Is it true that you guys remove reflectors, kickstands and chain guards?
02-08-18, 11:46 PM
#126
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I don’t have that problem without the dork ring. Why do you have grease flying everywhere?
02-09-18, 12:17 AM
#127
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I'm in a salt air environment here, if its not lubed it will rust in short order.
02-09-18, 08:43 AM
#128
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Chain lube has to go somewhere it gets on everything as the bike sits. Rear hubs always develop a coating of dust and grease if the chain is lubed often enough. I use Triflow on the chain every week or so on my daily rider. The first ride tends to let some sling off or run down behind the freewheel. Back in the day, before all the special lubes we used motor oil drizzled over the chain every so often. It would get on everything, including the rear brakes over time.
I'm in a salt air environment here, if its not lubed it will rust in short order.
I'm in a salt air environment here, if its not lubed it will rust in short order.
02-09-18, 02:15 PM
#129
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On my mountain bike which I ride exclusively on trails and in shorts I don't care about chain guards, lights or reflectors since there is no car traffic around. But even that bike has a fender. Some guys might think that the brown stripe on the back after a ride is cool. I don't.
My commuter bicycles do have reflectors, reflective 3M pin stripes, Schwalbe Marathon tires with reflective side walls, dynamo powered lights, battery lights and other reflective gear. I am riding about 300-400 miles per month in city traffic. And in winter mostly in the dark. And therefore I don't care how cool a bike is supposed to be. I want to be seen and not be run over. People in dark clothes on dark bikes with no lights or any reflectors on the streets in the dark are not cool. They are stupid.
And all my commuter bikes have fenders, chain guards, kickstands, racks for the panniers and hitches for my trailer. I try to live a "car reduced" lifestyle. I do most of shopping with these bikes too. Rain or shine and I don't want get all messy from pants rubbing against the chain or from water splashing up every time I am on a bike. And loading panniers without the bike on a kickstand is not very convenient either.
So long story short: Depending on the usage of my bikes I have all that gear on the bikes or I don't.
My commuter bicycles do have reflectors, reflective 3M pin stripes, Schwalbe Marathon tires with reflective side walls, dynamo powered lights, battery lights and other reflective gear. I am riding about 300-400 miles per month in city traffic. And in winter mostly in the dark. And therefore I don't care how cool a bike is supposed to be. I want to be seen and not be run over. People in dark clothes on dark bikes with no lights or any reflectors on the streets in the dark are not cool. They are stupid.
And all my commuter bikes have fenders, chain guards, kickstands, racks for the panniers and hitches for my trailer. I try to live a "car reduced" lifestyle. I do most of shopping with these bikes too. Rain or shine and I don't want get all messy from pants rubbing against the chain or from water splashing up every time I am on a bike. And loading panniers without the bike on a kickstand is not very convenient either.
So long story short: Depending on the usage of my bikes I have all that gear on the bikes or I don't.
02-09-18, 02:59 PM
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NFS is the best chain lube. 
02-11-18, 09:39 AM
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Do you have any bikes that have a kickstand attachment point on them?
I just recently fitted a kickstand to my frame's dedicated holes near the rear of the chain stay and I am pleasantly surprised how solidly it holds up my bike and the kickstand maker claims the kickstand is good for taking a 50kg load and I believe it.
Previously where I had to make do with sticking a kickstand on a bike as best I could, whilst it still worked for me, it clearly wasn't as rock solid as my newest kickstand(with the 50kg rating) is.
I just recently fitted a kickstand to my frame's dedicated holes near the rear of the chain stay and I am pleasantly surprised how solidly it holds up my bike and the kickstand maker claims the kickstand is good for taking a 50kg load and I believe it.
Previously where I had to make do with sticking a kickstand on a bike as best I could, whilst it still worked for me, it clearly wasn't as rock solid as my newest kickstand(with the 50kg rating) is.
Additionally, a kickstand when mountain biking is a liability waiting to happen. The last thing I wan’t on a bike is something that can flip down or flip in or out on a rough trail.
It wouldn’t matter anyway since I’ve learned over the last 30+ years that I don’t need a kickstand.
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
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!
02-11-18, 10:23 AM
#132
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I use the stand on the shopper. I could do with a twin/fork on the e-bike but there's no way of mounting one, unless I make a bottom bracket fitment mount. But then the front wheel will lift and spin the fork.
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