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They’re fine when they’re
They’re fine when they’re working
This is an unacrimonious dispute where the 2 sides can simply accept the difference of opinion. Mine is that when you see hedge cutting, you’ll have to get off and carry the bike. Hawthorn’s anti-cyclist disposition makes Lancashire Constabulary look like Chris Boardman
You’re all failing to
You’re all failing to convince me to go for tubeless!
A 32t (any 32t) 110 bcd
A 32t (any 32t) 110 bcd doesn’t exist
This doesn’t help on the original question, but the worry I had when buying my Vitus gravel was the FSD 4 bolt 120/90s which came with 48/32 and 11-32. I knew I really needed 46/30 and 11-34 for pulling a trailer etc. I couldn’t find any replacement rings at all initially and I thought that there may never be any because Big S went for 4 bolt 110/80 on GRX. Eventually, I found 46/30 and bought the bike, which proved to be one of my best ever cycling decisions. I’m still using the originals because I feel it’s my duty to wear things out! So if you can get 30 on 90 BCD, it seems likely you can get 32 on 80. However, strange things happen with bolt patterns and chainrings…
Hi Steve, like you (63) I
Hi Steve, like you (63) I broke my hip last January but my off was on black ice at 22mph
Crikey! There’s a lot of it about and I was even luckier than I thought, especially being 6 years older. In my case it was my own fault on Beacon Fell in Lancashire- fairly high with a one-way ‘ring road’ around the top. I was aware that ice could be a problem after a cold night so I waited until the afternoon on a sunny Christmas Eve. Descernding the main access road, there was a lot of traffic including all the large SUVs which I had seen congregated at the top car parks. There’s always a group of water leaks coming off the fields and crossing the roads but I thought the heavy traffic would have cleared the ice by then- I was wrong, and I was using the brakes to avoid a high speed and a slip under the wheels of an oncoming train of SUVs. Pretty painful for about 3 weeks.
I should have added I was
I should have added I was wearing a helmetVery wise- that’s what they’re for!
Plus I got a tiny bit of
Plus I got a tiny bit of frostnip on a couple of toes a few weeks ago so maybe I need thicker socks
Or waterproof socks over thin mostly-wool socks, which I have found to be very effective-another Aldi triumph. I feel for the OP because of my accident on Christmas Eve- straight down onto right shoulder and hip with no sliding and some post traumatic amnesia. I was lucky to avoid that hip socket fracture.
other option is to remember
other option is to remember to loosen/tighten the pins every so often to prevent them jamming.
Good point, also to be remembered with even the large hex-heads that hold your SPD shoe plates in. I seem to have been lucky with my TRP Spyres (the only DBs I’ve had) which came out easily after a year of being used in all weathers.
People with 3 dogs are
People with 3 dogs are generally nutters of one type or another, so prone to allow dogs to ‘slip collars’, despite all 3 being pictured with harnesses. She should have been warned/ prosecuted (Ho! Ho!) for endangering cyclists. This other 3 dog nutter below had all 3 in the front passenger compartment, but the famously deranged Blackpool TacOps Sergeant decided they ‘could have been correctly restrained’ because such restraining devices (for 1 dog only, of course) exist. That’s apart from crossing double white lines in a dangerous position on a humped bridge, which FDBTS also decided was a NaOiL (Not an Offence in Lancashire). Nowadays, I would get straight into a complaint.
In practice, you can cycle as
In practice, you can cycle as often and as far as you like. However, as I know that Lancashire Constabulary would dearly like to give me a stuffing I have had to curtail my red-light crashing surveillance because I couldn’t justify standing still by the roadside for an hour.
Thanks, WB
Thanks, WB
Thanks to all concerned for
Thanks to all concerned for these helpful links- I am rather ashamed to admit that I did not know about these stem bolt mounts at all. Welsh Boy: the mount on eBay is cheaper than suchlike devices on Amazon. I take it you have found this to be durable and functional?
The Bournemouth Daily Echo
The Bournemouth Daily Echo states:
Officers will also be carrying out intelligence-led fixed site checks, as well as engaging with motorists on the risks of getting behind the wheel after a drink or taking drugs.
Not in Lancashire, they won’t!
This project was misguided
This project was misguided from the outset- if those new non-disc wheels were intended for a previous bike, then use them on it. Don’t lumber a new bike with obsolete brakes with the spurious excuse that you can carry fewer spares. 2 pairs of brake pads and a pair of brake blocks are not very heavy.
Steel ‘gravel bike’ with
Steel ‘gravel bike’ with mudguard and rack fittings, no cables through the frame, drop bars, 9-speed Sora, 48/32 or 46/30, tubeless ready rims, 12 mm through axle, 37 mm tyres, TRP Spyre twin piston flatmount cable discs. Wonderful.
I can’t agree with some of
I can’t agree with some of the comments. Tyres from all but the worst (are there any crap manufacturers?- I haven’t come across any) brands are very accurately made and are no trouble to get on the rim. I find the wired tyres easier to fit – tube on rim (why are they always too long?!), fit the bottom inside the ‘stands up on its own’ wired tyre, wiggle the entire wheel inside both beads, bead on one at a time- usually without levers, even on my new excellent Marathon Plus 700C 35mms. Modern tyres are great!
