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Another one, just today,
Another one, just today, cruising along on club ride, post-cafe, and then multiplied today’s cafe spend by 52 to come up with just the £360 I’m spending annually on coffee, cake, bacon rolls etc.That’s a flesh wound. I got
That’s a flesh wound. I got home from a ride with this (I did notice a slight variation to ride quality). Managed to resist the temptation just to glue it down…
If you repeat all this info
If you repeat all this info in the Classic Road forum at retrobike.co.uk you might find someone who can help.Miller wrote:
Or just don’t wrap the bars at all, at first. Position the levers where you think they should be then go for a ride round the block to fine tune position. Wrap afterwards.
I guess it depends on how long a ride you need to be reasonably sure of the position. I used old tubes on my 1988 steel bike, where the bar and levers are very different in shape to a modern set, and I’ve changed somewhat as a rider since I last rode it much. I also suffer a bit from numbness in my hands, so need quite a lot of time to decide if things are just right.Have to admit that there’s a conflict between how it looks and how comfortable it is to ride as well…
Thanks for taking me via the
Thanks for taking me via the Echo to Outbrain land, where I learnt that one can save a fortune on costly electricity simply by disconnecting the neutral cable. Leave the live in place just in case anyone tried to nick the appliance in question.As side benefits, my toast is lovely and soft, my tea is cool enough to drink straightaway, and that annoying advert for snow leopards has stopped coming onto the telly every 12 minutes. Actually the telly isn’t working very well.
Replacing internally routed
Replacing internally routed gear cables where there’s not enough space to join new to old with heat shrink and pull through.I might hate pressing bearings in if I had the tools and nerve to try it. Fortunately my LBS is great and within walking distance for those times when all my skills have resulted in a pile of bits that can’t be ridden…
My trick for experimenting
My trick for experimenting with lever position is to wrap the bar with old inner tube until you’ve decided. It stays on surprisingly well. In fact, although it looks pretty terrible, it works nicely too – a bit of cushioning, quite grippy when dry.I had exactly that issue with
I had exactly that issue with a 20″ wheel child’s road bike (12 kg of steel, 5 speed Huret) and paid more for replacement tyres than for the bike itself.I sometimes see an RSW 16 being ridden in the east of Edinburgh, by a rather heroic guy who struggles against the gear ratios that Sturmey-Archer issued all those years ago. The tyres are white balloons that might well be original. The same size (305) was used for the front wheel of the Chopper so perhaps that’s a possibility if 50-odd years is beyond the safe life of the rubber.
WILLDB wrote:
… they still feel like cane operated single piston brakes
That’s just it, you need to give these a damn good thrashing daily to teach them a lesson. Nanny always did for me, and it never did me any harm though it did make me late for work today.(apologies to the late great Humphrey Littleton for theft of joke).
Awavey wrote:
what would be the point ? you arent interested in a proper debate on this, or allowing you might change your view from it, as I said at the beginning debates on subjects like this are wholly pointless
Just to repeat: you start by saying that such debate is pointless, but conclude by saying that Johnson was left of centre. Both of these cannot be true at the same time.Awavey wrote:
Well dont take my word for it, heres John Rentoul chief political editor at the Independents take… https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/editors-letters/boris-johnson-left-wing-tory-mp-b1840685.htmlNo doubt you’ll accuse him of being too right wing as he supported Blair and New Labour.
Not at all, I just think he’s wrong in his analysis. The key point is this: “if two-thirds of the British people support something, can it really be described as a hard right-wing policy?”.The answer to that is “yes”. A majority view is by no means intrinsically that of the centre.
Where Rintoul is a bit better (though far too brief to be more than trivial) is that the traditional left and right doesn’t really cover issues like Brexit.
But my main point to you was this: you start by saying that such debate is pointless, but conclude by saying that Johnson was left of centre. Both of these cannot be true at the same time.
If you want my view: Johnsonism is a bit closer to the One Nation Tory than most who claim that these days. No comment on his motivation for such policies. And you do have to count deporting if asylum seekers to Rwanda on the other side of the ledger.
And it is very difficult to detect a real compassion for people on the breadline. It’s shameful that so many need food banks – I am embarrassed to be British. Judge a nation by how it looks after its least fortunate. So for me, he’s still right of centre.
Awavey wrote:
Debates on subjects like this are wholly pointless as it depends so much on where you view yourself on the political spectrum as to whether something is left or to the right of you, to a left winger anyone who disagrees with them is far right.
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Neutral political observers have been quite happy to label Johnsons government, and Sunak as left of the traditional centre of British politics.I don’t think you can have this both ways. It also depends somewhat on your definition of “traditional”. If you include the era that seems to inspire JRM, with lots of opportunities to climb the inside of chimneys and get paid a farthing for it, perhaps you are right.
I would argue that a progressive government would do as much as possible to improve the lives of as many people as possible. Trickle down doesn’t do that, and I’ve seen very little from Sunak to suggest that he’s a builder up from the bottom and out from the middle, to quote Joe Biden.
A small stainless steel
A small stainless steel vacuum flask can fit in a bottle cage with a few mm to spare and will keep drinks hot for way longer than 3 hours if pre-heated. I got one from Asda, but I’ve seen plenty very similar in places like Mountain Warehouse for a tenner or so.I don’t use mine often, so rather than bend a metal cage to fit, I just pad it out with a piece of rag. Not high tech but gives me something to wipe up any spillage. I guess a sophisticate would have a doily, and a real style hound would match the doily to the antimacassar on the saddle…
Davey, I had frozen shoulder
Davey, I had frozen shoulder twice (same side) and my physio was very clear that he could help things along a bit but no more. Usually it goes away after a while but my progress was very slow.Luckily, I was offered an arthroscopy which disrupts the scar tissue. Googling that procedure was a bit worrying but it was painless and quick. After some work to increase the flexibility of the joint, I’ve been pain free for a couple of years and counting. So you might want to think about it.
On some (I lose track as
On some (I lose track as Campag recycle product names) the bit with the rubber ring is a lock nut. You unscrew the adjuster to get the pad adjustment and then screw the locknut the other way, down onto the caliper, fairly firmly. This holds everything in place. If you don’t do that, you’ll lose the adjustment gradually.It’s a bit old tech I suppose but perfectly valid engineering and in line with Campag being different because a) they are mechanical geniuses or b) the are the effing Citroen / Apple of bike parts.
