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I'm throughly enjoying the motorcycle content from RRC Restorations and Ronald Finger

This bike screams for a couple mudguards and slightly bigger tires

Definitely custom (although he told me not for him), and the seatpost was the other way round because he's a tinkerer and he was just experimenting something completely different that day. He sews all the bags you see as a passion project and he's had this bike for more than 10 years

Ignore the seatpost orientation

Hmmm.....👀

Last chances to ride here before the snow catches up

Managed to upgrade all the parts i wanted and ended up at 8.3 kg on the scale (with pedals and gps mount). As it stands:

• Shorter 100mm stem (still fettling with lenght and spacer stack)
  
• SAVE seatpost
  
• Prologo Nago saddle
  
• Spare gold KMC chain
  
• Dt Swiss PR1400 21mm wheelset
  
• Tubeless setup w/ stock DT valves
  
• Shimano XT rotors
  
• Shimano 11-34 Ultegra cassette (spare one i had laying around instead of the 105)
  
  

Did the first 100k ride with it and I'm very pleased with the result. The bike is snippy, comfortable and a welcome upgrade from my previous Caad (weighting the same but with bigger tires and disks).

Right now the only thing missing is a nice pair of fenders, but i want to be sure with the clearances before buying anything.

Nice to see this a week after I've spent one time and a half the money for a custom front bag support.

Good timing Carradice, good timing.

. Cool bike and definitely my favourite DK video...

On that note, i really miss those older videos where the content wasn't just a frame for advertising. Got to pay the bills i guess.

He told me it's called "Duramaxx King Rex" and he bought it on amazon. No long term feedback unluckily

Lovely job all around! Shame about those inconveniences, but this kind of stuff happens regularly on almost any car of any age (my mother's 2007 Mercedes B class got the spare wheel boot completely flooded for a similar reason).

I'm sure you're gonna find a lot of satisfaction with all these little tasks, anticipating something that would eventually be done anyway.

Unexpected meetings on the public transport

It's that time of the year folks

First round of upgrades went by, shaving half a kg with king cages, Si cranks and Deda carbon bars. As it sits, around 8.9 kg (without saddlebag).

I was literally thinking to ask the same question, as I already have tires and fenders but I'm still waiting for the rest of the bike 😬

Today was a Blade Runner cosplay kind of commute. Still fun tho, better than taking the bus for sure

Right now i could limit the number of bikes to 6 (beater, folding, road, gravel, touring, mtb), but i can't see myself getting rid of a couple other more, that are completely maintenance free (rim brake and cable actuated, with tubes and mostly steel).

I try to ride the more modern ones more, so the oil in the brakes and suspensions and the tubeless juice don't degrade. The aforementioned rim brake bikes can stay unused for longer, without occupying too much of rent space in my head.

A part of me still wants to keep the strict necessary, but i'm afraid this approach it's more of a self imposition rather than a real need.

A friend of mine is trying really hard to bring his unique vibe on the cycle path

Celebrating Halloween with the Pumpkin bike (not the best scenery tho)

((Edited with a better photo))

You mean Felix? His in-depth review on bike radar was a very useful source of information! Did he manage to put any mudguards on? I'm looking at Gilles Berthoud ones, but i'm afraid that their 700x40 might be too big (at least at the front)

I live in Torino, in northern Italy. We're very lucky to have a lot of different choices for riding, between the Alps and the Langhe. Unluckily, as always, the biggest problem is the car-centric mentality of this place, which leads to a great amount of dangerous and underqualified drivers.

New(ish) bike day, i suppose? A couple months ago, quoting, i said i'd build up a MGOOF'd frame i had laying around. After doing the math, i realized i could just sell all the components and try to find a second hand complete bike without spending any more money. Having had a Caad 12, which was very good but with a couple of shortcomings (at least for my riding habits), i started looking around and settled for his chillier sibiling, the Synapse.

Lo and behold, our local marketplace offered me a basically pristine Synapse Disc, bought new in 2020 by a guy who kept it immaculate inside an air-conditioned garage. Compared to the CAAD in size 60, the size 58 Synapse has a slightly shorter reach and a slighly higher stack, just what i was looking for. Add fender mounts, bigger tyre clearance and a much more exposed seatpost, and the recipe for comfort and all-around use is served.

As it stands in these picture (the day after i bought it), it sits at 9,4 kg. Not light, but not heavy in any way. My plan is, right now, to get a decent fit (BDHU already in the books), swap a couple parts to ones i have already available (carbon bars, Shimano Freeza rotors, SI cranks, King cages and the DT 1400 wheels from the Fairlight), do a tubeless conversion and buy a SAVE seatpost.

Any update? Even for the Steamroller :)

That Raleigh is insane in the best way possible

I don't think this car is anything special, but the bright happy color and the soft top do it for me. It's just a small and forgotten Punto from the 90's, but it shone oh so bright in the city nightlife