Touring - Bike Forums Touring Have a dream to ride a bike across your state, across the country, or around the world? Self-contained or fully supported? Self-contained or fully supported? Trade ideas, adventures, and more in our bicycle touring forum
Wheels for Bike Friday New World Tourist - Bike Forums Touring - Wheels for Bike Friday New World Tourist - The rear wheel on my NWT are giving me problems with funky spoke tension issues and squeaking rubbing spokes I'm spending too much time trying to tweak spoke tensions on that wheel on the road to get rid of the squeaks, ugh I'm 225lb with a fully loaded bike for
Taking Apart VSF T-500 for touring - Bike Forums Touring - Taking Apart VSF T-500 for touring - I'm sorry for cross posting, but I just realized this specific board exists for touring I was unable to delete my post there so I'm posting here as well: I feel like kind of an idiot I dropped a bunch of dough on a VSF T-500 and to be honest, the bike is amazing I
Loaded touring on a vintage bike - Bike Forums If you're touring somewhere in a 3rd world country, yeah, a spare tire or two might make sense In the modern world, where you're carrying a cell phone that's attached to Amazon, you can overnight a tire nearly anywhere in the US Or a set of pedals, a freewheel, derailleur Or just put a shoutout here on Bike Forums
Trek 720 any good? - Bike Forums EDIT: wait, I should mention that there is also a trek 720 hybrid style bike from much later (90's?) I forgot that they passed the number on to that abomination The good 720 is a lugged, proper touring bike, the hybrid is, well, a hybrid It'd be like the Chicago bulls giving the number 23 to urkell or something
Touring and Insomnia - Bike Forums Touring - Touring and Insomnia - Of all the challenges I have faced on long (> 7 days for me) tours, the cumulative effects of insomnia were the most debilitating and morale-sapping This was back when I was young and my life was comparatively worry-free It is a significant part of the reason (in addition to
Rodriguez Bicycles? anyone have an opinion? - Bike Forums (FYI, the bike I ended up buying is not a touring bike, but is from our other local builder, Davidson, www davidsonbicycles com, who also builds extremely nice touring bikes As far as I know, all Rodriguez bikes are Tig-welded steel; Davidson will build a frame in lugged steel, Ti or Tig welded
Touring on Bullhorn Handlebars - Bike Forums Bikes: 1961 Ideor, 1966 Perfekt 3 Speed AB Hub, 1994 Bridgestone MB-6, 2006 Airnimal Joey, 2009 Thorn Sherpa, 2013 Thorn Nomad MkII, 2015 VO Pass Hunter, 2017 Lynskey Backroad, 2017 Raleigh Gran Prix, 1980s Bianchi Mixte on a trainer
How much can you just get used to? - Bike Forums I've been searching for a frame to make my new touring rig I've built up, ridden, toured, and dismantled a couple bikes now I have found a couple things I can't "just get used to": 1 A frame that is too small, 2 Weak brakes, 3 Narrow tire clearance All three of these lessons came from my pet peeves about previous bikes I've built
Upgrade my 9-speed derailleur for Surly Disk Trucker Touring - Upgrade my 9-speed derailleur for Surly Disk Trucker - I have a 2023 Surly Disk Trucker with the Alivio derailleurs They're ok and shift ok but I want to upgrade but 9-speed derailleurs are not easy to find these days because 10 and 11 speed derailleurs are the ones selling Is it worth keep looking or