Forum: Techniques
December 28th 18, 08:04 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 234
unacceptable behavior on RBT
My behavior on this group was unacceptable, it
was my old winter madness getting the better of
me once again. I'm not getting into any more
discussions (because I don't know if I'm
100% sane even...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 03:23 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
FYI I've had it with this newsgroup. For once,
let me come with a couple of insults.
Mine aren't as, eh, "subtle" as yours.
Ralph Barone, Frank Krygowski, and
John B Slocom, you are all a bunch of...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 03:06 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Frank Krygowski wrote:
I'm not trying to be snobbish. If you ask
questions properly, we can answer them.
Example: You asked "Swept area, should that
be big or small for the brake to be
...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 02:55 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
John B. Slocomb wrote:
That is a silly answer. The fact that you
spent more then six years at a school doesn't
mean that you know everything. In fact that
is quite evident in your questions...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 02:37 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Ralph Barone wrote:
Frank continues to tell you to read a book
because many of us don't answer your
questions because due to your use of
non-standard language, we can't understand
your...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 02:31 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Ralph Barone wrote:
I thought that the phrase RTFM came from the
computer culture, and not bike culture.
But seriously, if you went on an emacs group
and said "I'm having trouble trying to...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 02:20 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
John B. Slocomb wrote:
Actually answering questions is rather
difficult when the recipient has insufficient
knowledge to understand the answer.
That's what I said. Instead of answering...
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Forum: Techniques
December 16th 18, 02:12 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
John B. Slocomb wrote:
CF might indicate Carbon Fiber but I believe
in this case it probably means Coefficient of
Friction :-)
Thanks, I tried to google it but as one would
expect everything...
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Forum: Techniques
December 15th 18, 10:01 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
AMuzi wrote:
Blah blah blah, you have told me this at
least a dozen times by now. Probably because
it is easier to be didactic/demeaning than
to actually answer the questions.
...
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Forum: Techniques
December 15th 18, 09:04 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Frank Krygowski wrote:
Emanuel, with all due respect, you should
spend the winter reading a physics book or
two. Or three. Skip the parts on electricity,
atomic physics, etc. Concentrate on...
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Forum: Techniques
December 15th 18, 06:30 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
AMuzi wrote:
For braking, pad size is a minor factor.
It's all swept area, CF and leverage.
You're right that linkage is efficient but
the leverage is minimal and rubber on chromed
steel...
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Forum: Techniques
December 12th 18, 09:58 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Theodore Heise wrote:
It makes complete sense to me, for the
reasons Frank gave. Recently I had the same
problem, my rear derailer would not shift to
the smaller cogs without some help...
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Forum: Techniques
December 12th 18, 05:16 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 138
Views: 2,606
casette shifting, again
Maybe you remember my problem with the smaller
sprockets being unreachable. After degreasing
and lubing the whole thing it got better, but
then the problem returned and now worse than
ever. Because...
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Forum: Techniques
November 26th 18, 09:41 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 4
Views: 667
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Forum: Techniques
November 25th 18, 08:50 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Views: 456
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Forum: Techniques
November 23rd 18, 11:32 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,212
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Forum: Techniques
November 14th 18, 10:43 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 11
Views: 700
cleaning the bike
The commune is setting up a bike maintenance
station. There are no tools so far, or perhaps
because it is open 24/7 so if there were they
would disappear. But there is a strong light (to
examine the...
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 08:29 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,212
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 08:16 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,212
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 07:45 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 4
Views: 667
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 07:32 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,160
casette shifting
Sir Ridesalot wrote:
But he said that turning the adjuster barrel
in (clockwise) cure his problem. Thus he does
not have a sticking cable. He wants to know
why the cable suddenly got tighter...
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 07:19 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,212
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 07:15 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,160
casette shifting
lou.holtman wrote:
Your inner cable gets stuck somewhere.
Easy to investigate problem. Just look.
Remove the cable from the RD and shift while
tension the cable by hand.
Ignore lube...
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Forum: Techniques
November 6th 18, 07:12 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,160
casette shifting
OK, so if IIUC, oil (a light coating) on the
cassette/chainrings and on the outside of the
chain does not facilitate shifting nor the
entry/exit of the links onto/out of...
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Forum: Techniques
November 3rd 18, 10:26 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,160
casette shifting
After riding this bike a couple of weeks with
no problem, shifting out, to smaller sprockets
on the casette have started to trouble,
sometimes nothing happens when I click.
If I understand the theory...
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