Forum: Techniques
June 20th 20, 10:39 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,012
Tubeless tire FAQ
If I had tubeless tires, I'd have to deal with tire diarrhea a lot more often than I get flats now. I expect that sooner or later, even the most gullible fashion-chasing chumps will figure it out,...
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Forum: Techniques
June 20th 20, 10:36 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,350
Bicycle commuting
And yet, countless people commute by bicycle, in California and everywhere else. The cowardly will insist it can't be done, while it's happening in front of them.
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Forum: Techniques
June 2nd 20, 10:14 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 10
Views: 523
Interesting corrosion failure
I see occasional multiple spoke failures on almost unused bikes, with spokes broken at random locations along their lengths. These wheels always have many small inconspicuous dark specks of...
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Forum: Techniques
May 11th 20, 08:19 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 2
Views: 317
Tubeless after 2 years.
After watching my co-workers jack around and make messes with tubeless tires, I was cured of ever wanting to try them.
My conclusion was this: if you're lucky, tubeless tires take the same amount...
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Forum: Techniques
May 11th 20, 04:56 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,159
Mavic in receivership
They've been overpriced garbage merchants since Adidas Salomon bought them up way back when. I'll be glad to see them fail and take lots of stupid money down with them.
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Forum: Techniques
May 10th 20, 07:43 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 6
Views: 388
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Forum: Techniques
March 16th 20, 01:52 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 52
Views: 863
France discovers 1997 technology!
E-bikes don't inflict pollution, noise, or significant risk of major injury upon other people in their vicinity. They are thermodynamically several times more efficient than stinking gas scooters. ...
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Forum: Techniques
January 23rd 20, 05:07 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 99
Views: 2,064
Bicycle Parts in the News
John B. wrote:
But of course as soon as the police lose their guns crime will
increase
and than he'll be complaining about that.
Places where cops don't usually have guns exhibit much...
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Forum: Techniques
January 23rd 20, 05:01 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,216
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Forum: Techniques
January 23rd 20, 04:52 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 7
Views: 289
Greta Himmler & Bicycles
AMuzi wrote:
As soon as transport, hand labor and processing are free,
this
will be a great idea.
You seem to imply that solid waste doesn't require transport, hand labor, or processing...
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Forum: Techniques
January 21st 20, 08:31 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 208
Views: 4,205
Sad helmet incident
Oculus Lights wrote:
Twice, I would have been dead if not for wearing a helmet when I
crashed on a bike.
Helmet wearers love to make assertions like this. If they were anything like true,...
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Forum: Techniques
January 21st 20, 05:04 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 99
Views: 2,064
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Forum: Techniques
January 16th 20, 06:40 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 89
Views: 1,963
Hitting your head
sms wrote:
You may not like wearing a helmet, but the statistical evidence on
thebenefit of helmets is overwhelming and irrefutable.
It's really not. All kinds of selected-group studies have...
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Forum: Techniques
January 15th 20, 07:19 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 89
Views: 1,963
Hitting your head
If injury and fatality rates among cyclists are a reflection of risk-- and I think they are-- them helmets don't help overall. In my cycling lifetime, helmet use has risen from approximately zero...
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Forum: Techniques
January 9th 20, 11:18 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 253
Views: 4,003
Really, really dumb
Y'all white dudes should take this horse puckey to freerepublic or some other sewer, because it's stupid and tiresome.
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Forum: Techniques
December 24th 19, 09:53 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 110
Views: 2,192
Self Driving Vehicles
jbeattie wrote:
They are obligated to follow the law, whatever it may be. People
do need to read the VC and act accordingly. If everyone is playing
by the same rules, it is more likely...
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Forum: Techniques
December 20th 19, 07:06 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 114
Views: 2,704
Yikes! Di2
jbeattie wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/wrk5fvk
20 clams. I'm not sure if the right has a friction option.
I've gotten those for 8 and 9 speed bikes. Microshift makes some too, costlier...
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Forum: Techniques
December 20th 19, 05:46 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 114
Views: 2,704
Yikes! Di2
Tom Kunich wrote:
Frank, How many people do you suppose there are left in the world
that use downtube shifters?
I see more bikes with downtube shifters at the shop than I do of all...
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Forum: Techniques
December 15th 19, 06:19 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 205
Views: 4,067
Bike adjustments
Bicycle hydraulic brakes are not nearly as reliable or durable as any such brakes used on a motor vehicle (even a cheap motorcycle or scooter).
Also, bicycles don't have the sort of long,...
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Forum: Techniques
December 14th 19, 03:32 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 107
Views: 1,903
In praise of Brooks saddles
John B. wrote:
But why do you insist making your comparison with a society that has,
in many cases, been "on the dole" for generations, that apparently has
no motivation what so ever to...
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Forum: Techniques
December 14th 19, 05:34 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 107
Views: 1,903
In praise of Brooks saddles
I think Huey Long had it right. In fact, I think he was killed for getting the formula right for the largest possible number of people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_Our_Wealth
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Forum: Techniques
December 13th 19, 06:59 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 107
Views: 1,903
In praise of Brooks saddles
Tom Kunich wrote:
"pro-capitalist"? You don't believe that you should have to make
your own way in this life? That the F-ing world owes you a living?
No, I believe working people deserve...
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Forum: Techniques
December 13th 19, 04:59 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 31
Views: 630
Cyclist shot and wounded in San Jose area.
jbeattie wrote:
Are all motorists unethical? What about passengers in motor
vehicles?https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/interactive/2016/09/world/mother-teresa-photos/media/01.jpg
Is there special...
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Forum: Techniques
December 13th 19, 12:19 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 107
Views: 1,903
In praise of Brooks saddles
John B. wrote:
[...] unemployed in Detroit, some of which were 3rd generation
unemployed.
Sounds like you've been licking up pro-capitalist propaganda.
Why is it that those who are most...
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Forum: Techniques
December 13th 19, 12:10 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 31
Views: 630
Cyclist shot and wounded in San Jose area.
John B. wrote:
By Gorry! You are correct! If we could just get rid of all the motor
vehicles the bicycles would be safe.
That's how ethics work. If you unilaterally inflict a harm or impose...
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