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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 17:47:10 No.978718 View View Reply Original Report

sup /n/

/fa/ here

looking for a city commuter bike like the shinola arrow but without the 1000 price tag

i love the geometry and can always add fenders and a rack to it but i wanted to ask advice for any brands you guys might be into

thanks in advance!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:04:40 No.978728 Report

Quoted By: >>978737

Not trying to be elitist here, but let me ask why you want handle bars like that if you're commuting?

Drops would give you all the hand positions your bike would, but with added options when you inevitably run into headwinds, or your writs get a little sore or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:08:22 No.978729 Report

Quoted By: >>978737

Pappillionaire Classic

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:18:18 No.978737 Report

Quoted By: >>978740

>>978729
not available until august
>>978728
i like upright riding for the comfort

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:28:19 No.978740 Report

Quoted By: >>978749

>>978737
>he fell for the 'i dun wanna be bent over' meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:51:59 No.978749 Report

Quoted By: >>978766 >>978767

>>978740
>he fell for the "gotta go fast" meme

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 18:52:59 No.978750 Report

Quoted By:

guid bait

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:01:39 No.978754 Report

Quoted By: >>978763

Shinola is really good. It's made in Detroit by good honest American hands - hands that want to work hard, if you would only give them a chance.

They're rebuilding Detroit, rebuilding the American dream. You can own a part of that dream, with a quality Shinola Arrow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:31:29 No.978763 Report

Quoted By: >>978764

>>978754
but detroit is full of nigger hands

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:33:38 No.978764 Report

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>>978763
Shinola is made by 100% certified white labor.

If there are any blacks they're the kind that talk white, and don't listen to the rap music. Sometimes jazz though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:35:31 No.978766 Report

Quoted By: >>978774 >>978990

>>978749
Not saying it to go fast, I'm saying for comfort.
I used to commute on a bike like this, and especially in city/urban environments where tall buildings create annoying winds, it was such a nice change to have a full range of places to put my hands and shift my weight.

I'd hate to see someone drop bike commuting because they don't like it, cause they stop finding it comfortable, when they might not know about other options.
If you're 'riding upright for comfort', riding on the flats or even the horns will be just about the same, PLUS other options to switch it up and keep you from fatiguing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:38:41 No.978767 Report

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>>978749
>he fell for the "I'm gonna just shatter my spine from bad posture because I'm too stupid to pick a bike that fits and I'll blame it on the handlebars" meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 19:52:16 No.978774 Report

Quoted By:

>>978766
chainstays are missing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 23:42:58 No.978845 Report

Quoted By:

CAN WE GET BACK ON TOPIC LOL

just point me in the right direction i'll get drops too don't worry

some quality brands for longetivity

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 03:11:12 No.978916 Report

Quoted By: >>978922

For commuting in the city north road bars are a perfectly valid option

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 03:25:34 No.978922 Report

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>>978916
Yeah, just get a bow-tie shaped steeling wheel, too, cause fuck it, you're not going to do hand over hand steering on a short drive; right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 03:30:06 No.978924 Report

Quoted By: >>978926

>>978718

Framed Lifted Seven is $170 dollars and your hipster retard friends probably won't know the difference

Extra money goes to new tires and saddle

OR...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 03:31:35 No.978926 Report

Quoted By: >>978952

>>978924

...Get a Fairdale Lookfar in black for $500 if you want something that is not the cheapest shit possible

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 06:31:53 No.978952 Report

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>>978926
pretty much a mid 90's hybrid...
why don't you do that OP, pick up a nice older trek or specialized hybrid 2nd hand and add fenders and shit til it looks like you want it to ? prolly end up with a better bike for way less $

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 08:41:18 No.978990 Report

Quoted By: >>978991 >>978992 >>979021 >>979038

>>978766
Drop bars are shit for inner city commuting. They're too narrow and get wobbly at low speeds, they will also be too low and too forward to allow a body position where you can easily look over your shoulder. Stop lying to people that you can get the hoods as high swept bars, or post frames that actually allow that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 08:45:47 No.978991 Report

Quoted By: >>978993

>>978990
>They're too narrow and get wobbly at low speeds, they will also be too low and too forward to allow a body position where you can easily look over your shoulder.
Somebody who has never ridden drop bars because they're scary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 08:48:31 No.978992 Report

Quoted By: >>978993

>>978990
>They're too narrow and get wobbly at low speeds
Wow. I never considered myself as particularly skilled at bike handling until i read this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 08:56:23 No.978993 Report

Quoted By: >>978995 >>979298 >>979380 >>979502 >>979766

>>978991
I have a drop bar bike, they're good for going fast in a straight line and that's pretty much it.

