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For me at the moment, it was
For me at the moment, it was the torrential downpours of late, that flooded the roads with water that when that went, left the filth.
Some of the hilly bridleways were stripped to pebbly and chalk riverbeds, with pools of silt and horse poop in sections.
Rim brakes wear out rims
Rim brakes wear out rims (ceramic/carbide excepted, of course), they just do, it’s part of aluminium braking surfaces. Never used carbon, but I’m guessing that’s much more expensive. I had a set of very precious and rare Mavic 717s eaten in about 11 months, it was a fun and filthy commute, swisstop greens on curve/xt cantis, with a bath in the filth at the start of each end of different routes on the commute. The noise of the grinding was horrifying. It was a very wet winter, spring and summer, never truely drying out. There may have been a couple of days with no mud right in the middle of summer. Just one of those things.
On other more tarmaccy commutes I must have got years out of some rims.
One of the reasons that I decided to finally retire that bike was when Mavic stopped makng the 26 inch XC717. It is a consumable. That and SRAM no longer making their quality 8 speed chains. And 8 speed XT cassettes getting up to the £80 mark on ebay.
I had to do a shakedown ride yesterday, and I got to ride my ceramic rimmed Good bike, XTR Vs, Nokon cables and Ti brake booster on the front, and in the pouring rain, I must say they are not quite as good as my new Hope Tech 3 E4s. Not quite single finger braking, almost but not quite. Quieter though. I might go sintered pads for the winter on the disks, maybe less “barking” on the front.
And the ali rims/cantis in the pouring rain, whole different ball game. At least one full rotaion before there was any bite. Just have to ride a bit different. Little slower and with more forward thinking.
The quaint and lovely
The quaint and lovely oxfordshire village of Kidmore End has a blanket 20mph speed limit, yet some of the entrance/exit roads are national speed limit. Google maps is out of date, it shows 30mph to NSL. No real differnce in road quality of course. It now makes up part of my all weather off/on road hour ride.
At what point, if I were to be driving my massively overpowered and oversized motor vehicle, should I be accelerating from 20mph to 60mph? Should I at least wait until after the village primary school? I mean I would hate not to be doing 60mph at the point when I am actually legally allowed to.
There is no money being made.
There is no money being made.
And that’s not really how speed limits work.
But how can this be? Most of
But how can this be? Most of them are insured, registered, licenced and taxed.
There’s squirelly merch.
There’s squirelly merch.
And scratchy scratchy.
And scratchy scratchy.
Another fine article HP. I
Another fine article HP. I kind of knew it was you posting when I read the title. Thank you for trawling internet for very interesting stuff.
It is odd how we pander to the moton, and try as hard as they must, they always end up stuck in traffic.
Can you double wrap it or add
Can you double wrap it or add some of those gel pads to make it a little larger?
It seems to be written from
It seems to be written from her experience and those with whom she has talked to.
We may get abuse, talking as a middle aged male cyclist, but we can never hope to understand the levels of abuse that many women are subjected to in life, let alone whilst riding a bike.
The kid was 13.
The kid was 13.
They both look nicer in red.
They both look nicer in red.
Cheers for the reply Tony,
Cheers for the reply Tony, bit annoying but I’m going to keep coming back no matter what. Great site, and the free thing. I didn’t know if you were aware, that’s all. Interesting about the DOS attack, I wonder what extremist motoring organisation would do such a thing?
Mmmm, chocolate milk.
Mmmm, chocolate milk.
And they have mentioned a
And they have mentioned a self lubricating chain that is rather interesting too.