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The Arby’s hit by the school
The Arby’s hit by the school bus has been hit again on the other side.
A vehicle crashed into Arby’s in North Peoria for the second time in just two weeks.
Peoria Police said an elderly woman behind the wheel accidentally hit the gas when she should have hit the brakes. The car backed into the front door of Arby’s on Allen Road on Sunday afternoon, which has now been boarded up. No one was injured.
An Arby’s employee said the fast food restaurant now has just one working door.
This incident comes just 13 days after a Dunlap Middle School bus crashed into the back of the same restaurant by the the drive-thru, which has since been shut down.
I got it back a few days ago.
I got it back a few days ago. The new and old spokes measure right at 2 mm, so 14 gauge. They’re built three cross, but the third cross is basically behind the flange.I still haven’t had a chance to check the tension.
From 1 July, HRMC will abandon the payload-based definition and deem any pick-up with a second row of seats as suitable for private use and therefore a car.That reminds me of the US loophole, where Ford used to import (to the US) Transit vans built in Turkey with rear seats installed, then strip them before selling them as work vans. That’s because there is a 25% tariff on cargo vans, but only 2.5% on passenger vans.
I stopped by today to buy a
I stopped by today to buy a couple of things, and this is the state of my wheel. He’s rebuilding it three cross with all new spokes.
David9694 wrote:
I assume the breaks are happening at the J?Nope, just inside the nipple.
ive never got to the bottom of spoke tension on rear wheels. Even on each side, ping on the NDS and pong on the DS.I know you said “don’t tell me the spokes aren’t strong enough”, but for whatever reason(s) you’ve got too much flex (e.g. weight, riding surface, less likely – riding style) and the spoking you’ve got cannae take it, Captain.
75 kg, maybe 200 W on a good day, and this bike gets used almost entirely on smooth surfaces except for the occasional kerb hop at low speed.
I measured on Google maps, 45 spots = 354 ft = 108 m, so 7′-10.4″ or 2.4 m per spot, which is exactly the number given by British Parking as the normal dimensions.
don simon fbpe wrote:
They’re unlikely to be extra tight, you’d have a particularly hard ride and potentially many punctures, unless short spokes have been used and we go back to their QC dept.It did have the harshest ride of any of my bikes, but I attributed it to the aluminium frame (the rest are steel.) I actually put a ShockStop stem on it to stop the harshness at the bars.
Here’s a recent photo of my
Here’s a recent photo of my actual rear wheel. I haven’t kept track of which spokes broke, but the first time it was definitely one of the two adjacent to the valve.
Looking at the photos on the Trek website, the angle that some of the spokes are leaving the nipple is quite extreme. I think Trek have made a mistake using a 2-cross pattern on a 32-hole hub – especially an internal geared hub that has wide flanges. (edit: if it is a 2-cross pattern, in some photos it looks like it might be 3-cross!).On lower spoke count wheels with a smaller flange hub, the spoke angle is less. See below a rough example, the green triangle is the same size, you can see how much greater the spoke angle is on the 32 spoke wheel of the District 4 compared to a 24 spoke Domane.
I’d ask them to rebuild the wheels (or at least the rear) in a 3-cross pattern.
Thanks, good point. I see what you mean about the angles. The only other bike I’ve broken spokes on was my cheap Chinese Bickerton folder, and due to the short spoke length it had some very extreme angles. They also always broke at the nipple.
Given you have the ability to build a wheel, have you (or even the shop) put it in a stand to check out the build quality/spoke tension? Even if just to eliminate that.I’ve never built one from scratch, but I’ve replaced spokes before and have access to a truing stand (I sometimes volunteer at the local bike Co-Op.) The spokes on this wheel have always seemed extra tight to me by feel, and they are really thin (I’ll measure them when I get it back this time.) At some point the tensiometer at the Co-Op walked off, unfortunately, but the mechanics at the Trek store are the most competent in town, so I imagine they’ve checked the obvious.
The wheel is very true both radially and axially when all the spokes are there.
I will add that I’ve never
I will add that I’ve never had a broken spoke, or even had to true, my Mason X Hunt 650B Adventure Dynamo Disc Wheelset. I ride it much harder and over chonky gravel, and have nearly 15,000 miles (24,000 km) on them. They do have a slight advantage with supple 48 mm tyres vs. fairly harsh Bontrager 40 mm, but they also only have 28 spokes per wheel, and since they use a cassette I’d imagine they have a steeper driveside angle than those on the Alfine 8.
Per Hunt:
- J-bend cold drawn.
- Made from high grade T302 (18/10) stainless steel wire by Sapim.
- Triple butted 2.0-1.6-2.0 (then 2.2 at the head for the patented Pillar Spoke Re-enforcement).
- 28 spokes laced 2-cross front and rear.
- Black stainless treatment.
ktache wrote:
Can’t view in the UK, I cannot see a pick-up in the picture?Its remains are barely in frame on the far right side of the previous photo. Here’s a better one.
This is very much my local
This is very much my local area. I’ve ridden through this intersection a lot of times… it’s not the nicest area to ride, but there is a nice multi-use path that leads north out of town to the grid of quiet gravel and asphalt roads. I’ve chosen a photo that is American in every way. There are more photos in the article. The bed got ripped clean off the pickup truck.
Dunlap school bus crashes on Allen Road in Peoria
anyone one know anything about this utopian image? New York, maybe Heath Robinson?
Here. The Urban Anthro-Scape Above by Alexander Jeong.
stonojnr wrote:
What ever happened to those front windscreens with heating elements, Ford patented it iirc which is why it never went mass market.
People in the US didn’t like them because they blocked their radar detectors.