>>978992
Wanna race? Whoever goes slower wins. You'll be on your drop bar bike with two inches of saddle-bar drop, I'll be on my commuter MTB with 700mm altbars at saddle level.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 09:04:31 No.978995 Report

Quoted By:

>>978993

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 11:12:59 No.979021 Report

Quoted By:

>>978990
I can't tell if this poster is joking or not, it's like the "disc brakes are too dangerous because you can go over the handlebars" thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 11:28:37 No.979038 Report

Quoted By: >>979040 >>979915

>>978990
>inner city commuting
>wide handlebars

Inner city commuting to me is a nimble, light, narrow bike, it's filtering traffic, doing trackstands, taking shortcuts through alleyways and parks, riding footpaths, pedestrian crossings, wrong way streets, drafting cars, never putting a foot down, hook turns, bunnyhopping potholes, bombing down hills, sprinting up them and having fun.

Riding flat bike lanes on a 20kg ride with racks, clogs and a windmill in the background sounds fun too but not as fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 11:33:27 No.979040 Report

Quoted By: >>979045 >>979189 >>979453

>>979038
>wrong way streets
>cutting through parks
I've been commuting in NYC for longer than you've been alive, so take it from me: this isn't "cool" and "urban", it just makes people hate us.

If a ped jumps into the bike lane you're within your rights to yell at them, but if they're in the crosswalk, and it's their light, you wait

You sound like maybe you have a fixie, yes? Those are behind the times, the new "urban badass weapon" that disaffected youths look for is something called the "big ripper", you should look into it.

Also I'm not sure what your post has to do with drop bars, you can be a dick and piss off everyone around you with flat bars just fine (see: the big ripper fad)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 11:53:50 No.979045 Report

Quoted By: >>979181

>>979040
>big ripper
oh. it's a second generation bastard child of a fixie and bmx.
can't say i'm surprised

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 18:14:00 No.979181 Report

Quoted By:

>>979045
>big ripper
just get a hard tail with slicks

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 18:28:17 No.979189 Report

Quoted By: >>979225

>>979040
>"big ripper"

How do you resist the urge to push these idiots over as you ride by?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 19:42:42 No.979214 Report

Quoted By: >>979259

why not a BD Widsor Kensington? Comes with an eight-speed internally geared hub, fenders, racks, and a lil' coffee cup holder. I know that BD isn't exactly loved here, but if you are looking for a bike that looks Dutch but not wanting to pay the hipster tax, this might be your huckleberry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 20:31:37 No.979225 Report

Quoted By:

>>979189
There's usually about twenty of them riding together, and they tend to be of the colored persuasion. I don't think it would end well to start a fight with a pack of superpredators with chase instincts honed through millennia of selective breeding on the savanna, even if they're riding BSOs. I mean I'd probably escape but probably isn't good enough.

anonymous

anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 20:43:54 No.979231 Report

Quoted By:

FUCK RISERS

GO DROPS

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 21:37:43 No.979246 Report

Quoted By: >>979259 >>979498

Kronan.
Based on the old Swedish army bikes from the fifties. Weighs like a tank, handles like one too, and just as indestructible.

