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[Closed] This is what happens when you use the wrong tool for the job - circus bike

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Went on a trip for a few days riding about 120 mile with the bike on the Trans Pennine Trail. I kept telling my mate a Cove Stiffee is not a touring bike when he bought it. I don't suppose the USE SX seatpost helped with the rack! Max weight 10kg. To be fair he's done a few hundred mile before with it! Lucky we were about 8 mile back to the train station on a flat trail when this happened. Bit of a bodge and my 16 1/2 stone on the post to knock it down and we managed to get back ok with a lower saddle height at least! and an inch of post in the frame! just to make it look even more like a frankenbike Still had a great time though!
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Posted : 13/07/2011 12:57 am
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Doh!

Not so much an issue with the bike - I'm sure you could fit a proper rack on there if you tried - or even with the seatpost rack, but with using a seatpost rack on something really not designed for it.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:30 am
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Is that a bloody mary in the bidon?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:48 am
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Saw a Sanderson Life done up like this the other day - racks on the back though but also one of those adjustable stems at max height ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:05 am
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Is that a bloody mary in the bidon?

Weak tea by the looks of it ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:07 am
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Weird..

#Double post. ๐Ÿ˜


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:07 am
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
Is that a bloody mary in the bidon?

Weak tea by the looks of it

weird, looked red on my phone, but on a PC you're right, tea


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:20 am
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what's his other bike?... roadbike with monster t's?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:36 pm
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Amazing it lasted as long as it did. ๐Ÿ™‚

And is that an Avent "boob-shaped" bottle in the other cage...?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:53 pm
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Turnerguy I have Sanderson Breath which is a great frame. I have decided to sell that though as for the reason it has no rack mount holes. You can't beat a proper rack. Yeah I suppose a road bike with Monster T fork is of a similar vain! I have told him to use a Thompson post if he fits the rack again, as his spare post is a carbon one. I doubt like you said it would be such and issue with a 30mm thompson post. He likes a comfy ride though, hence the sofa saddle as he likes to call it. A stiffee with a thompson post on some light bumpy trails for 120 mile could be a bit sore on the old bottom!


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:57 pm