Bicycle Recommendation

[marty]

Think that a good doctor would measure and not ask patient what is his height? Will measure guy's height and distance from broom handle below his balls to floor.

Pedal Bicycle Guy shrunk or lied when he got driver license. 5 foot, 9.5 inches tall. 30 inches from balls to floor. Measurements taken with no shoes.

 

[Apartunis]

Townie Original 3i EQ Step-Thru

Townie Original 3i EQ Step-Thru - Electra Bikes

Discover your next great ride with Townie Original 3i EQ Ladies'. See the bike and visit your local Trek retailer. Shop now!

electra.trekbikes.com

PINK ????????????

That is the step thru/ladies version. There is a step over version that would be better for a heavyweight.

 

[marty]

That is the step thru/ladies version. There is a step over version that would be better for a heavyweight.

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Electra Cruiser 1 Step-Over

Cruiser - Electra Bikes

We revolutionized the classic beach cruiser with Electra's comfort and control.

electra.trekbikes.com

Color / Matte Black. I don't like BLACK. I don't like WHITE. I like colors

Bike colour choices

https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/comments/1agb8q3

 

[marty]

Learning about - FLIP-FLOP HUB: Includes 16T Freewheel and Fixed Gear Cog - Easily Ride Fixed Gear or Single Speed

Core-Line - Lucky Penny

Core-Line - Lucky Penny : Fixed Gear & Single Speed Bikes

Visit State Bicycle Co. to see our bikes from $399 and see all Fixed Gear (Fixie) and Single Speed Bikes. Customize your bike today or find an authorized retailer near you. A bike like no other.

www.statebicycle.com

WEIGHT: 24 lb 8 oz. In the Marty world of bicycles. Less is better.

Color? Seeing no words? Look at the picture stupid.

Won't take long for Pedal Bicycle Guy to get his pants caught in the chain. I put a rubber band on my pants.

 

[marty]

From 2014: I miss Chalo.

Starting to get pissed at the bike situation

argggh said:
I was browsing Google searching for advice on affordable fixies

There's your problem. You you were feeling profoundly, slobberingly retarded; you threw yourself into a nest of random slobbering retards, and you got some on you. No surprise there.

Fixed gearing is a drivetrain, not a bike. If you want a good fixed gear bike, cheap, then get a good cheap used bike with horizontal dropouts and add a fixed gear rear wheel. That approach can land you an actually OK fix for the price of a sucker-born-every-minute crapheap from a nameless eBay seller. Or go ahead and continue hunting online for "affordable fixies" and continue to get retard slobber on you.

All the bikesdirect.com fixies I have worked on (Mercier, Windsor, Vilano, etc.) have sucked. All the no-name eBay fixies I have worked on, and the State bikes, Republic bikes, what have you, have sucked even more-- which is remarkable. And though they require more care and diligence than real bicycles, they inevitably get less. I can't tell you how many times I've had a cheap me-too fix in my shop that was missing two or more chainring bolts out of five. Heck, most of them never even get lubricant or air until they stop going.

It was at least five years ago when I noticed that fixies had already jumped the shark so badly that there were high schoolers and balding fortysomething dudes coming in asking for them, usually not knowing what fixed gearing meant. In my neck of the woods, most of the chump market for fixed gears has moved on to something else (be it more functional bicycles, hardtail chopper motorcycles, or beards so long that they preclude riding anything with an open chain drive), leaving committed hipsters and bike polo players in charge of the category.

EDIT:

P.S. - High tensile steel frames are typically not made to a weaker spec than chromoly steel frames. The manufacturer-- even a rinky-dink online seller-- doesn't want to get sued by people who got hurt when their bike folded up underneath them. They just use more steel if the steel is weaker. I do the same thing when I'm building frames from scratch. The weaker the material I'm using, the more of it I use.

