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01-25-21, 08:51 AM
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you're providing atmospheric context. it works 
01-25-21, 08:58 AM
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BoC - Box o Crap - box of unwanted, but often usable parts passed around through the post amongst forum members, occasionally disappearing and having to start over again.
Breaks - the devices some people use to slow and stop a bike. Often thought to work just as well as brakes.
Breaks - the devices some people use to slow and stop a bike. Often thought to work just as well as brakes.
01-25-21, 09:13 AM
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01-25-21, 09:29 AM
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lol....brilliant 
01-25-21, 11:16 AM
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Has 'Rubber Side Down' = RSD been mentioned?
One bike shop used that expression to send everyone on a test ride. Got abbreviated to RSD.
One bike shop used that expression to send everyone on a test ride. Got abbreviated to RSD.
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01-25-21, 11:33 AM
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Yep, after my first trip to Europe on $25 a day I got hooked on cappuchino and espresso, got back stateside and found the North Beach place (which was the only one at the time). Buddy of mine went with and ordered a triple espresso (he'd never had anything more potent than Folgers prior), acted like he just snorted coke for a couple of hours. If you look on the interwebs you'll find 5 Cafe Trieste locations now, but the Sausalito one is now a different name, but same concept. BITD it was a beatnik hangout. Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg and others hung out there. The screenplay for the Godfather was written there. No one does that kind of thing anymore, it's too croweded (before times joke).
01-25-21, 11:54 AM
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LSD - long slow distance
Tempo - anything faster than LSD
Tempo - anything faster than LSD
01-25-21, 12:15 PM
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01-25-21, 12:25 PM
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This is totally archaic, but used to be a common expression said with a smile in bike shops:
Yeah - i can fix that - if you've got a few minutes.
Yeah - i can fix that - if you've got a few minutes.
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01-25-21, 12:46 PM
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I used that the other day - a friend of my son had a flat in her car, tried to change the wheel but the lugs were overtightened by some gorilla with an impact wrench, and one of them was so mangled that no wrench could grip it. I welded a 5/8" scrap bolt on it, used a pipe as a cheater and it was out in 5 mins. She (millenial) was amazed at this crude, old school technique.
01-25-21, 12:55 PM
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My vague recollection is that there was a poster not named Drew who had acquired a frame with the bits ground or sawn off, and someone, presumed to be the previous owner, had crudely painted "Drew" somewhere on the frame to sign his handiwork.
See that's the trouble with "traditional knowledge". Even when it was written down somewhere once, people's recollection of it starts to drift and they favour a version that suits their world view. Can you imagine settling a land claim based on hundreds, nay thousands, of years of knowledge about who hunted game and captured slaves where, handed down orally?
See that's the trouble with "traditional knowledge". Even when it was written down somewhere once, people's recollection of it starts to drift and they favour a version that suits their world view. Can you imagine settling a land claim based on hundreds, nay thousands, of years of knowledge about who hunted game and captured slaves where, handed down orally?
01-25-21, 12:56 PM
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I used that the other day - a friend of my son had a flat in her car, tried to change the wheel but the lugs were overtightened by some gorilla with an impact wrench, and one of them was so mangled that no wrench could grip it. I welded a 5/8" scrap bolt on it, used a pipe as a cheater and it was out in 5 mins. She (millenial) was amazed at this crude, old school technique.
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01-25-21, 01:25 PM
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when i've done work in a shop, i/we've filed down the flat sides best we could to a next sized down socket. hammer the socket on and torque it off. doesn't always work, but when it does.....joy
if you don't have a welder, that is
if you don't have a welder, that is
01-25-21, 01:47 PM
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I've eaten there, it's called "A Taste of Rome" now. My preferred lunch stop in Sausalito is a restaurant called "Fish" that is further down the road (past Bicycle Odyssey) at the Clipper Yacht Harbor. Good food, good beer, and plenty of seating outdoors. I bought a sailboat from the late John McChesney (a reporter for NPR that you may have listened to at some point in the past) and he introduced me to the restaurant as a favorite of his.
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Probably not unique to bike forums.
