. So in the end, I think a better level rim will work better.

Also, counterintuitively, smaller gauge spokes help and even make a rim stronger.

What do you mean the rim flexes? What kind of rim is it?

They are Mavic A119 rims. I probably should have gone with the A319 at a minimum.

I still say you can make them more reliable by tightening the spokes, whatever the rims are.

So here is a bike I just renovated. I got it at a police auction. I bought some parts for it and used some parts I had in my spares bin and on other bikes. I'm giving it to a local woman who is a recovering alcoholic and lost custody of her teenage son. She's getting back on her feet with an apartment and a job. She has no car, and I don't know if she has a license.

When I'm done with this, I'll be giving another fixer-upper bike to another recovering alcoholic woman. I guess this is my new hobby.

Very cool on the donation.

It's pretty awesome to do things like this...

Lately I've been in the habit of fixing up free craigslist bikes, riding them around town until I spot a homeless person/transient to give the bike to.

Makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy, or maybe that's the IPA.

Here is my trusty steed, my 1995 Specialized Stumpjumper FS.

Nokian Hakkapeliitta's 106 carbide studs per tire make winter riding much more enjoyable!

But winter takes its toll. I switched to stainless cables.

It`s a beautiful frame- modern build, it looks like?

Yup, built within the last 6 months, I'm assuming. They are still producing these at a massive scale in the Netherlands.

True to a certain extent, but some rims design and the material used just makes them inherently flexier, especially under a strong or heavier rider. For example most low-end Alex rims I've come across (like Alex DA22) are "soft", and go out of true by a big amount just from stress relieving the spokes...

Deep V rims on the other hand are extremely rigid thanks to the amount of material and the design. I've got a stock pair on my 09 Paddy Wagon which gets a fair amount of abuse jumping/dropping off curbs and carrying 20kg loads in my panniers, yet both wheels are only out of true by about 2mm after months of use.

My new commuter! Columbia Tourist V. I bought it off of craigslist for $80.00 and I have no idea what year it is. She has what looks to be an Eagle 2 deraillieur. Tires and cables appear sound but it's time for fresh cables and new inner tubes just to be safe. She even has an old license plate. I'll keep it on 'cause it adds class. I love the fenders, they have an almost Indian Chief look to them. I ran out of blinkies so I need to run to walmart for more lights. Bell came out with a real good 3 led headlight and I like their vintage looking blinkies.
Ernest

Nice racks.

The bike's cool too.

Here is a more recent picture of my LHT. I've added two 5-way bags from Out Your Backdoor, and other stuff ...

More stuff on the wall, too!

That thing looks great loaded up.

Looking good
Now you need a frame pack for it, he he he. inside joke

Recently decided to get my first bike since I was in high school...Picked up a 2008 Novara Big Buzz.

Mostly stock other than the accessories (rack, fenders, panniers, etc)

I have a 6 mi commute to work each way and it seems to be serving me pretty well so far.

I updated the specs on the bike at Commute By Bike: https://commutebybike.com/commuter-bi...uct.php?id=258

Enjoy!

What is your tail light?