Forum: Techniques
November 22nd 09, 01:01 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 36
Views: 1,211
Spoke life with disc brakes
Brian Huntley wrote:
A discussion on CrazyGuyOnaBike.com has one camp claiming that disc
brakes shorten spoke life enough to eliminate the seeming advantage in
rim life discs bring.
Any...
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Forum: Techniques
November 22nd 09, 12:59 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 2
Views: 423
Overhauling Shimano dynohubs (again)
A couple of years ago these instructions were posted he
http://tinyurl.com/y98t7d9
but the Trinity Bicycles website is now defunct and Google cache doesn't
have a copy. Did anyone manage to...
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Forum: UK
November 20th 09, 05:13 PM Posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Replies: 45
Views: 806
Spokes breaking at threads?
thirty-six wrote:
to prevent spoke breakage at the threads, use a hard setting cement or
soft solder or silver solder(preferrable) them.
I'd pay good money to see you and Jobst Brandt go...
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Forum: Techniques
November 20th 09, 05:12 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,358
Fixie chainline discrepancy?
Bennett Fischer wrote:
I'm a fixed gear newbie, and noticed a curious thing about the chainline
of a fixed gear bike I recently bought, that I hope someone in this
forum can explain to me.
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Forum: UK
November 20th 09, 05:04 PM Posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,127
Tied and soldered spokes.
thirty-six wrote:
Tying and soldering the spokes will diminish the possibility of a
radial buckle in a lighweight rim when heavily loaded.
Hello Trevor. Are they being nasty to you over in...
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Forum: Techniques
November 11th 09, 08:38 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,227
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Forum: Techniques
October 13th 09, 06:31 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 5
Views: 792
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Forum: Techniques
October 12th 09, 09:07 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 8
Views: 350
nexus - 8 gear - red stripe - repair
crowizcom wrote:
i had a problem with nexus, where gears 5-8 were not available
i opened the thing, and, as has been suggested here,
(but no longer cached on google groups?)
there seem to be...
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Forum: Techniques
October 12th 09, 09:05 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 312
Cantilever Clearance
Tom Kunich wrote:
It is getting very difficult to find any good information on a way to
get sufficient cantilever brake clearance on modern touring bikes. I
remember when there used to be a...
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Forum: Techniques
October 12th 09, 08:58 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 5
Views: 792
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Forum: Techniques
October 12th 09, 08:42 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,062
spokes too thin?
Gabriele R wrote:
If one weighted 84 Kg (185 lbs) would you use the 1.8/1.6/1.8 spokes
(15/16 gauge) for his hand-built wheels (low profile rims + campa hub).
Before, he had always used 2 mm...
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Forum: Techniques
October 12th 09, 08:32 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 5
Views: 792
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Forum: Techniques
September 2nd 09, 06:07 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 465
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Forum: Mountain Biking
September 1st 09, 09:51 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.tech,alt.mountain-bike
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,434
Nice leather saddles -- how do they weather?
Stephen Harding wrote:
I've had leather saddles on all four of my bikes for
years with no real negative side effects due to weather.
My most-used bike has a 1967 "pre-softened" Brooks...
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Forum: Techniques
September 1st 09, 09:47 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 465
Bearing sizes for a SRAM Spectro T3 3-speed hub
Does anyone know what these are? The ones in the two big ball retainers
are slightly larger than 3/16" and the ones in the small retainer
(inside the driver a la Sturmey-Archer) are a bit...
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Forum: Techniques
March 2nd 09, 06:41 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 9
Views: 612
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Forum: Techniques
January 27th 09, 08:51 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 217
Views: 3,390
The Perfect Commuter Bike For The Masses?
bicycle_disciple wrote:
Hey R.B.T
I suppose not many of you may have heard about an award winning, yet
controversial commuter bike design that was recently hosted on the
Bicycle Design...
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Forum: Techniques
December 29th 08, 08:05 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,032
DT spoke question 1.8/1.6/1.8
RS wrote:
I have a 700c front road wheel, evidently from the mid 90s. 1st Generation
Zipp ballistic hub laced 32/2x to a Mavic Open4 CD rim. Wheel absolutely
stays in true, I've used it...
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Forum: Techniques
December 23rd 08, 10:26 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 352
The spring fork
Andre Jute wrote:
Carl Fogel has recently published links to several photographs of
vintage bike sporting forks with built-in quarter-elliptic cart-type
springs, albeit on a tiny scale.
...
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Forum: Techniques
December 23rd 08, 09:09 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 9
Views: 799
Honey leather fetish
RonSonic wrote:
And realities.
A thing to watch with honey leather is that using neatsfoot oil on it
makes it into brown leather.
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Forum: Techniques
December 23rd 08, 09:08 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 33
Views: 1,409
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Forum: UK
December 21st 08, 06:46 PM Posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Replies: 7
Views: 812
Dynamo lighting question
Robert Norton wrote:
Can anyone give me -in layman's terms-the extra effort required to propel
your bike with a typical tyre-driven dynamo? Thanks i.a.
Rob
Between 0.5mph-1mph off your...
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Forum: UK
December 20th 08, 11:39 AM Posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Replies: 18
Views: 765
Judith
I rarely visit the wreckage of u.r.c. these days, but I am curious why
judith keeps changing her e-mail address to confound killfiles if she's
not a troll?
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Forum: Techniques
December 20th 08, 11:37 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 3
Views: 238
Another question re fixed gear spacing
Chris wrote:
On Dec 19, 5:26 pm, wrote:
Between the cone and the locknut or somewhere else ?
No, you got it right. Between the cone and the locknut.
Chris
And do...
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Forum: UK
December 8th 08, 08:37 PM Posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Replies: 65
Views: 1,493
Rusty chain.
Tom Anderson wrote:
I used a SRAM PC951 for years. It's normal mild steel. I kept it oiled.
It never rusted.
I don't quite get the excitement over stainless chains. You have to keep
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