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I got a small (0.75l) ultrasonic cleaner from eBay for cleaning chains when I was trying out paraffin wax as a lubricant. It was only around £20 and ended up being free for me as they sent me the smaller model (couldn’t fit a cassette into it though). After a few months, I decided that it wasn’t worth the time investment for me, but it’s not necessarily a bad idea. (I used that Screwfix degreaser too)How many new chains could you buy with the money and save yourself an awful lot of fucking about in the processI’m not sold on cleaning chains (or anything with moving parts) that deeply, personally – it may look like new but a worn chain will still be worn, and now you’ve driven relatively clean lubricant out of places that are hard to replace so it’ll potentially wear even faster. Chains and cassettes are disposable components so they’re going to wear out eventually, Campag don’t advise chain removal so I leave everything on the bike when cleaning and I still get several years of use out of them before the need to replace
Several years use out of a chain? I go through one or two a year.
The theory behind deep cleaning a chain before immersing it in hot paraffin wax is that the grease prevents the wax from sticking to the metal properly. Personally, I found that the wax didn’t last that well so I switched back to using a commercial lubricant (https://www.dry-fluids.com/dryfluid-bike-2.html) . The big advantage of using dry/wax lubricants is to prevent dirt from sticking to the chain and forming a grinding paste that does reduce the life of your chain and cassette.
FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:
Society usually moves forward with the use of some measure of force, and at least an implied threat of violence. That’s how change historically has happened – I can’t think of a case where persuasion entirely on it’s own did much to ‘move society forward’. People tend to respect those who pose a threat to them. It doesn’t necessarily mean terrorism, in fact ‘terrorism’ seems to be a label for violence that doesn’t work. Violence very often doesn’t end up being made manifest, because people calculate that it’s not worth the danger or trouble and so concede before it gets to that point, hence the ‘peacefulness’ is maintained. But if the threat of violence wasn’t there, the persuasion probably wouldn’t work. Almost every change in society, from the enclosures to the end of monarchy to the end of slavery involved violence. At the very least persuasion only works when it’s accompanied by real changes in material conditions. And all physical action is ‘violence’ in some sense, at least it’s part of a continuum with it, with a fuzzy boundary line. Being able to fire someone ultimately depends on violence, to maintain power relationships that allow one person to fire another. A driver obliging me to wait by the kerb to cross while they drive past is implicitly relying on the threat of violence to ensure I know my place. I’m massively overthinking this. I just get irritated with the implication that all disagreements can be resolved by everyone discussing things ‘reasonably’. It just does not appear to work like that in real life and real history.Persuasion works (how else does a peaceful society move forward?) but it is definitely far more of a challenge when firing the individual is not an option 😉
Disagreements don’t always get resolved by implied violence. Sometimes it’s just a matter of old ideas dying off with the older population, but I don’t think that’s the case with cyclist hatred as it seems to cross age groups.
The thing is that it actually benefits most people to have a larger number of cyclists on the roads and so motorists and cyclists should have their goals aligned – quality transport options that get you from A to B quickly and safely. The problem is that there’s a lot of money made in keeping people in their cars, so we end up with biased media *cough*BBC*cough* and a lot of people eager to have an out-group to blame for all their repressed rage from sitting in traffic queues.
I think education is going to be more effective in getting people to realise that cyclists are not actually a curse upon the roads though there’s always some people that just don’t like to hear facts.
I got a small (0.75l) ultrasonic cleaner from eBay for cleaning chains when I was trying out paraffin wax as a lubricant. It was only around £20 and ended up being free for me as they sent me the smaller model (couldn’t fit a cassette into it though). After a few months, I decided that it wasn’t worth the time investment for me, but it’s not necessarily a bad idea. (I used that Screwfix degreaser too)How many new chains could you buy with the money and save yourself an awful lot of fucking about in the process
Boatsie wrote:
Just as happy as fly lips on a corny ship Although I’m not knot fit and won’t be doing a flip. Most recent photo..many months old. Although filthy at moment. Smoke was thick, pressure blew at least one window out. Firemen took out at least a few other windows. Smashed 9 as total. My helmets all melted. Lol. Guessing I’ll start riding soon. Loving wide tyre roadies.Was that from all the fires going on in Australia? I hope you’re safe and the country stops burning soon.
