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Heat shrink really does work
Heat shrink really does work for joining old and new inners. Cheap too, as long as you have a hair dryer to shrink it with.Brooks leather saddles are
Brooks leather saddles are perhaps a little older than I want, and definitely over budget. I’d go for a Spa if I changed my mind on having that look as cheaper and my backside would just have to harden up…I’ve lusted after a Cambium for a while for other bikes. I see now that some are on offer at £75 so only 50% over budget, obv nothing when it comes to bike spending. So I’ll think some more!
Ah, the inevitability of just
Ah, the inevitability of just one wafer-thin extra on any short list. I’ve seen good things about Buckets but nowhere to actually buy one. I think like most of the good Charge stuff, it’s all over except for some e-bikes.But thanks for contributing.
I did hesitate before buying
I did hesitate before buying the one AliExpress pro team clothing item I have, but then figured that it was too out of date (2017) and too lowly a team (Wanty Gobert, the Partick Thistle of cycling) for anyone’s job to be at risk at Northwave.So far I’m happy with the fit, the performance and the zip.
I’ve only had to do internal
I’ve only had to do internal brake cables, but the method I like is to cut the nipple off at the lever end, join the gear end of the new inner cable to the old cable with heat shrink, and then use the old to pull the new through.Has saved me a lot of faffing.
I’ve seen a few people saying
I’ve seen a few people saying that. I just hope the cheaper Al railed one is just heavier and not stiff. I might just go for it first as the deal I’ve seen won’t last forever. Even at full price the Planet X is less than I’ve saved on cake while my club rides have been off so I can afford that later if the Flite isn’t for me.Decision made.
Thanks everyone – plenty
Thanks everyone – plenty there for a short list.
I’m going to take a while to make up my mind, and as ever, what fits my posterior may not be quite the same as everyone else’s so whatever I go with first might end up on ebay (with a bunch of other saddles I really need to shift).
So far I am taken with the Flite (I know it’s slightly later than the bike but exactly the sort of saddle that might have been fitted as an upgrade) but a little worried that it might be too narrow. Good price at Condor, aluminium rails bring it under £50. Perhaps a little plain.
The Planet X Gran Sport was a surprise – it’s really cheap and looks nice, so I might take a punt. And the Regal does indeed look the business, I just need to decide if it’s the right look.
Of the others, the Rolls is a bit over budget, and I did want to buy new and shiny.
Thanks again everyone, I really appreciate that you took the time.
Thanks. I’ll go for it!
Thanks. I’ll go for it!Shorten the straps with a few
Shorten the straps with a few stitches? I am your size but the opposite proportions (short legs) and have considered adding an inch or two into bib straps.Any tips on Fulcrum free hub
Any tips on Fulcrum free hub servicing?My spare back wheel is a very lowly Racing Sport DB* with a clunky free hub. Last time it broke it spent 2 months in the shop waiting for new pawls. I keep meaning to strip it and see what’s up (possibly just mucky) but I hear worrying tales of springs making the pawls fly out, never to be retrieved from the wasp corpses in the corner of the shed…
*the DB is true but not the Racing or the Sport.
No, it was a long time ago
No, it was a long time ago now, a V50 T5, I think with the engine from a Focus RS orange / white stripe / arrest me now thing. The dealer withdrew it from sale as it had a dodgy water pump and he didn’t need the hassle.It was also a bit small and dark for my family so I got a far slower Toyota Corolla Verso, which has been excellent. Now 15 years old and in need of some TLC but for shifting family / bikes / all the stuff of real life, perfection. If they made an electric one I’d probably buy it.
Ok, so why is Volvo T5 or
Ok, so why is Volvo T5 or whatever the fast ones are called now so much more expensive to insure than the slower ones given the common panels?It’s because a small proportion of the claims cost is for damage to your car or even theft of it. The rest is all about compensation for putting other people into 24×7 care situations for life, which costs millions.
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People who drive crap cars have no real interest in driving. If you have no interest in it there’s far less incentive to be good at it.
Regarding speed limits and performance cars, name me just 1 public road in the UK that has no speed limit? Nowt, exactly. I don’t see the issue with having a speed limitless motorway or 2. You’d still be legally required to drive well and there would indeed be speed limits in poor weather etc. But ffs there is absolutely nowhere I am aware of where you can legally drive at 100mph or more. They have such a thing in Germany and this hasn’t resulted in plagues of gigantic man eating reptiles taking over or other unmanageble problems.
Race tracks are great but you can’t get to and from cities on Santa Pod.
Oh please. People driving cars you dismiss as “crap” might just have better things to spend their money on, like bikes. Or just think that actually, given that you need to drive safely and the road is not reserved for you, a 1.2 Vauxhall is adequate. Or perhaps they’ve grown out of appendage measurement by transport box. And they may well be quite safe drivers because they realise their limits.
What would happen if, say, the M1 suddenly became unlimited? All the country’s boy racers would head there to race. And I use the word “boy” advisedly because these are not adults. The rest of us would pay in CO2 emissions, emergency services time, and A&E capacity for those who survive their crashes long enough to get to hospital.
Driving in this country is barely policed due to budget cuts and a lack of will (politicians and police). So that’s no solution. If anything, speed limits need to fall and enforcement, even of the automated kind, needs to rise. Why should the rest of us pay so you can play at 100 mph, indulging your racing driver fantasy?
If the problem isn’t the
If the problem isn’t the performance car but the driver, why is it so much more expensive to get insurance on a powerful car?I’m a low risk driver according to the insurers – old enough not to go crazy, young enough not to have cataracts, in between enough not to wear any kind of hat. Yet when I was last changing car, I got a quote for a warmish Volvo estate that was 50% higher than my ordinary 1.8 Mondeo. Ok, the Volvo was quite lively but as a middle aged family man, they clearly thought that car made me a far worse risk.
It’s just my quote, and I’m aware it was a price not a probability, but there will be stats behind it.
And by the way, I do hope your 4×4 is regularly needed in mud, snow, etc. Cos the pitchforks are most certainly out for the Chelsea tractors.
Eva Herzigova “Hello Boys”
Eva Herzigova “Hello Boys” Wonderbra billboards, if you remember them. They were described as distracting, quite rightly in my opinion. Don’t Google them at work…
