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What color are your shifter
What color are your shifter levers? I keep a small tin of black enamel and a tiny brush handy. Sand down any rough areas that stick up proud, then paint with 2-3 coats. Looks great from a few feet away.
3M Nexcare / Tegaderm works
3M Nexcare / Tegaderm works great if you can find one big enough to cover the rash area. I find I’m basically healed in a week.
Agreed. I sometimes resort to
Agreed. I sometimes resort to google searching with my username and site:road.cc .
I’ve put 4600 happy miles on
I’ve put 4600 happy miles on their dynamo Adventure 650B wheelset. Only issue was they needed one more wrap of tubeless tape for my Rene Herse tires to pop on. I also had to buy a new tool to tighten the centerlock for the rotors. The older tool I had wouldn’t fit on there past the through axle.
This has unfortunately been
This has unfortunately been going on for ages. From Sheldon Brown:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html
Competitive pressures have often led to inaccuracy in width measurement. Here’s how it works: Suppose you are in the market for a high-performance 700 x 25 tire; you might reasonably investigate catalogues and advertisements to try to find the lightest 700-25 available. If the Pepsi Tire Company and the Coke Tire Company had tires of equal quality and technology, but the Pepsi 700-25 was actually a 700-24 marked as a 25, the Pepsi tire would be lighter than the accurately-marked Coke 700-25. This would put Pepsi at a competitive advantage. In self defense, Coke would retaliate by marketing an even lighter 700-23 labeled as a 700-25.
This scenario prevailed throughout the ’70’s and ’80’s. The situation got so out-of-hand that cooler heads have prevailed, and there is a strong (but not universal) trend toward accurate width measurements.
Some road bicycles have extremely tight clearances and will not fit an honest 28mm tire.
In any case, how is 26.38 mm “just within” 28 mm ±1.5 mm?
Right at that temperature is
Right at that temperature is where I switch to the Pearl Izumi lobster style. They’re too warm at 5 °C, but perfect at 0 °C. I would only recommend the neoprene ones for use in cold (0-5 °C) rain. Other than that, you’ll either have chilly fingers or wet fingers from your own sweat.
If you really don’t want the fantastic lobster claws, I’d recommend combining a liner glove with a weather resistant outer sized up to fit over. Then you have three ways of wearing them. I’ve been fine at 0 °C with a thin synthetic liner under some pretty basic spring/fall cycling gloves.
hawkinspeter wrote:
A house in Clevedon [URL]https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/clevedon-couple-in-horrendous-shock-4783571[url]“Photographs from the scene show a huge hole in the front of the building, surrounded by rumble.”
Apparently you could hear the crash for hours.
I may get a Ti bike next, or
I may get a Ti bike next, or perhaps Reynolds 953.
https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/steel/s-953/
I just spent a lot building a steel bike, though, and love it. So really titanium or stainless would only be for bling. I turn 50 next year, so realistically a frame that lasts 40 years is a “forever” bike. I see loads of perfectly serviceable steel frames around that are older than 1980, so I don’t expect mine to fail before I do as long as I don’t keep it outside in a coastal town and never wash it.
I was going to suggest a
I was going to suggest a Cambium, but he said £50.
Mungecrundle wrote:
How else do you think the Earth keeps spinning?If we all get these wheels, how much will the Earth slow down? Could it get stopped, and there would be a hellish hot side and frozen wasteland side, with only tiny inhabitable zones at the borders? Would the civilization that eventually re-forms learn from our mistakes and not create cars? Would they still be dumb enough to think this spring wheel thing would work?
Relevant from yesterday.
Relevant from yesterday. Teenage boy gets keys to dad’s supercar. Predictable thing happens.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/37698/teen-youtuber-crashes-dads-one-off-3-4m-pagani-huayra
An expensive fork is
An expensive fork is certainly cheaper than dental work.
Why not fit an inexpensive steel fork for now, then replace it with a name brand carbon one when you can afford it? Even a no-brand steel fork should be trustworthy, if a bit heavy.
I think I’ve used it twice,
I think I’ve used it twice, and only when loaded with 50+ lb of gear. It is a touring bike.
My Jamis touring bike came
My Jamis touring bike came with 105, circa 2013.
24/32/42 front triple.
12-30 10-spd cassette, changed to 11-34 when it wore out, no shifting issues. 24-34 is good for vertical walls or pulling tree stumps.
I’ve been very happy with my
I’ve been very happy with my Rene Herse (formerly Compass) mudguards. They take a lot longer to install than SKS & the like, but once done they are solid and beautiful.
I had Velo Orange, and had one snap at the chainstay bridge. That was a little disappointing.
The SKS were nice enough and seemed pretty indestructable, but the stays are far thinner and don’t wrap around, so they rattle much, much more in comparison to Rene Herse, Velo Orange, Compass, Berthoud, Honjo.