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I usually do a 22 mile
I usually do a 22 mile commute home so I don’t find it too bad. Even so, my water bottle got really warm yesterday, but to be honest I found the head-wind more of an issue than the heat.
The Bristol Post is running a story about a woman up north (how does that work?) who’s telling everyone they must wear a helmet when riding a bike. This is because her son was doing stunts on his bike and face planted and had to go to hospital for very serious cuts and scrapes and stuff all across his face. She cannot see a difference between riding to the shops and teenagers stunting. Plus, I hadn’t realised that a bike helmet would protect me from cuts and scrapes on my face…The number of people who don’t know how to wear a helmet correctly is staggering
Wot, no squirrel?
I find your lack of faith disturbing
The Bristol Post is running a story about a woman up north (how does that work?) who’s telling everyone they must wear a helmet when riding a bike. This is because her son was doing stunts on his bike and face planted and had to go to hospital for very serious cuts and scrapes and stuff all across his face. She cannot see a difference between riding to the shops and teenagers stunting. Plus, I hadn’t realised that a bike helmet would protect me from cuts and scrapes on my face…The number of people who don’t know how to wear a helmet correctly is staggering
Question is, where’s the best place to stick your bell?Right or left side of the bars?
Stem mount?
Steerer mount?
Somewhere else?
RHS of the bars for me, so I can slow the bike with the rear brake (theory being that if you need to haul the front brake to avoid them, it’s probably too late anyway)
I’ve just ditched my Knog Oi bell (too quiet) that was on the left side of my bars and replaced it with a cheap stem spacer bell from Amazon. It’s nicely out of the way now and much louder.
Apart from shared paths, the only time I use a bell is navigating some blind corners going underneath a roundabout to warn oncoming cyclists/peds.
If you don’t mind, before I click on the link can you add a little about it – title, subject matter, etc…
I’ll click on anything!
Title: R J Ripper
Kids and bikes; wherever you are in the world, they go together. The chaotic streets of Kathmandu may not seem like a typical breeding ground for world-class mountain bikers, but then again nothing is typical about Rajesh (RJ) Magar. Since learning to ride on a beat-up clunker, to becoming the four-time National Champion at age 21, RJ’s story is one of boundless childhood dreaming and unstoppable determination, forged from junkyard scraps and tested on the rugged trails of the mighty Himalaya.Haven’t watched it though.
Seeing that helmets obviously reduce head injuries on impact I’d say it is foolish not to wear one.
…. Wear it if you wish, it’s not the wearing of it I have a problem with, it’s the collusion with victim-blaming and the supression of non-motorised modes of transport that is implicit in the relentless public promotion of it, including foolish comments like your final one here.
I don’t think that’s fair. His statement is far from foolish.
Wearing helmets is sensible. They do some good, and the actual wearing of a helmet does the wearer no harm. The …victim blaming and …. relentless pubic promotion are a different matter entirely. For many many cyclists, wearing a helmet is a good idea. For all cyclists and most non-cyclist, the mandating of wearing helmets, and the relentless promotion etc is a really really bad idea.
Perhaps an incomplete analogy is that for many many people drinking some alcohol is a very good idea (with a myriad of conflicting approaches to research and possible lifestyle benefits etc) , but the relentless promotion and victim blaming associated with it is bad for the population as a whole, and often for those engaged in the activity.
Your statement about wearing a helmet doing no harm is somewhat contentious. Look at the studies on increased risk taking by helmet wearers and closer passes by bigger vehicles – pretty damn far from being harmless. When you weigh up the evidence, wearing a helmet is NOT a good idea (unless you plan on crashing anyway in which case it’s probably better to be wearing the helmet for the crash).
Yes
Yes
These are brilliant.https://ottodesignworks.com/shop/ottolock
Perfect for the cafe stop and mine slips into a jersey pocket – don’t even notice it.
This looks excellent but I’ve seen a review that says if you slip a knife into it then you can just pull it open – does anyone know if this is the case or perhaps the most recent version has overcome this issue?
This video shows some details. Unfortunately, the reviewer got a faulty lock, so returned it and got another faulty lock, so he returned that one and got delivered another faulty lock, which he’s then reviewed.
https://lock-lab.com/high-security-and-challenge-locks/1272-review-ottolock-bike-lock-avoid/
If you get one of those, make sure that it does actually lock.
From my limited experience of lock-picking, I’d recommend avoiding cheap combination locks as poor tolerances can make them very easy to bypass – an ordinary style padlock will tend to be more secure.
I’ve got a Knog Straight Jacket Skinny lock and chain for when I want to lock up my bike briefly. It’s not the lightest, but it’s a proper chain, so not so easy to cut through unlesss you’ve got an angle grinder. (Not the easiest to bypass, but I have picked it open a couple of times myself)
You’ve said that you really
You’ve said that you really want Di2, so go for that. It’s less immediate outlay and you seem perfectly happy with your Colnago, so upgrade it now and maybe get an aero triathlon/road bike later on.
The Chinese Flying Pigeon bicycle company have pretty much been making the same model since 1950. I suggest that if you are averse to new ideas, development and change, that you get yourself one of these. Cheap, robust, last you a lifetime and apart from being quite cool and the associated risk of being labelled a hipster, no-one is going to accuse you of being a sucker for whatever new and spangly tech other component manufacturers are dangling before you.In case anyone is seriously thinking about this, don’t:
I saw a bloke on the train with a very similar looking model, though if I remember correctly was made by Pashley. Looked like it weighs a ton, but the chap was quite happy with it.
That could only happen if the QR wasn’t tight enough at some stage, hence the Evans advice to tighten it more.or
fill the worn area with 2part epoxy (JBWeld for example) then carefully file/sand it back to true. (The epoxy, not the base metal) The repair only has to hold in compression, and nothing would go seriously wrong if it failed. Unless you file into the dropout and it falls off, so use a fine file.
I think I agree that the old QR that got replaced wasn’t holding it firm enough and there was movement, which caused the wear. As I previously stated it now it moves from alignment if there is not enough force on the QR i.e. you have to have the QR overly tight. So this option doesn’t work unless you have the QR super tight and the last one broke.
The second option I like. I’m not taking metal off the drop out but putting metal weld on it, I’ve used the stuff before on an old motorbike. Halfords seem to have supersteel expoxy will get some on the way back from work.
Thanks, will give it a go over the weekend and get back to you all.
I’d agree. The widths all look fine to me, so it’s most likely the shape of the dropout that’s causing the problem.
Any chance of a close up
Any chance of a close up picture of how the axle is sitting in the dropouts? If you turn the bike upside down and put the wheel in place but don’t tighten the QR, then snap a picture of both sides so we can see the comparative widths. Example picture attached
QRs should be done up tight,
QRs should be done up tight, but they shouldn’t require extreme tension just to keep the wheel in place. It almost sounds like the wheel axle isn’t fitting into the drop outs correctly or that there’s a mis-match with the width of the axle and the bike frame. Some close up pics should give some more info.
I get night cramps without any obvious trigger. Back in the days of sheets and blankets I always used to untuck the bottom of the bed so I could stick my feet out and stretch when it inevitably hit. I think I’m just predisposed to it, I also get crawling twitches in my calves which aren’t painful but look like they should be – it’s called myokymia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyokymiaI get that too. I didn’t know it had a name.
The BBC have picked up on
The BBC have picked up on this too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44446958
