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A Garbaruk 12 speed cassette with Shimano HD hub interface for my fat bike. I bought it from BikeInn. I will not buy anything from them again, but I may well put one of these gems on the tandem with an SRAM wireless derailleur.

Why will you not buy anything from them again? Their website sketches me out.

Mine too! It's windy outside right now, yesterday I was averaging 350w on flat at certain places to maintain 25kph (15.5mph).

Remember this: the power of mental! :thumb:

I needed 12x110mm fork mounts for my Specialized e-bikes with the Boost wheels. No one in the USA makes a mount but did find ones for sale in Hungary. Placed my order and received the new mounts in my mail about 10 days later. Tree Frog is a very innovative manufacturer of bike accessories. https://treefrogracks.com

Mounted them on a board to hold two bikes with thru-bolt axles upright in the rear of my truck.


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The short version is that DHL had the package 4 hours drive by truck from my house and wouldn't deliver it. DHL basically told me that the shipper has to start a lost merchandise complaint. BikeInn wouldn't do it, so it sat in a distribution center for 5 days.

Then I found a DHL web page to "talk to a manager" and submitted my complaint. I didn't look very close and it turned out to be DHL of Honduras! He contacted DHL of Spain and told them that they had a very pissed off customer... They got DHL USA to move the package out to me.

I am OK with orders getting messed up. That happens. Not doing anything about it? I am pissed. Seems from their reviews that I am not the only person who feels that way about BikeInn. But they had that cassette in stock.

A set of Acorn bags.


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a pair of Mavic Cosmic second generation in excellent condition
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Whats a car bone?

I'm really annoyed with DHL right now...(also Competitive Cyclist for using those cretins for shipping.) So far, 8 days waiting for a stem for the new to me/old Canyon frame I'm building. It's coming from Utah and I'm in Cali, 8 days is redonkulous. I finally got tired of waiting and stole a stem from one of my other Canyons(they're 1 1/4 instead of 1 1/8".)

My bright red Saeco CAAD 5 would like to have a word with you lol. It makes that silver CAAD 4 seem rather reserved. Big yellow Cannondale logos all over the downtube, Saeco logos everywhere...if you were to forget what country it was made, you just look at the seat stays or the top tube, and it's very obvious. Bikes from that era were a bit on the garish side I guess. I like it just because it looks so dated.

The frame itself is quite beautiful though. Classic lines and the hourglass seat stays are one of the coolest-looking frame features ever IMO.

Seems like this is a common thing with married couples :innocent:

Lost my Silca Tattico mini pump somewhere along the line which really sucks, so I had to replace it. I think I paid about $45 for it the last time about 5 or 6 years ago, almost twice the price now, but, decided to go with the Silca Gravelero model this time as it pushes more air and was basically the same cost.

I don't think my wife has ever told me to shut up in the 30 years we've been together. She's told me to do a lot of other things though. :innocent:

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I like to Blendr.

What is it with Lezyne pumps you don't like? They're higher reviewed than Silca pumps are, in fact reviews for the Gravelero have not been great averaging 3 stars, while the Lezyne Pocket Drive HV gets 5 stars, plus the Lezyne is less than half the cost of the Silca so if you lose it you won't be out near as much money.

Fair question, when I looked at them in the past, you had to screw them on to the valve, and I just did not like that option. I preferred having a slide on chuck. Not a big deal if your core does not unscrew, but just a personal preference. A lot of the negative on the Silca is for price, which, I can't argue that, their stuff is just expensive.

Reasonable enough, the valve stem, or extender, coming unscrewed is actually pretty easy to remedy, simply take some clear fingernail polish, lightly coat the threads and immediately screw the valve back in. Sort of works like Loctite but it's not as secure, which means when the time comes you can break the nail polish easily, but the action of unscrewing the head of a pump from the valve stem won't remove it, if by chance it still unscrews after the polish dried for a while inside the valve, then use Loctite Purple which is the weakest of them, but I have not heard anyone complain about finger nail polish not working. Of course smooth unthreaded valve stems is a problem for the Lezyne.

A Park Tool spoke wrench, a set of Venzo wheels, and a pair of slick tires.

After buying the Dirt Bag and the Treefrog fork mounts for use in my truck I decided to buy the $100 RockyMount DropTop fork mounts. The DropTop allow me to first reattach the thru-axle in the fork and then to drop it into place in the mount. Much easier to do this then to try to insert the thru-axle while trying to hold the bike forks in place with one hand while stretched out over a truck tailgate.

The best part about the DropTop mount is that it works with no changes for both 12x110mm (used on our road bikes) and the 15x110mm ones used on my two mountain bikes.


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My handled hex keys are ready for replacement and I am missing one or two which not sure where they ran off too, so I decided to get the Park Tools Sliding T Handle set

The SRAM Force AXS D1 model left shifter\caliper is getting warrantied as the caliper has some issues, but they gave me the option of a D1 or D2 model, so I opted to get the D2 as I like the smaller format of the D2 so much better. So I bought a right side to have the pair

Nice hex set there. Can't imagine needing the entire set here, but 3,4,5,6 would be $76.

I know most will think they are probably a waste of money but I like having two sets of wheels and BTD had these for $299 so felt that was worth the cost of admission. Not the lightest but should be durable.
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Usually the 'unthreaded' stems people refer to, are those without threads below a certain point. Not sure I've found a tube without the threads that the cap can't screw on at least -- which are the threads a threaded pump use.
Examples:
Michelin "unthreaded" tube (except those for the valve cap) -- usually my go-to tube favorites.
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Continental typical threaded valve stem - what's the point of all of that threading anyway?
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Yea I was only going to buy a few, but my wife has some arts and craft tools that use some of the random sizes that the bike don't typically use, so its not like they wont be used.