Official Coli Bike/Cycling thread
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I would definitely wait until I get the bike next week to be sure it's legit tho
My baby arrived
Terrible winter weather for the next week at least so I will take my time putting it together.
I've benefited from them a bunch of times but this is my first time actually seeing a bike lane plow:
Put my new bike together over the weekend and planning on going for my first ride this week. Some random quirks:
- State Bicycle Co. requires assembly @ your LBS to activate the warranty. I'm all for supporting LBS, but I'm not paying someone to assemble the easy final 10% part of a bike. Even more frustrating, they purposefully omit assembly instructions in the user manual which imo just increases the chance that I ended up doing some dumb shyt
- On a related note, my one bonehead moment was when I couldn't fit my wheel onto the bike fork. I had trouble loosening the nuts on the wheel like they did in the YT tutorial video I was following. Went to the store and bought a random wrench and couldn't get it to work. Turns out the tutorial I watched was based on a Fixie that didn't have quick release and so I was trying (and luckily failing) to loosen something
- Don't recall any 'Newtown meter' talk for my BikesDirect assembly, but all the user-generated 4130 resources referenced it. I just have the bolts finger-tight/allan-key tight for now but I bought the cheapest torque wrench I could find online and will properly tighten the bolts when it arrives in 1-2 weeks.
- Speaking of making do for now, I didn't have any bike grease for the seat post/pedals. After reading some online tricks, I decided to go old school and MacGyver that shyt with some Vaseline I had laying around the house. I might pay for the real thing in the summer or just ask them to grease things up whenever I get my first tune-up.
- I was today year's old when I inflated my tires to proper PSI. I got some 28" wheels and the max is 120. Did some googles and based on my weight, I inflated the front wheel to ~80 and the back wheel to 90. Legit felt like the wheel was going to burst when I past 50 PSI and I'm throwing 165 lbs behind every pump (pause)
- Might as well upgrade my accessories for the new frame. Going to likely use the bike bag and helmets that were reposted from the old thread.
A torque wrench isn't necessary. Get the screw snug, and give it one more quarter turn afterwards. Screws are engineered to hold, so hamfisting them serves no reason other than to potentially strip them, especially with bikes since lots of the threads are made of soft aluminum. As far as tire pressure goes, lower pressures are actually better than high, Google rolling resistance. Higher psi's actually cause more friction than lower ones, and the difference is night and day. Not only is it more comfortable, they will also roll noticeably faster. 80psi is good for 28c's. It's what I run on mine.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/...rease/73-2f06b7a1-abbf-4acd-9f83-c5bcc7113f07
Blocking bike lanes in Denver will cost you double in parking violation fees
The city said it ties into their goal to support safety and mobility for all.
Author: Jaleesa Irizarry
Published: 5:10 PM MST February 6, 2022
Updated: 5:27 PM MST February 6, 2022
DENVER — The city of Denver has increased certain parking violations in order to encourage good driving behavior as well as safety for walked and bike riders. The new fines went into effect on Feb. 1.
Drivers that now park or block a bike lane, sidewalk or crosswalk could now face a $65 fine, that's up from the $25 drivers had to pay in years past.
The city said it ties into their goal to support safety and mobility for all.
"If public safety isn't enough hopefully this is enough to motivate people to not do that and also share the space that we have to share," Harmony Batton said. "It can be dangerous. I definitely like almost gotten clipped a couple of times."
Batton, who works at Z Cycle shop in Denver, hopes now that the fines are in effect, that they are enforced. The horror stories they often hear of bicycle versus cars on Denver streets are troubling.
"For a period of time we had someone working here who worked in a bike law office so we had a lot of people who came in and they'd be like I get hit by this car, this is how it happened and we'd hear a bunch of stories," she explained. "That’s why the bike lanes are there so we can have that space available for everybody."
Denver expects to collect an additional $6.4 million with the new fines. The city said the money will be placed into a special revenue fund for mobility and safety improvements.
Blocking bike lanes in Denver will cost you double in parking violation fees
The city said it ties into their goal to support safety and mobility for all.
Author: Jaleesa Irizarry
Published: 5:10 PM MST February 6, 2022
Updated: 5:27 PM MST February 6, 2022
DENVER — The city of Denver has increased certain parking violations in order to encourage good driving behavior as well as safety for walked and bike riders. The new fines went into effect on Feb. 1.
Drivers that now park or block a bike lane, sidewalk or crosswalk could now face a $65 fine, that's up from the $25 drivers had to pay in years past.
The city said it ties into their goal to support safety and mobility for all.
"If public safety isn't enough hopefully this is enough to motivate people to not do that and also share the space that we have to share," Harmony Batton said. "It can be dangerous. I definitely like almost gotten clipped a couple of times."
Batton, who works at Z Cycle shop in Denver, hopes now that the fines are in effect, that they are enforced. The horror stories they often hear of bicycle versus cars on Denver streets are troubling.
"For a period of time we had someone working here who worked in a bike law office so we had a lot of people who came in and they'd be like I get hit by this car, this is how it happened and we'd hear a bunch of stories," she explained. "That’s why the bike lanes are there so we can have that space available for everybody."
Denver expects to collect an additional $6.4 million with the new fines. The city said the money will be placed into a special revenue fund for mobility and safety improvements.
Alright bet. I do think I overtightened my seatpost (when I adjusted my saddle height, I saw permanent cuts into the metal) but I was more cautious with everything else as a result. I hear you on the PSI, I don't think I'll ever go beyond 90 PSI at this point.
Use a fine tip sharpie to mark your seatpost height once you get it dialed in. Even 90 is high, I'm 10lbs lighter than you and run 80 and feel like I still got room to go lower. Try 90 and then 80, and I bet you'd notice a large difference in not just comfort, but how much faster the wheel rolls at the lower pressure. I ran 25's at 90 for a long time and switched to 28 because everyone was extolling the virtues of wider tires. For a long time I ran the new ones at 90 and really did not like them at all. One day I said screw it and put them at 80 and have been a believer ever since. Pedal feel is greatly enhanced too, it just feels like they keep wanting to go forever now.
