"Bike Porn"-your rides and how/where you use them

[kave]

Without wishing to be confrontational, can anyone explain why roadies find it acceptable to just ditch their Co2 bottles in the road?

Same reason there are random plastic trash at any road.
Motorcylists use them as well. Never used one, I have a pump with me at all times.

 

[M88GAV]

CO2 bottles? you mean to inflate wheels after a puncture?

I don't know many that use them, but I've never seen one been thrown away after an emergency repair.

Personally I use tubeless, and you can't use CO2 to inflate tubeless wheels (it dries the sealant). Not that I've ever punctured since switching though.

Same for me on both, never seen anyone throwing a canister and switched to tubeless

 

[Peter84]

Without wishing to be confrontational, can anyone explain why roadies find it acceptable to just ditch their Co2 bottles in the road?

Probably not from cyclists but from kids who use it as a drug. Quite a huge problem in NL at least!

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Probably not from cyclists but from kids who use it as a drug. Quite a huge problem in NL at least!

Agree @Peter84
Quite often find a small pile of them at my allotment car park. It’s not a thoroughfare for cyclists so most probably youngsters getting high.

 

[westfalia]

Agree @Peter84
Quite often find a small pile of them at my allotment car park. It’s not a thoroughfare for cyclists so most probably youngsters getting high.

Evo stik used to do the trick, probably more environmentally friendly too.
Try some

 

[RickH]

Without wishing to be confrontational, can anyone explain why roadies find it acceptable to just ditch their Co2 bottles in the road?

It sounds like discarded nitrous oxide (laughing gas) containers from substance abuse, especially if there is more than one. They look the same shape and size.

 

[sapto]

Trailcenter Ftan near Scuol. Not crowded and brandnew, worth visiting area when travelling to/from Innsbruck, Ofenpass/St. Moritz.

 

[sapto]

Flumserberg Prodkamm - happy Sunday!

 

[GrannyJen]

Flumserberg Prodkamm - happy Sunday!

How lovely!

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Later that day ……

 

[Nand0]

Flumserberg Prodkamm - happy Sunday!

Looks great! added it to the list for a quick mtb day trip

Just hope the Zürich hordes don't descend en masse when I'm there

 

[Nand0]

Ignore... responded on wrong thread . Too many tabs on my browser

 

[sapto]

Looks great! added it to the list for a quick mtb day trip

Just hope the Zürich hordes don't descend en masse when I'm there

It was perfect, slept in Tannenheim and catched the first gondola

 

[sidepod]

Cheeky power hour last night

 

[jonr71]

Put my bike on the back of the van for the first time at the weekend. Headed off to a lovely woodland area. All the car parks had 1m83cm height restrictions... Apart from one which had a caravan crashed into it. So I drove almost all the way home again. Later I bumped into a friend of mine and told them the story, they said "oh we live 2 minutes from there, you should have just parked in our drive. Anyway, I still go out, tested the rack and rode a few miles.

 

[sidepod]

I just can't get my head around how VW managed to design the 5/6 racks so the bike sits so high.
I know it's all to do with regs and lights and number plate viz etc but really?

Must be a PITA on French Autoroutes at the toll gate not being able to use the fast lane? I've had a situation before like this when the machine thinks you're a truck and the ticket pops out of the high level slot so you can't reach it!

 

[dspuk]

My ride from Saturdays Castle Howard Triathlon. We didn't camp there - not quite ready to go off grid yet, but will next year.



Mafalda came though and we stayed in a tiny AirBNB - with our Cali coming in useful at the event and to cook tea in on the Friday night! I am still looking for a good bike storage solution. I don't want a tailgate rack, blocks the back, and it's a reasonably expensive carbon bike - don't want to tempt the thieving fraternity at rest stops or campsites. The bike went in the back with both wheels off and the seat moved forward a tad, which was fine, if not neat or ideal. ATM I'm looking at the following bag that looks like it JUST fits on the rear shelf but could also wedge between the passenger and drivers seats. The muse on solution continues.

 

[Ch1pbutty]

I just can't get my head around how VW managed to design the 5/6 racks so the bike sits so high.
I know it's all to do with regs and lights and number plate viz etc but really?