I was getting that yesterday morning pretty much every other refresh, seemed to clear up in the afternoon.My antivirus software (BitDefender) also kept blocking a script multiple times on each page load.
Web Threat Blocked
Infected web resource magictraps.com/221a***********cd5d.js
(I’ve redacted the full filename to prevent people running it)
I scanned the offending script manually using https://urlscan.io and it passed as clean, so its probably more likely to be poorly written tracking/nuisance adware than something that will try and wipe your disk / hold you to ransom.
Nothing says nuisance ads more than a domain name like magictraps. I assume the road.cc site admin staff noticed the poor performance and blocked the ad provider.
I don’t think the ads were the cause as I have my browser fairly locked down with AdBlock Plus and NoScript so my browser wouldn’t even see that javascript let alone run it.
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I’d go for a reasoned
I’d go for a reasoned dissection of each particular complaint and explain calmly and clearly why their complaints don’t have any kind of logical basis.
The chances are that they haven’t put any thought at all into their complaints and are just repeating emotional reactions to being stuck in a metal cage for long periods.
TheBillder wrote:
I’d pay more if I could disassemble the mouthpiece to get it really clean. Some of my bottles are labelled not to do this; the rest are blank. I don’t want to destroy one in trying it.I’ve got some Camelbak (before I realised their connection to gun sales) bottles that have a good mouthpiece design for cleaning.
They’re not going to learn a lot from that survey. Having said that, I did another poorly thought-out survey on water bottles the other day clearly compiled by someone who’d never ridden a bike with a water bottle. Keep it up Road.cc. How about quality testing the survery before you ask us to take part?I don’t think you can really pin the blame on Road.cc – they just provide a free forum. Blame the person doing the posting for the poor quality surveys.
That water bottle survey was heroically bad.
Boatsie wrote:
Due to a recent FAR K. I’m allowed to buy a bike, hand over receipt and get reimbursed but I’m going for a good quality cheap bike instead of a slightly more expensive lighter, easier shifting transport machine. Because I’m an idiot and really find non needed use of carbon composites unnecessary. Looking at 2 bikes in particular (3), looked at a GT but only found carbon forks. I’d love a GT but don’t care. Other 2 bikes have base models with alloy forks. Looking at CX. Looking at imaginary images on pictures of bike, they look like they’d provide a higher torque during acceleration, hence they look quick. Tending towards the cheapest gravel bike though. Same frame volume throughout models of gravel bikes, not sure if base model is triple butt, double butt, I think it’s hydroform.. It’s 11.5 kg. All alloy. 2*7 speed disc brakes at 250 quid($500 Aud) with front/rear rack and guard mounts plus bottles. 7 speed, I don’t torque shift, spacings easy to clean and maintain and super cheap to replace when worn. Basically a cost effective endurance set with wide stays to roll fat tyres. Wheels on bike are cheap, often hearing of spoke breakage, should be fine to hop gutters and avoid jumps with. More than plenty enough strength and maybe later a seasonal aero set with skinnies. Gravel will offer comfort over long road rides, whereas a CX would be quicker and nimble and adopt more choice of routes but maybe not as fast on a long flat straight due to posture. Well that’s Watt eye recon from this thoughtless more on anyway.. You beauty. Ride onI like this post
You’ve got some trailing
You’ve got some trailing characters in your link – it should be: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QGT6PXT
I was going to start answering it, but the first question only allows one response whereas I’d want to check several of them.
I’ve filled that in now.
I’ve filled that in now.
Some of the questions seem a bit pointless to me – why would anyone want a water bottle that transferred smell/chemicals etc into the contents? Similarly, no-one wants a leaking bottle – why even bother asking those kinds of questions?
Can I recommend adding in
Can I recommend adding in some options about requirements e.g. winter shoes, wide-fitting etc.