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Anonymous Mon 09 Mar 2026 19:57:08 No.2067331 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2067511

>why can't I balance these rims edition

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Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 13:07:13 No.2067458 Report

Quoted By: >>2067465 >>2067491 >>2067503 >>2067504 >>2067507

Deep clean of bicycle parts, then oiling, good idea?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 14:14:35 No.2067465 Report

Quoted By: >>2067513

>>2067458
Depends on the parts. Cartridge bearings have fragile seals that don't take well to being removed and re-added.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 14:53:07 No.2067468 Report

Quoted By: >>2067473 >>2067481

I was considering getting a canyon endurace allroad as my everyday bike + road bike.
Id be biking about 2km each way but I live in a pretty spread out town so it could easily be 5 or 6km on the way home.
Id also like to start road biking / light gravel.
Ive had 2 grizl 6s before but they were stolen when I lived in the city but Ive since moved. I found that I never really used the low gears and never shifted to the smaller front cog.
https://www.canyon.com/en-de/road-bikes/endurance-bikes/endurace/allroad/endurace-allroad/4164.html/
What do you guys think?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 16:06:24 No.2067473 Report

Quoted By: >>2067476 >>2067477

>>2067468
Sounds like a good use case for a fixie or a single speed, I'm usually the last to say don't get a road bike but bro. You never even used the full gear range? Big surprise there with your 6km ride.

If your good bikes keep getting stolen and you're a flatlander who is close enough to just walk, you're a perfect candidate for the shitbikes that /n/ is always pushing on people with more demanding requirements.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 17:37:50 No.2067476 Report

Quoted By: >>2067527

>>2067473
Ah my previous commute was 10 each way. I also used previous bikesfor road cycling (usually 30-60km rides) and I never used the lower gears yeah, only really the high gearsc
Also cos Im a flatlander.
I kinda want that bike not only for commutes but for my entry level road ass where Ill go back go my 30-60km rides.
Im deffo considering a fixie but Id like just one bike right now.
This reply became too big - so my question is: is that bike I linked good value for money for a) commuting and b) longer rides once or twice a week?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 17:40:37 No.2067477 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067473
Also forgot to say - yeah a shitbike can deffo hit both my asks but Id like something new.
Getting stolen isnt that big of a deal, I just insure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 18:52:52 No.2067481 Report

Quoted By: >>2067485

>>2067468
colnago y1rs or bust

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 19:25:08 No.2067485 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067481
eh if Im gonna go higher end theres a pronghorn shop a few minutes away

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 22:33:08 No.2067490 Report

Quoted By: >>2067499 >>2067550 >>2067555 >>2067560 >>2067573

why is there a sudden obsession with "dutch bikes" and why do westoids refuse to just call them cruisers anymore?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 22:34:55 No.2067491 Report

Quoted By: >>2067500 >>2067505 >>2067539

>>2067458
Why are you so poor you don't have 100% sealed parts?

Sealed gearbox.
Belt drive.
Hydraulic brakes.
Tubeless tires.
Dish wheels.
Internal routing.

Zero Maintenance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 23:49:08 No.2067499 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067490
because of a YouTube channel called Not Just Bikes, the guy moved to the Netherlands and decided he would start bloging about urbanism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 23:50:35 No.2067500 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067491
post bike, asshole .
with timestamp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 23:54:36 No.2067501 Report

Quoted By: >>2067505

If your bike has even a single part exposed you are a poorfag and I revel in your failure. Why are you adjusting anything let alone replacing it? Just get a Dutch bike and everything comes right off the rack hermetically sealed. It just works.

