Are you serious!? I've installed a half dozen or so in the past decade and never seen one. Of course mine have all been GE and Whirlpool.
Yeah. I’ve seen $1,400 bikes with Claris or Sora and mechanical disc brakes. Not worth the downgrade. This is a sweet bike.
Seems like a perfect entry-level “nice” bike. Hydraulic disc brakes, modern geometry. Under $2k.
A1 Mini is very rigid (it has to be, as it’s a cantilevered arm design). There is even an STL out there for a carrying handle that replaces the top cap for the Z axis.
I’m a Mini owner and I’d trust it to survive transit. I’d probabably carry mine in a padded hard case if I wanted to bring it places frequently.
That can't be a real size.
Yeah, but then you have to run Moloko bars.
Edit: Reddit no longer has safeguards in place to prevent me from reflexively commenting on threads from 2 years ago.
A half-frame bag is pretty much the perfect shape for carrying a few cans. Also, I recall some bag company made a soft 6-pack holder that drops over the top tube and hangs like panniers behind the stem.
Edit: I tried to find the original one I saw and found a bunch of pages for now-discontinued Cordura or waxed canvas ones. I suspect that there's no way not to smack your knees on them while pedaling.
Why not just call your closest Microcenter and ask? Or go on their web site and look it up? You’re literally on the Internet now— there’s no need to crowdsource this information from strangers.
I know that when I have a well-adhered part that's severely warped, it will usually pull the magnetic plate away from the bed. The bed itself stays put. I'm not convinced that the actual bed could warp this badly in use, so I'm inclined toward it being a quality control issue.
If teachers are any indication, much of Gen Z has almost no reading comprehension and a very short attention span and can’t synthesize information. Given access to the internet, they’re more likely to crowdsource answers to simple questions on social media than use a search engine.
So I dunno. Maybe.
My wife sold a number of houses over the past few years, and her workaround for this was to write in a clause for an “informational purposes only” inspection, with a contingency. Essentially the buyer is agreeing not to renegotiate the offer price based on the inspection, but reserves the right to cancel the sale without penalty if they’re unhappy with the results.
That way the seller knows the buyer won’t try to claw back any money after the agreement is signed, and the buyer still gets to walk if the house is a disaster. It doesn’t necessarily win against a no-inspection bid, however she really did her best to not allow any of her clients to make an offer without some sort of inspection.
Bro. I run GP5KS TR on my road bike. 28mm. They work great even if my bike isn’t a top-end pro bike. The compounds that manufacturers use on race tires are designed to work very well at normal riding speeds, from 0-50mph. Pros have a higher average speed than I do, but it’s not so high that it requires a totally different tread compound in order to grip asphalt.
The reason F1 tires don’t work on your Accord is because you have to run them extremely hard, cornering at speeds in excess of 200mph, coupled with gratuitous amounts of aerodynamic downforce, in order to keep those tires hot enough to work properly. If you drove them around casually and tried to corner hard, they’d be rock hard and not even hold the road.
Check out this video comparing a purpose-built TT bike vs. an aero road bike with clip-on aero bars and an optimized riding position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lK1xC0Z5FA
It seems like the difference is surprisingly small. If you're only going to own one bike, I think a road bike is the better choice as it's much more versatile and you can use it for club rides, climbing hills, and other types of racing if you wish. A TT bike is really not good for anything other than time trials.
FWIW, Tarmac all the way.
The Midnight Special unfortunately has really dumb dropouts which I consider a dealbreaker. Essentially it comes with adapters that fit into thru-axle hubs, with screws on the end that you tighten into the dropouts. It has kind of an unattractive and heavy unicrown steel fork.
I think the Fairlight Secan 2.5 is really cool, and my favorite bike on your list. It's customizable and lightweight, made of high-quality Reynolds tubes. It comes with a carbon fork, which is a very cost-effective place to save substantial weight. The details on it are beautiful.
I built a Cotic Escapade two years ago, and then went back and built another for my wife.
https://www.cotic.co.uk/product/escapade
It's similar to the Secan but doesn't clear those monster 650b x 2.4" MTB tires. I find it to be a nice bike to live with-- I've done a lot of road riding on it as well as gravel and singletrack. It advertises tire clearance up to about 700x47 and 650b x 50. The ones I bought were from a limited run built in 2022 with Reynolds 853 tubing. The ones you can get currently are made of custom-shaped chromoly tubes, which are barely heavier.
https://theradavist.com/cotic-escapade-853-review/
Currently you can get one with a GRX-812 build shipped to the US for about $2,660. They have a bunch of upgrades that you can get for more. They're a very cool and small company who are happy to work with you if you send them an email.
Nuclear option? That’s my first stop. Works every time.
I’ve overheated a floor pump trying to seat a gravel tire by hand. Burnt up the grease inside and it stopped pumping properly. I have seated some tires with tighter beads by hand (Maxxis mtb tires on Sun Ringle rims, for instance) but every Gravelking I’ve owned has been nearly impossible. Same for road tires.
Compressor is the way to go.
Even if the builds were comparable, I just don’t like Cannondale’s engineering. But they’re not— the Canyon is a nicer bike for less money.
You’re going to feel a staircase or a big curb, irrespective of the suspension. I really don’t think what you’re describing is feasible.
You picked the wrong machine! Our Bambu printers are too quiet. Instead you should be using a first-gen Ender 3 without the quiet controller board, or go back even farther with a RepRap. Those things had very musical steppers.
1) I have no idea. Pavement buzz is never a consideration for me— it’s trivial.
2) Same deal. Bigger tires at low pressures will probably be most effective at creating a smooth flowy feel, but knobby tires will introduce their own buzz.
3) No idea. You might be the only person in the world looking for a suspension setup that intentionally makes the bike slower while completely eliminating the sensation that you’re riding on the ground. You’re in uncharted territory.
It sounds like you have some pretty severe sensory sensitivity that’s making it hard for you to enjoy cycling normally. Have you seen a professional about it?
You're literally asking what kind of bike you can buy that will make you very slow, so you're forced to work very hard while riding slowly with children. Now you're also trying to balance working excessively hard on a slow ride vs. being able to "win" a race against your 9yo. And it has to be amazingly comfortable, like floating on a cloud. Bro. This is kind of a crazy set of requirements, and I don't think anybody can solve this for you. Buy a downhill bike if you want to.
Counterpoint: they're one of the biggest bike brands in the world with excellent R&D and engineering, and their bikes are pretty sexy. And at 40% off, they're more than competitive.
Wild. After the initial adjustment, I really found it enjoyable. It's another horse in my stable, and a very valuable one from a skills standpoint. I mentioned how much it can help improve your low-speed bike handling skills. It also can teach you to pedal and spin very smoothly, and adapt to changing conditions by putting power down differently.
And if you're in a workable gear, fixed-gear hill climbing can be sublime. There's something that's just so encouraging about the way your forward momentum carries the pedals through the flat spot-- it feels like a little boost with each pedalstroke, rewarding you for smoothness while making you smoother.
But if you're really trying to work hard, maybe just pile 150 lbs of bricks in a trailer and tow that behind you.
It’s $1,800, and hydraulic Tiagra. Have you shopped for bikes? That’s kinda typical in the current landscape.
Should I return my bicycle I just bought?
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