Toggling Modes
Apr 09, 2008 · 09:14 AM · permalink
Back from Shanghai and finally, mostly over the massive jet lag, I toggled the Modal from single to geared. Despite the f’ing rain, I found that most enjoyable because there’s zen in working quietly on a bike and going out for a ride. It took me about an hour to switch and Mark does it in about 15 minutes.
A few updates:
- Refined the process to just swapping bars; original thinking was a bar/stem combo so I could use a different stem for an urban setup. Now I just pull the faceplate and switch between single-speed bars and geared-bars using one stem.
- With another set of DA cranks, it’s much faster to pull the crank than change out the big chainring for the chainring protector and vice-versa.
- Getting over scratches, dings, and tweaks by rationalizing them as a “travel patina” was a good idea!
Note: The Modal is a travel bike concept that folds and toggles between single, fixed, and geared modes.
I have never seen a cassette so clean! How did you get all the crap out of the holes even!?
de-stress man! I clean cassettes to mellow out …
Can you post some pics(or are there some somewhere?) of all the various components for your Modal?
Yes, much more detail is available in our previous posts and the Flickr gallery.
“travel patina”
I just ran into the perfect term for this, by way of a Clever Cycles blog post.
“Beausage”. And a beautiful, useful word it is.
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