Recent content by moonlite

Here's a local chap who builds his own choppers according to his own designs -- does all the welding (including all those decorative touches) and brings his creations into town every Saturday.

Gorgeous bike! Looks like maybe a 17"?

Ah, could be -- not available in Aus.

It's gone now -- someone has made an acceptable offer

Woke up with a slightly sore throat but it's a bright, dry day without too much wind so really wanted to get out there instead of sweating on the turbo trainer in the shed. Had to layer up a bit as the temp was about 5C -- remembered my other half had given me some pretty lairy shoe covers which...

The second looks more decorative than functional . . . I think

Yep -- and some manufacturers seem to make things quite difficult in terms of naming etc. Not to mention OEM-only models. For example, Marzocchi. I found the incomplete lost below somewhere on the internet (maybe this very site) which might help a bit.

Let's not forget our fixie brethren and their super-narrow urban bars -- more for navigating narrow spaces in urban traffic, but also surely giving an aero advantage. And like most on here, not subject to random UCI rules.

I thought these would appeal to the discerning gentlemen of this thread. Possibly the most contrary thing to the principle of 'form follows function' ever...

Brace yourselves comrades . . . Shimano is bringing us AI shifting! https://bike.shimano.com/technologies/details/auto-shift.html

After a week of driving either a car on the motorway or my desk at home, I knocked off early this afternoon for a ride. It was 3pm but already the shadows were lengthening and temperature dropping. I went off to play a bit in the 'badlands' area I tend to favour for the MTB and realised that...

Welcome! Looks very good to me. The tiniest niggle would be the purple bit on the seatpost, as all the other colour highlights are red -- but that's not a dealbreaker.

Found this photo I took in Frankfurt in 2012 -- anyone ever seen a frame like this? (And doesn't it look a bit . . . vulnerable where the frame members cross over?)

Well that's a better effort than I managed! Went out later with the dog and took a couple of iPhone shots. This is where the local MTB'ers go for a bit of rough.

No photos today: very wintry weather here at the moment and my rides during the week took place on a stationary trainer in the shed -- not only boring, but hard to replicate the kind of work you need to do in the real world. Today was chilly and with a strengthening wind, giving rise to the...