50voltphantom

Good point.

AristoNYC

all joking aside, I agree, I can't see the enjoyment of just riding a fatbike on pavement. Its like riding a dirt bike only on the streets.

Mumonkan

it makes me wonder why everyone that buys bikes from places like walmart buy strictly mountain bikes and rides them on the sidewalk

then again they probably picked it up in their maibatsu monstrosity

HMM MAYBE THERES A CORRELATION

LesterOfPuppets

Hitting stairs with fatbike = fatfun.

Muffin Man

Found a picture of my first "real" bike. It was quite lol.

AristoNYC

That does sound like fun. I can use my motorcycle for that, as long as the cops don't see.

Mumonkan

****em if they do, BRAAAAAAAAP

seau grateau

Today I picked the wrong day to go for a run. Then I hit up Goodwill and got three good books and two pairs of sunglasses for a whopping $14.

Mumonkan

speaking of fatbikes

hockeyteeth

What happened to the original fork? I've never seen a Trek of that vintage with a chrome fork and that looks like an inexpensive replacement. I'm assuming you checked the down tube and top tube for wrinkles.

SpeshulEd 

That guy's like "first!"

Muffin Man

Hipster scum

/s

Sherblock

It's a Tange TR replacement fork, yes. I haven't been able to find out anything about TR's quality. I'm still thinking about an upgrade, though. Would a wound up look weird?

Luckily, the only issue with the frame is how dirty it is from a ride early today

SpeshulEd 

He's like "try my craft beer and check out my mustache. Have you listened to (insert obscure band here)? Do you like Japanese coffee?"

Leukybear 

Yes. Don't do it.
Curved forks are the way to go with 80's bikes.

Sherblock

So hard to find, though

Any recommendations? I know I could go custom, but I don't feel like spending more than half of what I paid for the bike on a new fork.

Leukybear 

$290 is a lot to work with.

I believe many trek road models from that time period (late 80's) shared the same fork with 42mm rake (I looked up the catalog). If you're able to get a fork from around the same period (same color might be a stretch; just make sure there's enough thread for the stack height & locknut), you should be able to restore the ride and handling to how it was intended to be from trek. If a fork is of mystery origin to the model it came from, try to cross reference model colors in trek catalogs.

For the record, that's a cheaper tange fork, I have the exact same fork from a peugeot I parted. It was a downgrade from stock in both cases.

Mumonkan

today i found out my tattoo artist died yesterday morning. still trying to find out what happened, really shocked. feel bad for his family they just had another baby this winter

i was gonna go see him this week to talk about working on my arm

**** man. dude was only in his 30s and owned his own business, wife and kids. life is buill****.

rex615

Interesting workaround for the transmission. The whole drive train is offset to the right so that the chain will clear the rear tire while using a standard BB.

I would imagine it would feel weird to sit off-center on the bike.

Edit: I just noticed the fork is offset too. That can't promote good handling. Probably a good thing it has no front brake, the steering axis being to one side of the contact patch would make the bike pull to one side when you hit the front brake.


And what is that thing in front of the rider's crotch? How is it actuated? They probably called it the "Hump Horn"

T13

Check this out:

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...nge-forks.html

T13

Only if it's made from coffee beans picked by monkeys.

JohnDThompson 

it's probably very similar to the original; Tange made the forks for that model Trek. If your fork has "TR" fork ends, it's a decent fork.

jlafitte 

SpeshulEd 

Pooped*

SpeshulEd 

We have a place right around the corner from us that does it, but I've never had it. I'm not much of a coffee guy so it all pretty much just tastes the same to me.