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X-ray film is useful for
X-ray film is useful for hooking over the tyre bead, but it can’t cope with much curvature and forms sharp folds. Old tyre sidewall is the other part of my tyre repair kit kept at the bottom of the tool ‘bottle’ carried in one of the bottle cages. Interestingly, I saw a bulge on the sidewall of the 20″ tyre on my new Halfords Intercity folder when I pumped it up hard for testing purposes (not a delamination). However, the problem was soon cured by taking the tyre off and centre-ing the rim tape and seating the tyre properly. I do that on a new bike anyway, as well as slackening the cones which always seem that little bit too tight.
Are you somehow under the
Are you somehow under the impression that boring tubed tyres never have delamination issues or other manufacturing defects?
That depends on whether, in your superior way, you discount as ‘hearsay’ the experience of a 70 year old cyclist who is just back from cycling around the lakes with a heavy trailer and has previously carried bike and equipment from Zermatt over the glacier to the Theodulpass and down to Cervinia etc etc. I call that ‘experience’ and I’ve never experienced a delaminated tyre. I’ve had them wear through due to excessive economising and found that you can solve that with pieces of old tyre or tough polymer like x-ray film, but never had blebs like those.
HP is a worthy source of
HP is a worthy source of advice about things to avoid- I have taken note of the radical Ultegra Pasta Cranks, and now it’s the delaminating super-techno graphene tubeless tyres with aero-blisters which confirm my decision to stick with boring old tubes and Schwalbe Marathon Plus. I’m sure they’re slower but it doesn’t make much difference while towing a trailer round the Lakes, and I haven’t had a puncture for over a year
Looks like good dogged work
Looks like good dogged work by the police!
The ironic thing is that you
The ironic thing is that you can’t see the huge harm that you’re doing
What nonsense! Huge harm?! This is a pro-cycling website seen by a few people and ‘doing huge harm’ with it is not possible. The huge harm was committed by the people harking back to the Days of Empire and ‘going it alone’- if you don’t agree, then you’re entitled to say so.
However, they do appear to be
However, they do appear to be about to drive through a green light
True, but there’s no colour prejudice at Lancashire Constabulary and you will be treated to exactly the same even-handed complete lack of interest and determined total inactivity when you go through a red light, just like MW15 WFF
Or BX14 VFM, observed
Or BX14 VFM, observed regularly since June. 32 months without VED- traffic legislation enforcement has been abandoned in Lancashire at least- ANPR cameras switched off and binning of offence reports by the police. Consequently, a lot more offending
Too bad this one was never
Too bad this one was never stopped for the false plates in the days before
Is this some traffic-law enforcement Shangri-La we’re talking about? You’re never going to be stopped in Lancashire for false plates, or for years of no VED, insurance or MOT. Look at NJ12 LJN on the A6 for instance
It is slightly cheering that
It is slightly cheering that cyclists are not the only invisible road users subject to the ‘I didn’t see you and didn’t mean to do it’ excuse.
BMW on BMW – genuinely
BMW on BMW – genuinely surprised that the police swung into action here
They certainly wouldn’t have done in Lancashire- police won’t touch BMW’s here, no matter what they’ve done (or Mercedes, Audi or JLR). AF11 XVU was reported when detected on 18th July and is still driving around now
I would talk to a
I would talk to a wheelbuilder
Agreed. There are lots of these- Paul Hewitt in Leyland will know all there is to know about such factors. I find I don’t even notice how loud my freewheels are, but I am almost always cycling alone
The presumed advantage is
The presumed advantage is that the problems arise when you put a new chain on a worn cassette – so you put worn chains on worn cassettes, and the chain change over is an opportunity to clean the grime encrusted chain at least once during its life. I have followed this system for many years. Four chains seems to be about right for 2 alloy chainrings and a cassetteMy Vitus Sora 9-speed ‘gravel
My Vitus Sora 9-speed ‘gravel’ will soon have done 3 years and 15-18,000 miles- on a total of 4 chains: the original and 3 cheap KMC chains. I have a system where I remove them when they reach the first wear point using a Rohloff chain wear tool, and then bring them back in rotation until the second wear point. They have all been faultless, and I have never in 55 years of cycling broken a chain. I will then be moving to 46/30 and 11-34 from the present 48/32 and 11-32- this bike has done a lot of heavy trailer towing, and many muddy tracks such as the entire Pennine Bridleway
do people hate Range Rover
do people hate Range Rover drivers (/tourists) so much that no-one with the means to tow it was around?
Yes, but not as much as they hate BMW and Audi drivers. The police, of course, have much sympathy with people so afflicted by poverty that they can’t afford an MOT
I’m amazed at the placid
I’m amazed at the placid acceptance of police double (at least!) standards on here. Cyclist goes through red light and it’s ‘we’ll throw the book at you, you red light running cyclist b******!’. Driver goes through a red light and the police (in Lancashire, anyway) just ignore it and social media comments of ‘everybody does it’ are generally accepted. ’40 tonne tipper at 50 mph through red light? That’ll do nicely, sir and … mind how you go’. We have just seen a thread where the Filth responded to a driver passing a light at red with ‘what about cyclists going through red lights, then’. I’m putting this on here again because it shows the point, but I have HD video of loads more RLJs ignored by Lancashire Constabulary, including one where the van had no MOT. This is the scene when the lights turned red, before Audi Q5 T90 JDT crashed through them at 40-50 mph, towing a large caravan
