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It will work with your
It will work with your current shifters, but you’ll only be able to use 10 speeds, so you’d have to choose which of the 11 or the 29 to ignore. Replacing the shifters is a big proportion of the cost, so you’d really need to want that extra sprocket.From personal experience, I run two bikes on 10 speed and one on 11, and I never really miss the 11th.
hawkinspeter wrote:
Fair enough, just don’t do it again
I’m a broken man, there’s no danger of doing it again.It was me, the numbers from
It was me, the numbers from my ride today were so epic that they triggered a meltdown when I uploaded.It did seem to break just as I uploaded (it got there but I can’t edit or add my photo) so I’m pretty sure it was me.
I’ll look forward to the
I’ll look forward to the Fermat’s Last Rim Brake theorem. And your ultimate analysis of whither the door mirror.I’m no climber at all but did
I’m no climber at all but did give a hill climb a go. Was totally friendly. It hammered down with rain and I think I was colder at the end of my warm up than at the start. I beat the guy who did an extra run on a rental bike, and the tandem with a trailer with three members of the same family, but no one else.I might not go again but would recommend it as something that ought to be tried. Type 2 fun!
It looks terrible – someone’s
It looks terrible – someone’s on a nostalgia trip there, or needs to bury an opponent under tons of asphalt.Traffic lights on roundabouts always seem to indicate an epic failure of design. If the demand isn’t even enough for a roundabout, make a crossroads, and then you can have ASLs, pedestrian and bike phases. Is it actually that difficult?
On an unrelated rant, why don’t the illuminated signs on motorways that say “check your tyres” (what, now?) get programmed to say “queuing traffic is your fault, get the train”?
Or a some videos show more
Or a some videos show more than one miscreant driver?Rendel Harris wrote:
Just throwing it out there: those cities are literally a who’s who of where voted remain in 2016.The statistics are based on driver answers to a questionnaire, so we can extrapolate that Remainers are considerably more honest and less delusional than Leavers. Just throwing it out there.
You get more troll points if you can get people to argue against you as if your lies are true.
Nigel’s grasp of falsehood is on show here. Leeds voted Remain by 50.3 to 49.7. Cardiff was 60-40 and Bristol 62-38. None of those three make the top 10.
Tyres? I’ve had those
Tyres? I’ve had those symptoms on motorcycles with tyres on the way out. Also a horrible high speed vagueness on a bicycle that I spent ages trying to find, which turned out to be caused by a badly patched tube on the rear.So it might be worth trying a tyre switch.
Rich_cb wrote:
… my rapid demise would drastically reduce my carbon footprint.
Only as long as you make sure your corpse is composted…Chris Hayes wrote:
Geometry, size and weight apart, I think that wheel build, tyre selection, and tyre pressure have more impact on ride quality than frames (and I have two Ti, one ally, one steel, and two carbon frames – with interchangeable wheelsets).
My carbon gravel bike on 38 mm tyres is noticeably less comfortable than my old steel bike on the same tyre in 32 mm, even with slightly lower pressures. I can’t eliminate all the variables of course, but I can believe that old steel frames are comfier (and way less laterally stiff, a taste I am trying to re-acquire).+1 for Tourney working really nicely, even when quite mangled, but I have seen too many jockey wheels fall out due to lack of thread lock. Tighten the bolts and the wheels stop moving…
That Linkglide looks
That Linkglide looks interesting but only 1x and I wonder how compatible with road groupsets. I would certainly pay a little extra and accept a bit more weight to get longer lasting chains in particular.There might be quite an interesting feature to be written on the lesser known Shimano products.
This is exactly right. Far
This is exactly right. Far less resource goes into an old bike refurbishment than into a complete new bike, and you probably get better value if you choose carefully. We need to wean ourselves off shiny, and the recent hill climb test shows that little real performance is lost.The only other absolutes as far as I know are:
a) not carbon as you can’t recycle it at end of life
b) spares availablity is important but most things are available somewhere, though perhaps at a price.I’ve just bought an axle end cap for a very fancy but old Mavic wheel that was being binned as useless without it. USD 53, including postage, for a part that would have cost about 10p to make when current. But that $53 has, in effect, bought me a whole fancy wheel. So expensive but also not.
I got a pair of these on eBay
I got a pair of these on eBay. For me the size was a bit too generous, and judging by the crease marks in the uppers, the previous owner did as well. Decent shoes in general though.eBay has worked very well for shoes for me – prices are not high if you are happy with older models and you can give things an extended trial, reselling if they are not right. I doubled my money on the RO88Ws (to £20!) just by giving them a good clean.
Defensive and submissive are
Defensive and submissive are different things (and not just in the BDSM community…). Defensive riding should reduce the opportunities that drivers have to place you at risk. Submission may be necessary if a driver does place you at risk.My preference is always to live rather than be right, so I probably submit earlier than some and filter less. As a teenager I had a frightening experience similar to Rendel’s description, wondering if my bars were wider than my shoulders and how strong they were. Almost 40 years later, I’m more cautious.
