Pictures of your bike(s)

[Cowsham]

Lovely picture. Lovely setting.

Ta! Saverne town centre is very pretty, in fact the whole area is - great for cycling. More pics here: https://pbase.com/johnewing/20130913_saverne

Lucky sod -- love that canal path -- do you know how far it takes you?

[Audax67]

Lovely picture. Lovely setting.

Ta! Saverne town centre is very pretty, in fact the whole area is - great for cycling. More pics here: https://pbase.com/johnewing/20130913_saverne

Lucky sod -- love that canal path -- do you know how far it takes you?

Going west it'll take you another 20+ km before it joins a road, but going east from Saverne you've got around 40k to Strasbourg where it joins the Koblenz/Basel route - that's about 290km - and if you go on south you can do a few hundred km, I forget how many. On a ride south from Strasbourg 10 years back a chum and I did 150k along it before the route took us onto the road, but you can go further if you stick to the EV6.

[PH]

The eBrute in Saverne:

Lovely photo of a village square with a bike in it Audax67. But can't we keep this thread for photo's of bikes, as in most of the last 125 pages! I'm interested in both of course, just in the appropriate place, and your photo doesn't show us much about your bike...

[Audax67]

Yes sir, sorry sir, three bags full sir. BTW, Saverne is not a village.

Anyway, here's me bike:



2001 Lapierre Ti racing frame, kinda skittish & liable to shimmy without an HB bag, not enough room for tyres > 25mm but solid as a rock and I love it. It gets the power down onto the road far better than the carbon butterfly I rode 2015-2022. That saddle gave me several kinds of grief, though, not all of them suitable for discussion on a family forum. Let us just say that I finished a few Audaxes a fine upstanding gentleman. In that pic it has a Y2K 3x9 Shim 105, later updated to a 3x10 and there it remains.

Here it is after I added the motor last ides of March:



The battery's in that thermos flask on the seat tube and here's the motor:


I bought it from this lot and fitted it myself. The battery is an earlier model than they're selling now. New I could get 140k out of it but 7000km on and in lower temperatures it's closer to 100. You have to do a fair bit of work yourself.

I've since switched to Schwalbe Duranos with Slime tubes because the wheel is a <i>[rude word removed]</i> to get out of the frame and I don't want any more roadside shenanigans than necessary for a gent of my august years.

Et voilà.

[roubaixtuesday]

The eBrute in Saverne:

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[Jdsk]

I can see it: Safari, macOS.

Jonathan

[PH]

Yes sir, sorry sir, three bags full sir. BTW, Saverne is not a village.

Anyway, here's me bike:

Thank you, very interesting on all counts

[Cowsham]

I can see it: Safari, macOS.

Jonathan

So can I on android phone no probs

[Cowsham]

Yes sir, sorry sir, three bags full sir. BTW, Saverne is not a village.

Anyway, here's me bike:

Is that one of those saddles with the hole in ?

Tried one myself once -- and only once -- not ideal for the dingle berries in my opinion.

[rjb]

Is that one of those saddles with the hole in ?

Tried one myself once -- and only once -- not ideal for the dingle berries in my opinion.

That saddle gave me several kinds of grief, though, not all of them suitable for discussion on a family forum. Let us just say that I finished a few Audaxes a fine upstanding gentleman.

The 2 events look like there connected. Ouch!

[Audax67]

Is that one of those saddles with the hole in ?

Tried one myself once -- and only once -- not ideal for the dingle berries in my opinion.

That saddle gave me several kinds of grief, though, not all of them suitable for discussion on a family forum. Let us just say that I finished a few Audaxes a fine upstanding gentleman.

The 2 events look like there connected. Ouch!

Nothing to do with the hole, in fact my current saddle has an even bigger one. More to do with pressure areas.

[rjb]

My recent acquisition a Montague Rudge Biframe.
Fully stripped cleaned to remove years of grime and rebuilt as original.
Its a nice ride and ready for use further afield by bus.
This is as original but there is plenty of scope for improving things. Adding a rear rack will compromise the fold, perhaps replace the cantilever brakes with V brakes, spread the rear triangle to accommodate 135mm hubs, increase the gearing from 6 speed to 9. Oh and add mudguards although the front will require some form of quick release. Plenty of time to contemplate what can be achieved.

[djnotts]

Don't you just hate it when your least aesthetically pleasing, least interesting and least expensive bike is in the real world the most versatile, most mechanically tolerant/serviceable and most comfortable fit of current stable and of most of the dozens that have passed through?

[Bmblbzzz]

Don't you just hate it when your least aesthetically pleasing, least interesting and least expensive bike is in the real world the most versatile, most mechanically tolerant/serviceable and most comfortable fit of current stable and of most of the dozens that have passed through?20230106_112949.jpg

I like the "backpack as saddlebag". Neat idea!

[djnotts]

Thanks, but it's not a backpack : a
CarraDura Maxi Saddlepack!