Stop being retarded hicks. Bicycles are not meant to be serviceable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 23:59:54 No.2067503 Report

Quoted By: >>2067505

>>2067458
wtf? bikes are maintenance free thats the whole point

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:04:20 No.2067504 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067458
literally just buy a new one

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:04:36 No.2067505 Report

Quoted By: >>2067506 >>2067507 >>2067510

>>2067491
>>2067501
>>2067503
shut up, asshole

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:07:56 No.2067506 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067505
Maybe you should try getting a job?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:12:42 No.2067507 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067505
>>2067458
If you are so fucking poor you can't afford a new bike, you have failed in life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:30:22 No.2067510 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067505
Awww is the little poorfag gonna cry? Is getting a real job making big figgies too hard for you? Enjoy all the black gunk and salt and jeet shit on your hands because you're too retarded to just get a new Trek when your chain goes bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:39:13 No.2067511 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067331
>>2067383
you dont have to replace sealant ever. you just damaged your bike permanently and voided the warranty

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 00:49:40 No.2067513 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067465
Those are sealed parts. You're not meant to replace them. Bearings are one-time one-way installs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 01:08:39 No.2067514 Report

Quoted By: >>2067515 >>2067516 >>2067517 >>2067520 >>2067531

Trying to get the pedals off my bike but the posts around which the flat part of the pedal rotates appears to be welded into place. Is that normal? I'd like to remove my chain to clean it by soaking, too, but the derailleurs are both riveted together so I can't get the chain out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 01:10:30 No.2067515 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067514
I think you might be actually retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 01:12:26 No.2067516 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067514
>pedals
It's like a visible, tangible, physical form of poverty you can touch

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 01:23:17 No.2067517 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067514
kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 02:02:22 No.2067520 Report

Quoted By: >>2067524

>>2067514
Pedals aren't a replaceable part.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 03:07:50 No.2067524 Report

Quoted By: >>2067525 >>2067535

>>2067520
Then why do aftermarket aluminum pedal replacements exist?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 03:26:45 No.2067525 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067524
They don't

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 03:35:09 No.2067527 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067476
nta but it looks like a pretty good pick. 1k for that is solid, proper hydros and cues is fine. U can always get a better more racey bike used if a nigga just wants a bike now then thats one of the more sensible ones i have seen people link. Friend got an alu cannondale topstone base model with cable dicks for very close to that this would have been a better choice

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 06:28:52 No.2067531 Report

Quoted By: >>2067537

>>2067514
do you have pictures? ive never seen a pedal axle welded in place. or are you saying it feels seized when trying to remove it? the left side (non drive side) pedal is generally reverse threaded

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 09:52:21 No.2067534 Report

Quoted By:

Test

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 11:36:29 No.2067535 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067524
They don't

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 11:49:15 No.2067537 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067531
no it's literally one continuous piece of metal and there's some blobs of excess metal indicating it was two parts welded together

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 12:45:16 No.2067539 Report

Quoted By: >>2067540 >>2067549

>>2067491
>Sealed gearbox.
has an exposed freewheel needs oils change relube
>Belt drive
totally exposed to dust and dirt
>Hydraulic brakes
need to be bled pads last ~1000-2000 miles
>Tubeless tires
sealant needs to be swapped every 6 months
>dish wheel
i dont know what these are but they have bearings that need to be serivced or replaced
>Internal routing
cables rub inside frame tight bends cause them to fray or split

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 12:48:01 No.2067540 Report

Quoted By: >>2067541

>>2067539
None of those are user-serviceable. If it breaks just get a new one. Stop being poor.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 12:59:51 No.2067541 Report

Quoted By: >>2067547

>>2067540
What if it breaks while you're riding it retard?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 14:13:21 No.2067547 Report

Quoted By: >>2067581

>>2067541
Perish for not getting more expensive and therefore better and even more maintenance-free parts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 14:20:43 No.2067549 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067539
>need to be bled
I keep seeing this yet I've gone almost 15k miles without bleeding, what am I missing, is it going to assplode? Cable dicks were near constant meddling, hydros you just swap the pads a couple of times a year, new rotors every year or two, and you're good to go.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 14:24:18 No.2067550 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067490
Because they're very image obsessed and "cruisers" sounds like a recreational toy and fun is NOT ALLOWED, if fun was allowed then they would have to admit road bikes are fun. All their accusations about tryhard fred roadies taking themselves too seriously are just projection. NJB told them that VERY SERIOUS dutch people ride VERY SERIOUS NOT FOR FUN dutch bikes because this is NOT a race! I'm not image obsessed, you are! That's why I spent over $2000 importing a Gazelle with stvzo parts instead of just buying a Trek FX that would have done a better job for 1/10th the price.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 15:16:58 No.2067555 Report

