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On 11/15/2010 9:34 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
On 11/15/2010 6:53 PM, Peter Cole wrote:
On 11/15/2010 7:22 PM, Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
On 11/15/2010 6:11 PM, A. Muzi wrote:
Peter wrote:
Having rescued a number of 80's road bikes, I'd have to say that
many
people are better off with a new bike. Old bikes have their charms
for
retro-grouches, but most casual riders prefer more contemporary
stuff
(like indexed shifting). By the time you replace the "consumables"
on an
old bike, at least at bike shop prices, you're spending lots before
even
considering upgrading components.

Frank Krygowski wrote:
Well, it depends. Index shifting dates from the mid-1980s, so there
are certainly 1980s bikes that have it, for those who want it. And
there were plenty of 1980s friction shifting bikes that shifted well
enough to satisfy lots of modern riders.

Peter Cole wrote:
I don't know lots of riders, modern or otherwise who like friction
shifting. Even when the first indexed shifters started showing up in
the mid-80's, they were DT or stem.

The worst part of old shifters is that you have to use old (design)
freewheels.


Really? why is that?

Friction and classic equipment works well, in fact better, with modern
tooth design freewheels and cassettes. Up to eightish though; friction
9-10-11 is dicey. Seven systems are fantastically better with modern
freewheels/cassettes than with classic tooth forms.

I have no problems shifting with bar-ends in friction mode, an 11-32
9-speed cassette, and a Shimano Tiagra derailer.


Indexing broken?

Easier to switch to friction mode than mess with adjusting the indexing
in the middle of a ride.


Never had to do that.

On 11/16/2010 4:59 AM, Chalo wrote:
Duane Hebert wrote:

Chalo wrote in message

New Orleans is one of the most rewarding places I
can think of to ride a bike, but if I lived there I would want a dual
suspension bike with armored tires.

Born and raised in NOLA and spent a lot of time on a bike that
I would guess you would call an impracticable bike.

That would be "impractical". The variation is Mr. Beattie's. And I
don't know that I'd call your bike that, because I don't know what you
ride.

Ah. I was wondering where that came from. As to bikes, I ride either a
Specialized Tarmac Elite or a Bianchi Volpe. Neither have been to NOLA.
Last bike that I road there was a Cannondale road bike but it was a
while ago.

Aside from
the hot,hazy,humid weather, didn't have much of a problem. Guess it
depends on where you ride.

Since the flooding of 2005, most street surfaces are really bad in the
parts of New Orleans that interest me. Austin and Seattle (where I
lived for a number of years) both have serious deferred maintenance
issues with street paving, but neither one can hold a candle to the
Big Easy in that regard.

I mostly lived around uptown near the river bend. Roads tend to be
better there but mostly because the ground is higher and floods less.

You're right about the storm though. I was down last spring break.
Rented a couple of Treks. Don't remember the model but they were 9
speed roadies. Aluminum frame and not very soft. Mostly didn't have
any problem but it was the first time since Katrina and I was shocked at
some of the neighborhoods. If you ride down St. Charles you don't know
anything happened but take a left toward Magazine or a right toward
Clairbone and it looks like the storm happened yesterday.

One good thing was that they seemed to be paving a lot of the streets
when I was there. My brother said that it was something about some
expiration on federal funds.

A friend and his wife went down last fall. They stayed at the Columns
and rented bikes. I think they mostly did St. Charles, Carrolton and
the path along the levee but they loved it. They came back asking me to
teach them to cook gumbo and crawfish etouffée.

It depends on where you go.


Despite sensible restrictions on glass containers in public, there is
still quite a bit of broken glass on the streets in NO.

That's true. I also had some flats running over the oyster shells that
they use in parking lots.

I miss that you could ride in January without worrying about snow and
ice though.

On Nov 15, 8:22*am, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
snip
The only one that almost got me was a jogger. * I managed to pass
her at the exact moment she reached her personal finish line and
did a wide 180 into my path.... but she was wearing ear buds, so
I was going slow enough to stop in time.
--
PeteCresswell

We killed a jogger doing that here in Dallas not too long ago, well
actually she killed herself. She did that on the Katy Trail near
downtown with her ear buds hidden under her hair, and for a couple of
weeks people were calling for banning bikes from the bike path (and
should we ban cars from the freeway?) and calling for a speed limit on
bikes that was less then the lowest legal speed limit for cars in a
school zone (they wanted 10 MPH for bikes, the TX limit for school
zones can't be any lower than 20 MPH, or 15 MPH lower than the posted
limit for the area which gets you some really stupid signs like
"School Zone 45 MPH" near some rural schools).

