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Flagship station transferred
Sep. 7th, 2008 03:57 pmI'll be using Jenn's bike at least for a few weeks, until I decide what to do about a replacement or fix for my bike. Yesterday and today I moved equipment between bikes:
- Brooks saddle (leather)
- Rear blinkie (also added a 2nd blinkie to my helmet since the 2nd taillight is gone)
- Rear rack
- Front and rear fenders - also had to fabricate a new front fender bracket to replace the fractured old one.
- Frame pump
- Front tire with brake rotor
- Put on disc brake caliper, transfer cabling for it, remove and store front rim brake hardware
- Cycle computer
- Pedals
- adjust to fit me
- HID headlight, voltage regulator and battery
- LED headlight
It was a significant PITA to get the fenders and rack off the old bike; the old screws had really rusted in place. However, a torch on the frame expanded the hole enough that it would take oil and then come loose. It took an hour to get 6 screws out though. It's not a good idea to use stainless steel screws in an aluminum frame, so I'm thinking in the future I'm going to move to high grade (hardened) steel screws with hex socket heads; those seemed to be the best of the bunch to remove.
I wasn't sure whether I should move the pedals, since it makes the bike unrideable by anyone but me, but given that I adjusted the handlebar quite a bit and put on a leather saddle that's formed to fit me, nobody else is likely to ride it anyway.
I didn't bother moving the cadence sensor over, I never pay any attention to it anyway. I bought it and found I naturally spin at about 95 so I don't care to change anything there.
This bike only has bosses for mounting one water bottle cage, and that's taken up by my battery. I guess on hot days I could put the battery in a bag and put a water bottle in the cage.
I'm probably going to have to spring for a new headlight pretty soon. The LED light has a cracked circuit board and goes out whenever I hit any kind of a bump. The HID isn't happy either though that could be due to dirty contacts.
The odometer is at 15,030 at the time of the move. I left the existing tire on the back; it's kind of fat and soft, but I pumped it to 75 PSI so hopefully it won't be too slow.
For a replacement I would really like disc brakes and an internal rear hub. Trek has a very intriguing bike, the Soho, which is all that (well, roller brakes instead of disc, but close enough). It also has a belt drive instead of chain, which I would be fine with except I'm unsure about whether it'll put up with winter well or not. I guess if it didn't work out it'd be simple to throw a chain cog and chainwheel on and convert it back to chain drive. But it's also close to $1000, and there's a hell of a lot of reasonably nice bikes available for that kind of money.
- Brooks saddle (leather)
- Rear blinkie (also added a 2nd blinkie to my helmet since the 2nd taillight is gone)
- Rear rack
- Front and rear fenders - also had to fabricate a new front fender bracket to replace the fractured old one.
- Frame pump
- Front tire with brake rotor
- Put on disc brake caliper, transfer cabling for it, remove and store front rim brake hardware
- Cycle computer
- Pedals
- adjust to fit me
- HID headlight, voltage regulator and battery
- LED headlight
It was a significant PITA to get the fenders and rack off the old bike; the old screws had really rusted in place. However, a torch on the frame expanded the hole enough that it would take oil and then come loose. It took an hour to get 6 screws out though. It's not a good idea to use stainless steel screws in an aluminum frame, so I'm thinking in the future I'm going to move to high grade (hardened) steel screws with hex socket heads; those seemed to be the best of the bunch to remove.
I wasn't sure whether I should move the pedals, since it makes the bike unrideable by anyone but me, but given that I adjusted the handlebar quite a bit and put on a leather saddle that's formed to fit me, nobody else is likely to ride it anyway.
I didn't bother moving the cadence sensor over, I never pay any attention to it anyway. I bought it and found I naturally spin at about 95 so I don't care to change anything there.
This bike only has bosses for mounting one water bottle cage, and that's taken up by my battery. I guess on hot days I could put the battery in a bag and put a water bottle in the cage.
I'm probably going to have to spring for a new headlight pretty soon. The LED light has a cracked circuit board and goes out whenever I hit any kind of a bump. The HID isn't happy either though that could be due to dirty contacts.
The odometer is at 15,030 at the time of the move. I left the existing tire on the back; it's kind of fat and soft, but I pumped it to 75 PSI so hopefully it won't be too slow.
For a replacement I would really like disc brakes and an internal rear hub. Trek has a very intriguing bike, the Soho, which is all that (well, roller brakes instead of disc, but close enough). It also has a belt drive instead of chain, which I would be fine with except I'm unsure about whether it'll put up with winter well or not. I guess if it didn't work out it'd be simple to throw a chain cog and chainwheel on and convert it back to chain drive. But it's also close to $1000, and there's a hell of a lot of reasonably nice bikes available for that kind of money.
