it’s a Wald basket! Ziptied it to a Racktime Topit front rack, which I scooped off Craigslist for I think it was $15 Read more

I haven’t thought of them but these Bontragers do come highly recc’d from a buddy! Read more

I was gonna scoop up some VP-001s! They’re like $40 and I hear great things. If you’ve ever tried doing dirt riding with pedals that love to flip to the wrong side, you’ll know the strength of my motivation. Read more

what old rigid bike would you look for, in particular? Read more

a Sram 12-32 7 speed at the back! Read more

I’ve actually been borrowing the tire for the past few days, running it up front and bombing around, kicking my own ass in the mud Read more

yeah I went from the 21" to the 23" thereafter Read more

excuse me, the Voyageur I have now is 72 deg and the Cimarron is 70! I think the early Ross and Specialized bikes were even more slack, but I can’t dig up any listed geometry. Here’s Schwinn’s ‘85 catalog specs:

I have never heard of anyone cold-setting aluminum but damn! I wouldn’t want to cold-set one, but the early aluminum cannondales are pretty (if a little heavy) and come with a steel fork with eyelets. Seems like they’d be a fun gravel rig. Read more

much to my great pleasure I have a buddy who is constantly messaging me with modern disc brake bikes to buy. his most recent plea, a Cinelli Zydeco frameset asking $650 in probably my most correct size, a 56cm: Read more

I think the only things that would fit on this bike given how close together the actual cantilever mounts are were Paul Motolites ($$$) Read more

no way! what model Schwinn was it? Read more

stock this bike had 25.4mm diameter handlebars, but affordable wide bars for my bike frame, that is, with a 1" threaded headset, meant I’d wanna go with a 26.0 diameter handlebar, so I went out and got a Nitto Technomic stem off craigslist to match my new Nitto bars Read more

hell yeah. also yes, I actually pulled my Traveller III out of a dumpster all the way back in the day Read more

On the plus side, I know a lot lot lot more about how bikes are put together now! Read more

new cassette got a new chain, but the derailleurs were fine after a few nights playing with limit screws and the indexing Read more

I was actually looking at the kind of earliest crop of production mountain bikes (or all-terrain bikes per Schwinn catalogs) that had very comfort-oriented geometry. A Schwinn Cimarron has a 72 deg head tube angle, and a frame that fillet-brazed at the headtube, lugged at the seat post. Some are made expensive, others…

I loved the kickstand on the bike as a reminder not to take this not too seriously (same as the reflector on the front that came on the bike) but I did take off the kickstand after it was clogging with a ton of mud as of late. Read more

yeah, I went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth again. I was scared of the Crust stem making the bike too nervous, but it has been fun so far! I am still learning about bike geometry, but it has been informative riding my girlfriend’s 53cm Straggler and Big Green back to back on some four-wheeler… Read more

Also I am open to hear what people think I’m in for thus far. Read more