We’ll still need the roads & streets, repairs/repaves, traffic lights, and snow plows even if 95% of us switch to bikes, e-mopeds, and trains…

In a hypothetical 2050 America that has embraced walkable neighborhoods and biking M-F and only using cars to visit friends in a different city, the roads & streets will still be being worn out at nearly the same rate by the elements and heavy delivery, construction, and emergency vehicles.

Because the road-quality bar for driveability is a often noticeably lower than the bar for bikeability, many/most municipalities with actual bike users on the board may vote for higher quality road construction, which likely would raise labor and/or material costs and likely balancing out to the same 20 year costs despite maybe going an extra year or two between repaves due to significantly less civilian 3,000-8,000lbs commuter vehicle use.

I hope that picture wasn’t from right before the game.

They don’t look fierce. The only unity there looks like they’re all varying degrees of miserable.

OMG, gumwalls on the trailer look awesome.

You can get “nutted” versions of many dual-pivot center-mount calipers for pre-recessed-nut framesets.

If you’re good with tools, drilling the back half of the fork crown to clear the shank of a recessed nut is an easy and worthwhile task if you’re wanting to open up your options for the more important of the two calipers and/or use a Sheldon Nut for fenders.

Lol. Done it as a $100-total-procurement two weeks before boarding the train to the ride.

BB creaked from 6k’ to 10k’ and back down and [the only 26” tires in town in 2017] served to make the descent down 119 into Boulder a brake-free piece of cake.

I still have it and it still doesn’t look as good as yours.