I know it's wrong, but I like my bike to look asthetically pleasing.
This is why it's a hardtail - i.e. doesn't look like a digger. Why it's a got a Speedhub - i.e. no dangly cogs hanging off it. If I could bear rigid forks it would have them. The bottle cage upsets me.
Problem is where to put pump and spare tube.
I don't want to wear a rucksack, I ain't going on a camping trip.
All the little under seat tool bags are a bit gay aren't they. So does anyone have a nice looking pump and tube carrying solution?
Obviously if you ride FS asthetics are a distant memory...
Back pocket on your cycling top??
Tubeless.
I still carry a tube and a pump when tubless!
Stick the pump up yer bum? Or train to be a sword swallower.
you seem a little insecure, no?
In the pocket of your £80 replica knitted obscure European road team from the 70's jersey, of course.
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crank bros mini pump, tube and a small multi tool fit fine in a back pocket
Get one of those tiny lezyne pumps and carry it, along with a compact puncture repair kit, in your pocket.
I like my bike to look asthetically pleasing
Why it's a got a Speedhub
FAIL.
Speedhubs are fugly.
I don't want to wear a rucksack, I ain't going on a camping trip.
I wear a rucksack and I suffer from this misconception all the time. People have even been known to run after me carrying airbeds and tents, shouting "please can we come with you?".
Although what do you carry your hydration in? If you don't have a camelbak then surely you're using bottles, in which case you could have a bottle boss mounted pump without too much fuss as bottles in the frame look abhorrent anyway.
crank bros mini pump, tube and a small multi tool fit fine in a back pocket
Exactly what i've got, plus a few extra links of sram pc7x chain just incase!
"supercute" and "bags are gay"?
go tubeless, pumpless AND commando.
Get one of these!!!
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bike to look asthetically pleasing
And yet your concerned about looking gay?
FFS - pump on a frame clip - mulitool and tube in a tiny seat pouch.
its what works that counts
Strap it to your seatpost if youre tall enough. Can put the pump against it, then wrap the tube around it. Then when you change inner tube, just wrap the pump and seatpost in the old one.
[i]I don't want to wear a rucksack, I ain't going on a camping trip[/i]
Me neither. I'm wearing a Camelbak to go mountain biking. (well not at this very moment..)
RudeBoy?
Camelbak. It's not a rucksack, they come in v small svelte versions.
Let us see your bike and we'll be the judge of all this...
So you are more concerned with how you look to others, rather than your performance?
Nothing is right or wrong, its up to you... But as said above, what do you do for hydration on a long ride?
FAIL.Speedhubs are fugly.
I agree they are butt ugly, although I want one.
Oh and... This thread is worthless without a pic!
zip-tie the pump to your shin and use the tube as a belt you wally.
I think you'd look great with a bum bag
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Why call it gay? I dont see that [b]blatant homophobia[/b] has any place on the internet, especially when concerned about bicycles.
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I think you're right LB
I was riding my full susser the other day and someone came running up to me waving some money, saying that they needed a pond digging in their back garden. How embarassing when I had to explain that it was one of those new-fangled suspension bicycles.
Everyone knows leather effect bum bags are very macho and not gay, at all, ever.
I was riding my full susser the other day and someone came running up to me waving some money, saying that they needed a pond digging in their back garden. How embarassing when I had to explain that it was one of those new-fangled suspension bicycles.
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troll?
Supercute - are comming out? Brave attempt with this post.
troll?
Reckon so! No replies yet!
All we need now is for someone to post a pic of the village people, not to stereo type homosexuality or anything.
The fact that somebody with a speedhub is talking about aesthetics is possibly the most entertaining thing I've read in days...
CO2 cartridge and tube in jersey pocket, would be teh easiest thing...
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The temptation was too much
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Speedhub, aesthetics - same sentence, hmmmmmmm. Troll? Nevertheless I stick tube/CO2/wee pump and tools in my jersey pockets.
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Looks like a fairly tall chap from the pic. I can see why he wants a fix for his pump/tube problem. I'm a big fan of gaffa tape, but this application is not terribly practical.
Stick pump, tube and multitool in jersey pockets, Supercute. Go ride. Try not to be too homophobic while you do it, too.
[i]Oh, and if you're concerned about aesthetics, I'd get a slightly less fugly lid, too.[/i]
I quite liked your gaffa tape solution, suitably utilitarian....just need white gaffa tape to match the frame..
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Here is my Sanderson Soloist with Speedhub (36-16) It gets sweeter with every mile.
Yes, like what youre already doing now, but without the duck tape.
Wombat: with those carpet tiles? I don't think so, girlfriend. :hand:
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