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End of summer the selant will need a refresh, so that could mak sense, Are they OK to use with Stan’s Race Sealant though? It has pretty obvious fibres in it which generally makes it unsuitable for injecting through a valve.
Possibly not, though I’ve only used Caffelatex so don’t know
The email said: “We use a secluded ‘classroom’ area surrounded mostly by bushes and trees so we are removed from the main body of the Downs. Yesterday, a car began to drive into the classroom area while 29 five and six year olds were seated on the ground.”Two volunteers immediately approached the driver and asked him to back away, which he did, but then he parked on the trail which was about to be used by the children. The email said: “They asked him to move again and he refused and was very rude to them.”
The volunteers remained calm in order to defuse the situation, according to the email. It added that the children had been placed in ‘an extremely vulnerable position with a volatile person at the wheel of the car illegally on the Downs’.
I’ll add one to the list as it will make the routine check-and-top-up of sealant a little easier.You could add MilkIt valves to your list if you feel like changing your valves.
https://road.cc/content/review/176166-milkit-tubeless-valve-and-refill-kit
Pain along outside of foot. Will a bike fit fix it!?Here’s a couple of results from putting “site: road.cc foot pain” into google:
https://road.cc/content/forum/pain-outside-my-foot-280497
https://road.cc/content/forum/119918-right-foot-pain
https://road.cc/content/feature/how-important-foot-position-and-posture-cyclists-292331
You could try experimenting with changing your cleat positions to move your foot further outwards (or change where you position your foot if you have acoustic pedals). A bike fit is a good idea as they may well spot something that wouldn’t occur to you.
Suffice it to say that I’ve managed to strip one by doing the tight-as-I-can thing. I yam a big strong lad, see? Both the lock ring and the body had to be replaced as the threads on both got mangled.Not THAT hard.
Cassette freeehubs can be relatively easily replaced if damaged and aren’t ridiculously expensive unless they’re a proprietary design used by a-one o’ them £3000-a-set wheel purveyors. But imagine that you strip the threads on a centre-lock disc wheel hub ……Hubs aren’t too expensive to replace but it takes a bit of time rebuilding the wheel.
But haven’t found I’ve needed them so far. The new Vittoria Corsa NEXT tubeless tyres I have went on with my thumbs (I know…hero).
Come on HP…help me spend some money!! ?
I’ve very rarely managed to put on a tyre using just my thumbs, but those tyre pliers just make it so easy to push and pull around tyres.
Do you drive?. scenairo 1 – 15 cyclists in a line make any safe overtaking impossible for a couple of miles; scenario 2 – cyclists split in into 2 groups allowing for some safe overtaking earlier on – cyclists reach their destination at pretty much the same time. Bit surprised you needed me to explain this, think a child would get it.Seems contrived to me. Overtaking 8 cyclists is hardly much difference to overtaking 15 cyclists assuming you leave suitable space. Meanwhile, splitting 15 cyclists into 2 groups means that you’ve got two cyclists at the front which is a more tiring position to take along with reduced aerodynamics for the two groups. Logically, if two groups of cyclists are better than one group, then shouldn’t you be wanting them to separate entirely into 15 individuals?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/mum-faces-abuse-parking-busy-8589080
A mum has faced abuse for having to park on a busy A-road after double yellow lines were painted over her usual parking spot. Laura Murray, who lives in Keynsham with her son, originally used the on-street parking on Pixash Lane which was removed in February as part of work to accommodate the new Keynsham Recycling Hub.Now she has been forced to leave her car parked on the busy A4 Bath Road in order to park near her house, but has faced abuse from other drivers. Ms Murray said: “It’s been an absolute nightmare.”
She said: “That’s the only legal place I can park because anywhere else is double yellows. They won’t let me park on the land outside my house because it’s not a dropped kerb and apparently it’s too close to the junction.”
Do you drive?.No, should I?
One torque wrench is no longer sufficient – unless you’ve found one that goes from 0.5Nm to 50Nm. Teeny bolts such as the bleed bolt on the hydraulic brake levers or the front mech push-plate bolt now come with recommended torques settings; the biggest torque needed on a bike is generally 40-50Nm for things like the chainset retension bolt, cassette retainer and disc lockrings.Do you have any press-fit bearings (e.g. in the BB, headset or wheel hubs)? If so, various pullers and presses are essential if you’re going to replace the press fit bearings yourself. Bolt & cup pullers, by the way, are far better than those drifts you hit with a hammer to free press fit bearings.
A slot tool for straightening bent discs could be useful. I have one – but haven’t yet bent a disk, mind.
A wire stripper and electrical connector-squisher tool is good for putting on and taking off the caps used on the ends of bare cables, to stop them unravelling.
I wouldn’t consider a torque wrench “necessary” for things like cassettes that specify 40-50Nm – just do it up about as hard as you can manage easily. Though I do own a large beam style torque wrench for larger torques, I can rarely be bothered to use it. For things like headset and seatpost bolts, I always use a torque wrench as I wouldn’t want to damage a CF frame.
it’s not hard to understand (just see previous comments) but some cyclists can’t be bothered to be considerate just as some car drivers can’t either…. I get it.Well 15 cyclists in a single file is legal as is 15 cars in a single file – legality is irrelevant to the question.
What cyclist behaviour would you think to be considerate and why is a single file not considerate?
Applicable in a city or town with reasonable public transport, but many towns have poor bus services and public transport links which lead to an increased dependency on cars. Local services here have been cut drastically, add to that the trains service also is abysmal. I cycle a lot of my journeys and do use the train (when it is running) for my commute, but the reality is we still need a car to get around in many cases.That’s one of the problems with designing towns around the motor car – it then becomes necessary as it crowds out all the other options. Even public transport becomes undesirable as virtually everyone living in such places will need to own a car anyway and thus the problem continues.
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The thing that’s made the biggest difference to me since Christmas is a nice set of colour coded hex keys (Pearson Fiddlesticks) because I was sick and tired of wondering where I’d left the 5 mm one again. But then I am a bit absent minded.I got some colour coded hex keys a while back and recently Mrs HawkinsPeter spotted them and asked if they were LGBT rainbow ones. I’d consider my hex keys to be male/hetero as they only work properly with female socket bolts etc. but maybe they’re also LGBT allies.
I disagree; I do think it’s selfish but legal. However just because something is legal is not a reason not to adopt more considerate behaviour (but that applies more to drivers than cyclists).I don’t follow how it is selfish? 15 people on bikes will take up an equivalent space of maybe 3 cars which would typically be 3-4 people. That seems economical to me and choosing to use a car with only one or two occupants strikes me as extremely selfish, especially when you consider the pollution that they create.
I don’t get why you’re bringing the legality into this.
A pair of tyre pincers or
A pair of tyre pincers or whatever they’re called
