The silent white

Today I’ve my new friend that will come with me in the new experience of the city cyclist. Today, the slim white of the family was born and gave her frist ride around Barcelona.

This project was in my mind for years but the lack of free time to do it plus the location of the bike before made me delay it until this year. The bike it self has my age or may be more more. Originally is a blue and yellow Peugeot that belonged to one of my cousins and he gave it to me as he had 2 similar bikes at home. With this bike I made my routes around my village but at some point the chainrings broke because of the wear out and the bike was not usable anymore as the chain was jumping all the time.

In a last chance of saving it as a roadbike I did manage to fix it and for that I made a make up of the bike by cleaning it and painting it in yellow but then I left it in my village w/out using it again and I should have done something else with it.

This year due to I’m back in Spain I normally go by bike to work, normally using the public bikes available in Barcelona, bicing. Which is a good service but sometimes is really difficult to find a bike in some parts of the city so you can spend about 30 min looking for a bike. Because of this I decided that it was time to catch up with my bike project. So in this holidays I took the old bike from where it was stored, I dismounted everything in the bike and repainted it in white, I never thought before about having a white bike but since I have mi BTT white I started to like this color in bikes, so I bought white paint in spray and started doing my job. The painting phase took about 2 days because you need to leave the paint dry for 24 hours in order to be perfectly dry and I wanted to put a second hand on it.

After the paint was dry it was time to change all the wires, this time it was only the breaks as I decided to have only a single speed in this bike because it makes the maintenance very simple. But with this decision you have to be very careful with the chainrings selected as you have to keep in mind that at some poing you’ll need to climb up a street so finally I chose a development of 44X18 which is an average one that lets you climb but also get some speed in flat.

Another change that I’ve done to the bike is change the position of the handle bar I put it upside down and cut it, like this you get little horns that you can use to make more effort when climbing or accelerate and also it is a good resting position for you too.

With this bike I still haven’t done much because I’m waiting to buy good locks but soon I’m planing to use it as my main main transport and also, if it is possible to play BikePolo, a sport that I didn’t know but that it looks very funny and promising. I’m getting in contact with people that plays BikePolo here, in Barcelona, and now I know where they play so someday soon I’ll go and give it a try because it looks quite funny. But about this I’ll write another post

Now I’ll leave you more photos of the white silent.