Ahem...please discuss your second-best bicycles...
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I built myself a singlespeed bike last November. It was a fun project to make use of a frame that a mate had donated to me. I already had spare wheels, tyres, bars etc so it only cost me about £70.
TBH, I already had a mountain bike, a cyclocross bike and a second-best road bike so I didn't think that the singlespeed bike would get much use but I really like riding it. In fact, it looks like I will have notched up at least 2,000 km (1,250 miles) on it by the end of its first year including several long rides (metric centuries, imperial centuries, and one 200 km ride). It has certainly become my second-best bike in terms of usage.
TBH, I already had a mountain bike, a cyclocross bike and a second-best road bike so I didn't think that the singlespeed bike would get much use but I really like riding it. In fact, it looks like I will have notched up at least 2,000 km (1,250 miles) on it by the end of its first year including several long rides (metric centuries, imperial centuries, and one 200 km ride). It has certainly become my second-best bike in terms of usage.
Jason
Senior Member
- Location
- Carnaby Street
same here.
Current stable is
Road bike (for the road!)
flat bar hybrid (for a bit of everything inc shops and pub,but generally not together)
29er (for when I fancy getting dirty)
folder (to liven up my achingly boring commute in Laaandon)
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
My second best road bike is a Trek 500 from about 1986, takes wider tires than my best, a Trek 600 from 1985. Both 531c . But the 500 can take wider tires.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
My second favourite bike is a Specialized Secteur with a triple chainring. It was the first road bike that I owned. My favourite one is a Cinelli with a compact that is used exclusively for unsuccessful posing purposes.
Unlike the Cinelli, the Secteur sometimes gets me up steep hills.
Unlike the Cinelli, the Secteur sometimes gets me up steep hills.
lutonloony
Über Member
- Location
- torbay
I don't have a second bike!
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
I'll agree with YukonBoy - second favourite would have been the better title.
As in anything, practice...
As in anything, practice...
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
A couple of pics of my Road Comp which is now my winter bike, after being number 1 bike prior to the Pro Carbon arriving just over a year ago. I've probably done around 3,000 miles on it (I didn't keep a record until I bought a Garmin), completed several sportives and it just keeps going.
It hasn't been ridden since April, but after the weather the last weekend the plan is to get it fettled and ready to go in the next week or so as those mudguards will come in useful.
And as you might have noticed, after years of battling to keep the white bar tape looking something like, I gave in earlier this year and put black tape on instead...
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Black bar tape for me too next time!
