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Old May 9th 18, 03:23 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Joerg[_2_]
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Default Desperate needs = desperate but workable solution

On 2018-05-08 17:59, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 08 May 2018 07:40:35 -0700, Joerg
wrote:

On 2018-05-07 17:35, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 07 May 2018 08:00:56 -0700, Joerg
wrote:

On 2018-05-07 06:43, sms wrote:
On 5/4/2018 4:51 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-05-04 15:07, sms wrote:
On 5/4/2018 10:52 AM, Doug Landau wrote:

With a $45 tire I do not expect to have to rant snipped

I spent another few minutes and $1 of gorilla snot on this tire :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdsokmbfixi7jf2/tire.jpg?dl=0

I'll get my 3K miles out of this gatorskin, no problem

OMG, what a terribly ridiculous thing to do to save a few bucks.


It reminds me of the guys who used some sort of glorified soldering
iron to cut "new tread" into their car tires when they were bald. To
save the expense of having to buy new ones.

https://www.hardlineproducts.com/product/tread-doctor-knobby-cutting-tool-for-usa/


Yup. Another accident waiting to happen. The ones I saw in Europe had
sort of a heated "cutting box" at the tip to "dregde" the tread valley.
It's really sick, just like glueing tire side walls is.


Really sick? Just as a fingernail file and a bent nail are when used
as a chain tool?


That works. File usually not even needed, just a hardened nail (the kind
to drive into concrete, pointy tip ground down) and a steel nut on the
other side. The first five decades of my life I did not have a chain
tool yet managed to change dozens of chains. The ones I used rarely had
a missing link. I had to make sure that I did that job when the folks in
the apartment below weren't home because the process is loud.

However, I just splurged and in a few days this will arrive:

https://www.crankbrothers.com/produc...nt=53958754055


One can only speculate about your tails of woe. Firstly you describe
riding in really gnarly terrain, then you describe a remote and
uninhabited area where one can't even stop for a beer. Then in this
remote and uninhabited country you can, apparently, have no problems
finding (1) Concrete nails, (2) Nuts of an appropriate size to use as
a backstop.



You should read more carefully. Where did I say "find"?

You can use a fence nail in a pinch but why not carry this little nail?


... (3)hammer stones. And, apparently these areas are common in
your selected riding areas.


Yes, they are. The Neanderthal guys already knew that most granite and
similar rocks can be used as hammers. Obviously, it seems younger
generations have forgotten.

Out in the yard I have a fist-sized rock that I have used to pound
stuff. Looks decorative in the flower bed and saves me a trip back to
the garage every time.


One can only wonder why anyone would carry concrete nails into the
"outback" given that they are more expensive then common nails and
there is no concrete way out there in the bush.


What "concrete way"? Now you arent making sense.

As for expensive, mine came from a cable clamp. This in turn came from a
bag of 100 of them or so, bought in a German hardware store for a couple
of bucks. These are used to run cables on top of concrete or brick walls
in basements or garages. Over there they do not use wood (and I wish
they didn't in the US). These nails are already half way in the plastic
clamps so you can just grab and pound. I would estimate the commercial
value of this nail to be under $0.02.

Looks like this but the nails are more blueish and very hard:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1500_.jpg


I feel that you are rapidly becoming what a Saigon bar girl once
refereed to as a "Bull**** Boy".


Because you can't read comprehensively?

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Regards, Joerg

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