Much respect for your conscientiousness regarding the safety of your hacks, and respect for others in not wishing them any chance of harm. The noble tinkerer!
I want to thank you for inspiring me to tinker with bikes and to get into road cycling. I think you’re bike should been in the GCN show I’ve watched the MTB to road bike conversion a countless number of times .
I think that most of the people who are so worried about the bike brake when you modify it, cannot really appreciate how strong a bicycle can be. When a thinker mod something, he is usually aware of most of the problems could occur, because he has a kind of sixth sense, that make him "feel" things that others people cannot feel. To be honest I'm more worried about those people actually don't have this sixth sense and ride a bike without checking it periodically just because "hey I payd my bike 5000$, what can go wrong?". Other than that, I really like your videos, half of the fun of cycling is thinker with your bike, and I'm like you in this sense. You inspire me. Thank you.
interesting perspective. but I think a healthy fear or respect of the fact that we're rolling around on two 1" contact paths at over 65kph. thanks a lot of the nice words Michele.
Thanks a lot for the good words. Going through some life stuff right now, so it's going to be slow on the vid side. But don't worry I'll probably be doing this for life so I ain't going no where.
Hi Bruce, I just watched this and the bike build video and I loved it! During 2020 (COVID-19 Pandemic) I am currently making a road bike with a mountain bike frame and thought that this video speaks wonders to what I am currently experiencing as I am putting it together (longer/stretched bike, etc). I was wondering off the top of your head what was the pedal clearance like for you on this bike? I am asking because my pedals at the lowest point above the ground are currently 3.5" and BB height above ground is 9.75", I was wondering if that high seems okay. I know you no longer have this bike but was wondering if this is similar to yours when you had it. I really love the content mate and will be definitely watching more now that I got the notification bell on. Thanks again
hey there Unfixed! Thanks so much for the comment, glad you liked the build. Like you said I don't have the bike really anymore, although I did manage to keep just the frame and do have that. I never measured the pedal clearance, but I also don't remember ever really having any problems with it either. I even participated in a race which I have covered in another video ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GdYiBJdegus.html ). I believe the cranks were 175mm, but not 100% sure, might have been 170mm. Not sure if you've seen this video, but it was a road bike build, might be interesting for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QFBLdqsyAAE.html
Take the bike apart, pack it in a box and ship it to yourself. The memories you have on that bike are well worth the effort to ship it instead of trying to put it in your luggage.
@RollinRat actually the airline offered to bring it for free, they even provided a box! But in total because all the other things, like renting a van rather than a car on both ends, it ended up costing a good bit.
@RollinRat it's a little complicated, the free policy, so meaning you get your normal luggage plus one bike, that was from edelweiss. However that flight got canceled and Swiss took it over. Swiss offers a slightly different policy, wherein you get to bring a bike for free but it has to be in replacement of your checked 23kg bag. But because I had bought the ticket with edelweiss, Swiss also accepted their policy.
Another great video and thank you for incorporating my questions. Funny the question came up about the OLD spacing on the rear wheel. I actually recently converted a 130mm road wheel to 135mm spacing by getting the correct axle but I had to get the rim redished because it was needed in order to maintain the correct spacing on the drive side.
thank you Lyam! interesting about the re-dishing. For this hub setup, if I recall right, I could have moved the bearing races from left to right wherever I wanted, they were threaded onto the axle, so I don't think with this type I would need to re-dish, but I'm not 100% sure I'm thinking of it correctly.
HACK AND RIDE BIKES I was able to make it work without redishing but it moved the smallest cog away from the dropout by 2.5mm. I was still able to shift into all gears but it’s not ideal and shifting wasn’t super reliable.
So cool!-Didn't know you're from Florida,,mate!....I am too,...I'm usually riding around the Parkland,FL area, if you're ever out that way,..do you ever watch any Jasper Verkagil < (know I spelled it wrong) videos?....The airline pilot/road biker from the Netherlands,.....
hey there Don! Never been to Parkland but now that I'm moving back I'll be trying to ride all over florida, so I'll let you know! No never heard of this Jasper, but I'll look him up now, thanks!
I don't know if you moved away yet, but if you can't ship it home, at least keep the drop bolt with the brake caliper attached as a souvenir or something! You really ought to keep the bike you rode the Alpe d'Huez on
For the FD issues there are options.... First, you can use a JTEK Engineering Shiftmate. Sorry, forgot which one. Or swap to a roadie FD, which is the option I chose when I did a dirt drop bar conversion on a 1993 Nishiki Pueblo mtb
It's kind of sad to hear about the end for this bike. Well I don't know how it works in Switzerland but can't you just leave the frame next to the garbage bin? Maybe someone else can use it!
yeah I could try that, but I doubt anyone will take it, I'll try though. Thanks for the comment Rui. Btw I think I remember you commenting from another video right?
Its a shame some cyclists can be so pretentious instead of taking the video for what it actually is (for myself something cool and unique). You did a great job in responding to many of the comments 👏 👍 👌.
Hey there Hanzo. I think you almost have to do it all at once, because what makes a road bike a road bike, really just drop bars and narrower slick tires right? I guess in general just think about what you want the end bike to be, like wheel size, shifting type, etc.
Strava has seriously let me down lately. It didn't record at least 80 miles of mine in 2020 and I was shooting for like 950 recorded miles in the year. Ill use something else in the future. Its not an issue with my phone.
that's pretty lame. for me it works good about 98% of the time, 1% it makes me look lazy by cutting ride short or starting late, and the final 1% it shows like I'm super man by going about 10 miles in one second.
Man that bike looks so fast. I like how short you have the headtube. Hahaha. It sounds like some of the commenters are living in a bubble wrap world. If you think what he did was "dangerous", riding a bike is dangerous. To each their own. I like your videos man . That was a sad ending. :(
I am thinking about doing the same thing to my old retro steel mtb, but I will probably stick with my 26" wheels as they are the org first Mavic crossmax wheels. But, the problem is... The wheels are pretty much unused(been sitting on a bike) so I am kind of not really keen on using something that can be a show of piece of mtb history.
what a pity you had to get rid of Giant, it would be interesting if you went back to work on that road bike you bought at Walmart, or if you sold it, start a project again with a cheap bike fixing and upgrading. :)
I would love to have that bike it's a pity that you destroy it but I understand your concern about safety, I'm transforming My own old bike, it's a 90's Fuji folding MTB it's very heavy (it's a steel cheap bike) but I love how it looks and the fact that it's a folding bike
actually it looks like I'll at least be able to keep the frame, so it might come back as another build later :) But you say your bike is a steel MTB that is also a folding bike?
@@BruceChastain you can go to your local bike shop and get a bike box and ship the bike over to your location. You can do it on the cheap too. Look at zack gallardos vid on it.
sorry I don't know about that bike. maybe best would be to find someone with a road bike and ask them if you can try to fit the wheels, then just see if and where the problems will be.
the old bike just wasn't worth the amount it cost to ship it. But actually just the other day I learned that the airline now allows a bike per passenger for free! So it's coming home.
