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No broken spokes on these
No broken spokes on these wheels, and I haven’t experienced any broken spokes for 20 years. The tension in the new wheel, to my untutored feel, seems a little higher on the drive side (which may well be normal and necessary) but no excessive tension
The saga drags on- the
The saga drags on- the replacement wheel duly arrived today, but the bike is still not back on the road! I anticipated trouble with the wheel coming back without a disc- somebody would just throw it in a skip and not bother to consider the disc. I therefore cleverly removed the 160 TRP 6-bolt disc- however, the returns people cunningly thwarted my advance planning- they sent a centre-lock wheel with no disc, and no comment or documentation. The wheel bearings seem good and it’s now Vitus-branded, the rim is true and unbranded. Did I hear that Wiggle owns Vitus but Wiggle is now owned by some German company? However, the original was 36 spoke and this is 28. I may be old-fashioned but that doesn’t seem enough for a rear designed for rough roads. There are also no ‘proper’ eyelets, so I doubt this wheel will last even the 18 months of its predecessor. They also didn’t pay the £11 postage for sending the wheel back to them. It’s all a bit of a pain
I would be prepared to
I would be prepared to compromise on the yyyy-mm-dd which makes both sides feel they have won
I have never experienced a
I have never experienced a broken chain, and for decades I ‘got away with’ the deprecated practice of pushing the pin out to the side plate and pushing it back in again, but I initially installed chains using the special Shimano pin that you snap off. I have now been through 4 chains with the 9 speed gravel bike, which came with a chain with a quick link. I bought replacement chains with a quick link and bought the tool. The has been no problem with any of these chains.
Yes, I already had 2 QR’s wih
Yes, I already had 2 QR’s wih BOB fittings, so I just took the fittings and put them on a Robert Axle Project 12mm through axle which has worked very well. The gravel disc brake bike was off the road (replacement wheel due today, so back to the joys of discs) so I took my touring bike wih the trailer up to Coniston. The next day I came over Wrynose and had just got to the bottom when the front rim exploded with a load bang from the inner. This is a good Hewitt wheel but is 20 years old – that’s rim braking for you, it wears through the rim. It was OK when I set out but the extra brake force requiired with the trailer finished it off. I was lucky not to fall at speed, and even luckier that friends were able to rescue me from Little Langdale back to the club hut and eventually deliver me, the bike and the trailer back to Garstang.
Yes, my body weight sat on
Yes, my body weight sat on the saddle while steering the bike along Lancashire and Cumbria roads as opposed to the alternative use case of leaving the bike in my bedroom to protect it was what ’caused’ the collapse of the rim. However, in the absence of a published rider weight limit of ‘under 74 kg’ and ‘gravel bike only to be used on smooth roads’, I don’t think they would get away with it.
The problem with this
The problem with this Aristotelian armchair theoretician stuff is that it is trumped by the invention of experimentation and hypothesis testing: place load on trailer, put finger under attachment arm where it clamps onto rear bike axle, determine that the upward force required of the finger is entirely negligible compared with the downward force exerted on the rear axle by my fat arse. Hypothesis that the loaded trailer exerts any extra significant force on the rear wheel is rejected at any level.
Just to complete the story:
Just to complete the story: Chain Reaction have finally agreed to replace the wheel, 2 weeks after it arrived and was signed for at their ‘Returns Centre’ at Bilston, West Midlands. It didn’t get visibly worse after I rode around on it for another couple of weeks and amazingly didn’t go significantly out of true.
I’m very happy with the stuff
I’m very happy with the stuff in even very lowly Shimano groups- I have just reconditioned my daughter’s bike for the other daughter. It’s a Halfords Carrera with Tourney, and with everything oiled and adjusted it’s perfect with very smooth shifting. I expect Campag and SRAM have equally loyal fans. It’s also aluminium and a cheap ‘racing bike’, and it’s the first aluminium road bike I’ve ridden. They’re supposed to be a hard ride on rough Lancashire roads, but I couldn’t really tell any difference from my Reynolds steel frames.This, received today at 13:50
This, received today at 13:50 illustrates the Lancashire Constabulary response to seriously close passes:
LC-20210821-1176
Thanks you for taking the time to submit your camera footage of the occurrence on Bowgreave Hill 05/08/2021 and to which the above log number relates.
We have forwarded educational material taken from the highway code to the registered keepers of bother vehicles involved referencing your complaint.
xxxxxxxx PC 1583 | Tactical Operations | Roads Policing | Dash Camera
This offence, below, occurred on the 4th August and was the subject of the online incident report with evidence file, video, etc on 5th August. It wasn’t looked at, and allocated a log reference number, until 21st August. It then received the new sniggering LC Super-Joke response, which is the rubbish educational material for the offender to laugh at and file in the bin, with no mention even of any warning letter. The PC gets the date wrong and it’s a poorly executed letter. That’s how it goes in Lancashire.
You should probably just put
You should probably just put up a public gallery of these
Ah!, but I haven’t put up the picture of Lancashire County Council Highways Management going through a red light for ages! And how would your new restriction on me be easier for people than just scrolling past a picture they don’t want to see? After all, I have to scroll past massive items consisting of quotes of other people quoting yet other people quoting…. I think the space I take up with the odd repeated photo is more than compensated for by the reduced space of my small italic selected quotations. I’m not sure if I’ve even used this one of PE70 RXP before…
One of the best articles on this I’ve seen is here. Very recent as well.
https://bristolcycling.org.uk/cycling-with-video-cameras-a-cyclists-pers…
Maybe it applies to Bristol, but it bears no relation to what happens (in other words, doesn’t happen) in Lancashire.
the majority of drivers do not apparently contest compelling video evidence
This case is coming up in a month or so. Lancashire Constabulary hasn’t replied to a request of over 2 weeks ago for the details of his court appearance. He is pleading ‘Not Guilty’ to the charge “Motor vehicle fail to comply with solid white line road markings”. He did it twice at the same location in 2 days
It hurts us all when people
It hurts us all when people do this
I owe it to my public to respond to this with a repetition of the photo. The answer is, yes he did
This is repetition, but…
This is repetition, but…
Driving courses are worthless if they’re online, and not much better if they’re genuine. ‘Having a word with the driver’ is even more worthless if that’s possible. I suspect that an ‘official warning letter’ has some meaning, but I only know that from the amount of effort Lancashire Constabulary puts into not sending them and just sending ‘educational material’ instead. The problem is that the sort of driver, often a BMW driver, who really deserves punishment is the sort who completely ignores any ‘nudge’ type of punishment because they regard it as a badge of honour. Points on the licence is the only effective deterrent: that’s why we’re still enduring endless NMotDs and the occasional death, because the police can’t be bothered. The main police weapon against the people they consider to be the real villains (cyclists reporting offences with impeccable video evidence) is ‘refuse to tell them anything!!’
I have mech Record, Chorus
I have mech Record, Chorus and Ultegra Di2 on my bikes, and whilst the latter is convenient, genius even, it has no soul
This reminds me of having a good laugh at so called audiophiles describing, in reviews of nutter expensive audio kit, qualities of sound which don’t exist like ‘colour’ and ‘forwardness’, when all that’s really there is frequency and amplitude, with a few legitimate shortcut terms like harmonics and echo. There are no souls in people, or bike components.
