Readers’ Rides: TJ’s Shand Bahookie

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Some of you will have previously spotted this bike on the Forum, or possibly on Shand’s Instagram. But it’s such a beautiful bike with such a bittersweet tale behind it that we thought we’d give it the full Readers’ Rides treatment here. Over to TJ… The circumstances surrounding this bike purchase are shall we say – difficult. My partner of 42 years died in June 2021. We had just retired and amongst our plans for…

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Hannah Dobson

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I came to Singletrack having decided there must be more to life than meetings. I like all bikes, but especially unusual ones. More than bikes, I like what bikes do. I think that they link people and places; that cycling creates a connection between us and our environment; bikes create communities; deliver freedom; bring joy; and improve fitness. They're environmentally friendly and create friendly environments. I try to write about all these things in the hope that others might discover the joy of bikes too.

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  • tjagain
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    Thats polite for you 🙂

    Posted 2 years ago
    b33k34
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    Lovely bike and story. As someone’s already said, silver components can look great with the right colour (and wear better too)

    One obscure q – what’s the black ring that Rohloff now put round the edge of the hub flange? They didn’t have that originally

    Posted 2 years ago
    tjagain
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    Its a strengthening ring.  some folk managed to break the spoke flanges – dunno how as on the tandem we didn’t despite hammering it so this is to support the spoke flange.  should have been silver as well really

    Posted 2 years ago
    tjagain
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    I thought I would do an update seeing as I have now done the first real ride on the bike as intended. 300 miles round the highlands with over 25 000 ft of climbing on the whole range of trails from ” drag the bike thru a swamp” to A roads. mainly “gravel” riding tho and dragging trailer behind me with all my kit ( bob yak)

    What can I say? i am delighted with it still. Its now running a 70mm stem ( much better) and 20 mm of headset spacers ( still not decided on the exact amount so still uncut steerer) and I have sorted the cabling so its much neater. I also took 40mm off each side off the bars bring them to 720mm

    So in that ride not a single issue with the bike ( not caused by me – oops) Bontrager SSR saddle meant a comfy botty the whole time. No arm pain, no back pain, no arse pain. Its the comfiest bike I have ever had for long distances.

    Edit – and loads of folk complementing me on the bikes looks including some french folk who have more style in one finger than the whole of STW so ppffptpt to those who don’t like it 🙂

    Posted 2 years ago
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