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I’ve found that the
I’ve found that the occasional chirruping, squarking and chattering of my squirrel buddies make enough noise to warn pedestrians of my imminent arrival. Also, older, clicking knees come in handy at times.
I was hoping to view this bike later this week. Thanks for the replies so far.Will mudguards fit ok on the genesis bike?
Not easily. You can get clip-on mudguards, but my one doesn’t have any eyelets to fit decent mudguards. The Zero range was designed as a race bike for the Madison-Genesis team rather than as a more general purpose bike. It doesn’t stop me from riding it in the winter though I try to avoid rain when I can.
I’ve got a newer Di2 version
I’ve got a newer Di2 version of that bike and it’s great. It’s a racy geometry, so it can be a bit twitchy until you get used to it (then it becomes very nimble). There’s room to fit 28mm tyres easily so it can be made nice and comfortable to ride as otherwise it’s a very stiff frame.
Just had a quick look for reviews on Road.cc for it and it looks to me like the earlier models were rim brakes whereas mine is hydraulic discs, so the frame might have changed between 2015 and my one.
https://road.cc/content/news/126886-genesis-enters-carbon-fibre-market-zero-video
Envee NV wrote:
Mid winer in devon. Tried to make the green light so i can make the right turn. Helmet strapped to the handlebar. I know. Dont say anything. Slipped on ice going around the corner. Came down just as you did. Smacked my head near the temple. I woke up once when the paramedics were there attending to me and i said i was cold. Next thing i know is that i woke up in the hospital in a bed. I was out for three hours. This injury, smacking my head on the asphalt, disturbed the three pools of water in your ear that are responsible for your equilibrium. Now every time i turn my head in a funny fast way at a certain angle i start spinning like i drank too much and am just about to puke. Let this be a lesson to you all about, not, wearing a helmetMy wife had very similar symptoms a while ago (cause unknown) and we managed to treat it surprisingly well with the Epley Maneouvre. The idea is that there are errant canaliths (small bits of calcium carbonate) that are moving around in your inner ear and triggering your movement/balance senses when you perform certain moves (e.g. lying down, bending over, sitting up etc) and the Epley maneouvre is a series of movements that aims to move the canaliths out of the way.
It’s worth giving it a try as it’s very unlikely to make things worse and there’s several youtube videos showing you how to do it (best get someone to help you, though). Here’s the steps:
- Ask someone to sit on the exam table with their eyes open and then turn their head 45 degrees to the right.
- While supporting the back of the head, they will then ask someone to quickly lie down on their back, coming to a resting position with the head hanging 20 degrees off the end of the exam table.
- Turn the person’s head 90 degrees to the left.
- Wait 30 seconds.
- Turn the head an additional 90 degrees to the left while asking the person to also rotate their body 90 degrees to the left.
- Wait 30 seconds.
- Ask the person to get up or sit up on the left side of the table.
The U.S. seems to be completely dependent on motor vehicles and it seems that they’re willing to sacrifice people (19?!) to their new god.Maybe they’ll blame the collision on the 18 year old playing GTA at some point – seems to be their modus operandi.
(Didn’t watch the dashcam due to the warning)
Remember – that’s 19 cyclists killed in one city, so far this year.
As a sacrifice, at this rate, they’ll be able to raise Nyarlathotep Himself…
Herself
The U.S. seems to be
The U.S. seems to be completely dependent on motor vehicles and it seems that they’re willing to sacrifice people (19?!) to their new god.
Maybe they’ll blame the collision on the 18 year old playing GTA at some point – seems to be their modus operandi.
(Didn’t watch the dashcam due to the warning)
I think it is no coincidence that in the Shimano site, you cannot download the windows 10 3.4.4 version at the moment, the site errors. Hopefully they are going to release a new version. hawkinspeter, what verison of the E-Tube app are you using please?It’s currently 3.4.4 so I guess the reason it’s working for me is that I had a previous version working.
I’ll take the acedotal evidence every time because strangely enough we don’t here from the people hitting their heads sans helmet and then saying ‘I was fine.’ Please come forward if this is you.Please don’t conflate being pro-helmet to being pro-complusion, I still ride to the shop was just a cap.
I’ve come off only a handful of times and as I remember I was wearing a helmet for most of those, but I’ve never hit my head coming off a bike. Most of my offs were due to extra slippery conditions (the old CheeseGrater bridge, black ice etc) though I did a nice one whilst borrowing my wife’s (then girlfriend) bike and had the chain jump off as I was doing some serious acceleration away from lights – managed to tear a little chunk from a finger. I’ve done a couple of sideways slides into vehicles with no damage sustained and twice had a vehicle clip my rear wheel though neither time did I come off.
As a slight aside, I’ve come off hundreds of times whilst riding a unicycle (never wore any protection whilst riding one) and only once had any injury – I was experimenting with toe-clips and as I ducked underneath an overhanging willow tree, I hit the lamppost that was hiding there. I didn’t get my feet free to do a controlled “step-off”, so I ended up taking the fall onto my outstretched hand which did something nasty to my wrist – couldn’t take any weight on it for a couple of months.
On the flip side, I’ve hit overhanging branches with my helmet a couple of times and was glad of the protection, though that would have just been an ‘ow’ rather than a concussion etc.
So in conclusion, I don’t see much benefit in a helmet though I always wear one now (the wife gets anxious if I don’t). Gloves, on the other hand, have definitely saved me some skin.
That does sound like your
That does sound like your helmet did its job correctly. I’m always more suspicious when the helmet cracks in two as that makes me think that it didn’t absorb much impact energy whereas others will claim it shows how effective the helmet was.
It’s easy to upload a picture if you comment on this thread – you should see the “browse” and “upload” buttons underneath your comment. It’s trickier to upload a picture when you start a forum thread – it is possible, but can’t remember the details.
I just checked mine again.
I just checked mine again. Ran Windows Update to ensure I was on the latest version (there wasn’t anything to install) and then started up E-Tube. It found a newer version, so I got that installed and it was fine starting up. I didn’t bother connecting the Shimano charger to it – I just tested whether the app started or not.
Not had a problem with it
Not had a problem with it myself on Windows 10.
Try completely uninstalling it and re-installing it again. (If you’ve already tried that, you could go on a hunt through the registry for items to delete, but it’s quite easy to hose your OS doing that.)
The deepest flood I’ve
The deepest flood I’ve attempted was just over my bottom bracket, so no chance of keeping my feet dry. I thought I could build up some speed and just sail through it with my feet off the pedals, but it’s surprising just how much deep water slows you down.
My tip is to aim for the middle of the road (assuming no other traffic can navigate the deep water) and thus avoid any drains or potholes. It’s usually less deep in the middle of the road.
Listen, don’t mention the
Listen, don’t mention the helmets.
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
Luca Patrono wrote:
A good old fashioned helmet argument you say? Well, I was definitely glad for mine two days ago when my left foot came unclipped on a hill start, shot into the front wheel and trashed a good few spokes before one wedged itself between sole and cleat, pushing my foot into the fork and making me do a rather embarrassing flip onto my head and shoulders in the middle of Ilkley. That’s all I’ll say :^)Look, until you’ve got a graph of foot/spoke collisions and correlations with SPD vs SPD-SL cleats, we’re not interested.
Check the chainring bolts.
Check the chainring bolts.