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Some kind of ratchet in that hub? It doesn’t look like he can even push the pedal all the way to horizontal.
Winifred’s Lane bollardshttps://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-24-hours-chaos-after-9700693
They really should put up a sign like the sign that they put up.
Not leaves on the line but on the road.How To Make A Junction Safer – California Crossroads – Finchampstead Wokingham
“bikists”?
Have addicts been reduced to baartering for drugs?they got fleeced ?
Very baaaad driving.
A “normal” 10-15 drive is an admission of the short distances so many cars are used for.Depends where. My driving commute to work is 15 minutes, but not many others would consider cycling the nine miles each way even if there were a nice safe, flat route. There’s no traffic where I live, though.
A 15 minute driving commute in Chicago or London rush hour is probably under four miles, which a lot more people might consider cycling.
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Its closure has been leading to major detours, causing one mother to spend up to two hours on the school run – a journey that should take more than 10 or 15 minutes.It sounds like it still does.
I definitely walked bits of
I definitely walked bits of this on my LEJoG.
https://bikeclimbs.com/climb/united-kingdom/scotland/aberdeenshire/cock-bridge/lecht-rd-climb
Before my trip I trued the
Before my trip I trued the wheel with the zip tie trick. A truing stand makes it a little easier.
Nice.I think you should give tensioning and trueing a go. Just take it relatively slow and try to tension each spoke roughly the same. It’s quite possible to true up a wheel by putting it onto the bike and eyeballing it so that the rim is halfway between the forks. It’ll be a learning exercise, prepare you for if you ever need to replace a spoke and then you can take it to the bike co-op to check how well you’ve done. As long as you don’t go too tight, it should save them some time.
Oh, doing it myself is the plan. I’ve replaced spokes and trued wheels before. The co-op is a volunteer workspace (that I sometimes volunteer at) where you’re supposed to do your own wrenching, with the volunteers just being advisors.
They/we have a couple of good quality truing stands, as well as some other tools I’ll need like a headset bearing press, and bottom bracket facing tool.
I laced up my first wheel
I laced up my first wheel ever, new rim, spokes, and nipples onto my old SON dynamo hub. I still need to take it to the bike co-op to tension and true it. The rim matches the new hand built rear wheel, which is ready to go. The frame I used for LEJoG is out getting stripped and powder coated.
Hopefully posting the results in the next couple of weeks on Pictures of your Bike.
Here’s my own “trapped in my
Here’s my own “trapped in my house” story. Saturday morning while I was out for a coffee ride, our garage door torsion spring broke. It was apparently very loud and scary. There is really no opening the garage door until I install a new spring, which should arrive by Tuesday. The door weighs at least 300 lb.Both of our cars are trapped in the garage, because we’re weirdos who keep them in there instead of in the driveway.
So far my wife has cycled with me on her class 1 ebike to two places she hasn’t cycled to before, both within five miles of our house. It’s actually been a pretty nice weekend.
Wow! This is a place I go to
Wow! This is a place I go to a few times a year, but it’s right across the parking lot from the pub I go to weekly.
Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.Not in the sense used here they are not*, or at least not in either edition I own of the Oxford English Dictionary. Be interested to hear which dictionaries they are in.
*There is a sense “like a disc” as in “the tree’s disced canopy”
Around here farmers disk their fields. They can then say that they disked their field yesterday. But yes, completely different sense of the word, and a verb, not an adjective.
We need to stop listening to whingeing drivers.Anger as four Dover town centre streets to shut for Fastrack bus contraflow works
Doesn’t that red circle sign mean no buses and bicycles in both directions?
However, some pointed out that disposing of large waste legally and responsibly was “not always possible”.I’m assuming they meant “not always free.”