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Hmmm you could be right – as
Hmmm you could be right – as long as you can duck underneath them and cover I guess you should be OK.
Imagine you’d got most of the way through LEJOG and your paper bag got wet just going past Faslane though, bummer….
Reflective helmets – or
Reflective helmets – or things painted white.
Within a hundred miles or so,
Within a hundred miles or so, almost certainly. Luckily you don’t have to be doing LEJOG/JOGLE to participate as war-heads are shuffled between West Scotland and Berkshire several times a year for refurbishments.
Bearing in mind the width of the UK, exactly how far away from one are you planning on being ?
Equivalent new Shimano HG
Equivalent new Shimano HG (and other) 8-speed cassettes are plentiful and dirt cheap – probably not worth looking elsewhere unless there’s a particular reason for 105 only
Cracking, go for it – that
Cracking, go for it – that way you can compare yourself to people that actually know they’re supposed to be racing, in an environment that’s safe(r) to do so. Plus it’ll be a laugh. Have fun.
Cheers – if it’s really one
Cheers – if it’s really one of those and not the non-series 11-34 then would still expect no spacer required due to the free-hub. Weird.
Seems like a pretty weird “improvement”!Indeed.
Quick one, what was the
Quick one, what was the cassette ?
As far as I remember, the
As far as I remember, the notifications disappeared several ‘improvements’ to the site back, along with bleeding edge things like clicking on a comment link actually taking you to the comment…
Generally 11-speed road
Generally 11-speed road cassette wouldn’t need a spacer, as you say. Some of the wider range 11-speed cassettes do however, e.g. Shimano HG-800 11-34 (listed on the box as road and MTB cassettes in that case) and conversely will fit an old 10-speed freehub – so it depends.
Pilot Pete wrote:
The increased faff and extra/ different kit to carry, just in case that puncture doesn’t sealThe only thing I now bring that I didn’t with tubed clinchers is a credit card-sized pack of tyre boots, and that only replaces the fiver I had in there before for pretty much the same purpose. I hear similar from pretty much every user of tubeless i’ve heard, some will take some sealant but not that many IME (or have mentioned it anyway).
I check for any pin-prick seal marks when I check the tyres for cuts etc (as I do with tubed clinchers), and i’ll have a look at sealant every 6-9 months maybe. That latter is more faff, but it’s not hard, doesn’t take long and I budget it as part of the trade-off against stopping out on the road or on the trail.
You’re right it is new to many but, to be honest, I think it’d be easier to explain and do for a complete novice than fitting with inner tubes – perhaps maybe even less to go wrong, if the tyres are actually tubeless rather than TLR certainly. YMMV obviously but a lot of the old niggles with TL/TLR really aren’t around any more IMO.
Apparently Garmin, Lezyne,
Apparently Garmin, Lezyne, Wahoo, Pioneer (if they’re still producing head-units), Sigma, and Magellan support E-tube stuff, more here
https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/information/news/di2-integration–the-world-s-smartest-bicycle.html
Garmin compatibility
https://support.garmin.com/en-GB/?faq=qBnD0bXiLT7g6qMyExVRc9
Which is all well and good if you have a tyre and rim combination that are easy enough to get off/ on roadside. Due to lack of design standards some tubeless rim/ tyre combinations can be an absolute pig to install/ remove due to being so tight.Mind you, this is true of clinchers as well. My two most hideous to remove tyre /rim combinations are Panaracer clinchers on Bontrager rims. Nightmare; bendy tire-levered, profanity laced nightmare.
TLRs from Mavic (Hutchinson) and Specialized go on the same rims a breeze, often just fingers.
hirsuite wrote:
I included extracting the relevant 4 to 5 minute part of the recording as ‘editing’ ie you need to use a video editor.Many cameras record, or can be enabled to record, video in small chunk files rather than one massive binary (struggling to think of any that don’t…) – so “extracting” a time-slice with the incident in question is more often than not just choosing the one or two files that include it and whatever context is required.
Always seems to have been a
Always seems to have been a thing IME, can’t say i’ve noticed it getting particularly better or worse over the last few decades but i’m not really keeping count to be honest…