A little commuting folding singlespeed bike project with a frameset that was sitting for about 10 years waiting for its death. Swapped front wheel with aluminum (and with tubeless tape, lol), noname tires with 2.125 20’’ kenda k-rads (and new tubes ofc), grips with lock-ons, handlebar and seatpost with aluminum, cone BB with closed bearings BB, added longer stem (35 vs 80 mm), swapped wide big springy saddle with my 2019 GT avalanche’s old saddle (I find it more comfortable), put a new seatpost clamp and added a front brake as a double for foot brake.
Total weight – 13,6 kilos, not bad for a steel frame and fork with steel mudguards. Rides like a dream, but kinda capped at 20-25 km/h (40t on front and 18t back cogs). But do you really need more speed on a commuter bike?
My only place of concern is the seatpost socket on the frame. Kinda praying that it holds for a long time and not just breaks/folds on itself under my 70 kilos body weight)
by Melodic_coala101
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No rack. Do you even ~~lift~~ commute, bro?
Dope! This is fun. How’s it ride?
The good:
* Folding bikes are very practical
* Looks cool
* Has mudguards
The bad:
* Doesn’t has a rack
I really like folding bikes, I have one and I may like it more than my regular bike, it’s so damn practical and it feels so nimble. Probably what I’m liking the most about it is that it fits on practically any car’s trunk, and although I don’t have a car, when I’m meeting with a friend and he’s arriving by car, it’s so useful to be able to fit the bike into the car.
Another thing I like is that it kinda is like a cargo bike in an unexpected way because I can fit so much stuff on its rack it’s crazy. On my normal bike the big wheels means the rack is pretty high up, so there is only a small gap between the rack and the seat, and sure I can put taller stuff further back where the seat ends but it still eats a lot of potential carrying capacity and there is very little rack left at that point, at least on my particular bike. In the folding bike, however, there is a huge gap between the rack and the seat, so I can stack a lot more stuff there or much taller stuff that in the other bike wouldn’t fit unless I build a custom rack for it that goes much further back.
Probably the only thing I don’t fully like about it is that it handles weird, the small wheels and how all the weight is so further down in relation to where you’re sitting means that it almost feels more like riding a scooter than riding a bike. I don’t hate this either, and it’s not something I struggled to get used to, but it really feels a little weird and unstable the first time you get on one.
No thanks, I ain’t one to kick a man while he’s down.
That seatpost already looks slightly bent. I’d be very careful riding that.
That seatpost doesn’t inspire much health
It doesn’t look like the handlebar folds, do you remove the front wheel when you need it to be compact?
Need a bottle cage
Looks sick to me!
Looks rad af, I’d ride the shit out of that!
I mean that seat post though but looks good to me and whatever makes you happy.
Riding a child’s bike to work be like