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I’ve used helicopter tape (from eBay or Amazon) to protect the frame from cables or velcro straps rubbing. Works a treat and is easy to apply though it helps to have sharp fingernails to remove the backing tape and it peels off easily too without damaging paint (in my experience anyway).
I don’t think it’d be a good choice for protecting large areas (like shocks) as you’d end up with lots of joins between the bits of tape.
For cables, these are (expensively) good: https://road.cc/content/review/161017-fibrax-spiral-frame-protectors They come in various colours, including a comradely red, and I think they look cool, but YMMV. Their only downside is that they do creep along the cable, so you need to re-align them occasionally. (Perhaps a smear of silicone sealant would keep them in place?)
I’ve used a cheap silicone version of those (from fleaBay of course) but as you say, they need attention every now and again.
I think he’s a bit guilty of
I think he’s a bit guilty of lumping all drivers (and cyclists) together when really there’s a huge variation in people’s behaviour on the road. At the start of my commute home, I often filter between two slow or stationary lines of traffic on a dual carriageway (which goes next to a shared use path) and quite a few drivers move their cars to one side or the other to give me more room (which is nice).
I do agree with the general principle that bad drivers are much worse than bad cyclists if only because their bad choices have way more impact (literally sometimes). I prefer to think that you have a spectrum of bad to good drivers and it’s really only the minority of motorists that cause problems, but as there’s so many more motorists than cyclists, we see bad driving more frequently.
I usually only offer help if
I usually only offer help if the cyclist looks like they need it (e.g. sat by the bike or looking sad/distressed) but I don’t normally bother if someone is working on their bike. It depends where it is as well – I’m more likely to check if someone is okay on roads with little traffic.
I’ve used helicopter tape
I’ve used helicopter tape (from eBay or Amazon) to protect the frame from cables or velcro straps rubbing. Works a treat and is easy to apply though it helps to have sharp fingernails to remove the backing tape and it peels off easily too without damaging paint (in my experience anyway).
I don’t think it’d be a good choice for protecting large areas (like shocks) as you’d end up with lots of joins between the bits of tape.
This seems a suitable place
This seems a suitable place to leave this handy radiation dose chart. It’s more to do with radioactive elements rather than radio waves, but I’m a sucker for XKCD (https://xkcd.com/radiation/):
@John Smith,please calm down, pretty familiar with electromagnetic spectrum and its wavelenght/energy conversion.
First of all, Excuse moi my bad English, I interpreted sunbed in a very different way 🙂
Here in the UK, that’s more like a rainbed.
This is what I thought of when you mentioned sunbed:
If you do need long drops then there are options from TRP (RG957) or Velo-Orange.I have the TRP RG957 brakes (https://www.tredz.co.uk/.TRP-RG957-Dual-Pivot-Long-Drop-Road-Brakes_88000.htm) on my Genesis Equilibrium (to replace the weedy brakes the bike came with), and they are excellent.
Seconded – I put a pair of those on my old Cannondale and yes they’re expensive (I got them for about £100 from EBay) but they work very well and look good too.
Road.cc review: https://road.cc/content/review/115645-trp-rg957-deep-drop-brakes
Sriracha wrote:
I think you have described a “single blind” protocol. To be “double blind” neither the subject nor the operator must know whether placebo or real stimulus is happening. The truth should only be revealed at all after all data is collected, processed and analysed.My advice to anyone suffering from EHS is to do some double-blind testing – get someone else to operate the power switch randomly and record symptoms periodically and see if there’s any correlation.
Yep, that sounds better – you’d probably have to have the switch operator just record when the electricity is flowing and have several subjects (not in the same room at the same time) reporting symptoms every minute or so (depending on how fast the symptoms manifest) and then have someone else perform the analysis. Maybe wrap the whole testing facility in aluminium foil too.
Mungecrundle wrote:
Just imagine what could happen when passing a wind turbine? Why the cancer causing soundwaves might mix with the radar to mutate you into some sort of Marvel supehero! Long and short of it. If you are concerned about the possible unknown health effects to yourself or your riding buddies, then it’s probably not worth the stress of taking the chance.Sold!
Might be a couple of years
Might be a couple of years old, but it’s probably even more relevant now (and thanks for posting the link).
It shows how easy it is to catch drivers using mobiles – just takes a few traffic officers.
I can empathise with drivers using mobiles whilst stationery, but once that behaviour gets normalised then it soon becomes using a mobile whilst moving but you think there’s no hazards.
What I would enjoy would be to see traffic police doing this kind of ‘sting’ at random locations and as well as issuing an appropriate fine, they confiscate the mobile phone for a day. People would be livid.
Scary. Well done hawkinspeter, another powerful article.Thanks – I saw it on SlashDot and thought that it might be interesting. (I don’t know whether I should be emailing in these kind of links to road.cc and let them write it up or just post it in the forum which is probably quicker).
Initially I thought that ZenDrive was some kind of cloud storage service (as it was posted on an IT news site), but it looks like it’s a smartphone application that measures your driving (presumably using the accelerometers). Presumably U.S. only though I don’t see any reason why they don’t expand over here (as long as the app doesn’t require the driver to be looking at it which would be ironic).
it’s Zen. You have to sit in the lotus position, hands well away from the wheel, and close your eyes. If it’s anything like Zen in the Art of Archery then the car will find its own target.
Never read that, but I did enjoy Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha – which is to demean oneself.The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed
@Vovis – there’s a place for
@Vovis – there’s a place for people like you: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14887428
I don’t mean that to sound rude as I’m actually quite intrigued by conspiracy theories and how they highlight the way that a lot of people think (i.e. tribal thinking and not really understanding why/how the scientific process should work).
What is interesting is the testing that they did on someone presenting EHS symptoms:
She was seated on a wooden chair while voltage was applied to metal plates for pulses of 90 seconds to create a series of magnetic fields. The woman was asked to describe her symptoms after each exposure and after random sham exposures when, unknown to her, there was no voltage.She reported headaches, pain and muscle twitching during the genuine exposures and no symptoms for the majority of the sham exposures.
The scientists concluded that such consistency could not be attributed to chance.
There’s other stories of people reporting symptoms from phone masts when it turns out that the masts weren’t switched on yet, so there’s obviously some kind of hysteria going on too.
My advice to anyone suffering from EHS is to do some double-blind testing – get someone else to operate the power switch randomly and record symptoms periodically and see if there’s any correlation.
Scary. Well done hawkinspeter, another powerful article.Thanks – I saw it on SlashDot and thought that it might be interesting. (I don’t know whether I should be emailing in these kind of links to road.cc and let them write it up or just post it in the forum which is probably quicker).
Initially I thought that ZenDrive was some kind of cloud storage service (as it was posted on an IT news site), but it looks like it’s a smartphone application that measures your driving (presumably using the accelerometers). Presumably U.S. only though I don’t see any reason why they don’t expand over here (as long as the app doesn’t require the driver to be looking at it which would be ironic).
Yes, cold weather will tend
Yes, cold weather will tend to increase heart rate and blood pressure. That’s the problem with heart rate as a metric – it’s how hard your body is working rather than how much power you’re putting out.
That shouldn’t happen if the
That shouldn’t happen if the thru-axle is tightened up properly as the lever side should be gripping the fork very strongly.
Could it be possible that the wheel isn’t the correct width for the fork? Maybe test it with the original front wheel and see if that works itself loose in the same manner.
Some thru-axles have a torque adjustment which will depend on the make of TA. I think Shimano can be adjusted from the opposite end to the lever with a hex key.