Back when the fixie meme was at it's peak in the US, this was THE hipster bike to have back in Sweden. Of course, the really cool hipsters rode the original army surplus bikes.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 21:50:18 No.979259 Report

Quoted By: >>979268

>>979246
>and just as indestructible.

rust

Kronans really,REALLY like to rust

>>979214
>looking for a bike that looks Dutch
>no gorrillion accesories which ruin an already shitty bike
>not having a dozen of shitty 3 buck CR2032 light dangling from the handlebars
>no loose rusty chain
>No extreme saddle angle
>No full chain guard,which are the shittiest ones
>no broken spokes
>heck,the nexus 8 might actually work on that windsor
>Wayyy too much fancy space-age(WOW) aluminium,needs for potmetal :)
NOT DUTCH
O
T

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 22:04:24 No.979268 Report

Quoted By: >>979274

>>979259
>Kronans really,REALLY like to rust
They do. And it doesn't seem to affect them structurally one bit. A rusty Kronan just gives you more hipster cred.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 22:09:39 No.979274 Report

Quoted By:

>>979268
Well they usually hold up fine,but the only 2 bikes Ive seen that actually structully failed due to rust were a kronan and a batavus

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2016 23:19:48 No.979298 Report

Quoted By: >>979481

>>978993
>I have a drop bar bike, they're good for going fast in a straight line and that's pretty much it.

I go mountain biking with drop bars. Learn how to ride, faggot.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 02:13:29 No.979371 Report

Quoted By: >>979376 >>982874

>ctrl + f "linus"
>No results
>Consider one of these, OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 02:29:22 No.979376 Report

Quoted By: >>979384

>>979371
The frame doesn't have a derailleur hanger so you can't easily convert it later if you feel like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 02:40:34 No.979380 Report

Quoted By:

>>978993

>they're good for going fast in a straight line and that's pretty much it

You poor child do you need training wheels?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 02:56:12 No.979384 Report

Quoted By:

>>979376
While this is a good point, if OP decided they wanted to go fast, they would be better to sell a bike like this and buy something entirely new, since no amount of upgrades would make this observably faster.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 06:26:44 No.979453 Report

Quoted By:

>>979040
>You sound like maybe you have a fixie, yes?
Nope.

>if they're in the crosswalk, and it's their light, you wait

You fucking wat mate? Must be incredibly slow getting anywhere. Riding amongst peds you just be hyper courteous, ride slower than they're walking and nobody gives a fuck. I know the obnoxious style you're talking about but there is a middle ground.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 07:38:57 No.979481 Report

Quoted By: >>979567

>>979298
>I purposefully handicap myself

...congratulations?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 08:53:51 No.979498 Report

Quoted By: >>982607

>>979246
Is that a spring behind the fork? What for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 09:08:33 No.979502 Report

Quoted By: >>979515

>>978993
So who wins when it inevitably ends up in a trackstand competition? Or is it that you can't even trackstand when you came up with such a competition in the first place?

>700mm wide bars in urban traffic
Have fun filtering between cars and pedestrians.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:21:17 No.979515 Report

Quoted By: >>979516 >>979566

>>979502
I'll pay to watch you trackstand on flat ground with a freewheel bike.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:25:36 No.979516 Report

Quoted By: >>979517 >>979546

>>979515

>can't trackstand with freewheel

Why are you even here?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:28:43 No.979517 Report

Quoted By: >>979520 >>979903

>>979516
Put up or shut up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:38:03 No.979520 Report

Quoted By: >>979525 >>979546

>>979517

It's really not that hard. Use the brakes to control the rocking. Is it really THAT uncommon to see some road/mtb cyclist trackstand where you live? Let me guess, you are american right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:51:10 No.979525 Report

Quoted By: >>979526

>>979520
I'm not interested in explanations, I want to see you physically carry it out for 5 minutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:54:51 No.979526 Report

Quoted By: >>979528 >>979546

>>979525

What are you five? google a tutorial and lear it yourself I don't have to prove shit to you it's just hilarious to see someone so fucking fresh claiming something so common being impossible.

also buy yourself some training wheels while you are at it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 11:57:54 No.979528 Report

Quoted By:

>>979526

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 12:35:53 No.979546 Report

Quoted By:

>>979516
>>979520
>>979526
I'm the one he originally challenged to a slowrace. (I don't know what that would prove. If i wanted my commute to be slow i'd walk. But whatever.)
To be fair, i can't trackstand either. Hey, i said i didn't consider myself particularly skilled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 14:15:54 No.979566 Report

