Recent content by Titiritero

I'm following the enlightened steps of @Tootyred and slowly but surely getting rid of the excess. Otherwise I am becoming a tinkerer instead of a cyclist that tinkers... Stuff gives us pleasure, but also takes away time to do other things (like a country move, a new apartment, a trip,...)...

Ok, you have convinced me!! And any investment in making her happier cycling is money well spent!! From the answers it seems the biggest factor for the easier shifting is the 10sp and modern tech. Would I achieve similar results with a Deore 10 speed shifter/derailleur? (I just checked and the...

Hi! We did a long family trip this summer, and my wife happened to use my "good" mountain bike, a 2012 re-edition of the Breezer Lighting with full 3x10 XT. She oftens complains of pain in her thumbs when shifting, specially since she broke one in a fall a few years back. She was now delighted...

If you already know for sure you're moving and where, and you have the means, I'd definitely buy. You can then start moving a few things each time, and staying for longer to give you a taste of what to live in Spain is instead of just holidays. Cost of living is lower, so if your wife will have...

Jokes apart, keep at least one bike. We don't have a lot of retrobikes in Spain. A tip I heard in a family travelling podcast and was very useful to prepare our family cycling trip of 1y in South America: 1.- Set a date. It'll never be the "perfect time", so without a fixed date you'll keep...

George Carlin on stuff

Thanks for all the responses!! And for the Sheldon link! I usually trust a lot what he says, although in this case he is atypically vague. He does not seem to recommend it, but not for technical reasons, but more for the efficiency of it (for those interested, he seems to love biopace, so...

Yeah, I've noticed vintage Diamond Backs have the stickers above the clear coating. Any tips on how to stop them from degrading further?

I have an old hybrid I'm going to sell. The bike comes with a Deore DX drivetrain, and a Deore Biopace crankset with the usual hybrid gearing of 48-38-28. I'm not a fan of Biopace, mostly because of the looks, since I'm too bad of a cyclist to note oval vs round chainrings while riding...

If your Trek is one of the early 90's lugged ones, you would be surprised at the tire clearance. I don't think you would have problems to run 2.25" front and rear, specially if keeping the original rims which will make the actual width narrower. A do-it-all that I like is the Schwalbe Smart...

I'd be interested to know why. I also recently got a '92 Storm, and it's also a 17". I knew it would be small for me (I'm usually on a 20"), but although it is, not for too much, and I can't find the reason why. My son likes it so it'll be for him, but he's still 8 so he needs at least 1-2y...

The title translates to "On the edge of impossible" and it was a program on Spanish public TV about adventure sports, mostly Himalaya climbs as that was the golden era of Spanish alpinism. That video introduced many in Spain to MTBs. The guys were (maybe still are?) journalists at some bicycle...

The Volkswagen bike is horrible. It seems to try to copy the Y design of Trek, thinking that if they make it curvy nobody will notice. The other two are not so bad, and at least they use standard seat posts... Decathlon had a folding bike very similar to that Leonardo

Today, a couple of examples of "what did you do to the seat tube"? I can only think of 2 scenarios: -someone asked the summer intern to design a bike with a "new approach" -there were some funky shaped spare tubes in the warehouse and someone had an idea They bring nothing but weight and...

If you don't have a crankset decided, no need to know the size of the original BB, apart from the shell, which is easy to measure. Either 73mm or 68mm (likely, being a hybrid). The spindle length will have to match the specs of whatever crankset you go for...