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The only downsides I’ve found
The only downsides I’ve found with tubeless are the faff of setting it up, which isn’t bad once you’ve done it a few times, and the occasional slow leak that makes me have to add air to a tyre before every ride. I had to do that almost every day last week before leaving work, a bit annoying, but it only takes a minute with a mini pump.
The flip side is that in 13,000 miles (20,000 km) on the one bike I run tubeless I’ve had to add plugs twice, and once just top up the air, mid-ride on the side of the road. This is an order of magnitude better than my experience with tubed tyres, but I’ve never run an expensive armoured tyre like a Marathon Plus.
I’m running very light 650B x 48 mm René Herse tyres.
Can
Can
Mostly cans.
Mostly cans.
Try one first. It can
Try one first. It can certainly help if one of you is a much stronger rider.
Just keep in mind the age-old wisdom about riding on a tandem: wherever your relationship with your boyfriend is going, the tandem will get it there faster.
ShutTheFrontDawes wrote:
When you slap hands with another person, do you call it a ‘high four’? Or do you call cut off gloves ‘fingerless and thumbless gloves’? When you were little and asked to ‘use your fingers’ to count, could you only get up to eight before you had to stop?DOOR MIRROR!
ChuckSneed wrote:
Sorry, I don’t like to post pictures of my bike because last time I did it ended up getting stolenGood thing you didn’t post a picture of your private parts!
It looks like the sue-happy
It looks like the sue-happy US legal system might make a lot more bollards show up in front of 7-11 convenience stores. The numbers are pretty wild, it averages out to about once per store over a 20 year period.
The case was the first in which attorneys had access to some 15 years of reports from 7- Eleven, which identified some 6,253 storefront crashes at 7-Eleven stores across the country, Power said. Data from a previous lawsuit against the company identified another 1,525 crashes between 1991 and 1996. The crashes could have been prevented if 7-Elevens had installed bollards — thick posts anchored in the ground — between storefronts and parking spaces, Power said.
No, I’ve never seen you ride your bike.
Four fingers and a thumb on
Four fingers and a thumb on each. Thanks for asking.
ChuckSneed wrote:
Not sure how allowing us to cycle through red lights makes it safer for us. That sounds like the exact opposite of safer.If you’re not sure, did you try searching for why it might make us safer?
You realise the light is red because other traffic is using the road?Not always. Sometimes there is no traffic for minutes at a time. The light is needed because at other times there’s enough traffic to require it. You may be amazed to learn that traffic is not spread out evenly throughout the day or week. When there are only cars every few minutes, one direction is red because the other choice would be to have the lights green for all directions, or turn them off and default to roundabout rules or something.
You know, traffic that if you go through a red light will either have to suddenly stop for you, or will just run you over. Is that a hill you want to die on?The “Idaho Stop” laws allow a cyclist to proceed through a red light when it is safe to do so. They don’t legalize what you think they do.
ChuckSneed wrote:
I won’t lie, you seem like you’re frothing at the mouth the way that you went out of your way to open loads of reviews. Relax, it’s just a helmet. It won’t hurt you. It will actually do the opposite.Got it. It seems the root cause of the problem is that you’re projecting.
I am literally wearing a helmet and smiling in my profile picture.
It’s most definitely not
It’s most definitely not “every time helmets are mentioned.” Here are some road.cc helmet reviews, each of which mentions helmets. Most have no comments at all, and the two with comments that I clicked on had no “frothing at the mouth” comments at all.
What does get people declaring that they don’t need to wear a helmet is when someone asserts that they, or everyone, should, or must, wear a helmet, or that they’re in some way doing THE WRONG THING if they don’t always wear one. Do you expect such assertions to go unchallenged on an internet forum?
Also, most likely, if someone starts a topic with the title “Why do people care so much about other people wearing helmets?”
fukawitribe wrote:
They do, because to avoid weighing an actual (Imperial) ton they’re often made with narrow section tubing, which consequently flops around like a noodle. I mean a rather robust noodle, to be fair, but one none the less. Used to try and watch mine bend by slamming the front brakes on BITD. What fun.On my 2013 Jamis Aurora Elite, a Reynolds 631 frame with steel fork and Avid BB-7 mechanical disc brakes, I could see the fork twist when I braked hard. The front tyre would move sideways about a centimetre relative to the front mudguard.
Looking at the pros, they seem to be sticking to 25mm tyres for the majority of racing. 28mm and wider for known rougher more challenging days, but the standard still seems to be 25mm.I’m personally torn for this season as to which way to go… 28mm for the corners (primiarly racing crits), or 25mm for the pure speed. It’s certainly not a given that 28mm is faster in all situations, but for most applications wider provides a better compromise.
I believe at least one team got noticed riding on (if I recall correctly) 28 mm relabelled as 25 mm a few years ago, either to fool the other teams, or their own riders (who like ChuckSneed would KNOW the FACT that they needed skinnier tyres to go faster.)
[url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-cant-believe-its-happened-25908116?int_source=nba#comments-wrapper]’I can’t believe it’s happened again’: Owner’s disbelief after BMW obliterates shop[/url]The BTL comments made me chuckle.
Failed to negotiate this very slight bend in the road.