Quoted By: >>979580 >>979979

>>979515
I charge 250 € per starting hour. Minimum amount of billable hours is 4. Please indicate if you're still willing to continue with your work order and how you'd like to handle the down payment of 500 €.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 14:19:32 No.979567 Report

Quoted By:

>>979481
more like

>I purposefully handicap myself so no one thinks I'm a casual

/n/ is turning into /g/ and it's annoying as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 15:03:45 No.979580 Report

Quoted By: >>979619

>>979566
I will require a sample as a proof of your ability. A 10 minute unedited clip should suffice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 16:17:24 No.979619 Report

Quoted By:

>>979580
That's not how it works. You won't pay up anyway so I'm not going to waste my time recording a video. If you want to see me trackstand you need to pay me first.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 22:28:57 No.979766 Report

Quoted By:

>>978993
>two inches of saddle to bar drop
>saying that like its fucking anything

Hooley dooley you really are a casual mate

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 05:13:26 No.979903 Report

Quoted By: >>979954

>>979517
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gng1HfhlW9k

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 05:46:42 No.979911 Report

Quoted By:

>I really like this bike
>So I'm going to find a shittier bike that's vaguely similar and buy that instead

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 05:53:18 No.979915 Report

Quoted By: >>979932

>>979038

You literally watched one or two hollywood flicks with "grungy urban bike-riding dude" tropes as characters and decided it seemed rad because you've never lived outside of the suburbs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 06:26:18 No.979932 Report

Quoted By:

>>979915
No, I can stop and I do often want to. I like Nasu, a sunday in hell, triplets of belleville and bicycle thieves. I idolize pros not messengers. I've never lived outside of the inner city except a year working and riding in a mountain range.

City riding is still fun desu.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 07:18:49 No.979954 Report

Quoted By:

>>979903
Look at that, a mountain bike with wide flat bars!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 08:52:04 No.979976 Report

Quoted By:

Bianchi Strada, you can have fast, comfortable and durable in the same bike

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 09:28:11 No.979979 Report

Quoted By:

>>979566

Damn Germans and their sense of "humor"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 03:05:35 No.982607 Report

Quoted By:

>>979498
steering stabilization. it is pretty common on Dutch city bikes and touring bikes with a Velo Orange leaning

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 05:55:15 No.982660 Report

Quoted By: >>982794

>>978718
Linus

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 15:02:36 No.982771 Report

Quoted By: >>982787 >>982865 >>982866

So what exactly is wrong with an upright riding position, other than slightly less efficiency?

And since when does upright necessarily = wide bars and drops necessarily = narrow bars?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 15:56:52 No.982787 Report

Quoted By: >>982829

>>982771
Because riding upright is around 50% more drag than drops. That sucks on headwinds.

There's nothing stopping you from getting wide drops and a set of risers. You still get all the drop positions 'cept it's comfier.

anonymous

anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 16:09:12 No.982794 Report

Quoted By:

>>982660
>dat handlebar angle
>that shitty headlight
>them flexy shit brake calipers
>single walled alu rims?
>queer stem

STOP
T
O
P

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 17:10:03 No.982829 Report

Quoted By: >>982866

>>982787
>Because riding upright is around 50% more drag than drops

Which literally doesn't matter since you're going 15 km/h.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 18:54:20 No.982865 Report

Quoted By:

>>982771
Terrible for gotta go fast.

Weight distribution puts more weight on your butt, which sucks for longer rides.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 19:02:12 No.982866 Report

Quoted By: >>982867

>>982829
If you don't go at least 18-20 km/h you're either a woman or you're in horrible shape.
And headwind is really shit.

>>982771
Because they're often as heavy as a normal recumbent without the comfort and without the speed.
For non-short rides they're not even as comfortable as a drop.

It's just the worst really.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 19:03:28 No.982867 Report

Quoted By:

>>982866
>It's just the worst really
As in all of the disadvantages of a drop+more and the heaviness of a normal recumbent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 19:32:51 No.982874 Report

Quoted By:

>>979371
Don't do this. Overpriced garbage. We used to carry em, we stopped when the prices went up and nothing else changed on them. Shits not even cromoly

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 19:36:25 No.982876 Report

Quoted By:

>>978718
I seriously wish you cunts from /fa/ would fuck off

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