So that means a hi-ten frame will be heavier and usually stiffer than a chromoly frame. Unless it's built with genuine incompetence and/or callous indifference (e.g. Walmart bikes), it will probably be less likely to fail than a lighter frame made of better material.

 

[marty]

cheap me-too, high schoolers, balding fortysomething dudes, chump, beards, hipsters, bike polo players

Think if you read between the lines? Chalo really does like fixies? He just don't like the people who buy them.

Was driving with a friend. Political science professor. Can't remember who was driving? Saw this car in front of us.

I said. Hate that car. Political science professor guy said. Think you hate the person who bought that car. He was right.

 

[marty]

Thinking about buying. State Bicycle, Core-Line

30 inches from balls to floor

So 31" with shoes.

I don't do mm, cm.

Extra Small (46 cm- Riders 5'0"-5'4")
Small (50 cm- Riders 5;4"-5'7")
Medium (54 cm- 5'7"-5'11")
Large (58 cm- 5'11-6'2")

STANDOVER HEIGHT
733mm = 29"
751mm = 29.5"
775mm = 30.5"
811mm = 32"

Would Small 50 cm be good for Pedal Bicycle Guy?

 

[RunForTheHills]

Thinking about buying. State Bicycle, Core-Line



So 31" with shoes.

I don't do mm, cm.

Extra Small (46 cm- Riders 5'0"-5'4")
Small (50 cm- Riders 5;4"-5'7")
Medium (54 cm- 5'7"-5'11")
Large (58 cm- 5'11-6'2")

STANDOVER HEIGHT
733mm = 29"
751mm = 29.5"
775mm = 30.5"
811mm = 32"

Would Small 50 cm be good for Pedal Bicycle Guy?

Between a small and a medium. Depends on the geometry of the frame. It would be best to try a test ride. You can adjust the fit some by changing things like the bars, stem, and seat post.

Pubic Bone Height & How To Measure Your PBH

 

[OlderGiantFan]

Probably the perfect bike for the old guy would be a 26" with the 3-speed internal hub gears, but they don't make them anymore. They make some hubs, but I can't see a full sized bike off the shelf with them in it.

 

[marty]

Might be going through a [No want gears] phase? Might be having PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from removing chain and derailleur from Pedal Bicycle Guy's bike. Why do we all have gears on our bicycles and automatic transmissions in our cars?

Yes I have driven manual transmission cars and trucks. For $1000 more, I buy automatic transmission. Like to eat and drive.

Can I buy a pedal bicycle with a automatic transmission?

 

[RunForTheHills]

Can I buy a pedal bicycle with a automatic transmission?

Yes? https://bike.shimano.com/en-NA/stories/article/our-automatic-shifting-technology.html

 

[Apartunis]

Might be going through a [No want gears] phase? Might be having PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from removing chain and derailleur from Pedal Bicycle Guy's bike. Why do we all have gears on our bicycles and automatic transmissions in our cars?

Yes I have driven manual transmission cars and trucks. For $1000 more, I buy automatic transmission. Like to eat and drive.

Can I buy a pedal bicycle with a automatic transmission?

Shimano Coasting was a parts group with an automatically 3 speed coaster brake hub whose shifting was powered by a front hub dynamo. I do not think it was available for very long, but I bet you can find a bike that has it if you look.

The problem with Shimano Coasting was that it was in response to focus groups of people who do not ride bikes and addressing the things they brought up as reasons for not cycling. But the real reason is that they are lazy cowardly useless adult infants, so fixing the issues they use as excuses does not convince them to ride.

 

[marty]

Shimano Coasting was a parts group with an automatically 3 speed coaster brake hub whose shifting was powered by a front hub dynamo. I do not think it was available for very long, but I bet you can find a bike that has it if you look.

The problem with Shimano Coasting was that it was in response to focus groups of people who do not ride bikes and addressing the things they brought up as reasons for not cycling. But the real reason is that they are lazy cowardly useless adult infants, so fixing the issues they use as excuses does not convince them to ride.

