one of the things about being a Known Bike Person is that every now and again someone will show you their bike and you get to say if it's a bitch house or not
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one of the things about being a Known Bike Person is that every now and again someone will show you their bike and you get to say if it's a bitch house or not

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| my dad bought this one new in 2004 from his local bike shop of choice, set up in a quonset hut type building, and for a time he rode it clear across town to work. I don't know how he did it, knowing the route he had to take. it's somehow put on even more miles since he passed it on to me in 2020, first as a spare and now as my primary. | I bought this one in 2015 or 2016 from a different local bike shop secondhand, after my Schwinn department store bike was permanently and irreparably injured by a collision with a rental bike in Hilton Head. she was my primary until she got run over by the fuel truck at work in 2022, and though that only damaged the rear wheel (which I have since replaced at my own cost because work never reimbursed me for a work vehicle damaging it), she needs a bunch of accumulated TLC to get her back to being my main ride. I put the coroplast on so my panniers didn't catch on the spokes and wreck me which kept almost happening. |
these are both roughly of the same vintage, early-mid 2000s hardtail mtbs, bought from bike shops so they're not department store cruft.
I want to get Swytch kits for them both, or other such front wheel kits. blue could do with a move to discs, but I'd have to replace both wheels for that, the frame is disc compatible but the wheels aren't.
if I had to guess, silver is more bitch house than blue
i see the telltale for "bitch house"-itude is zipties based on those crops. and yeah that kickstand's seen better days lmao
ah so it's more the "cheap/crappy bolt on parts" not the zip ties affixing them to things/things to them
yeah i wish silver's frame had eyelets for a proper rack, i'd almost try to find someone willing to weld nuts on so i could get a proper rack for it.
blue has a very similar kickstand, possibly the same model, i might have got them both from the local bike shop, which also had to get its top bit ziptied on.
hypothetical beat to shit Panasonic that's had a Tongsheng middrive kit frankensteined into it