noglider 

I have so many bikes that they're spilling out all over. At the moment, I have one on the front porch and three on the side of the house near the basement door. My workshop is in the basement. Yesterday, a neighbor came over to pick up the bike I had tuned up for him. I told him to take it up the street to try it out. He rode off, and I realized I wanted to follow him, so I grabbed the handiest bike, which happened to be my Raleigh Twenty. It's nearly all "stock" with the steel rims. The bike had been standing in the snow, so the rims were wet. I had forgotten how bad wet steel rims, combined with the super-lousy brakes the bike comes with. It was like squeezing one of those hand-strengtheners totally disconnected from a brake. No stopping power at all. Better try some Kool Stops.