Ford Model T - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.[17] It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile,

Automatic transmission - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The first mass-produced automatic transmission is the General Motors Hydramatic four-speed hydraulic automatic, which was introduced in 1939

If there were forums in the 1940's would people write:

The problem with automatic transmission's was that they were developed in response to focus groups of people who ride horses and addressing the things they brought up as reasons for not driving. But the real reason is that they are lazy cowardly useless adult infants like me who don't want to shift gears, so fixing the issues they use as excuses does not convince them to drive.

 

[marty]

If I had more money I would hire all of Elon Musk's rocket scientists to build me a pedal bike that shifts automatically.

 

[99t4]

I would like to hellp make a bicycle recommendation but unfortunatelly have lost track of the specifics. Can you please recap the particulars? IIRC, the rider is somehow mentally diminished?

 

[RunForTheHills]

If I had more money I would hire all of Elon Musk's rocket scientists to build me a pedal bike that shifts automatically.

You are way overthinking it Marty. With a three speed IGH you can shift while you are not pedaling. Stopped at the light and want an easy take off? Just shift it down one gear with your thumb and push it back once you are up to speed. See a hill in front of you? Just shift it down again with your thumb.

If you were really too lazy to shift gears, you would put a hub motor on the bike.

 

[marty]

I would like to hellp make a bicycle recommendation but unfortunatelly have lost track of the specifics. Can you please recap the particulars? IIRC, the rider is somehow mentally diminished?

Yes Pedal Bicycle Guy is probably not the best at figuring out best gear to be in when brain is overloaded by 21, 27, 36, or however many gears are on a bicycle.

Looking for bicycle recommendation for a guy. 5 foot, 9.5 inch tall. 250 pounds. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. 4 miles from his house to work. No hills. He has a Trek pedal bike that seems too small for him. Something has gone horribly wrong with the rear derailleur. If I took a picture of rear derailleur it would cause all you to become traumatized and have nightmares for the rest of your life. Bent, two gears broke. Chain destroyed. I asked how did this happen? Guy said "When I break something. I REALLY break it". Front derailleur also showing signs of chain rubbing for a few thousand miles.

This guy is 50 something years old and has never owed a car. He does have a driver license and is excellent driver. I would imagine if he did have a car. Some transmission rebuilder would say - how did you destroy these gears? Guy would say - "When I break something. I REALLY break it"

Thanks all for helping a guy transport himself 4 miles. He is walking now.

Agree that Electric bike is wonderful way to eliminate 99.9% of gear shifting. But Pedal Bicycle Guy has been peddling a bike for 50 some years. He wants to pedal.

 

[Apartunis]

figuring out best gear to be in when brain is overloaded by 21, 27, 36, or however many gears are on a bicycle.

There is no figuring. That's high-middle-low range with seven eight or nine (ten eleven twelve) gears in each range. If you can not get that, that is on you.

 

[99t4]

Yes Pedal Bicycle Guy is probably not the best at figuring out best gear to be in when brain is overloaded by 21, 27, 36, or however many gears are on a bicycle.

OK, then how about a simplified single front chainring and wide range rear cogs/rear derailleur? What is the terrain like? Any notable hills?

 

[marty]

OK, then how about a simplified single front chainring and wide range rear cogs/rear derailleur? What is the terrain like? Any notable hills?

No hills.

 

[99t4]

OK, I'd be looking at the local online classifieds for a used Trek 720 or 920 in decent condition. Rugged simple early generation MTB with IIRC 7-speed rear. To simplify further remove the front derailleur so he only has to deal with the 7-speed shifting.

 

[marty]

IIRC 7-speed rear

What is IIRC ?

 

[RunForTheHills]

If I recall correctly

 

[marty]

Want new. Frame color is important because I am weird.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BikeMechanics/comments/14zgmli

Here are all brands from Reddit in alphabetical order.

