Obsessing...

[townbikemark]

A section of one of my favourite cycling blogs, Lovely Bicycle has a section on obsessing...

http://lovelybike.blogspot.co.uk/#

I've noticed I have my own obsessions, especially looking over bikes parked at railway stations. When I see them, being a hubgear fan, I immediately look at the back wheel to see if it has one, a big fat hub. If it has, I look at the rest of it to see if it has dynamo lights, rear rack and Brooks saddle, paying attention to see if it has any features I can copy to improve the utility of my own bikes. I look to see if it's looked after and nice and clean like I try to keep my own......Same with features on bikes in a typical LBS, odds are one or two at most in the entire shop...

Anything with all those exposed cogs especially rusty ones or single speed I tend not to give a second glance...

Yes, I do wonder about myself...as do others no doubt, wondering what I'm looking at...Anybody else with obsessions?

[iandriver]

I try not to be obsessive (or a busy body) when looking at the cycles in the rack at work. All those rusty chains and half flat tyres. I have to bite my lip and keep going. I suspect most would find a phantom chain oiler at bit creepy......
(No bicycle repair man You-tube clips please)

[hondated]

A section of one of my favourite cycling blogs, Lovely Bicycle has a section on obsessing...

http://lovelybike.blogspot.co.uk/#

I've noticed I have my own obsessions, especially looking over bikes parked at railway stations. When I see them, being a hubgear fan, I immediately look at the back wheel to see if it has one, a big fat hub. If it has, I look at the rest of it to see if it has dynamo lights, rear rack and Brooks saddle, paying attention to see if it has any features I can copy to improve the utility of my own bikes. I look to see if it's looked after and nice and clean like I try to keep my own......Same with features on bikes in a typical LBS, odds are one or two at most in the entire shop...

Anything with all those exposed cogs especially rusty ones or single speed I tend not to give a second glance...

Yes, I do wonder about myself...as do others no doubt, wondering what I'm looking at...Anybody else with obsessions?

Great you've now made my obsession even worse. If I am not looking at bikes in the street, going past me or indeed at stations I will now be looking at this blog.
I can think of worse obsessions to have though so thanks.

[reohn2]

Obsessing,
Comfort>tyres>tyre pressures>riding position>gearing
Things have to be 'right' to be 'right'.
That rightness is my own rightness for my own pleasure... ...old fart with too much time on my hands

[kylecycler]

I suspect most would find a phantom chain oiler at bit creepy......

I know how you feel, though, and I was sorely tempted recently to use an Allen key to turn the stem around on a brand new Carrera Subway parked outside my local Asda so that the disc brake was on the left, not the right, and the fork was pointing the right way...
The phantom fork fixer...

[Cyril Haearn]

I look at parked single speeds too, most have a free wheel (falsche Fixie). I rejoice when I see a real fixed sprocket. Obession or problem? Nöö!

[Cyril Haearn]

I suspect most would find a phantom chain oiler at bit creepy......

I know how you feel, though, and I was sorely tempted recently to use an Allen key to turn the stem around on a brand new Carrera Subway parked outside my local Asda so that the disc brake was on the left, not the right, and the fork was pointing the right way...
The phantom fork fixer...

More doogooders please, just put a note on it so the rider knows it will behave differently %)

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
I am a self obsessive.......about my bikes, others I mostly just don't like, but look more at the way others fit the bike or not.