Toilet paper on my ebikes
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fooferdoggie
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keep on rolling.
Deacon Blues
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Your setup is like flashing a wad of cash in the bad part of town. In your case the bad part of town would be your local Costco, Walmart, etc., Those housewives on the prowl for bum wipe can be vicious! 
fooferdoggie
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thats as obscene as the rappers that wave money around.
Stefan Mikes
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I have got only two spare rolls of TP left, @Marci jo! Care to share?
Besides, what a beautiful Vado in the background! What is the colour, exactly?
Thanks Stefan,
Of course you would spot a Specialized Vado!!
It matt grey, 2018 6.0. Wish I would have held out a few months before purchase. Shortly thereafter Specialized came out with a bright red but too late for me. Oh well, next time.
Stefan Mikes
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Exactly the same as my 2017 5.0
Yours must have a suspension fork, mine is rigid and that's the only difference Thanks Timpo,
It's a Satori Turn-up.
If you look closely it has two adjustments. I have a slightly disabled left wrist and can't have hardly any weight on my hands. So my days of drop handlebars, and some aggressive ones, are behind me.
This stem allows the handlebars to be moved upward and backward a considerable distance. The trick is to have long enough cables. Note: when I switched the stem on my Vado, the front (left) brake cable was too short. The great staff at my lbs switched the brake cable to a longer one.
Been using these bike stems on all my bikes for a number of years. Bike shops usually don't carry them but I have had success on Amazon and good old Ebay.
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Exactly the same as my 2017 5.0
Yes, it has suspension fork but I have mixed feeling on it. I'm around 135 lbs and percentage-wise have little weight on the handle bars, so it's difficult to tell if it's helping. Not sure I would get another suspension fork, unless it's a full suspension emtb. Who know??!!
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Stefan Mikes
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Ravi Kempaiah
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6zfshdb
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My new job. Selling toilet paper while cycling.
Not sure what to charge.
This is all in fun, so let the jokes begin!
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You can always go the other way with these:
steve marino
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Be careful on that seat post. I turned mine around backwards to get a better angle for my rear end, and whilst crossing a street the part that attaches to the seat broke in half! I was lucky to not drop the bike. Thank goodness this happened at low speed when coming from a dead stop. On my bike, that part was aluminum, and the stress from the reverse position finally snapped it in half at the weakest point where the bolt went through the hole. If this had happened at 20 MPH, or in a curve, I shudder to think what probably would have happened. After this experience, I went to a steel seat post w/ the old style steel attachment that has a bolt and nut cinching it to the seat post. And I didn't turn it around backwards either
The seat post on your bike appears to be designed to be mounted like that, but I don't like the look of it. The physics on it are all wrong, too much weight is being placed at a critical point w/o that weight being spread around properly. The leverage angle of a 150-200 lb person bouncing around on it is way out of whack. Look carefully at where all of your weight is being placed on the single mounting point. The bottom of your seat is probably plastic too, with only those two light duty pieces of tubular steel attaching it to the front? Whoa, I wouldn't do it, but it's your bike.
The seat post on your bike appears to be designed to be mounted like that, but I don't like the look of it. The physics on it are all wrong, too much weight is being placed at a critical point w/o that weight being spread around properly. The leverage angle of a 150-200 lb person bouncing around on it is way out of whack. Look carefully at where all of your weight is being placed on the single mounting point. The bottom of your seat is probably plastic too, with only those two light duty pieces of tubular steel attaching it to the front? Whoa, I wouldn't do it, but it's your bike.
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Readytoride
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Thanks Readytoride,
Those grips are made by Body Geometry, which is Specialized line of accessories. It’s hard to tell in the photo but they are bright pink. Not sure but I believe they were purchased at my local bike shop. I’m a little embarrassed cuz they’re pretty dirty now but a little spray cleaner takes care of it.
I’m thinking of putting bright neon mtb pedals on the bike. But those would really show dirt fast and I have better things to do than clean up pedals.
Those grips are made by Body Geometry, which is Specialized line of accessories. It’s hard to tell in the photo but they are bright pink. Not sure but I believe they were purchased at my local bike shop. I’m a little embarrassed cuz they’re pretty dirty now but a little spray cleaner takes care of it.
I’m thinking of putting bright neon mtb pedals on the bike. But those would really show dirt fast and I have better things to do than clean up pedals.
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