All City
Bianchi
Brooklyn bicycle co
Cannondale
Cinelli
Cube
Detroit Bicycle Co
Jamis
KHS
Kona
Marin
QBP
Salsa
Soma
State
Sun
Surly
Vaast

All-City Cycles

Bianchi | Performance bicycles since 1885

Bianchi has played a core role in cycling and led the greatest riders to victory. And it's all going on by the new cutting-edge bikes.

www.bianchi.com

Brooklyn Bicycle Co. | City & Commuter Bikes

Discover stylish, durable commuter bikes inspired by Brooklyn streets. Explore our collection and find your perfect ride today.

www.brooklynbicycleco.com

Cannondale

Widely regarded as the bike industry's leading innovator of game-changing technologies, Cannondale and its handcrafted bicycles continue to innovate across mountain, road, and electric bikes.

www.cannondale.com

Cinelli Americas - Official Website

Cinelli Official Americas

usa.cinelli-milano.com

HOME | CUBE Bikes

CUBE Bikes from Waldershof has been synonymous with premium mountain bikes, road bikes, gravel bikes, trekking bikes, e-bikes, as well as functional clothing and accessories since 1993.

www.cube.eu

Best Commuter Bike | US Bicycles | Detroit Bikes

Commuter and city bicycles, high quality, American made. Detroit Bikes :: Top Rated US Made City Commuter Bike Manufacturor :: Easy To Assemble, American Made Commuter Bicycles :: Free Shipping.

detroitbikes.com

Jamis® Bikes

Jamis Bikes rolled out its first bicycle in 1979 and has since built a reputation as a brand unmatched in performance, value, and style. Jamis Bicycles are sold in the US from coast to coast and in over 50 countries worldwide.

www.jamisbikes.com

KHS Bicycles

Find Yourself... On A KHS

khsbicycles.com

Kona Bicycles – The Long Sweet Ride

In 1988, our founders Dan & Jake started a company dedicated to making great bikes that create peak riding experiences. We remain fiercely independent, and those original principles of Performance, Reliability & Versatility continue to be the foundation of Kona Bikes. Come on in and discover The...

konaworld.com

Marin Bikes

Marin Bikes offers a world-class lineup of critically-acclaimed mountain, drop bar, fitness/transit and kids bikes, designed by a passionate crew of riders in Northern California.

marinbikes.com

Quality Bicycle Products

www.qbp.com

Salsa Cycles - Home

Adventure comes in all sizes, from mountain biking for the first time to pedaling around the world. Whatever "Adventure by Bike" means to you, we help you live it.

www.salsacycles.com

Home - Soma Fabrications

Soma Fabrications is a San Francisco-based designer/maker of steel bicycle frames, and parts and accessories for the urban cyclist and adventure cyclist.

www.somafab.com

The Soma Fab Shop

The Soma Fab Shop sells bicycle frames, parts and accessories from Soma Fabrications, Also stocks Nitto, MKS, Busch + Muller. Honjo, IRD, & Yokozuna.

www.somafabshop.com

State Bicycle: Single Speed Bikes, Fixed Gear Bikes, City Bikes & more

Visit State Bicycle Co. to customize your bike today or shop our wide variety of single speed bikes, fixed gear bikes, city bikes and more. A bike like no other

www.statebicycle.com

Sun Bicycles

Take the scenic route.

sun.bike

Steel Bikes & Frames | Customizable Steel Bikes

Serious Steel Bikes for People Who Don't Take Themselves Too Seriously

surlybikes.com

VAAST Bikes | The Soul of Sport Performance | SUPER MAGNESIUM Bikes

We are VAAST—Sport Performance Bikes that fit and handle like a dream. Light. Strong. Sustainable. Made exclusively with the SUPER MAGNESIUM™ alloy.

www.vaastbikes.com

 

[99t4]

Want new. Frame color is important because I am weird.

Ok. How about you put all your requirements in a list so we don't have to play 20 questions?