Posted on 01/29/2017 4:13:08 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Don’t think three speeds in San Fransico would be much better.
“...and a real chain.”
Why? They’re dirty, require frequent lubrication/cleaning, cause wear to the sprocket, and they’re noisy. Belt drive is a much better solution, IMHO.
The rest of the bike looks like a 5 year old designed it though. Much less bang for the buck than you’d get out of most $400 mountain bikes you can order online.
Yawn.
“There is nothing wrong with rim brakes.”
As someone who weighs 200 lbs, used to put in over 100 miles per week commuting, and sometimes rides in wet conditions, I disagree. Rim brakes are awful. They don’t have the power to pull me down to speed quickly if i’m going over 10 mph or going downhill. They either barely work or lock up unpredictably if they’re wet. They fade when they get hot on long descents. They require more frequent adjustment and pad replacement than disk brakes.
They also literally eat their way through your rims every time you pull the brake lever. The heating/cooling from friction on rim brakes also tends to warp the rims so that they require constant truing. If the spokes on a disc rim are properly tensioned at the factory you’ll never have to touch them again unless you hit some pretty serious bumps.
“Cheaper is cheap, more is for specialists dead serious about road commuting.”
Agree. $350-$400 is the least you’re going to pay for a capable mountain or road bike (new). There are alot of very solid bikes in that price range.
More is for people who want to take on advanced trails or keep up with the peloton on weekend club rides. Less is either unsafe or going to end up in the garbage heap after a few rides due to reliability issues.
@ post 66: #looksgayman
Why the kink in the bar between the seat and the handlebars?
I’m over 200 and was riding as much as you. I never had problems with my brakes until I got a bike with disc brakes. I destroyed two wheels in no time.
You obviously used your brakes more than I did - - a lot more.
Lots of big hills in Colorado. Really big. Trails with over 2000 ft of vertical, mud puddles, 3 ft drops and ginormous rocks all over the place. Brake fade is life threatening on those kinds of rides. So is snapping a brake cable in the middle of long descents, which has happened to me with rim brakes on more than one occasion.
I’m a big guy who abuses wheels. Having ridden thousands of miles on disk-brake equipped bikes in about the most demanding conditions imaginable, I feel qualified to say without a doubt it was underbuilt wheels or shoddy assembly rather than the disk brakes that were the problem.
I had much more problems with wheels staying true with rim brakes. The wheels required weekly truing to keep them from falling apart. Wore completely through both rims on my trek 930 in under a year when I was commuting 100+ miles a week. I’ve never had to touch the wheels more than once/twice a year on my disk bikes, and only after doing things on them that most people wouldn’t do on a bicycle.
But but but, the top tube has an odd bend to it, so it is unlike any other bike made in the last 150 years!
So unique, so crafty!
I adopted hydraulic disc technology beginning in 1999 and never looked back.
I have never, ever had a problem with them that was not wholly my fault.
In the early days the fear was a scrape or cut in the line from falling or accidents.
It never ever happened, and I can attest that I am prone to laying the bike down from time to time when things get hairy on the trail!
Well, you put THAT in perspective. I only biked around Colorado Springs, never the big mountains.
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