>>2067561 should have gone for 80/70s road bikes, those as long as cromo will guarantee to ride smooth. The 90s rigid meme I always considered an elaborate troll post since most are made out of early low quality piece of shit aluminium you meant to throw away after a single ride.
>>2067561 >got a wheel with a seized shimano inter 7 for free >rebuilt the hub myself over the course of a week >culprit is the coaster brake that disintegrated, deleted it, also happens to be a common mod to improve rolling resistance on these hubs >works perfectly, got 150 km of testing out of it on my beater >decided to build a period correct bike around it >a year of stalking marketplaces and garage sales for parts >finally it's done >hub started skipping right on the very first ride >read that you are not supposed to regrease it at all (the fuck i was going to do, the original lube was full of sparkles from the brake), and if you do, you should use shimano's super special grease >don't have the guts to take it apart, completely clean it out and regrease it all over again
>>2067575 >The 90s rigid meme I always considered an elaborate troll post since most are made out of early low quality piece of shit aluminium >Most >Aluminium You're a fucking idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.
>>2067561 Any bike rides badly if its not fit for you and if you use shitty tires/grips and don't take the time to true the wheel and so on. 90s MTBs are also sized bizarrely and you have to account for that. They originally were intended to use super long stems.
>>2069140 The idea behind the long stems was to keep the weight forward for climbing. It's completely unnecessary and nearly everyone takes off those long stems when doing a restomod.
>>2069153 If it costs you $1000 off AliExpress you're doing it wrong. Also you can buy legit derailleurs and shifters from AliExpress for nearly half price. Still haven't tried buying cassettes, won't try buying chains. Also you're a fag. Let people have fun.
>>2069140 >90s MTBs are also sized bizarrely and you have to account for that. They originally were intended to use super long stems. v true, i got a shitty used mtb myself and it actually hurt to ride home. i "fixed" it by swapping the seat and post with the longest one i had sitting around and it is now kinda adequate but still results in minor back strain if i'm carrying heavy stuff
>>2069255 thats literally what i did. i took the seat and post from a much larger bike i had sitting around but was overall a little *too* big for start-stop traffic, and ordered cheap motorcycle style riser handlebars off of amazon. i think i just unironically have a bad back
>>2069284 you could still go much shorter on the stem. or a bar with more sweep-back, like maybe a northroads or greater. or both. personally I would be uncomfortable riding that saddle nosed down so much. maybe leveling it could help
>>2069286 How tall are you? Is the bike too small for you? Also maybe the bars are the problem. I tried swept back bars like that twice and didn't like the feel. Switched to a wide BMX bar and it made all the difference. Maybe that's your problem? >>2069286 That can completely ruin the steering and make it worse.
>>2069284 i am the a and that is not my bike. my bike is electrified. that one is not even full sus, nor are those moto handlbars. but it is proof that "gravel bikes" are just road bikes they slapped non-bald tires on
>>2069313 >That can completely ruin the steering and make it worse. Nah shorter stem is better because it makes the handling spicy, dangerous, and snappy
>>2069447 big leverage means big steering force but thats generally undesired since it doesnt take much to move the front wheel on a bike and you want fine control for both high speed downhill as well as uphill trial points
i'm convinced these luddite trends are cope. i was falling in to hipsterthink from riding shitbikes all winter and then it all instantly flew out of my head the second i got back on my full carbon electronic hydro-disc road bike. it's so nice.
>>2069503 They're a mix of cope and trolls. Rivbikes proved that there is a lot of insecurity in the market that can be milked by telling people shitty is good and having shitty things makes you a better person than having nice things. It's a combination of fear of being perceived as trying to be competent and failing (hence "tryhard" being an insult), and the classic american tall poppy syndrome where enjoying a thing sincerely on its own merits without waiting for the approval of others is subversive and dangerous
>>2069284 That’s a really aggressive posture, and my ass would never be satisfied on a saddle tiled forward that much I say raise the stem, level your saddle.
>>2069118 you sound like OP and so far reading the whole thread you come off as incompetent unhinged retard, don't post ever again if you don't know what people are talking about also you deserve what you got dumbfuck
>>2069284 HAHA THAT'S ABOUT THE SAME SETUP I HAVE ON MINE. On mine the bar doesn't get further up so I'd have to buy parts for it that allow that. My saddle is also tilted down like yours because I HATE bike saddles fucking with my balls so I tilt it down extremely. Needless to say my hands and wrists are fired out as fuck after every ride with the massive load on them.
>>2072933 >You'd struggle to find a bike from 98 or 99 that's steel unless its a niche brand or product line Are you really saying most 90s MTBs weren't steel because the last 2 years of the 90s they switched to aluminium. Are you actually fucking retarded?
>>2073151 even the 90s steel ones ride like shit because the frame is cramped and "compact" so the tubing needs to be thicker to compensate (not to mention cheap shit steel used for mass production) which makes them stiffer than thin tubed classic road frame and you know.. fucking cramped. Trying to make a 90s rigid comfortable is a fools errand even as turbo manlet and the fact that you insult people who pointed it out ITT confirms your mongoloid status. Also funny how you admit it yourself but went into defence mode for some reason? brainrot dumbfuck lmfao
>>2073890 Man there's so much to address here that I won't even bother. I'll concede simply because you're pointless and don't know shit. I need like 4 paragraphs to go into how wrong you are. >>2074524 How many models out of the 1994 catalog were aluminum vs steel lmao. It's like a ratio of 2:1 steel vs aluminum. Posting the exception doesn't disprove the rule lmao.
>>2074524 >Posting top of the line low volume made in usa model to prove that most bikes were alloy How many Taiwanese steel single tracks do you think were made vs those easton tube 8000s?
the post clearly said >most are made out of early low quality piece of shit aluminium yet OP went on a tantrum for the rest of the thread since his garbage happens to be steel? so everything is supposed to be steel now? News flash fucktard there are far far FAR more 90s rigids made from aluminium than steel found today so the >>2067575 statement is correct, you simply picked a losing fight and now won't stfu about it
Bikes used to be hand made even the cheaper brands so you were getting something that at least would fit you, after the 90s rigid meme a whole department store trash out the door wallmart BSO trend started that is still ongoing today. The fact that cheapest BSOs are 90s rigid shaped should fucking give you a hint how mass produced and shit they are, attempting to make one comfortable is insane and recommending one for anything but a pub/shit bike is literally trolling.