So right now’s publish shall be form of a non-post, what with right now 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 houses. Right here’s certainly one 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 gentle that once I lifted it I unintentionally misplaced management of it and it might up in a tree. Wheels are hand constructed, most likely Velocity rims (proprietor was an obsessive de-labler and if a brand might be eliminated then he eliminated it, although do I do know he appreciated Velocity), with a Ritchey hub up entrance…
…and a Hope hub within the rear:
The hub is wrapped in a kind of Garmin thingies and that’s an influence meter crank. I don’t know from Garmin thingies or energy meter cranks. I do realize it’s SRAM Pressure 10 pace, although the rear shifter is SRAM Crimson, 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 holding bikes clear, and that is simply the World’s Tidiest Winter Highway Bike:
It has a SRAM Rival 10 pace drivetrain with Pressure shifters and Shimano 105 hubs. I’m not 100% certain the wheels are hand constructed however almost definitely they’re, as a result of this belonged to somebody with the endurance to construct wheels and an virtually pathological aversion to “wheelsets.”
These bikes may be yours. I would like them to be yours. I at the moment have them listed them in a half-assed trend on the Hell Sight (that’s the Listing of Craig). You’re welcome to search out the listings, have a look at these costs, and to treat them or disregard them as you see match. I believe they’re very low, however perhaps they’re very excessive. I don’t know. As a semi-professional blogger and the Basic Cycles Outdated Crap Take a look at Pilot I’m fully indifferent from real-world pricing.
When you’re keen on both of those bikes and wish to make me a proposal, I’d suggest emailing me with a value that makes you are feeling such as you’re getting an excellent deal, while on the similar 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 individuals over stuff like whether or not to incorporate the pedals or not, or create a number of listings for each on a number of platforms and ship them to the individuals prepared to pay essentially the most, and even half them out. Nonetheless, the actual fact is I’m a washed up former semi-professional bike blogger who now commutes to an workplace twice every week, lives in an residence constructing already full his personal bikes, and has a household who counts of him for…properly, I’m not good for a lot, however I can boil pasta. So if I can discover houses for these bikes, make some cash for a very good trigger, and make somebody who reads this weblog actually blissful as a result of she or he scored an excellent bike for an excellent value, then I’d name that an excellent consequence. (All the higher if I don’t must 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 over time, in order weblog readers you need to luck into some nice offers too.
(However be capable to come decide up the bike if potential. Not having to journey or to ship a motorbike is price some huge cash to me. When you don’t commonly pack and ship bikes then you don’t have any thought what a chore it’s. Hey, perhaps we will even go for a journey.)
Thanks for studying, and benefit from the vacation.
–Tan Tenovo
