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Got about 300 miles of commuting on it now, and finally got all the French-ness sorted out.

 
Nice bikes. I have an old Tomassini fire and a pegoretti big leg emma.

also have a trek tandem and a few cannonade and specialized mtn bikes

i had some pictures but can't find them right this minute

i had a system where i got a new road bike whenever i bought my wife a new house , i am now 5 years overdue on that one.

a kent eriksen would fit the bill quite nicely
 
If you thought that was funny you should have heard the things I was saying when I was building it. "What kind of bird brained frog eating Frenchie would choose a random 23.4mm seat-post inserted into a spacer to fit a 25.2mm seat tube?" Turns out Peugeot would use only French manufacturers for all their parts and the guys making the seat tubes only had one diameter tubing which was of course not a standard size, or so the story goes. Worst deraileurs known to man too, plastic push rod front and stamped paper thin steel with plastic rear. Crankset uses 14 bearings on one side and 12 on the other, just cause they felt like it
 
EricV said:
If you thought that was funny you should have heard the things I was saying when I was building it. "What kind of bird brained frog eating Frenchie would choose a random 23.4mm seat-post inserted into a spacer to fit a 25.2mm seat tube?" Turns out Peugeot would use only French manufacturers for all their parts and the guys making the seat tubes only had one diameter tubing which was of course not a standard size, or so the story goes. Worst deraileurs known to man too, plastic push rod front and stamped paper thin steel with plastic rear. Crankset uses 14 bearings on one side and 12 on the other, just cause they felt like it
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So, that's what you meant by "French-ness"! Hee hee hee. However, I like to eat frogs too :)
 
EricV said:
If you thought that was funny you should have heard the things I was saying when I was building it. "What kind of bird brained frog eating Frenchie would choose a random 23.4mm seat-post inserted into a spacer to fit a 25.2mm seat tube?" Turns out Peugeot would use only French manufacturers for all their parts and the guys making the seat tubes only had one diameter tubing which was of course not a standard size, or so the story goes. Worst deraileurs known to man too, plastic push rod front and stamped paper thin steel with plastic rear. Crankset uses 14 bearings on one side and 12 on the other, just cause they felt like it
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Don't forget that they don't use opposite threads for the bottom bracket either, damn non-drive side cup always coming loose! I hated working on french bikes almost as much as I hated working on vintage schwinn bikes. Even the good french bikes would still drive me nuts!


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Can anyone recommend an "industrial retro" rear basket or box container to me that I can mount on my rear rack? I want to fit it onto my single speed white Trek Soho S. I want to keep it black to go with the black & white paint scheme of my bike. I like the look of front porteur racks, but can't seem to find something similar for the rear.
 
fast14riot said:
Don't forget that they don't use opposite threads for the bottom bracket either, damn non-drive side cup always coming loose! I hated working on french bikes almost as much as I hated working on vintage schwinn bikes. Even the good french bikes would still drive me nuts!


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Weirdly my drive side keeps loosening up, need to put some blue locktite on it one of these days.



Check out portland design works, they may have something to suit you. Personally I'd bolt a galvanized rectangular bucket to it, or maybe an old toolbox. Just seems like adding weight to a fixie would be a poor idea, but fixie commuters never really made much sense to me either. Now a 3spd internal hub with belt drive would be pretty trick.
 
I use to scoff at riding a single speed until I tried it, now I'm a convert. For Chicago, which is completely flat, I love not changing gears. Now don't get me wrong, I won't ride a fixie w/o brakes, that just seems crazy to me in an urban environment. I use to love the idea of belt drive too, no noise, greaseless.....until I saw a YouTube of a guy changing Gates carbon belt after 2500-3000 miles. Forget that, not for me. And about $70 for the belt as well. I would be doing that about once a year. These days, I'm really into simplicity.
 
Not too flat around here, but maybe someday. Picked up an old 26" wheel'd Tyler Polish made bike from my grand mother's basement that I may fix up. Its got a 3spd internal Shimano hub and its pretty fun, especially after getting the dyno and lights running. Debating selling the Supersix on, keeping the Pug and fixing up the Tyler, but then I rode the SS and remembered how fun it is to go fast.

I'm surprised they don't last longer, that is a shockingly short lifespan.
 
My District was a belt drive. I kept it that way for about 1 month, and had it warrantied twice for skipping issues before I switched it to a chain.

They claim the belt is more "efficient", but fail to consider how tight the belt needs to be to prevent skipping. I had to run mine so tight that it actually tensioned the bearings in the rear hub and put a ton of drag on the drivetrain. $50 for a rear sprocket (with spacers), front chainring, an 8-speed chain. Now it's smooth, quiet, and completely worry-free.
 
Cypress said:
My District was a belt drive. I kept it that way for about 1 month, and had it warrantied twice for skipping issues before I switched it to a chain.

They claim the belt is more "efficient", but fail to consider how tight the belt needs to be to prevent skipping. I had to run mine so tight that it actually tensioned the bearings in the rear hub and put a ton of drag on the drivetrain. $50 for a rear sprocket (with spacers), front chainring, an 8-speed chain. Now it's smooth, quiet, and completely worry-free.
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Thank you for confirming that I made the right decision to pass on carbon drive bike. I had heard about skipping issues as well. I still like the idea in theory. Now only if it could live up to the billing.
 
Any suggestions for a first mountain bike (within the last decade at least) for a roadie? Bunch of guys from work that used to ride mtb are picking up new bikes and hitting the trails instead of the road. I'm looking at something a few years old, with full suspension thats not a total brick at around $12-1500, don't know what to look at and my buddies are all going for far fancier builds.
 
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