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Just when I thought it was safe to return!
Oh, God help us all! Are you
Oh, God help us all! Are you on tomorrow night as well?
Yes, both in terms of
Yes, both in terms of difficulty in getting them to seat, and in developing bulges in the wearing surface of the tyre (twice). Add to that a general propensity to puncture and spew the sealant everywhere, plus a reluctance to stick to a damp road. My solution after buying a total of 5 of the things (two bulged, one full of holes and two nominally functioning) was to throw them in the bin and start again.
I’m minded to agree with the
I’m minded to agree with the counterfeit argument – a bike bought from a shop in the Ukraine that is no longer in business turns out to be a fake? Having said that, it would be worth discussing the design with the Cannondale dealer to see what they say.
FWIW i did 55 hilly miles
FWIW i did 55 hilly miles this morning. It was 34 degrees and I started sweating as soon as I got on the bike. I drank two bottles by half way, bought a litre at a little shop, refilled the bottles and drank those by the end, since which time I have been pouring water into my head all afternoon. If one bottle isn’t enough, take two. If two bottles aren’t enough, buy some more or find a tap.
Puritabs don’t kill off flukes and other parasites quickly and so drinking found water shortly after dropping puritabs into it is not a simple answer and not without risk – you need to consider the environment in which you found it.
My commute is 19.3 miles each
My commute is 19.3 miles each way into central London. There are around 100 sets of traffic lights of various persuasions along the way and on the way back the last 5 miles is uphill most of the way and into the prevailing wind. Doing that 5 days a week is tough going and in winter I tend to drive off the top of the hill and ride 13.5 each way instead, because the flog back up the hill in the dark is pushing it at the end of a long day.
I am thinking about it. Seriously, If I cane it in the morning I can usually manage about 16mph average. In the eveing, it’s someomewhere between 12-14mph depending on traffic usually. In addition to the hills (of which there are a few mild ones overall plus the more substantial lumps on the way home), it’s the stop-start effort at the lights which it would be good to lose.
The choice is whether to embrace the cargo bike thing and go for something like a Tern and dress normally, or stick with the roadie thing and opt for a Orbea/Ribble/Pinarello/Colnago. Or, Plan C, get something My Lawful Wedded Opponent might ride, a Go-cycle type thing. Test ride time…..
Before I gave up completely
Before I gave up completely on tubeless on a road bike, I had numerous patches on the inside of the tyres. The downside is that the liquid sealant works away at the patch and they come off after a while. Best plan was to clean all the sealant out, clean the hole up and put a blob of McNett Seamgrip on it and leave that to dry. Need the hole to be at the lowest point, somewhere warm, for about 12 hours.
Best thing though – throw the bloody things away, put some Michelin Pro4 Service Course on it and stop pretending that the King’s new clothes are awesome – they’re not – they’re full of holes, as you well know….IMHO, of course.
You can put a padlock through
You can put a padlock through the QR which locks the bike to the rack. I have a cable lock (years old, originally for locking boot racks to the car). It has a padlock at one end, a cable and a steel plate at the other. The plate goes inside the car and you shut the door on the cable. I have also run a proper thick bike cable down to one of the car wheels and either parked on it or locked it to the wheel with a D shackle (when parking up for a sleep for a few hours on a French autoroute).
On the plus side, they’re not that common so most villains won’t be familiar with them. On the other hand two blokes with a van can drive up behind a boot rack of bikes and chuck them into the back of the van in 5 seconds armed with nothing more than a pair of scissors
What rjfrussell said –
What rjfrussell said – Seasucker
I’ve given up with endless roofbars, boot racks that won’t fit for one reason or another. Bought a seasucker. Fitting instructions – slap a bit of water or screen wash on the suckers, slap the big set on where you want the front wheel – pump the suckers (10 secs x3). Put the rear sucker in the right place and pump that (10 secs) . Tie one crank to a chain stay with a length of old innner tube . Take off front wheel, put bike on roof. QR clamp for front wheel (disc or rim brake), (or bolt through with adaptor) and industrial-grade velcro for the rear. Done. From start to finsh, including fitting rack, about 5 minutes. To take it off – seconds. Possibly tested beyond the UK speed limit. Tested by Seasucker to 140mph. Fits on my wife’s BMW Z4 (tin roof, front on roof, rear on boot) and my car (glass roof). I could probably hang it off the rear window of my car, but have not bothered to try. All you need is a patch of smooth panel a bit more than a foot square for the front wheel and a patch six inches square for the rear, sensibly in line with the direction of travel. Won’t work on a canvas roof. If you wanted to attract the rozzers, you could put the front wheel on the bonnet and the rear wheel on the windscreen, or fit it to the doors sticking out sideways….
It may be that the rims are
It may be that the rims are wider than your last ones and so slackening the brakes off may be entirely appropriate. Clearly, I can’t see them, or know how much you have backed them off already but, for consideration…
realistically, what is it
realistically, what is it that you are trying to achieve? Protecting against the predictable is one thing (cable rub, chain slap), smothering a bike in plastic is something else. It’s not a good aesthetic really.
What they said – if you’re
What they said – if you’re fine, no problem. If you’re not, you’d be grateful, even if there’s nothing to be done to help (except maybe ride on up the road a mile to where there’s a mobile signal and pass on a message).
Just something that may be
Just something that may be helpful – I wear non-prescription sunglasses and, at this time of year, suffer badly from hay fever. I mostly wear a pair of wrap-around Oakleys and the purpose is two-fold – keep the massive airborne pollen-boulders out of my eyes and dim the lights a bit. The other day, being disorganised, I couldn’t find them and went with a pair of smallish RayBan Wayfarers. I was greatly surprised to find that there was a lot less buffet around my eyes and it was overall a marked improvement. They might not have the same aero-speeding-bullet look, and they will not fit onto my helmet vents, but right now I don’t care. I am embracing my new urban-aero look and am happier for it.
So – to the point – I think you can use a more conventional lens shape and have just as good a result. Oakley Trilby are a similar shape to Wayfarers.
Fear not, for this is the Met
Fear not, for this is the Met Police’s vision:
“The world’s best organisations succeed because they are inspired by a strong vision. To make the scale of our ambition clear, the Met’s vision is to:
Make London the safest global city
Be the best crimefighters, by any measure
Earn the trust and confidence of every community
Take pride in the quality of our service
So that people love, respect and are proud of London’s Met”I’m not quite sure what a global city is. I thought London (and the Met) had some rather more local geographic boundaries. Some Russians came all the way to Salisbury just to look at its cathedral. Does that make Salisbury a global city?
Any measure? Really?
Earn the trust and confidence of every community? Not sure about that one either.
Pride in the quality? I think my dog is very proud of a minging old cuddly toy. He goes and gets it and shows it to me when I come home.
Rubble sacks – fold shirt,
Rubble sacks – fold shirt, place in one corner of the rubble sack and fold rubble sack to fit, Makes a reasonably taught package that survives an hour and a half in a pannier, and is waterproof, and cheap.