Quoted By: >>2067559

>>2067490
Dutch bikes are practical. Cruisers are functionally similar, but the name implies leisure and "bikes should be practical!!!1!" crowd tries to reject that connotation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 17:09:43 No.2067559 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067555
>>2067555
>"Cruiser" implies high maintenance, utilitarian machinery designed to get you from A to B maybe not as efficiently as possible but certainly as EFFECTIVELY as possible, like a jet bomber that guarantees any target, regardless of distance, will cease to exist in exactly two hours, even if the target is a field mouse directly below the bomb pylon

>"Dutch" implies an easygoing and gently simple set of kit designed for cruis-- moving about the city in a leisurely way made up of very easy to repair but long maintenance schedule parts like hydraulic brakes, sealed gearbox hubs, three-phase electrical generators, and front derailleurs not made by Shimano. It's all about the three main rules of transportation: "have fun" and "b urself".

Why are westoids so incapable of speaking or writing the languages they themselves developed?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 17:16:29 No.2067560 Report

Quoted By: >>2067562

>>2067490
same reason "hybrid bike" became "gravel bike" and now costs 100x as much

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 17:53:12 No.2067562 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067560
wtf kind of poorfag bike is this lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 20:38:02 No.2067573 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067490
Dutch Bikes are still marketed as Cruisers sometimes, the Electra Townie is literally just an Electra Cruiser but with some extra shit added to the frame to make it more "utilitarian" for example. I think it had more to do with general bike snobbery. Cruisers evoke going slow by a beach and Dutch bikes evoke going slow through traffic

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 22:36:26 No.2067581 Report

Quoted By: >>2067582

>>2067547
expensive parts require more (and more expensive) maintenance because they are more complex or are made from lighter less durable materals
if you want durability low end parts are stronger

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 22:55:03 No.2067582 Report

Quoted By: >>2067596

>>2067581
That really isn't true other than a handful of products at the extreme high end, like hi-mod carbon frames, but I know this being /n/, "expensive" means like "higher tier than Claris". Heavy doesn't necessarily mean strong, it just means they skimped on quality control and instead just threw on as much excess material as possible hoping to make up for it

Like the other guy said, stop being poor

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Mar 2026 23:54:21 No.2067587 Report

Quoted By:

All the bolts and sockets on my bike have seven faces. Why do I need a special seven-sided socket to take a fucking wheel off? What kind of advanced fucking

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 00:03:26 No.2067591 Report

Quoted By: >>2067594

>adjusting my rear brake line
>end up stripping the hex screw like a retard before I could properly tension the brake cable from the wheel side
Well fuck me I guess, I guess I'm going to be relying on the front brake until I can get the old rear ones off and replaced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 00:48:10 No.2067594 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067591
shit like this is why i shelled out like 20bux to just get a big box of various nuts and bolts from a hardware store. you can literally just buy a kit of like 100 sets of nuts and bolts and washers and it even comes in a little sectioned case

https://www.princessauto.com/en/475-pc-metric-hex-bolt-nut-and-washer-kit/product/PA0008845083

even for brand new shit it's nice to have when it comes with some dumb shit like an all nylon but locking nut and then a rounded off torx head. fuck you nigga im replacing it with a proper hex bolt and a normal ass nut

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 01:11:17 No.2067596 Report

Quoted By:

>>2067582
nope yo're wrong my forks cost $1500 and need a full rebuild every 200 hours a cheap coil fork will function with barely any maintenance
similarly a steel chain-ring will outlast an alloy or titanium one
normal bearings will outlast ceramic etc etc

as costs increase so does the cost of ownership

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