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I’ve just realised that no

I’ve just realised that no-one took the bait when I included a photo of the tyre where it states ‘e-bike ready’. I’m disappointed.

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Get in the sea

Get in the sea

Somehow these submerged cars are not as entertaining when it’s not a BMW driver whose premiums just went up.

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If they know they can get

If they know they can get away with pushing cyclists around, won’t they just keep doing it?

Yes, when the only police ‘action’ is ‘having a word with the driver’ and ‘sending some educational information’.

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I have now sent the wheel

I have now sent the wheel back to Chain Reaction Warranty returns via Parcelforce-£11 tracked. I think they have now given up the ‘contact the manufacturer’ dodge. All of the spoke hole cracks in the WTB i23 rim were on the drive side holes, with none on the disc side- so there must be some bad machine wheel building going on with drive side spokes tightened too hard. 

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It may be of some interest
It may be of some interest here that I have now sent back to Chain Reaction the wheel I described in the ‘collapsing rim’ topic. I didn’t notice this when I first observed the failure of this WTB i23 rim, but ALL of the cracks occur at the drive side spoke holes. Some of them are huge. It is no doubt indicative of considerably higher tension in these ‘steeper spokes’ when it’s a machine built wheel. There aren’t any nipples coming through to the inner rim. Interestingly, I kept riding on it for a couple of weeks and it didn’t get worse or go more out of true

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Warning letters are worthless

Warning letters are worthless- so that means No Further Action on any of them. Is it any wonder that we’re on here year after year complaining about close passing, when drivers discover they can pass as close as they like and get away with it?

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Nonsense!- and from another

Nonsense!- and from another of these dodgy single-posters.There is no load on the bike wheel, because it’s all on the single trailer wheel. And I have a lot of experience on all kinds of bikes, including pannier loaded touring where all the load is on the bike wheel.

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Could be just a single

Could be just a single unbroken white line

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Up my street here in the Wild

Up my street here in the Wild West, almost nothing done by the drivers of motorised vehicles is deemed illegal. Both Lancashire Constabulary and Royal Mail refused to take any action.

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They seem to think as there

They seem to think as there is not a double white line, that it’s still ok

I object! They definitely do think that where there is a double white line it’s still OK

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tyre noise is usually quite

tyre noise is usually quite noticeable, though

I agree. I don’t view electric cars as any less detectable than a large IC engine van travelling at 50 which suddenly appears by your right shoulder. 

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This seems to differ from the

This seems to differ from the GoPro (mine’s a Hero 7), which has good hardware but dire unsupported software. At the moment my software is working and you can still get the GPS data- that’s vital for me. However, it could stop working at any moment and refuse to load- you can still get the video files out and edit using normal Windows tools, but I think it would then be a lot of work to sort out how to obtain the GPS.

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Standard junk- cyclists

Standard junk- cyclists breathing and spreading Covid, and ‘cyclist killed in collision with a van’, implying cyclist hits blameless van, whereas it’s almost invariably (it’s a time trial, so I admit there is another possibility) it’s van hits cyclist because the van driver thinks cyclists are always travelling at 10 mph. It appears there is a lot of inbreeding around there.

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Never seen an un-crashed

Never seen an un-crashed wheel deform so badly WTJS

Actually, it’s surprisingly undeformed- rim remains pretty straight as I ride on it as part of an experiment. Pressure about 40 psi, but it’s difficult to know the best pressure for damage limitation- higher for better force dissipation via the tyre, or lower for better air suspension over Lancashire’s usual cart track roads.

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I suppose the point is that I

I suppose the point is that I’ve had many bikes over 60 years of cycling and have never seen this – just about all the spoke holes show the circumferential crack and 2 of them are already pulling through. It’s sold as the Vitus Substance Adventure ‘gravel bike’ and has spent almost all it’s time on ordinary roads around North Lancashire or cycle camping trips towing a trailer- not a very hard life, and the spokes are intact and all original. Cleaning has nothing to do with it, and it’s pretty clean anyway for a bike just back from the Lakes!

Chain Reaction denied all responsibility for the hub failure and referred me to JoyTech who don’t reply and then said ‘buy a new wheel’. The irksome notion that all failures are due to someone else, preferably the cyclist, must be resisted so it’ll be the Small Claims Court procedure. I’ll probably win, as I did 20 years ago against a travel company.

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