So. I just fell hopelessly in love. The Beatnik. He’s wanting 15 large, brand new, whatever frame height I desire. It can be a fixie or a single speed (two cogs, one on either side). Comes with a front brake with brazed points for setting up a rear brake if desired. It’s just a lovely looking machine. I wanty. Wanty. Someone tell me I’d be wasting my hard-earned. No pontificating about the problems with going up hills, please – fixie/single-speed musings only.
Here is the little bastard in all its glory. Its a pic and a link to their site. I just don’t know enough about these things to make an informed decision. http://www.jamisbikes.com/usa/thebikes/road/fixies/09_beatnik.html
Here’s a bit of graphite-coloured porn. Use a tissue. Try not to get any on your keyboard.
And if you thought boys were weird before, here’s a thought. That same shop also has a bicycle called the Orbea Orca. They want NT$360,000 for it. No shit. Three hundred and sixty THOUSAND new Taiwan dollars.
I have a Raleigh bike. It’s 30 years old. It’s green. It has a BASKET on the front. And it cost 40 British pounds. That bike has no basket, so no-where to put veggies / important stuffs, and that cross bar would do a girl a mischief when she stopped at the lights. Not to mention the fact that that seat is wedgie central and things have, traditionally, never ended well when I’ve had my arse that far above my head.
I think for that price, you should hold out for a basket.
my bike cost more than my car. I have my priorities correctly sorted.
48x16 is too high gearing for an old fart like you, and it’s also a bad combination as 48=16 x 3 so you will inevitably get uneven wear patches developing in three spots in the chain and the tires.
perhaps ask for a bike with 45 x 16 gearing… or anything where the two gears are not integer multiples of each other. best if one is a prime number, too, say 47 x 17 for example. you don’t want a gain ratio of 3, about 2.6 is ample, and you can still spin that up to 30-35 km/h really easy.
Mate, my spanky new bike was stolen last week. £400 odd quids worth of German quality. Took just 30 mins for the Hounslow street crime team to steal it away. Mine was all black, it was a beauty.
That sucks balls, TomHill. Commiserations. Fuckers. Oxford is bike-nicking central. The only insurance is having a shite embarrassment of a bike. Or, em, insurance.
uro, does it have a basket?
I’m thinking of going totally Oxford and getting a Pashley.
[quote=“urodacus”]my bike cost more than my car. I have my priorities correctly sorted.
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Yes! I totally agree!
Assuming you didn’t pay NT$360,000 for the bike.
Tom, sorry to hear about your loss. I suggest you rent Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and watch it a couple dozen times. In case you haven’t seen it a dozen times already, whet your appetite with the brief plot below . . .
"Man-child Pee-wee Herman lives a magical life but has one possession that he treasures over all the others – his bicycle. The envy of the neighbourhood, his bike is his life and he is horrified when he finds it stolen. With the police unwilling to start a statewide search, Pee-wee sets out on an adventure to try and find his bike.
[quote=“zender”][quote=“urodacus”]my bike cost more than my car. I have my priorities correctly sorted.
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Yes! I totally agree!
Assuming you didn’t pay NT$360,000 for the bike.
Tom, sorry to hear about your loss. I suggest you rent Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and watch it a couple dozen times. In case you haven’t seen it a dozen times already, whet your appetite with the brief plot below . . .
"Man-child Pee-wee Herman lives a magical life but has one possession that he treasures over all the others – his bicycle. The envy of the neighbourhood, his bike is his life and he is horrified when he finds it stolen. With the police unwilling to start a statewide search, Pee-wee sets out on an adventure to try and find his bike.[/quote]
Are you even joking right here? I was schooled on Pee Wee’s big adventure. I don’t think Tim Burton has ever come close to matching this film. Even Batman Returns is a poor second. Pee Wee’s big adventure is definitely in my all time top 5. Quickchange is also in there.
Sorry about your bike TomHill. That must really suck.[/quote]
Worse still, my mate Darren told me he would lend me one of his bikes. So I ran a nice 7 mile distance to his house, only to find he was lending me a pink ladies bike (belonging to his wife.) Had 4 pints of Stella and jogged home again. 14 miles! At least I had a few brews.
[quote=“urodacus”]48x16 is too high gearing for an old fart like you, and it’s also a bad combination as 48=16 x 3 so you will inevitably get uneven wear patches developing in three spots in the chain and the tires.
perhaps ask for a bike with 45 x 16 gearing… or anything where the two gears are not integer multiples of each other. best if one is a prime number, too, say 47 x 17 for example. you don’t want a gain ratio of 3, about 2.6 is ample, and you can still spin that up to 30-35 km/h really easy.[/quote]
What was that? You speaking Japanese already?
Is that, like, a normal thing to ask bike shop people? Will they look at me like I’m some kind of child molester or something? Maybe I can get a different cog or summat? I like THAT bike. You know?
Took just 30 mins for the Hounslow street crime team to steal it away. Mine was all black, it was a beauty.