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Chain waxing
On 6/11/2018 11:22 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:34:51 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 6/11/2018 6:25 PM, James wrote: On 12/06/18 04:35, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 6/11/2018 1:16 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-06-11 09:36, jbeattie wrote:                      ... Plus, for road riding, ordinary rim brakes are fine. As long as it does not rain or hail hard, then they are the pits. Oh, Gawd. I and my club mates don't live in a desert. Everyone in our club has used rim brakes since they started cycling, and all but a very few still do. We've ridden in countless rains, from showers to thunderstorms, countless miles. I've been club safety chairman for decades and I hear about the crashes. I've never heard of one caused by inadequate braking in the rain. Never. Back in the days when Campag rim brakes were pretty ordinary in the dry, my brother was racing in Italy. He recounts a day when they had a descent in the rain and he just could not brake enough coming toward a corner, so he put his arm around another racer's shoulders and called "Campagnolo! Campagnolo!" The other rider understood and braked for both of them enough to ride around the corner. That must be why you have never heard of a crash caused by inadequate braking in the rain. ;-) [These days of course, Campag rim brakes seem to work well enough, wet or dry.] I wonder what brakes the other guy was using. Back in Campy's glory days, I couldn't afford the stuff - or didn't feel I should. Paying off loans and feeding kids was a much higher priority. So I was running mostly SunTour stuff, or similar. At least it shifted better than Campy. My only bike back then was a Raleigh Super Course that I got used from a friend. It came with long reach Weinmann center pulls. Their benefit was that they cleared wide tires and fenders. Their detriment was that they were worse than Campy brakes. The Weinmanns merely suggested to the bike that it might consider stopping. Eventually I had a friend do a repaint, and he and I brazed on cantilever bosses. That's what I've happily used ever since. And I still have the Raleigh. It's the utility bike now. Campy brakes worked fine for me rain or shine, but I was also an early adopter of Mathauser/KoolStop pads. I prefer the additional power and lighter touch of dual pivot, but depending on the era, there were no better brakes. I preferred them to cantis and used NR brakes on my transcon bike. With the standard drop, there was plenty of room for fenders and a 28-32mm tire. -- Jay Beattie. +1 Delta was indeed a design error but, before and after that era, Campagnolo were exemplary among available products. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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