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Well done for posting this
Well done for posting this JohnnyRemo, I had never seen it. The use of a plain clothes officer moving through traffic was inspired. If you want to catch them and stop them that is the way to do it, though I would have given him a small camera, just in case if it went to court, but I’m guessing they know what they are doing. In many ways I look back to the early days of mobiles, when they were holding it to their ear at least they would have their eyes forward, not concentrating, but at least in the right direction. The “groin obsession” is probably the most dangerous way of doing it.
Are the bearings and the
Are the bearings running smooth?
About to fit a set of Hope
About to fit a set of Hope Tech 3s to my new bike. My first foray into discs. I don’t want them to squeal. More things to learn about…
Sorry mattsccm, but nobody
Sorry mattsccm, but nobody deserves to die by being hit by a motor vehicle. Being hit and surviving is unpleasent enough. It’s not the pedestrian phone users that scare me.
Careful, I’ve been caught out
Careful, I’ve been caught out, being quite short sighted, about -7, by trying to get glasses that are too big or too curved.
I was gutted to discover,
I was gutted to discover, after deciding to not endure the torment that my use of contact lenses had become and after getting a lovely pair of Oakley perscription frames which the optician put in lenses, that Oakley do not make their lenses powerful enough for my percription. So no Iridium lenses.
I did without sunglasses for a while. Too many years of finding the sun too bright, and several pairs of really bad oakley percription frames, I thought I would get myself a pair of sunglasses that could also be used as my spare pair. I found to my delight that there is quite a market for second hand oakleys on ebay. Found the sunglasses version of the glasses that I had loved for many Years, Ti Zeros, and got my optician to make up a set of my shockingly complex and expensive tinted lenses for them. As I wanted them as emergency spares I went slightly lighter than I may have done for full on sunnys.
The original perscription Zeros frame had had slightly narrower lenses, as my lenses get quite fat at the edges, but since I had them, they have created a coating that reduces distortion towards the edges, and it really works, there’s still a little bit of “squeezing” but nothing like without it. It’s so good when looking through the tops to look down the road or the sides when looking behind. So good that I got the coating rather than the option of a mirrors coating, and I love the mirror thing.
Got my real glasses done all the same way, spare parts.
Nice to hear thats sorted
Nice to hear thats sorted Hussavik. I don’t know if you should have headset spacers rattling, they should be under a bit of pressure, Park Tools excellent website gives excellent advice on setting up headsets on https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/threadless-headset-service , parts 8 and 9 for this.
On one of the pages there is picture of a bike, and you hover over the bits you want to sort. Their method for fine tuning cup and cone wheel bearings made it so much easier for me.
And theres always Sheldon Brown if you want to know everything.
I have seen, in more women
I have seen, in more women centred articles on their saddle problems, and if we thought we had it bad, sometimes in the Guardian, of certain shops offering saddle fits with pressure measurements.
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Talking of our squirrelly
Talking of our squirrelly friends-
I very much like the look of
I very much like the look of your velocipede.
Mate, I cannot advise you on
Mate, I cannot advise you on your glorious choices, just get the one you love most.
I can however offer a bit of knowledge on keeping her. Unfortunately universities are are hotbeds of bicycle theivery. So be very careful. You might want to have something tough, second hand and for a couple of hundred quid, just for easier getting about. Very good locks, and use them well. Young people have not always learned much about security and the local scrotes know this. Your housemates will not care about your bike as much as you do. Get proper insurance and follow it’s many clauses, you don’t want to pay the money and get nothing if you lose your beloved bicycle. And it’s difficult, but let her get dirty, clean the drivetrain of course, filthy bikes do not look as good, and there will be a lot of shiny, badly locked bikes around, for a while at least.
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I have a Fibre Flare helmet
I have a Fibre Flare helmet light, it’s good, but only really of use at night, it’s not as bright as a “normal” LED. Best helmet rear light I have had. But Fibre Flare, the company seems to have gone now.
I did get an Exposure Red Eye Micro to stick in the back of my Axis, and that seemed good while it lasted, but inevitably wasn’t there one day, if I were to get another one I would have to figure out a way of keeping it, a small lanyard perhaps.
Now, just had a little look, and if I were to be a lot of city centre riding I might get Exposure’s Red Eye Rear Helmet Light, would still plug in my Axis, good and bright, probably very visible in gloom. Looks like Exposure no longer make them but old stock does seem to be available. Of course you need an Exposure front helmet light to slave it to. Hmmm, might get one just in case.
There doesn’t seem to be a good range of stand alone rear helmet lights. I think that a small COB unit unit from Knog or Moon might surfice.