Must be a PITA on French Autoroutes at the toll gate not being able to use the fast lane? I've had a situation before like this when the machine thinks you're a truck and the ticket pops out of the high level slot so you can't reach it!

We use the fast lane with boards on the roof + bikes on the back. We have the tag on the windscreen so no need for ticket. Only some of the fast lanes have a height restriction.

 

[sidepod]

Only some of the fast lanes have a height restriction.

I'd never noticed that, I always just head for the height restricted lane and wait for the buzz.

 

[sapto]

For some with kids living in central Switzerland/Zug/Schwyz. Great place, tried it last week. Oberiberg.

 

[kp64zl]

My ride from Saturdays Castle Howard Triathlon. We didn't camp there - not quite ready to go off grid yet, but will next year.
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Mafalda came though and we stayed in a tiny AirBNB - with our Cali coming in useful at the event and to cook tea in on the Friday night! I am still looking for a good bike storage solution. I don't want a tailgate rack, blocks the back, and it's a reasonably expensive carbon bike - don't want to tempt the thieving fraternity at rest stops or campsites. The bike went in the back with both wheels off and the seat moved forward a tad, which was fine, if not neat or ideal. ATM I'm looking at the following bag that looks like it JUST fits on the rear shelf but could also wedge between the passenger and drivers seats. The muse on solution continues.

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Hi @dspuk
I’m looking for same storage solution as you. Interested to hear what you came up with and what you have found fits where etc

By the way, what vehicle do you have? I’ve a 2 seat beach so a variety of options although I think multiflex too low to store anything under it.

I suppose bike bag behind bench seat pushed forward a bit might work……

 

[kp64zl]

I just can't get my head around how VW managed to design the 5/6 racks so the bike sits so high.
I know it's all to do with regs and lights and number plate viz etc but really?

Must be a PITA on French Autoroutes at the toll gate not being able to use the fast lane? I've had a situation before like this when the machine thinks you're a truck and the ticket pops out of the high level slot so you can't reach it!

Yes it’s a right pain especially if you forget you have bikes on the back. Makes travelling around Paris a nightmare as I have not found a way to set google maps to avoid height restrictions. Got trapped in the peage by Nanterre tunnels. Slammed through, big crash as bike hit the barrier (but went through) then the next pay barrier wouldn’t open (too high) but couldn’t reverse out without taking the bikes off. All of them because the big bike was closest to the van. All at about midnight with children in the van and no other adults. Needed new forks, wheel buckled, handle bar bent etc etc. thankfully on an old shopping bike so repairs were only about £100 (more than the value of that bike).

 

[dspuk]

Hi @dspuk
I’m looking for same storage solution as you. Interested to hear what you came up with and what you have found fits where etc

By the way, what vehicle do you have? I’ve a 2 seat beach so a variety of options although I think multiflex too low to store anything under it.

I suppose bike bag behind bench seat pushed forward a bit might work……

Same, Ocean. For the tri I just had it sat “naked” on top of the rear bench. Fits, just, but a little messy with exposes chain and gears.

I looked at the Scicon solution above but the cost too much in the end - 550 new, 350 second hand.

In the end I have bought the cheaper SciCon bag. It can either sit on the top of the rear shelf, with seats forward a tad (only needs a few inches), or in the main area. Not an amazing solution, but clean and no more oil on the headrests! Fits as well and has the benefit of no need to remove the handlebars which most other solutions need and that is a faff I can do without. This will do until a better solution comes along.

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[jeff]

I just can't get my head around how VW managed to design the 5/6 racks so the bike sits so high.
I know it's all to do with regs and lights and number plate viz etc but really?

Must be a PITA on French Autoroutes at the toll gate not being able to use the fast lane? I've had a situation before like this when the machine thinks you're a truck and the ticket pops out of the high level slot so you can't reach it!

If you take the front wheel out make a bracket for rack with a quick release on it, then the bike will sit below van height .
some where on here there is a thread with a picture of it.

 

[kp64zl]

If you take the front wheel out make a bracket for rack with a quick release on it, then the bike will sit below van height .
some where on here there is a thread with a picture of it.

Has anyone found the thread/post about bracket rack? I can't!