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New bike for Jay
On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 10:35:16 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-07-27 09:39, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 7:56:30 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-07-26 11:07, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 10:23:58 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-07-26 09:31, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 8:55:05 AM UTC-7, Doug Landau wrote: Can we start speccing out equipment for Jay the way we do for Jorge? I'll start with this thing. Jay tell us again what frame size you ride? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik...230636448.html Wow. That's a deal. I ride a 63cm in Cannondale. The OE Ksyrium wheels are a non-starter. I couldn't keep them true. But I'd buy that bike, and I was even in SF yesterday. Oh well. I need two bikes, but both have been or are in the process of being replaced. I splurged and sort of replaced my commuter with a CF gravel bike for $1,600. at Western Bikeworks. An on-sale Norco Search. I couldn't help myself. It's a bike I've always liked. It's 105 level, which is more than fine -- and godbless Norco for using the whole component group and not some FSA or TruVativ crank or Tektro brakes. This is a fun bike and probably too nice for a commuter, so who knows, I might buy a beater frame and throw together a dead of winter commuter. Cannondale will probably give me something as a replacement for the broken CX frame. I just didn't want to wait to go through that process, and I wanted a gravel bike anyway. Hey, keep the economy strong. Bike sales are down. We have to do our part. http://www.norco.com/bikes/road/adve...h-a-105-hydro/ Nice bike though 160/140mm rotors are IMO too wimpy. What always peeves me and is one reason why I am sticking with my 35 year old steel frame road bike is that manufacturers of "modern" bikes seem to assume nobody has to carry anything. No rack attachment points. Schlepping a laptop, water, food and other stuff in a backpack is a real pain especially when it's over 100F out there and the ride is mostly in the sun. When I took delivery of this full-custom road bike in the early 80's the very first thing I did was to add lights and a nice big rack. I made sure the frame I selected had provisions for that. I even have a full rack (almost all home-made) on my FS-MTB. Stiffened so the panniers won't sway into the spoked even during very rough rides. Plus now a top trunk. Detachable in case a package has to be brought to Fedex along the way. The available trunks can hold 1-1/2 gallons of water, food, prototype parts for clients, a tool set and whatever else is needed. They make bikes for that. You just don't own one. I can go down the street an buy one. http://www.splendidcycles.com/ https://bikeportland.org/tag/cargo-bikes Sure, but I meant a fast commuter, not a behemoth. By the way, I bought the CF (not allow) Norco Search: http://www.norco.com/bikes/road/adve.../search-c-105/ Interesting, Why did they drop the price so much versus list? Western Bikeworks has great deals. I got a Garmin 520 bundle for my son at the Christmas in-store super-sale for about $275 USD. I like the people there, too. It's internet and bricks-and-mortar. Lately I find many bike shops going brick&mortar, web site, plus EBay. What puzzles me happens on a regular basis: I see a part such as a tire I want on their web site and it's $20. Ok but that's plus shipping which makes the whole deal a non-starter. Then I go on EBay, find the same tire for $15, free shipping, same (!) store. Yet there they must pay a hefty sales commission. Beats me why they do that. An example is Bikewagon in Utah where I always got free ship on EBay but not direct. The Search alloy has rack mounts -- not the CF bike. The rotors are plenty big enough for a gravel bike. The 140mm rotors on my Cannondale CX bike were more than adequate. I saw something in the back. Didn't look like a rack mount but if they are that would be very commendable. You probably aren't a clyde if 140mm rotors work. Hmmm. My tandem had two cantis, and my wife and I weighed over 300 lbs. We never had problems stopping, although I did overheat the rims once coming down Rocky Point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPqQptjbF0 Over the the 12 years I owned the CX bike, my weight ranged from 193-220lbs. I'm closer to the bottom end again. I never had problems stopping on my CX bike with 140 rotors and mechanical discs unless I forgot to adjust the pads or they wore out on the ride. And I live in a hilly place. I'm not doing 20 mile 10% descents on the way to work. Maybe the uber-gnarly steep roads in Cameron Park require 180mm rotors. Not in Cameron Park which doesn't have long hills but in neighboring areas. My MTB buddy weighs around 200lbs, his MTB has 8"/7" rotors, and then it happened. Before the last sharp turn down a long descent he lost his front brake. I don't need a cargo bike. I want something fun to ride on gravel and through the hills on the way home. If I found myself in need of a rack, I'd buy a beater frane with rack mounts -- which I might do. So you don't carry much back and forth? I did a valley trip yesterday. Hot day and the extra water alone filled more than one pannier. On the way back there are no fountains until 3mi before I am home. No, again, I don't need a cargo bike. And in a lifetime of riding, I've hauled water once -- riding across Wyoming in a place where it was 60 miles between towns. I rode from Seattle to Portland in a day with peak heat in the 90s and probably filled my bottles four times. No water bags. No racks. Just two water bottles that I filled every 50 miles. The distance from Cameron Park to Sacramento is 34 miles. If you need water bags for that, then you are a special person. Yeah, I sweat a lot which I inherited from my dad. However, riding tens of miles in 100F weather with just a bottle or two is not healthy for anyone unless you can fill up many times on the way. Any reputable sports physician would tell you the same. So does the army. I generally carry three 28oz bottles plus one or two 17oz electrolyte ones. On long MTB rides with no safe drinking water source I carry up to 1-1/2 gallons total. On those rides I often meet people, mostly hikers, with serious signs of dehydration. Some of my water occasionally goes to others. Again, I'm talking about a road bike. I've run out of water and been miserable for a while, but I've always found water. I'm alive today, mostly. The topper was a guy in Yosemite Park who seriously had planned to hike up from the valley to the top of half dome and back, carrying little water and no food. IIRC he had a couple of small bottles which were all empty by then. We found him collapsed in bushes near the trail shortly before you get to the ropes. If I hadn't gazed out into the nature right there I wouldn't even have seen him and this guy was in major trouble. Similar for a Chinese woman in Grand Canyon. And on and on. I know people who killed themselves by drinking too much water. Google hyponatremia. I've done the hike from Glacier Point to Half Dome a bunch of times. I usually stopped for water at Nevada Falls. I don't know why your guy was dropping dead at the cables. Dopes do dopey things. They don't let you down into the Grand Canyon unless you have water, so I don't know what the deal was with your Chinese woman, either. Maybe she did some Kung Fu on the rangers who check your backpack for water, etc., and ran down the trail. I've been riding a really long time -- continuously. No decade off for bad traffic. Never have I needed to take multiple gallons of water on a road ride, including rides across the US from east to west and north to south (west coast). I've done the Sierra many times, including the Death Ride twice -- which is really well supported, so no need for oodles of spare water. But even on tour, I think I had a couple of bottles for a loop from now-burning Mariposa/Yosemite/Lee Vining/Tahoe/HWY 49 back to Mariposa. I had two bottles on every other tour but did have a water bag that I mostly used as a blow-up pillow -- except in Wyoming. I did screw up and forget to buy food on a bike tour in Oregon. My wife and I ended up eating blackberries for dinner. There have been other food or drink mistakes, but nothing epic. Riding down the wasteland of the California coast, we ran out of gin and tonic -- until we hit the Little River Inn. It was horrible! Ah ha! I did run out of water on that ride -- between HWY 1 south of Mendocino and Cloverdale, riding inland over the mountains which were more mountain-y than expected. We found a little winery in the middle of nowhere and filled up. We were headed toward a town that turned out not to be there. Very odd. -- Jay Beattie. |
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