Here in TX the main problem we have on the roads is people that either
don't know the laws when it comes to bikes or who know and don't care.
Even in the courts we have people who are video recorded acting
entirely within the laws and that recording is used to convict them of
"reckless driving" because they were riding in the road, "taking up
the whole lane" while cars and trucks drove past. Granted it was a 65
MPH limit road (which meant that many if not most of the cars and
trucks were passing a 15 MPH cyclist with a 60-65 MPH differential)
but since there were 2 roads that went between these 2 towns and the
other was narrow and curvy and 13 miles further with the same speed
limit the much smarter road to be on was the one the cyclist was
taking. I was harassed a couple weeks back by a cop while I was
preparing to make a left turn because I had to move into the inside
lane. I didn't dart into the lane but had established my lane position
for about 75 yards when the cop yelled at me for being in the inside
lane on a street that had a grassy median with curbs separating the
oncoming lanes of traffic. The thing is that there is a sub-paragraph
in 551.103 that allows a bike to be in the inside lane when there is a
curbed or grassy median separating oncoming traffic, another sub-
paragraph that allows taking the inside lane "as required" to make a
left turn.

On Nov 15, 5:54*pm, Peter Cole wrote:
snip
The worst part of old shifters is that you have to use old (design)
freewheels.

Not true, I converted a 1983 Stratus to 27 speed but kept the friction
shifters because even after 20 years they were still in excellent
condition and worked fine. They did require a finer touch with the
narrower spacing and greater throw of the 9 cog cassette, but I never
had any problem using friction shifters with a 9 speed rear cassette.
I have used those shifters with everything from the original 5 speed
to 9 speed on the back, with deraiilers that varied from the OE to a
Shimano XT.

"DirtRoadie" wrote in message
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On Nov 15, 10:59 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:

Mr. Sherman and I just plain don't like members who resort to attack using
a
pseudonym. I have no objection at all if you attack using your real name.
In
fact, I thrive on that.

Even if "Tom Sherman" and "Ed Dolan" were not fictitious names, I do
not share you [your] religion and have no intention of converting.

Now why do you suppose we do not like anonymous attackers? Could it be
because we have had a world of experience with such types over the years on
Usenet? There is no religion involved, just normal every day common sense.

If you want to behave like an ass, then use your real name like Mr. Sherman
and I do. Anonymity is bad for human beings. It brings out assholeness to
the exclusion of everything else.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

On Nov 16, 1:56*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:

If you want to behave like an ass, then use your real name like Mr. Sherman
and I do.

I could not have said it better myself.
DR

"DirtRoadie" wrote in message
...
On Nov 15, 10:54 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:

No, I am not interested in your content, ...

'Nuff said.

Keep you content short and to the point and you will find others interested.
Long-windedness is not appreciated on Usenet. Only I am entitled to
occasionally be longwinded, but that is because I am universally recognized
as a genius.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

On Nov 17, 8:03*am, "Edward Dolan" wrote:

Long-windedness is not appreciated on Usenet. Only I am entitled to
occasionally be longwinded, but that is because I am universally recognized
as a genius.

And not at all big headed.

JS.

DirtRoadie wrote:
On Nov 16, 1:56 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:

If you want to behave like an ass, then use your real name like Mr.
Sherman and I do.

I could not have said it better myself.
DR

Just when I thought it was safe to sip my tea while reading this NG.

"DirtRoadie" wrote in message
...
On Nov 15, 8:21 pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:


Tom Sherman has always been a man of few words. He is unlike me that way. I
can go on and on and drive everyone to distraction without half trying. But
note well that I do not do that. That is because I have the highest regard
for the honorable members of these noble newsgroups (even if they are all
assholes and idiots).

I urge you to humble yourself and try to be more abject like Saint Edward
the Great. Pride goeth before a fall. Depart my son and sin no more. For
your penance say 100 Our Fathers and 1000 Hail Marys.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

PS: Tom Sherman is the adamant type and will never forgive you your
trespasses. But I am the exact opposite of him. I will not only forgive you,
but forget you. That is because I don't give a damn about people - never
have and never will.