seau grateau

That might not be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, but definitely top 5.

SCK

Tracked down and fixed a really irritating creak on my new to me road bike. After going over everything else that might creak or squeak, I pulled the rear wheel, reseated it in the frame and gave the skewer about a half turn more than I had been giving it. That half turn turned out to be the solution to a creaky bike. That said, I'm still on the fence with geared bikes.

rex615

I live in a very small town. There is a street that is very popular for trick-or-treaters. I went there with my wife to look at the kids in their costumes (even had a few dogs kitted out). Police had barricaded the whole street (no cars). It was nice that everyone could just walk down the middle of the street.

Why wouldn't you just walk with the kids? Isn't that part of the fun?

thedapperest

Did my first alleycat today. Ended up popping my chain and getting DFL, but I sure had a blast.

TenSpeedV2

Dangit!!! I am here in Chicago. I have my fixed gear with me. I had no idea that this was going on. And the weather, mad props for riding in that crap. Did Critical Mass last night. Were you there?

Today I learned that a few days ago, Jimmy John's changed their dress code and tattoo policy. This is great news for me. No more long sleeves.

thedapperest

Nah I haven't done mass in a while, but I had no idea you were in the Chi

TenSpeedV2

Heading home Sunday afternoon. Just visiting my sister over in the Irving Park area. Just so happened that mass happened while I was here. Did it last November, same thing, visited for Thanksgiving and rode it for the first time. I approve of the fixed gear scene here. Too many guys riding brakeless though.

50voltphantom

I made some small barriers and worked on some CX skills doing laps in my backyard. CX is hard.

Mumonkan

today im editing photographs from yesterdays ride and working on my blog, excited to show the 6 people who will ever look at it

iduno why ive never brought my camera on a ride before, i really miss using a real camera

johnnytheboy

TejanoTrackie 

I just saw a commercial for JJ with some delivery guy sprinting on what appeared to be a State track bike. Anyone else see this ?

thedapperest

@TenSpeedV2 Yeah the scene is pretty good here, there are plenty of fixie fools out riding brakeless who don't know how and **** like that, but it's definitely very alive and healthy right now

Huffandstuff

If you can't be first place, just try to get more rad than anyone else, if you can't do that, just get drunk.

I find my technique for barriers is to just come into them at full speed, clip out and come off to your dominant side and just use the momentum to make you run fast or just try to bunnyhop the single barriers.

TimothyH

Today I'm trying to figure out why I shouldn't order the Clasica Thermoactive jersey from Morvelo...



CLASICA MENS THERMOACTIVE LS JERSEY

TenSpeedV2

Small shop down on Milwaukee has a Felt TK2 hanging in the window. Can't remember the name of it, not The Bike Lane. Smaller almost boutique shop, been in there before and it is a pretty cool shop.

thedapperest

Yup that's the name, wonderful shop, most of the shops here are on the smaller side. My personal favorite in the area is Velodramatic, a few miles further down Milwaukee actually on Division and I believe Halsted. Almost exclusively fgss, and the owner is a really cool dude.

50voltphantom

I like this. Thank you.

Dismounting/re-mounting was surprisingly easy to get the hang of. *pats self on back* While I know how to bunnyhop and used to be pretty darn good at it, I've decided to focus on basic fundamentals and possibly not finish DFL. That is unless the barriers are only 4" high.

Mumonkan

hi guise i made a blog about bikes and stuff, you guys should go read it, itl make you cool. theres fancy picturemachines in there too if you cant read.

https://dirthurt.wordpress.com/

rex615

Kudos, very well put together. Interesting to read and great photos.

Now I have to go back and read some more.

50voltphantom

Very well done. I need to do my first century next summer.

Muffin Man

I dig this.

How many times did you pee? Like 5?

TenSpeedV2

No, it's not The Bike Lane. I know that shop, and while they sell Felt, this is not the same shop. This is farther southeast on Milwaukee towards downtown. Same side of the road, not sure where exactly. I think it is past the Chrome store. I cannot seem to find it even on Google. If you get the chance, go look for yourself. They are in the same building as a little cafe I believe, and I believe it is before you get to the highway.

Huffandstuff

So I was trying to keep it rad today, now I need a new pair of shoes. Even if I explained how it happened, it still wouldn't make sense.

Broken fork and now this, CX is starting to get expensive.

TejanoTrackie 

Wait. So first you try to ride over obstacles and now you just try to kick them out of the way ? You da man !

ThermionicScott 

Very cool. Posters have a tendency to be terse here in SS/FG. Not a dig, but it's nice to read about people's adventures and impressions in more detail.