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Them Victorians couldn’t get
Them Victorians couldn’t get enough of those pointless “status symbols” SUVs, didn’t they?
I wouldn’t mind my next light
I wouldn’t mind my next light having some stvzo compliance attached.
I have been waiting for Exposure to start selling their stvzo range, they put them on their website in the before times, with prices and everything, but never actually got around to actually selling them.
I have had to add an extra big battery, then a whole R4+ lightweight to my Hope setup, which I had hoped would be my spare/accessorie light by now.
I would buy Exposure’s big stvzo “style” or “applied for” light, even if they never got full accreditation, just to have a full friendly oncoming road user mode and to switch to 4000 lumen for hooning down rock strewn wooded downhills.
Peak gravel, I know…
Very disrespectful given the
Very disrespectful given the time of year.
The village near where I work out up giant poppies on the lampposts last week and they all started wearing poppies on today’s Sunday Brunch.
One maybe for our tool
One maybe for our tool addicted squirrel friend, well I have finally discovered a multi tool featuring a Japanese Industry Standard (2) pattern screwdriver, there is a multitool article when I had asked. Bit late for me as I now have a workshop tool (shipped from Japan at a very reasonable rate) and I have moved on from Shimano to Rohloff and Hope on my every day ride. Was looking at a very nice green disk trueing tool at those good people at Abbeytools and scrolled through their fine collection. The JIS is one of the many options, and it’s in green, of course.
https://www.abbeybiketools.com/products/4-way?variant=3439001567262
I too rate the Elite Deboyo,
I too rate the Elite Deboyo, very much so, and have before. Though the new one has a narrower mouth so is not quite a giant cup thing.
Their Mia is slightly more bottle like but features full metal insulation, only silicon seal. Better tasting. And I found them being sold in Decathlon.
Singletrack big up the Kleen Kanteen thermal cup thing (branded in their store) but I couldn’t find out whether it would fit the standard bottle cage.
I have noticed that many
I have noticed that many drivers don’t seem to adjust their speed to the conditions these days.
I drop a gear when wet and two when very wet, just take it easier. Yes my disk brakes will now work incredibly well when very wet (front still screams mind…) But the tyres just don’t have the traction. Far slower going around corners too, and less of a lean angle. But then, I’m part of the environment and not separated from it by a big metal and glass, temperature controlled box…
It did work though.
It did work though.
I think Pilot Pete has discussed some weakness in a redriven rivet, as I remember there is some peening on the head of the good rivet, which is removed when redriving it. Campag has its own peening tool.
https://www.ukbikefactory.com/park-ct11-rivet-peening-tool-for-campagnolo-11-speed-chains.html
Parks version is fairly reasonable, campag’s is about £140.
Not only does David9694 prove
Not only does David9694 prove once again he can come up with a fine forum topic and show that the forum is far from dead, but he has a cracking selection of tools.
Though the better than most bike shop mechanics peg board that featured on something a few weeks back was really magnificent.
When I got a set of Mavic
When I got a set of Mavic crossmax to do a winter so I didn’t destroy my last set of xc717s, (had to bring the Getting to Work bike out of retirement whilst waiting on a warranty replacement in the world wide bike COVID boom) I brought them in full knowledge that if anything went wrong then that was it, very little replaceable and/serviceable. Lasted the 4 months that I needed. They were nice enough wheels while they lasted.
The ridiculous and expensive
The ridiculous and expensive Park Tools 14mm hex key.
You have quite happily used a trusty and common 10mm hex key, for decades, to remove your Shimano freehub, for cleaning, replacing or in desperation very temporarily rejuvenating with spray lube until you can source a new one. And then after a disappointingly short period after getting a new hub on a newly hand built wheel, the freehub locks up/destroys itself, but you’ve got an old freehub sitting around, so cockily you think you can sort everything out, sit down with all of your cone spanners and new 1/4 inch bearings. But what’s this!! Everything is different. No nice steel spindle, there’s a big fat alloy pipe, tiny bearings that have no place on a rear wheel and then the 10mm hex spins in the bolt.so you then discover not only that you need a new freehub and cannot get going by using the one in the parts bin, you will have to get the 14mm hex key.
But it’s actually alright, because the new freehubs never last as long as the old ones because they have made them much thinner and more delicate. So more use.
I went for the Park CCP-2
I went for the Park CCP-2 (now apparently the 22) handled crank puller. Even though I have Middleburn extracting crank bolts, I opt for the aforementioned ti crank bolts and some lovely blue anodised allow screw in crank bolt covers. Which were very difficult to find.
Unfortunately with the first crank remover I purchased, the pusher was to big to fit through the square and ripped out the relatively delicate alloy thread of the crank, (non drive side so cheaper to replace the arm), continued to use the puller for many years by adding a spacer.
They never added the time
They never added the time delay to the communications.
NASA managed to do it when they faked the moon landings…
And the decathlon thingy is a
And the decathlon thingy is a third of the price.
And the newer rohloff only needs a screwdriver to get the rear cog off. And then the cog can be flipped to get many more miles out of it…
It might not help and do it,
It might not help and do it, but this is the perfect excuse to add the Pedro’s Vise Whip and the Abbey Crombie to your tool collection.
Cassette removal luxury.
Pedro’s Milk Levers.
Pedro’s Milk Levers.
Have three, still going from the mid to late 90s, unfortunately I took off one of the “seating” ends this year, sigh, tubeless tyres…
The milk comes from being made from recycled milk bottles.
