Show your touring bikes !!!!
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My Condor Heritage in China.
My round the world ride: I Were Right About That Saddle Though
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That is a lovely looking bike
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My Trek520 and creative rain gear. Outside the cafe in Tennessee I scrounged the bin bag from. Yes, it was very wet and I'd left my nice Goretex 200 miles back. (I think. I never have found it.)
You only live once, which is enough if you do it right. - Mae West
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Pete Jack wrote:My Trek520 and creative rain gear. Outside the cafe in Tennessee I scrounged the bin bag from. Yes, it was very wet and I'd left my nice Goretex 200 miles back. (I think. I never have found it.)
Great idea. I should have thought of that when I lost my Shower Pass jacket ....
Andrew
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Aushiker wrote:Pete Jack wrote:My Trek520 and creative rain gear. Outside the cafe in Tennessee I scrounged the bin bag from. Yes, it was very wet and I'd left my nice Goretex 200 miles back. (I think. I never have found it.)
Great idea. I should have thought of that when I lost my Shower Pass jacket ....
Andrew
Thanks Andrew. Nice to know I'm not the only one who has done that sort of thing. I phoned all the places we stayed at and no one had found a jacket. Somewhere on this site somebody claimed they had never, ever, forgot to take something they needed on tour. Aye...right.
Actually the bin bag works surprisingly well.
You only live once, which is enough if you do it right. - Mae West
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" Red" AKA Frankenstein fresh out my shed.
A rescued unused hand built 853 frame.
A box of new bits
Plus some bits I had lying around or robbed off my other tourer Mr Hyde
IMG_0906 by shanecycles.com, on Flickr
Time to see what this bike packing non-sense is all about
A rescued unused hand built 853 frame.
A box of new bits
Plus some bits I had lying around or robbed off my other tourer Mr Hyde
IMG_0906 by shanecycles.com, on Flickr
Time to see what this bike packing non-sense is all about
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Handlebar end looks odd, what is that?
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Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
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The ergonomically handgrips or the hole where I forgot to put the plugs in ?
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The grips, seems to have quite a sharp looking lump pointing towards the palm.
I've had ergo grips on my mtb, I've not seen anything like that, may just be the angle.
All the ergo grips I've seen have the fatter part under the palm, the projection pointing forward and the pinch bolt at the rear of the handle bar.
Thinking about it, it looks as if you have them on the wrong side.
I've had ergo grips on my mtb, I've not seen anything like that, may just be the angle.
All the ergo grips I've seen have the fatter part under the palm, the projection pointing forward and the pinch bolt at the rear of the handle bar.
Thinking about it, it looks as if you have them on the wrong side.
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Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
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My kona with a rather haphazard set up, and hammock ready for a night by the lake in france!
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andrewjoseph wrote:The grips, seems to have quite a sharp looking lump pointing towards the palm.
I've had ergo grips on my mtb, I've not seen anything like that, may just be the angle.
All the ergo grips I've seen have the fatter part under the palm, the projection pointing forward and the pinch bolt at the rear of the handle bar.
Thinking about it, it looks as if you have them on the wrong side.
The projection should be rearwards, they look correct in the picture. The idea is to support your palm.
Convention? what's that then?
Airnimal Chameleon touring, Orbit Pro hack, Orbit Photon audax, Focus Mares AX tour, Peugeot Carbon sportive, Owen Blower vintage race - all running Tulio's finest!
Airnimal Chameleon touring, Orbit Pro hack, Orbit Photon audax, Focus Mares AX tour, Peugeot Carbon sportive, Owen Blower vintage race - all running Tulio's finest!
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foxyrider wrote:andrewjoseph wrote:The grips, seems to have quite a sharp looking lump pointing towards the palm.
I've had ergo grips on my mtb, I've not seen anything like that, may just be the angle.
All the ergo grips I've seen have the fatter part under the palm, the projection pointing forward and the pinch bolt at the rear of the handle bar.
Thinking about it, it looks as if you have them on the wrong side.
The projection should be rearwards, they look correct in the picture. The idea is to support your palm.
My experience is that the support is Palm width, or thereabouts, not a spike as it looks in the photo.
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Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
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Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
Burls Ti Tourer for tarmac
Saracen aluminium full suss for trails.
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it looks like that bike gas Ergon grips which have the flat part back facing backward. from the side this flat bit looks pointy. so they are mounted correctly, though their angle looks a little steep. Still, if the rider is comfy, that's all that matters