New (or New-To-You) Bike Day! Post Your New Love Here!
New Bike Day is the best. So share your new bike love with your pics, rides, name for your bike, deets, etc. here. We want to know what gives you your new bike "high". And we know it's coming... N+1 Forever!
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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on
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I'd come to rely on Lyft too much. Too much $, too much gas-powered transportation. Just too much. I needed something to bring me to the oyster happy hours I've come to love, my constant search for tacos like they make back home, going to all the great (free!) Smithsonian museums, groaning as I pass the WH (given the current resident), etc. Basically, to get to know my new city and love it almost as much as I love Chicago.
So I've always had this dream of owning a bike that allows me to be "girly", easily wear dresses and normal shoes, and with a basket in front. Here she is... I don't have a name for her yet but she's already made me very happy, riding around, exploring D.C. and going to places I haven't yet tried because they're far enough away to warrant a Lyft.
My super reasonably-priced bike also frees me up from living in fear someone will snag my Focus Cx bike even if I lock it up. She's my around town BFF. I'm eyeing some panniers so I can do more grocery shopping with her. What do you think of these? If you have a go-to grocery shopping pannier, please comment (with link, of course)
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Permalink Reply by Sean Newby on
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i use the banjo brothers market panniers
https://banjobrothers.com/collections/panniers/products/market-pannier
whatever you decide on, two suggestions:
1. look for panniers that have handles front and back (the product page doesn't really show them well, but the market panniers have them). life is a lot easier when you can carry the panniers like normal bags.
2. open the bags in your cart and fill them as you shop; you can't buy too much if you can't fit it in the bag!
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Thanks! Great advice - especially by filling up the bags to avoid over-shopping (I have been guilty of this many times!).
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Permalink Reply by Filka Bean on
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Nice idea for a thread! I am feeling really happy at the moment because after some back and forth ogling a 2017 Masi Giromondo, i decided not to buy a new bike and instead paid Owen at Blue City to straighten my fork which had been a little off ever since a dooring. While he was doing that we also put on slick new brake levers, i splurged on my favorite bar tape, and mounted an axiom streamliner rack. So i got my favorite bike back and it's better than ever! I can ride no handed and can start shopping for panners too! :)
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You should post a pic of your like-new bike. Sounds sweet and ready to ride just in time for Spring!
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Here's a picture: sweet and ready to ride, as you said!
You're up, curt(is)!
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Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on
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Dig the color and patina.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Stahlman on
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I picked up a used Bakfiets.nl Long Cargo bike a couple weeks ago to haul my new kid around town. It quite an amazing ride. Give me a wave if you see me cruising around Hyde Park or the Lake Front Path.
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N+1? More like N+2 or N+6, depending on how we define our terms. My "new" old ride, which I acquired this past weekend from a former Bike Lane mechanic (who is thinning the stock in preparation for moving to northern Wisconsin for a logging gig) is a screwed & glued aluminum lugged Vitus 979 -- just like King Sean Kelly rode back in the late 80s! Downtube shifting with 7 x 2 gears. Shimano 600 Tricolor. High flange hubs. Photo forthcoming.
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