So at present’s put up can be type of a non-post, what with at present being a nationwide vacation and all, however additional to yesterday’s put up I’m going to share a pair bikes that made the journey with me from Queens and wish new houses. 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 grow 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 emblem could possibly 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 Drive 10 velocity, 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 retaining bikes clear, and that is simply the World’s Tidiest Winter Street Bike:
It has a SRAM Rival 10 velocity drivetrain with Drive shifters and Shimano 105 hubs. I’m not 100% positive the wheels are hand constructed however 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 the moment have them listed them in a half-assed style on the Hell Sight (that’s the Listing of Craig). You’re welcome to seek out the listings, take a look at these costs, and to treat them or disregard them as you see match. I feel they’re very low, however perhaps they’re very excessive. I don’t know. As a semi-professional blogger and the Basic Cycles Previous Crap Check Pilot I’m fully indifferent from real-world pricing.
In case you’re thinking about 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 a terrific 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 each 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 per week, lives in an condominium 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 houses for these bikes, make some cash for a great trigger, and make somebody who reads this weblog actually blissful as a result of she or he scored a terrific bike for a terrific value, then I’d name that an excellent consequence. (All the higher if I don’t should 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 need to luck into some nice offers too.
(However be capable of come choose up the bike if attainable. Not having to journey or to ship a motorbike is value some huge cash to me. In case you don’t often pack and ship bikes then you haven’t any concept what a chore it’s. Hey, perhaps we are able to even go for a experience.)
Thanks for studying, and benefit from the vacation.
–Tan Tenovo
