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David9694 wrote:
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.”
According to federal data, the average American now weighs around 30 percent more than they did 40 years ago.I know that I’m not American but I think that I’m a lot more than 30% heavier than I was 40 years ago, probably more than 300% heavier
My weight is up at least 400% since I moved from the UK to the US at age 8. Must be from eating. Well, and breathing and drinking.
mark1a wrote:
As a MINI enthusiast, thanks, I hate it.If you are a proper Mini enthusiast, you’d hate it even if it had normal wheels.
To be fair, he did say “MINI” and not “Mini”…
I like both, but the very new ones have got big and ugly.Here’s mine with my brother’s.
Please tell me this is digitally alteredAs a MINI enthusiast, thanks, I hate it.
David9694 wrote:
If you pluck an uncracked DS spoke, what’s it feel like?
Looking carefully now, there is maybe one uncracked drive side one. It sounds and feels about the same as the others. I just measured them all with my Unior tensiometer. The spokes are 2.0-1.6-2.0. Using the closest values on the table (1.65), the drive side all measure 80-120 kgf. The non drive side measure 55-75 kgf.Checking a few random ones on the front, they’re pretty close to the rear drive side tensions.
I see no non drive side cracks on the rear. What I do see now is seven cracks on the front, all but one on left side nipples. So I guess I’m rebuilding that front for sure.
I’ve placed an order with
I’ve placed an order with Wheelbuilder. I took their recommendation, and also splurged a little but no big deal. The total was about $625 (£465) including shipping for a handbuilt in California rear wheel.
Wheel Size: 27.5″ / 650B
Rear Rim Model: DT GR 531 Disc
Rear Spoke Count: 32H
Rear Axle Type: 142 x 12mm TA
Rear Disc Type: Centerlock Disc
Rear Hub: DT Swiss 350 Classic Center Lock Disc Brake Rear Hub
Rear Hub Color: Black
Drivetrain Type: Shimano/SRAM 11 Road
Points of Engagement: 36T Ratchet
Rear Hub Bearings: Steel
Spoke Type: Double Butted
Spoke Color: Black
Nipple Type: Black Brass
I can buy the same rim in 28 hole for under $100 (£75) if I decide I want to lace one to my front SON hub and have the wheels match.
