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Sheldon's Latest Madness...
Sheldon Brown wrote:
http://sheldonbrown.com/gunnar I never claimed to be sane... Sheldon "Lefty" Brown +-------------------------------------------+ | It's easier to be original and foolish | | than original and wise. | | --Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | +-------------------------------------------+ Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041 http://harriscyclery.com Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com cool! is that a tandem crank [to cope with pedal thread precession]? |
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Sheldon Brown wrote:
http://sheldonbrown.com/gunnar I never claimed to be sane... Sheldon "Lefty" Brown +-------------------------------------------+ | It's easier to be original and foolish | | than original and wise. | | --Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | +-------------------------------------------+ Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041 http://harriscyclery.com Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com Sheldon I was only thinking last week that you hadnt done anything strange for a while. This just looks so subtly wrong it makes me feel uneasy Stan Cox |
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Sheldon Brown wrote: http://sheldonbrown.com/gunnar I never claimed to be sane... Ooh er. I like the little details like the bare pulley-routed cable run to the shifter. Those out there who appreciate odd hub gears may approve of this bicycle: http://wiredcola.blogspot.com/2005_0...html#112489899 157039217 http://tinyurl.com/97w8z Sachs Torpedo Duomatic kickback two-speed hub. The funny bit isn't the quirky hub on this reasonable but odd Austrian folder, it's that I owned the bike for over a year before realizing it had a two-speed hub. I just assumed the bike was heavy*, because it often felt undergeared on descents and overgeared on climbs. On the off chance anyone is using my bike as a template for Auto-Mini restoration, the stock front wheel was replaced with a BMX wheel to get an aluminum braking surface up front. The stock white vinyl sprung saddle with rectangular stamped frame rails was replaced with this black vinyl sprung saddle for no good reason. Other than that, it's as I found it at the garage sale. Ten bucks, same as all noble and decent garage sale bicycles. *30 pounds including rack, fenders, and kickstand; that puts it in the weight range of my Bianchi commuter, also including rack and fenders. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos |
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ellis wrote:
Damn, Sheldon... Very nice. Brits, Aussies and Japanese should appreciate the wrong side drive deal!!! No, no. The left side is the right side, and the right side is the wrong side. John |
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meb wrote:
You need a Cannondale Lefy fork. I'm sure you can come up with some further maddenning way of mounting it on a bike with that headseat. Backward, of course. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $795 ti frame |
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jim beam wrote:
http://sheldonbrown.com/gunnar is that a tandem crank [to cope with pedal thread precession]? Yes. C.J.Patten wrote: I notice the dynamo. I remember using that style in the 1980's on just about all of the bikes I had as a kid in Europe. How do you like it? (drag compared to a hub dynamo?) No, you never had one like _this_. It's a wonderful Swiss LightSpin unit, superficially similar but much more high-tech than the ones you're used to. Drag is VERY low, comparable to my hub generators (I own a Schmidt, a couple of Shimanos and a Sturmey-Archer.) It also has a built-in voltage regulator so it doesn't toast bulbs the way the old ones did if you got going fast. Unfortunately, the light I'm running it with is a fairly primitive old Soubitez unit, so it doesn't put out as much light as a modern unit would. Sheldon "Fiat Lux" Brown +---------------------------------------+ | Some say the world will end in fire, | | Some say in ice. | | From what I've tasted of desire | | I hold with those who favor fire. | | But if it had to perish twice, | | I think I know enough of hate | | To say that for destruction ice | | Is also great | | And would suffice. --Robert Frost | +---------------------------------------+ Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041 http://harriscyclery.com Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com |
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What saddle is that?
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+-------------------------------------------+ have you assembled the piece before? useit! answer the question why place the drivetrain on the berm side to keep it out of the horse manure, on corsa! this no longer "makes sense" excellent.. and listen - ease up on the golden hammer adjustment and tell us how the nervous system, somewhat past the window but still simmering, reacts to the opposite side pull? gotta watch and cones? we're awaiting channel one katrina. go to NOAA radar for the big picture-itsa electronic game the wind out of the atl;antic produces 5-0 weather here on the gulf coast. the sky has been incredibly bewutiful and the cycling terrific-down wind! hurricane surfing is a trip. going down US 27 for the last 48 hours is outasight like jetting of to NM for a flood watch and kayaking thru the desert |
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