Squirrels

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

More pix:

http://tinyurl.com/b7of2

Jobst Brandt

On 04 Feb 2006 12:50:04 GMT, wrote:

More pix:

http://tinyurl.com/b7of2

Ah, yes, an excerpt from that previous squirrel thread. The right
fork tube bent, the left tore nearly through instead.

The posited rationale for avoidance of paired-spoke large-gap wheels
might not be sufficiently strong to persuade the fashion-driven buyer
by itself. Even when taken with the rest of the arguments against
them, I have my doubts about whether it will have any effect. The
mere fact that manufacturers like Trek have put such wheels on so much
of their line (and some shops would probably charge extra to swap to a
cheaper but more rationally-designed wheel) makes it likely, in my
opinion, that many buyers are going to regard all such objections as
mere alarmist finger-pointing. I'm sure that they would be wont to
say "But what's the likelihood of this happening?" And, in point of
fact, the likelihood of getting squirrel-spiked is very low. The
facts which demonstrate that they're simply not a good idea to begin
with ought to comprise the more relevant consideration, and they're
already being ignored widely. It would be perfectly consistent for
any additional minor objections to be dismissed as well.


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Jobst Brandt wrote:
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg.

That chainring isn't squirrel proof though.


"Johnny Sunset" wrote in message oups.com...

Jobst Brandt wrote:
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

It's easy to avoid, just get one of these:
http://www.turbospoke.com



wrote in message ...
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

wrote:
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Heh, are the forks covered by Trek's lifetime warranty?

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

wrote in message
...
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt


This squirrel may not be enjoying his corporeal form any longer but he sure
is doing well as a meme. Hasn't everyone seen this one by now? Let the
tree rat rest in peace!

Cal

"damyth" writes:

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

Yeah, that's the real reason to avoid these wheels---the daredevil
squirrels learned to dive through normal wheels, where there is room
to pass through the spokes. Now they get hung up on the narrow
sections of paired spokes wheels 8-).

Joe

Johnny Sunset wrote:
Jobst Brandt wrote:
From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired
spokes with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg.

Where's the cup-holder on that thing?