Cyclists

[tufty]

[gravy]

Nice!

How does it ride?

[tufty]

Nice!

How does it ride?

Like an ultra-lightweight bike with top quality components and a 3 kilo pogo stick grafted onto the front.

[gumboot]

Is suspension actually good? I hired a bike which had it, once, but it was for street use and obviously it did nothing but burn up energy and slow me down, but I hopped up and down the occasional curb and that was all fun and squishy...

But I'm not actually sure if it's good, once the novelty wears off, for offroad.

[tufty]

But I'm not actually sure if it's good, once the novelty wears off, for offroad.

If you're going up, you want to be able to lock out your suspension. As soon as you start going flat or downhill, suspension comes into its own. Assuming it's properly set up, of course.

On a fully rigid bike, the entire bike moves with every bump, as a result you have to eat that movement yourself - it's tiring. On a suspended bike, the beating (especially) your wrists and elbows take is significantly reduced. In addition, there's the whole "unsprung weight" thing. So yeah, suspension is good off-road.

In my case, there's no way of locking the suspension out, so it rides like a pogo stick uphill, unless you manage to keep almost all the weight off the front wheel - it's almost bearable seated (as long as you can handle climbing in "99% wheelie" mode), but as soon as you go "danseuse", it's bounce city. Downhill, given the almost total lack of any sort of damping, as soon as you hit the slightest imperfection, the front end goes into spasms. The only way to keep it under control is to brake continually to keep the forks loaded pretty much 100% - give them any slack and they start oscillating.

Short term, it's going rigid. Longer term, I'm looking for some decent low-travel Marzocchis.

[tufty]

Meanwhile, this made me laugh :

https://bicycleshapedobject.wordpress.c ... -of-shame/

[Viscount Charles]

Forks facing backwards on a BSO is far from unusual. I had to take apart and reassemble the front end of a neighbour's childs bike last summer when I spotted that the forks were on back to front (and the brakes & handling adversely affected as a result).

Meanwhile, I've worked up to doing 5km three times a day on a static recumbent. But I appear to have given myself a groin strain in the process.

[gumboot]

Is backward-facing forks a hip-hop thing? More gangsta, so you look badass doing the pedal-bys and holding your gun sideways.

Groin strain may come from reluctance (unconscious) to distribute your force evenly. People spend years building up to it, normally, because they have something like one leg shorter than the other.

[tufty]

Here's another bicycle shaped object, found on ebay. You'll note the clever hint for reducing pedal bob when riding a fully suspended BSO.


Meanwhile, my front fork's lack of damping got the better of me.

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[venusian]

Have some Savalon and accusations of idiocy. Apply each as appropriate.

Hundred miles around the roads of the Forest of Dean for me on Saturday. First properly long ride for several years. Turns out not practicing doesn't make one faster.

[pogo]

[Purple Grapefruit]

cool..............

...........a CYLON bike!


What tubing has that got? tange prestige? some titanium stuff?


Also bonus points for the bar extensions for hanging shopping bags on.

[gumboot]

Photo needs to be re-taken with starburst filter.

[tufty]

What tubing has that got? tange prestige?

Yep, it's tange. Could do with a polish, really.

The bar ends are kinda fun, and it's got narrow bars anyway.

[phattslagg]

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