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She "fixes" her plastic Engen motorbike while I work on mine. My bike that is, not my Engen motorbike, I get a professional to fix that.
Yeah I watch her like a hawk. She selected all the tools herself, and tells me what I must tighten and "fix"
If anyone needs any work done on their bikes...
Your friend knows how to spoil himself...
Try ride a bit faster mate.
0.001 is track standing.
And I still cant do that after 4 years of riding.
Hahaha thanks I'll try. I like going fast on my bikes but it helps to be able to go slowly too.
A shorter stem (and not a longer stem!) will make a bike feel more twitchy because smaller inputs will have larger effects with a short stem.
It could be that the Scott just has a more aggressive geometry.
FWIW, the first few times I rode my Scott Spark it felt like it was turning in sharper than I had intended. After a few rides I became adjusted to the bike and now it's all good.
Yeah it was only after mucking around so much on the Giant during diy-chain-tensioner-testing riding around in a small courtyard dodging dogs bowls and dogs that I felt a bit wobbly on the Scott.
Thanks for suggestions.
So far I've given up drinking and ordered a power balance suit from a nice Chinese online store.
-Im a +- 1.6m shortass so my 15" Scott feels like the best fitting bike Ive had. The Giant is large because thats the frame that was going, its a project and I have a teeny 50mm stem on it.
-Scott has a 75mm stem, if I sit in riding position, handle bar/stem intersection lines up with axel ( i was always told this is a sizing point?)
-headset seems fine
-pivots etc feel solid, although rear shock isn't as stiff as i feel it should be (i have it pumped slightly harder than my weight rating currently)
-My wheel does appear to be sitting closer to the disc side??
-cant find training wheels in the colour I want
So came to the conclusion that I feel a lot more steady on my slightly scrappy single speed project bike, than I do on my Scott dual suspension.
My Giant singlespeed has a large frame, the Scott has a small frame. The Scott feels like the front wheel wants to fall over to the side, and feels generally "twitchy", but on the giant I feel like i can ride in a straight line at 0.001 kilometers an hour...
Any suggestions welcome.
thanks
Im busy constructing a tensioner, I wanted the roller under the chain to maximize the wrap around the rear sprocket, but I cant seem to get the chain length to work in this scenario. If i remove another link, the chain will be too short, but if i leave it as is, it seems way too long and touches the chain stay.
Running 17 and 34 ratio.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Just up from Shelly beach, Sydney
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Or the Dildo bar from Ueda Kenichi available from Planet-X.
http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HBUKDILDO/ueda-kenichi---dildo-bars
Yeah this one was a Stash bar though. Took a close up.
Bar is called a Stash bar. Made by Origin 8.
Lots of weird and wonderful bikes in Sydney, everything from ancient rust buckets to unusual single speeds.
Did you air-lift that bike in there? 
Is that R67 vs R440 a week?
Frame comes with the rear bracket
Quite a few options for under 10k.
Westdene cycles in JHB had at least 3 decent bikes for around that mark
What clamp you got?
Used to get great service at Cajees Princess Crossing, had a look around, was a joke. Young guy "helping" was a bigger joke.
Me: "Tell me about this bike."
Him: "Its got a carbon frame"
Me "Wow. For four thousand rand?"
Him: "Um. Aluminium."
Me: "Well which is it?
Him: "Carbonaluminium"
Unicycle - NOT a $#@$ing Mountain Bike
in The Bike Room
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No Go Pro's even...
What about pink water bottles; red stripey socks; singing "chitty chitty bang bang" to myself...