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If you’re going to be riding
If you’re going to be riding it in the cold, it’s best to keep it covered but not inside. Every time the bike goes from warm to cold, it draws air into all the voids (bearings, frame) as the warm air inside contracts. That air contains moisture.
The only temperature related issue I’ve had started around -15 °C when my freewheel stopped freewheeling. The oil in there got thick enough that it would keep turning with the wheel when I stopped pedalling, feeding chain forward towards the crankset and causing the chain to drop. I disassembled, cleaned, and replaced with Dumonde Tech freehub oil rated down to -40 °C/°F.
Oh no, spoilers!
Oh no, spoilers!I’m watching it in a few minutes.
IanMSpencer wrote:
What routine maintenance are you doing on electronic shifting?I’d count charging batteries as routine maintenance. Also replacing coin cells in the controls.
I’ve not tried electronic
I’ve not tried electronic shifting, but I’m sold on tubeless, at least for 32 mm and wider tyres. My one bike set up tubeless now has over 12000 miles / 19000 km on it, and I’ve had to use plugs to seal punctures twice now. No need to remove the wheel, just bang in a plug or two, reinflate, continue riding. Occasionally I will develop a leak that requires me to pump up a tyre before each ride for a while, but it eventually sorts itself out. Overall a reduction in time spent faffing around with tyres, and more than an order of magnitude reduction in having to do it by the side of the road.
I do wish setting up tubeless was easier. Some of my slow leaks have turned out to be the tape starting to unstick inside. The tape is also a pain to get on stretched tight enough, the last six inches or so never sticks down well. Has anyone tried any of the rim strip solutions instead? Examples:
https://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=80828&attribute=222852
They really become useful
They really become useful below about -10 °C. Higher than that and there are at least some decent glove choices.
On motorbikes and e-scooters, they’d likely be useful at higher temperatures due to the lack of self-heating.
I’ve fallen on black ice a
I’ve fallen on black ice a few times. I’ve been doing judo for over 25 years, so never been hurt as a result, other than slight bruising so far. I solved the problem with studded tyres.
Is there a common UK term for
Is there a common UK term for them? Normally here they’re “bar mitts” (which is a brand) or “pogies”, sometimes “poagies”, but non-winter-cyclists are unlikely to know either term.
I was using these ones from Dogwood Designs at the time, but on a different bike.
I was on a winter ride
I was on a winter ride downtown, and had put pogies on my single speed bike that had only a front brake, activated from the left bar. As I approached a T junction from its branch, with stop signs for all three directions, I signalled to turn left, which meant pulling my left hand out of the pogie. A car was also approaching from my right.
Then I went to brake, immediately realizing that my brake lever was inside the pogie, whereas my hand, needed to pull it, was inconveniently outside of the pogie. I thought for sure I was going to T-bone the car.
Luckily I was going slowly enough and had sufficient traction that I managed to execute a U turn before the intersection, which also scrubbed off 80% of my speed. I was eventually able to un-suction-cup my sphincter from the saddle.
I ordered an additional brake for that bike the next day. I’ve also learned that I can brake without putting my hand back inside the pogie, but my reactive brain did not have time to experiment with that while it was happening.
This was in the US, so only one brake is required, although two is smart for obvious reasons. Also to visualize the equivalent situation in the UK, switch left and right in all cases.
First light in the video seemed to be full red for both the EV and the cyclist.But was it an established red light?
Disqualified driver jailed after crashing stolen car into bus stop
video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63715762
Is that a phone in her left hand as it comes out of the window?
The problem is that most bad
The problem is that most bad drivers would have no problem passing a test. Wow, one day a year you have to show up sober and drive to the letter of the law and the HC.
It would be a bit like testing people who’ve committed assault in the past by having them show up for a test where they pass if they don’t punch somebody for two whole hours.
Jogle wrote:
[b]Cars keep crashing into Sunbury shops as hairdresser says it ‘was like a bomb'[/b] So what’s causing cars to crash? Nah, it’s not the drivers, it’s the lack of bollards! https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/cars-keep-crashing-sunbury-shops-25531831 #NoDriverInvolvedHere’s the street view. I’d suggest parallel parking might have prevented this.
Yes. I’m using this one. I
Yes. I’m using this one, which cost me $25 US in 2017. I had a carbon seatpost snap a couple of years ago, and that made me check the wrench by hanging weights off it. It’s accurate within my ability to read it, about ±0.5 N·m.
If you have a 360° camera and
If you have a 360° camera and you’re willing to do it for Google for free…
I watch my mirror carefully
I watch my mirror carefully and am ready to bail.