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Thanks. I haven’t watched

Thanks. I haven’t watched that fully yet, but found this article on Jim Papadopoulos: https://www.nature.com/news/the-bicycle-problem-that-nearly-broke-mathematics-1.20281

(I usually prefer reading than watching YouTube – you can go at your own speed)

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Give it a go yourself. You’re

Give it a go yourself. You’re unlikely to damage the wheels (unless you have a hard time getting the tyre on and resort to using a screwdriver or metal implements) and you’ll certainly learn something.

Important points to remember:

• Properly applied tubeless rim tape is essential – your wheels may already have this fitted
• If you need to fit your own rim tape, make sure that it ends up nice and flat without wrinkles and make the valve hole with something round and pointy rather than a knife
• Lubricating the tyre beads makes it easier to seat the tyre – you can use dilute washing up liquid to do this first before putting the tyre on the wheel
• Remember that the middle of the rim bed is lower (i.e. smaller diameter) than the outsides, so push the tyre bead into the middle to give a tiny bit more play when trying to mount the tyre onto the rim
• I recommend trying to seat the tyre beads without using sealant first of all as it’s a lot less messy and should give you some clue as to how airtight your setup is. If the beads bang into place without sealant, you can then deflate it and add sealant through the valve (if you’ve got a removable core and some kind of syringey thing that fits in the valve) or unseat one of the beads and pour some sealant into the tyre (typically a bit messy)
• Do it outside or somewhere that spilled sealant won’t be a problem

When everything works fine, you can seat and inflate them with a normal track pump. When you’ve got a small air leak you may need to push a lot of air quickly into the tyre to seat it and that requires something like a tubeless air tank (e.g. https://road.cc/content/buyers-guide/21-best-bike-pumps-and-co2-inflators-183431).

If you try it yourself and struggle, take it to your LBS and they’ll probably get it done in 5 minutes and make it look easy (probably by someone with bionic thumbs).

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From my memories of those,

From my memories of those, they were mainly used to generate rust and were instructive in teaching about electrical circuits as you had to much around with the springs to get the damn things to work.

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First, replace the dodgy wire

First, replace the dodgy wire with a new one and see if that gets things working (depending on how easy it is to get to the junction box), but if that doesn’t work, then it probably needs a new battery which isn’t cheap.

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Rich_cb wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

Racist.

Speciesist, maybe.

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Here we go again, another

Here we go again, another debate about the efficacy of squirrels.

I’m going to have to use a graph to decide this one

 

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don simon fbpe wrote:

There’s a user here that I won’t respond to on certain topics as they are ignorant as a Republican voter and aren’t backwards in coming out to demonstrate it.

Well, I’m sorry Don, but it’s just obvious that grey squirrels are superior to red squirrels.

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hirsute wrote:

An assumption that it crashed, surely it was just parked there?

Although there’s a lot of selfish parking around Bristol, it usually doesn’t involve activating the airbags.

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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-whitehall-road-crash-traffic-4862283

I once heard a really funny joke about a collapsing bridge – I still can’t get over it.

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Looks like a chain/cassette

Looks like a chain/cassette mismatch to me.

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I was thinking of adopting a

I was thinking of adopting a policy of not commenting on articles that have a particular troll commenting on them. If everyone (unlikely) did that, it’d have the effect of just leaving their ridiculous comments as the last posted comment and everyone else just moves on. Kind of like a scorched earth policy, but with articles and comments.

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It feels superb – I’ve got

It feels superb – I’ve got 28mm tubeless tyres and they really smooth out the ride. It’s very nimble, but I can certainly clip the front wheel with my foot if I’m going really slow and turning (never happens with normal riding).

I did try some clip-on mudguards but didn’t find them that great as they were a bit too short to make a huge amount of difference. I recommend using some helicopter tape on the forks to protect them from the mudguards gradually wearing away at the finish as they flex and move slightly. I try to not do any long rides when it’s raining, so I just don’t bother with mudguards now.

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I’ve got a Genesis Zero Disc

I’ve got a Genesis Zero Disc and it’s great, but you need to consider a couple of things. Firstly, it’s got quite a “racy” geometry which may or may not be what you want for commuting and secondly it doesn’t have mudguard mounts.

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Thanks for putting in all the

Thanks for putting in all the effort.

(Just found out that the poop deck isn’t what I thought it was, so had better go and get a mop.)

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How about a Ferris wheel bird

How about a Ferris wheel bird feeder?

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