That's pretty cool, Can't believe you made a truing stand! What dial indicator do you use? I true my wheels with a spinmaster truing stand, and can only get them to a certain point before it is almost impossible to get a straighter wheel (it has a guide on both sides and strikes the wheel when there is a high spot on the rim). I push the guides in after correcting a spot, and probably get within a few mm before giving up. Sounds like there is a trick I don't know about :)

Dave

Installed rivnuts on a frame for the first time. Easy Peasy.

Today I rode my fixed gear bike with roadies.

51 miles, 2800 ft, 17.4 MPH


-Tim-

Today i'm contemplating whether I should get SRAM Omniums for my Kilo tt, or save up for a gravel bike, or new mtb?

Dave

Yes.

(that's the answer you wanted, isn't it?)

They can be had pretty cheaply secondhand nowadays! :)
Do it!

Which one? All 3? Lol.

Dave

Actually, all 3 are!

From my observations (your mileage may vary!):
- Omniums can be had for cheap as the fixed gear culture has died down a bit and omniums had a cheaper pricepoint to begin with which helped make them more common not to mention it's by an American brand that made them readily available from any LBS that carries SRAM (all).
- Gravel bikes are kind of niche and second-hand, you may find good deals as people tend to want either a road bike or mountain bike and not in between.
- Mountain bikes have terrible resale value. Go to pinkbike marketplace and you'll likely find the MTB of your dreams for pennies on the dollar for what it originally went for. Reasons being, it's the rough and tumble discipline of cycling and not for everybody which thins the marketplace, MTB tech has actually seen a lot more innovation than road bike tech (for ex. there were 12 speed cassettes and e-bikes since 2016 and disc brakes since the late 90's), and people that usually buy the top of the line and new MTB stuff are usually loaded and tend to not care much about their used gear when there's new/ upgraded stuff released.

kudos on the solid FG ride [MENTION=418438]TimothyH[/MENTION]

Yesterday kicked down another 100 surrounding the SDBC "A" ride, road bike though. 6 hrs pedaling time, fourth ride of that magnitude in as many weeks. Time to decrease the frequency of these monster rides and start getting some race-level intensity in!

Today I slow rolled my MTB to the nearest local park and spent 20 minutes stuntin' in the dirt patches surrounding the grass. 30 min total.

Now I'll stretch and get ready for dinner. Going to stay partially involved in the lady's Whole 30/Paleo diet that she's kicking off so we'll have to cook lots!

Thanks, I'll have to check out pinkbike and Craigslist to see what's out there, might make the decision between the 3 easier :) I'm in a pretty rural area, so there is a bit of gravel and quite a few places to ride mtb too. I used to ride some singlespeed gravel on my old steel fixed gear and it was really fun too.

Today I rode 17 mi at 15.5mph, and got within 1 second of a kom :-p

Dave

Today I logged into bikeforums for the first time in 6 years or something like that. Looks about the same! I also rode my bike to my shop today, like I do every day. Lot less fixed folks around these days, lots more bike lanes, lots more distracted drivers with phones in their hands. Business as usual. Party on.

Today (well, yesterday) I said A LOT of bad words, got angry, got S T R E S S E D but finally got the Gatorskins installed. Never tried them before.....better be worth that effort, LOL.

what rims? that sucks

They are a little harder to get on... but I've never had a problem muscling them on? Were you using tire levers?

The shop started stocking Continental Ultra Sports last year and ,wow, they are consistently difficult to mount. A few of my female riding friends expressed regret about purchasing these tires because in the event they have a flat they don't think they'll be able to fix it on their own because these tires take some muscling.

I don't recall Continental tires specifically ever being difficult to mount but it's interesting to see our recent experiences are similar here.

GP4000's have been reasonable IME. I don't use them often b/c the sidewalls are too thin for an everyday tire, and there are faster race tires. I've had three sidewall rips on GP4000's, and totaled two new tires in the same week once. Some people love em tho and use them daily so as with anything YMMV.

Couple hours on the fixed gear just to keep the legs spinning after intervals on Tuesday and Wednesday. Off tomorrow. Looking to go for some intensity and volume both days this weekend so I should be stacking on the training stress.

Day off work today so I got to sleep in a bit more, and will be getting a bunch of chores done and generally relaxing. Dentist, haircut, oil change, laundry, hanging out. Might drop into work for an hour or two later before music night tonight just so my inbox doesn't stack too high and I don't slave at my desk all day tomorrow.

Installed the correct derailleur on the bike so we are close to getting it all ready to ride. If anyone has a friction bushing for a 7400 downtube front friction shifter let me know.
For pictures here you go:
https://www.bikeforums.net/20742219-post2063.html

I need one of those days off things! sounds nice! hahaha. What is music night? That sounds fun...

Duuuuuuuude! Lookin so good. I nearly forgot about it... how could I?! That is one rad bike!

In my little to no spare time, I love making things. Bicycle related, motorcycle, guns, cars, art, music... you name it doesn't matter! Nothing gives me more pleasure than making something out of nothing with my hands. One of the wayyyyy too many things I have my fingers in, is jewelry making. Pun intended ;) I finished up this commissioned, very simple knuckle duster today. Nothing fancy, just some simple southwestern flair:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7832/...122aa3dc_c.jpg

Here is one I made a couple months back, hammered titanium with mother of pearl inlay. Little more detail and a lot more fun:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4816/...0ce06823_c.jpg

Thanks!! I am so happy with it, the "new" derailleur looks so much better. I can't wait to get the whole thing fully set up so I can ride it more.

Those rings are also quite nice. I love titanium and the hammering is quite neat.

Damn, that looks great!
A few years ago I made some rings out of silicon bronze braze wire while work was slow. Boss wasn't pleased :lol:

https://i.imgur.com/Hd6RPX5.jpg