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Why are you guys quoting your body weight when talking about chains? It is the power you generate which is important, not your lardyness. I bet that little Columbian chap who won the tour weighs about the same as one of my bingo wings and chews up chains a whole lot faster than I do. He probably generates the same power output from his left eyelid as I do from both of my legs combined so forget your weight, BMI is not an indicator of power and so chain wear rate.
It is also a stupid idea that 3 chains being rotated will reduce wear rate of your transmission, it wont. Assuming you change your chain every 1000 miles, by the time you put your third chain back on for it’s second outing your cassette will have done 5000 miles so you are trying to match one component with 1000 miles on it with another with 5000 on it. It’s a bit silly to expect that combination to run smoothly isn’t it.
In answer to the OP, I wouldn’t go for an expensive chain, buy a KMC or SRAM for a couple of pounds, ride it for a winter, bin it and put a new one on for the summer. Next year change our cassette and chain at the same time.
I thought this was some kind of weight-watchers thread.
I probably average around two
I probably average around two chains a year and I usually get more pricey KMC chains (over 30 squid) though they are 11 speed ones. I’m around 90kg (should weigh myself as I’m probably heavier at the moment) and use fancy dry lubrication which keeps the chain pretty clean. I’m with ktache in aiming to change chains early to prevent too much wear on the cassette.
I doubt you’ll notice much difference in wear with a more expensive chain so go with the cheaper chains unless you really love your bike.
I’m intrigued by Xena’s use of yban self-lubricating chains – I’ll probably give one a go the next time I’m due for a new chain.
Expanding on the theme, I’d say it also divides by class. there’s a difference between the potty-mouthed and angry but obviously stressed-out-by-circumstances counci-estate-dwelling mum (who constantly disproves the claim of middle-class-American feminists that ‘women don’t use the c-word’), and the hyper-bourgie weilder of what I have come to think of as ‘Dulwich chariots’ (when did push chairs start being built like Panzers?)And both are just one of many groups of less-than-perfectly-behaved throughfare-users.
See also the joggers who seem to think if there were to ever break step or deviate one inch to left or right they’d have to go back to the beginning and start their run all over again. And the scroffulous youth who cycle at speed along pavements. Or their more dangerous older brethen who ride mopeds on footpaths. Both of whom will stop and aggressively ask what you are looking at if you dare to so much as scowl at their anti-social behaviour. Being terribly brave for people who are scared of the roads.
Oh, and the mobility-scooter riders who seem to be practicing for a career as Formula One race car drivers.
Not to mention the mobile-phone zombie pedestrians (I’ve doubtless been a member of that tribe myself on many occasions), and of course the little kiddies on scooters who follow the rule book issued to young children everywhere that starts with ‘under no circumstances should you ever look where you are going’.
Main point is that none of these tribees (except maybe the moped riders) are worthy of a response any stronger than an eye-roll. As long as they aren’t in a car they are just part of life’s rich pagaent.
Dulwich Chariots are not in the same KSI league as Chelsea Tractors.
You’ve left out the worst ones – nut shufflers
A lot of very depressing comments on this post. Hadn’t realised that so many of you were closet Daily Mail readers just looking for a chance to feel oppressed by the nasty feminists out there.It stems from a profound insecurity – no halfway successful, confident man is ever going to be threatened by female equality; if you read the posts of those who are then the desire for attention and recognition online that they so obviously lack in real life is palpable. It’s sad really.
Look, can you stop making this about the gender of the buggy pushers and instead focus on the real problems?
hawkinspeter – why on earth is this a stock photo? Who commissioned it? I have two theories. Either (a) you own alamy and can bend it to your squirrelly will; or (b) your squirrel photo searches are driving trends in stock photo companies. “Right team, we’re seeing unprecedented demand for pictures of squirrels right now. Squirrels in berets, squirrels in the maillot jaune, squirrels who look like Alaphilippe or Pinot. Just bring me squirrels! You, the one who normally does tedious shots of office stationery and co-workers deep in discussion – you’re reassigned to squirrels!”The only reasonable explanation is that there’s a community of wealthy squirrels that wish to provide employment for their attractive partners.
Seems a bit selfish to me to
Seems a bit selfish to me to take up the whole shared path and not be on the lookout for others. Still, it’s not as bad as the parents with buggies on trains that ignore the instruction to fold them up and instead take up the only space available for bikes (it’s literally the only place on the train that bikes are allowed).
Still, could be worse…
That should be fine. It’s
That should be fine. It’s unlikely to cause any issue, but at the worst, you’ll get inconsistent gear changes which will alert you to any issue (i.e. if the cable outer exerts too much pressure on the housing and causes damage). It’s not like brake cables where the cable outer has to transmit significant force and a lack of ferrules can cause a nasty surprise if something suddenly gives.
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I’m beginning to think that adverts might just be full of bullshit.Except for this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtznmBe_T8w
and this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyxoDSz7pIk
Luckily, my noscript/ad
Luckily, my noscript/ad-blocking meant that I didn’t see the pictures.
I’ve got my doubts about whether he was going at 60mph and I wonder where he got that figure from (possibly from his ghostly grandparents who were watching him apparently).
Anyhow, at least he’s still alive and kicking, so I wish him all the best in his recovery and hopefully he won’t test out how effective or not a helmet actually is.
…and what is it with the OP’s anger towards women in general? It’s irrational.Oh, dear.
Lazy, immature ‘thinking’.
I am absolutely in favour of equality between men and women.
Which is why I oppose feminism.
From Wikipedia:
Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.What definition of ‘feminism’ are you using because as it stands you’re not making any sense.
There’s not enough info in
There’s not enough info in the report to judge, but I’m concerned about what steps have been taken to ensure that she can’t suffer another bout of mania and cause another incident. It’s not so much about extracting punishment but more about protecting the public.
Was she declared unfit to drive for a number of years in a similar fashion to other illnesses with a proper assessment before allowing her a retest?
Great to hear that you’re
Great to hear that you’re recovering.
You may be glad of ‘working’ from home this week with the hot humid weather – I felt wiped out after cycling yesterday even though I was deliberately not pushing myself.
The problem is helmet promoters/wearers won’t give it a rest…….Seriously??? You are very keen on evidence and stats, so just take a look at the various helmet threads and see who’s name crops up most.
He just enjoys screaming into the void and banging that oh so tired drum whenever his carer let’s him use the laptop.
It does seem that when ever this debate comes up again, the same few people are shouting down others, comparing helmet advocacy with compulsion, dismissing any personal experience as acecdotal. How many people need to tell you that a helmet saved them from injury or reduced their injury in a situation that was not of their own making to suggest there might be a link? Strange we do not hear from those that went without helmet and hit their heads. The stats quoted always seem to be a bit ‘off’ and aimed at proving points not related to hitting you head off metal or concrete. To me they sound like conspiracy nuts who think they have cornered to the board. One day reality is going to hit them, or a Ford Fiesta.
What bugs me about helmet advocacy is that it seems to concentrate on cyclists as being the only at risk group for accidental head injury.
Cyclists are already an out-group and demonised by the media and the focus on helmet use just seems an awful lot like victim blaming to me. It seems that rather than focus on what actually would make the roads safer, instead there’s far too much blaming ‘idiot’ cyclists that choose to not wear a helmet.
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Well I never!
Well I never!
