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Is there any bike related postings here anymore?
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
Kevin |
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Is there any bike related postings here anymore?
Kevin wrote:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. Kevin Sad isn't it |
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Is there any bike related postings here anymore?
On Apr 11, 7:26*am, "Kevin" wrote:
Just curious... :-) *It looks more like an ebay store front. Kevin But, but, Kevin, now I know where to buy a cheap FAKE WATCH. Very useful when you don't want to know what time it is. And how about those call girls in HYDERABAD and BANGALORE.....oooooooWhee! Now that's livivn' son!! BTW, Call girls in Bang Galore? It's worthy of Ian Flemming. ABS |
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Are there any bike related postings here anymore?
Kevin McIntyre wrote:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. That and cross-posted flame wars started by donquixote1954 aka CommendanteBanana. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Is there any bike related postings here anymore?
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"Kevin" writes: Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool MTB that somebody discarded at the closure of our last public transit strike. The only "original" parts remaining since I got the bike are the frame (even the fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT crankset. Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript, single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l beauty. I was lucky to find something with a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled rims wear from braking just as quickly as single wall rims. The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn, so I might buy an whole new front wheel this weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks, [re]building wheels eats into my precious riding time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either a taller stem (one where the front brake cable stop is an hole bored right through the thing) or a riser handlebar. I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my current whip has served me well and faithfully, and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful of its perserverance. It's always there for me. It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits, and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home. Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything, a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers. It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is generally more than sufficient for my needs. I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too. Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would like something '60s-ish psychedelic. cheers, Tom -- "... my Preshuss ..." -- Gollum I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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ARE there any bike related postings here anymore?
Tom Keats wrote:
In article , "Kevin" writes: Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool MTB that somebody discarded at the closure of our last public transit strike. The only "original" parts remaining since I got the bike are the frame (even the fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT crankset. Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript, single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l beauty. I was lucky to find something with a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled rims wear from braking just as quickly as single wall rims. The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn, so I might buy an whole new front wheel this weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks, [re]building wheels eats into my precious riding time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either a taller stem (one where the front brake cable stop is an hole bored right through the thing) or a riser handlebar. I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my current whip has served me well and faithfully, and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful of its perserverance. It's always there for me. It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits, and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home. Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything, a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers. It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is generally more than sufficient for my needs. I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too. Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would like something '60s-ish psychedelic. cheers, Tom Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can. |
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Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes
conducive. I think I and the bike would like something '60s-ish psychedelic. =v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.) Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can. =v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-( _Jym_ "There's a SEASON?" -- Yehuda Moon |
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:14:00 -0700, Jym Dyer wrote:
Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would like something '60s-ish psychedelic. =v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.) Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can. =v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-( _Jym_ "There's a SEASON?" -- Yehuda Moon Spam already comes in a can. My server has good filters so authors I see (or not, based on my filters) are mainly OT: involved in on going ****ing contests, flames and troll baiting by the regular experts at such, (mia culpa). Or, they're in my watch file. IIRC, Eric S. Sande and Peter Cole were the first people who responded to my first posts in r.b.m. Many of the ideas presented here, including yours, have influenced my thinking about cycling protocols. Online communication among local people who are likely to know each other or meet in the future has a more civil tone but I dislike the interface compared to plain text. A BBS would be better for me. A picture is worth a thousand words so they use a lot of txt msg spelling. Being moderated, as it must be to protect the host from defamation hassles, makes for a tamer exchange than often times found on Usenet. Fewer threads wander into far off-topic hostilities. I found the Velolove list a little _too_ moderated with many OT political/environmental posting hoping to mobilise cyclists for the cause du jour. Between the Momentum calendar and fixedvancouverdotcom, I can find a ride anytime. -- zk |
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BE there any bike related postings here anymore?
Many of the ideas presented here, including yours,
have influenced my thinking about cycling protocols. =v= Who, me? But I was being a jerk (and even spelled your name wrong). I always figured that the half-naked women with chocolate got the message across much better than I did. ;^) _Jym_ |
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Is there any bike related postings here anymore?
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(Tom Keats) writes: The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn, so I might buy an whole new front wheel this weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks, [re]building wheels eats into my precious riding time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either a taller stem (one where the front brake cable stop is an hole bored right through the thing) or a riser handlebar. Well, I bought a new front wheel today. Double-walled rim. Set me back about $55, which is $15 more than my rear wheel with the threaded hub. I asked the guy at Our Community Bikes about long stems (I have about a 6" drop from saddle to handlebar right now) and he suggested I should come back next week when they'll have a new line of super long ones in stock. I also bought a Matisse Quickstand: http://tinyurl.com/6qpfrt http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qpfrt URL in full: {http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=84552444261 81\49&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302694071} It's basically just a display stand with a little adjustablility, but I think I'll be able to make good use of it. I like the simplicity and compactness of it. One can kick it under one's workbench and out of the way when it's not in use. It's another of those assemble-it-yourself thingies and it didn't come with enough washers, so I've been perfunctorily & half-heartedly rootin' through my parts drawers, looking for do-fers. I'm not disheartened; I just don't feel like assembling stuff right now. Screw it, I'll just buy some washers from a hardware store/home improvement shop tomorrow. Another excuse for a ride, eh? Maybe I should get around to installing the new wheel. But first I wanna go over the bearings. I don't really feel like doing that right now, either. Chances are I'll wake up in the middle of the night with a compulsion to take care of that. And I impulse-purchased a pair of skull valve caps. Actually, two pairs -- one pair's for a fellow rider/ cow orker with whom I trade cutsie dollar store junk. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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