So as we speak’s publish will likely be form of a non-post, what with as we speak being a nationwide vacation and all, however additional to yesterday’s publish I’m going to share a pair bikes that made the journey with me from Queens and wish new properties. Right here’s one in every of them:
I don’t know the yr on the body, and I don’t actually know Felt sizing and fashions, however I’d name it a 58cm. I do know that it’s surgically clear and operates completely. I additionally know that having turn out to be accustomed to Rivendae it’s so mild that after I lifted it I unintentionally misplaced management of it and it might up in a tree. Wheels are hand constructed, in all probability Velocity rims (proprietor was an obsessive de-labler and if a emblem could possibly be eliminated then he eliminated it, although do I do know he favored Velocity), with a Ritchey hub up entrance…
…and a Hope hub within the rear:
The hub is wrapped in a type of Garmin thingies and that’s an influence meter crank. I don’t know from Garmin thingies or energy meter cranks. I do comprehend it’s SRAM Drive 10 pace, although the rear shifter is SRAM Pink, as a result of that is somebody who solely upgraded the place it actually counts:
Ostensibly extra pedestrian however arguably extra genteel is that this Kinesis Racelight:
As I perceive it, these bikes are quite common over within the UK, however right here in Canada’s consolation saddle you virtually by no means see them. We each shared an affinity for bikes with medium-reach brakes and fender clearance, although I didn’t share his affinity for protecting bikes clear, and that is simply the World’s Tidiest Winter Highway Bike:
It has a SRAM Rival 10 pace drivetrain with Drive shifters and Shimano 105 hubs. I’m not 100% positive the wheels are hand constructed however most probably they’re, as a result of this belonged to somebody with the persistence to construct wheels and an virtually pathological aversion to “wheelsets.”
These bikes will be yours. I need them to be yours. I at present have them listed them in a half-assed trend on the Hell Sight (that’s the Checklist of Craig). You’re welcome to seek out the listings, have a look at these costs, and to treat them or disregard them as you see match. I feel they’re very low, however possibly they’re very excessive. I do not know. As a semi-professional blogger and the Basic Cycles Outdated Crap Take a look at Pilot I’m utterly indifferent from real-world pricing.
In the event you’re occupied with both of those bikes and need to make me a proposal, I’d suggest emailing me with a worth that makes you’re feeling such as you’re getting an amazing deal, while on the identical time insulting me solely reasonably. If I had six months, a big storefront, and completely nothing else to do, I may extract most worth out of those bikes and elements and haggle with folks over stuff like whether or not to incorporate the pedals or not, or create a number of listings for every one on a number of platforms and ship them to the folks prepared to pay probably the most, and even half them out. Nevertheless, the very fact is I’m a washed up former semi-professional bike blogger who now commutes to an workplace twice every week, lives in an house constructing already full his personal bikes, and has a household who counts of him for…effectively, I’m not good for a lot, however I can boil pasta. So if I can discover properties for these bikes, make some cash for a great trigger, and make somebody who reads this weblog actually completely happy as a result of she or he scored an amazing bike for an amazing worth, then I’d name that an excellent final result. (All the higher if I don’t need to hire a storage unit, which is changing into an more and more actual risk.) As a motorbike blogger I’ve lucked into some nice offers through the years, in order weblog readers you should luck into some nice offers too.
(However be capable of come decide up the bike if potential. Not having to journey or to ship a motorbike is price some huge cash to me. In the event you don’t recurrently pack and ship bikes then you haven’t any thought what a chore it’s. Hey, possibly we will even go for a journey.)
Thanks for studying, and benefit from the vacation.
–Tan Tenovo
