Recent content by Titiritero

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...

I love to see other people's bike storage solutions, so keep them coming!! We rent and I have a tiny cellar with room for either 8 bikes (we are four counting the kids with ever growing bikes), or 4 bikes and some space to work on them. So it keeps me in-check for not overdoing the local...

Most laden bikes will wobble at first until you get used to the new equilibrium point. But switching to a drop bar, which on average is 10-15cm narrower at least, won't improve that... Less leverage to correct imbalances...

I have no idea on physics and rolling resistance. But I know that the cycling industry likes to push something, then go to the other extreme, and then settle somewhere in the middle as "best of both worlds", selling us 3 "solutions" instead of just 1. -MTB tires had 2" tires. Then came fat...