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I’ve got one of those, but
I’ve got one of those, but don’t know where it came from.
Here’s the spoke tools I could find easily. I’ve included the rubbish one you get with the Park Tools tensionometer and also an aero spoke holder (expensive piece of black plastic with slots in it). I’m sure I’ve got a long nipple driver (missus!) somewhere, but can’t find it and it’s easier to just use a normal spoke key in my opinion.
I also found an NBT2 cassette lockring remover (https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m13b0s72p595/NBT2-%28Next-Best-Thing%29-Cassette-lockring-remover) so that’s in the photo too. Never used it as it looks like it’d trash a frame in my careless hands.
Not really local, but had to
Not really local, but had to post this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up
The driver was an employee of the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association making a work-related visit to Tofukuji, so the next time you’re berating yourself for a Monday morning screwup at the office, you can likely console yourself with the fact that you didn’t damage any 500-year-old historical sites.A police spokesperson said that they have nothing to go on
Here’s an item I think you don’t need – spoke tension meter.Now, there’s a parallel to gardening here, which I’ve attempted to do this year for the first time really since childhood. We wanted to do a wild flower patch. The instructions for the so-called wild flowers said you had to prepare a seed bed, fine tilth.
Yeah, right, they’re wild, so I just sprinkled them around the grass, didn’t mow it and waited. Well, that went well – a patch of long grass.So it goes with wheel building and spoke tensions. “Ping” on the drive side, “pong” on the non-drive – or the other way around – but the point it’s simple and instinctive. Wheel build instructions sound like such a bunch of old women some times. In my case, it’s been 5 happy years since my first wheel build, so that must count for something – right?
I’ve got one of those and only used it once or twice. I found it fiddly to measure each spoke and slightly unnecessary as I tend to go by the feel/sound of the spoke. When building/trueing, it’s easy enough to figure out which spokes need adjusting to move the rim where you want it.
Maybe I should dig out my various spoke keys as I swear they must be breeding.
Will someone please think of the drivers? Welcome to my world, guys.‘John Reynolds recently travelled up to Gainsborough to go walking and he thinks the recent reports are “shocking”. The 69-year-old from Peterborough said: “It’s shocking really when you think about how dangerous that could be, it’s life-threatening.’
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/residents-scared-worried-go-out-7713792
That sounds very scary. I wonder if it was these two?
I’ve at least been listened to if I calmly state the problem or infraction, explain that it tends to kill people, ask them if they could avoid it in future and thank them.
No-nos are shouting, swearing and banging or otherwise touching their precious tin box.
And for sure send to the police – each submission takes 45 mins now.
Might help that I’m a girl …Friday it was a 15cm close pass at 30mph in a 20mph by driver breathing laughing gas from a balloon – driver was so laid back he had trouble forming coherent words at the next lights …
I’ve previously tried to talk to drivers, but there’s only been a couple where they’ve appreciated the issue, so I just don’t bother nowadays as it just leads to me being angry or frustrated. The police get paid to deal with the public, so I leave it to them.
There’s an Ogmios episode that features him inadvertently breathing in nitrous oxide, but I was thinking that was satire.
I’d second that – they’re a
I’d second that – they’re a good combo of relatively cheap prices, great performance and Wiggle providing warranty.
Jogle]SKODA CRASHES INTO
#NoDriverInvolved https://www.islandecho.co.uk/skoda-crashes-into-parked-car-on-rydes-marlborough-road/%5B/quote[b]SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR ON RYDE’S MARLBOROUGH ROAD[/b] It’s sounds like a dangerous road [Quote]It’s unclear if the C4 was shunted into a Suzuki Jimny parked behind it. The Suzuki was involved in a similar crash back in May last year.That reminds me of this:]
more e-scooter pearl clutching over in leafy Bath. If only cars were geo-fenced/ regulated to this degree!Whatever her real motivations are, and there seems to be a dispute on the facts of which is the steepest hill out the 3 routes to the university, at least Cllr Wright identifies the principal source of the danger:
“Widcombe Hill is a dangerous hill for e-scooter users because of mixing at the low speed of 12.5mph with larger, faster-moving motorised vehicles, in combination with steepness, parked cars…”
If only they could accelerate out of harm!
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/baths-dangerous-new-e-scooter-7697957Is that worse than Lansdown Lane?
But it is very satisfying spinning the handles to get it to tighten up.Most definitely. Very smooth action and with the mass of the handles, angular momentum wins over the friction.
And it’s definitely not the gun that Cyril Cusack makes for Edward Fox in Day of the Jackal?Possibly, though it could probably benefit from not being solid if you wanted to get a bullet through it. More useful as some kind of club, I’d guess.
Are you sure that’s not another headset press? It looks enormous.if it really is a b/b press then my comment was going to be “unlike the clunk you get pedalling”?
Mine wouldn’t cope with a head tube you might get at over 24″ size.
It’s a Park Tool HHP-2 headset and bottom bracket press https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/bearing-cup-press-hhp-2
And yes, it’s fairly enormous.
That’s why the cycliq make
That’s why the cycliq make the best cameras for cyclists. Battery life is good, the video is very clear (except in low light conditions) and the SD card storage is self-managing with it over-writing older videos. You can also mark a video to not be auto-overwritten, but I can never remember what button that is.
I don’t think trying to
I don’t think trying to confront drivers with their dangerous driving is going to achieve anything as they’ll either get very defensive or very aggressive (maybe both). Just go with sending it to the police.
There’s a bunch of cheaper Cycliq imitations around, but I don’t know how they compare. From what I can gather, there’s still no decent competitor to Cycliq which is a shame as they’re expensive and have their own quirks (why can’t I keep my front and back cameras showing the same time?).
Not really something you’d
Not really something you’d want to carry along with you, but this bearing press has a very satisfying *CLUNK* when you adjust the width.
The tool missing from most cylists tool bags is a pair of pliers. When that gear cable goes and you want to jury rig a get you home gear, what are you going to use (we carry a 5cm end of gear cable for the purpose) but also useful for jammed bike locks and for cutting cable ties and generally dealing with awkward loose things.Missing you say?
Here’s some of my saddle bag tools including a Gerber Dime pliers tool.