But I call it bike forums math.
Mid 70s paramount frameset.
for sale for $550...
Bike forums reasoning for discounts.. First. its a 23 inch frame.. Very undesirable. discount to $400
Bike forums discount! You got to do that. so now its $250
Just having fun.
This actually happened to me here. LOL
I ended up selling it for $500
JJ
But I call it bike forums math.
Mid 70s paramount frameset.
for sale for $550...
Bike forums reasoning for discounts.. First. its a 23 inch frame.. Very undesirable. discount to $400
Bike forums discount! You got to do that. so now its $250
Just having fun.
This actually happened to me here. LOL
I ended up selling it for $500
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01-25-21, 03:02 PM
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Another archaic expression:
Full Service Bike Shop -
a shop that could do more than tell you "you need a new frame".
Even when you bought the bike somewhere else
and just walked-in off the street.
edit: one of Silicon Valley's 'unique' tiny shops, this one near U of Santa Clara campus.
Active racer and frequent mechanic at the South San Jose (concrete) velodrome.
Did not really know him, outside a few interactions.
I think he 'sponsored' a few folks with a race bike and a free jersey with shop's name.
The $12.50 was the best money ever spent repairing a wheel after a sliding crash. The frame&fork only needed a tweak, but then completely checked on an alignment table.
Full Service Bike Shop -
a shop that could do more than tell you "you need a new frame".
Even when you bought the bike somewhere else
and just walked-in off the street.
edit: one of Silicon Valley's 'unique' tiny shops, this one near U of Santa Clara campus.
Active racer and frequent mechanic at the South San Jose (concrete) velodrome.
Did not really know him, outside a few interactions.
I think he 'sponsored' a few folks with a race bike and a free jersey with shop's name.
The $12.50 was the best money ever spent repairing a wheel after a sliding crash. The frame&fork only needed a tweak, but then completely checked on an alignment table.
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01-25-21, 04:51 PM
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Anybody mention kit yet? Another British usage, could mean the bits on your bike, or the bits in a bag hanging from your bike for anything for tyre repair to full camping gear.
Tiddly bits - stuff I braze on vintage frames so one can pretend to have a proper constructeur bike, but using British slang.
Proper, that's another one that has a indefinite definition...
Tiddly bits - stuff I braze on vintage frames so one can pretend to have a proper constructeur bike, but using British slang.
Proper, that's another one that has a indefinite definition...
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01-25-21, 04:57 PM
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Related concept: Cat. 6 racing. That's when you bust your backside to chase down, catch and unceremoniously pass another rider who was out enjoying their day and had no clue you existed. It's summed up in the saying: "Just because he doesn't know we're racing doesn't mean I'm not winning."
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Related concept: Cat. 6 racing. That's when you bust your backside to chase down, catch and unceremoniously pass another rider who was out enjoying their day and had no clue you existed. It's summed up in the saying: "Just because he doesn't know we're racing doesn't mean I'm not winning."
Is there also a Category 5? I ask in all innocence. Maybe there really is one.
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01-25-21, 05:04 PM
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Another archaic expression:
Full Service Bike Shop -
a shop that could do more than tell you "you need a new frame".
Even when you bought the bike somewhere else
and just walked-in off the street.
edit: one of Silicon Valley's 'unique' tiny shops, this one near U of Santa Clara campus.
Active racer and frequent mechanic at the South San Jose (concrete) velodrome.
Did not really know him, outside a few interactions.
I think he 'sponsored' a few folks with a race bike and a free jersey with shop's name.
The $12.50 was the best money ever spent repairing a wheel after a sliding crash. The frame&fork only needed a tweak, but then completely checked on an alignment table.
Full Service Bike Shop -
a shop that could do more than tell you "you need a new frame".
Even when you bought the bike somewhere else
and just walked-in off the street.
edit: one of Silicon Valley's 'unique' tiny shops, this one near U of Santa Clara campus.
Active racer and frequent mechanic at the South San Jose (concrete) velodrome.
Did not really know him, outside a few interactions.
I think he 'sponsored' a few folks with a race bike and a free jersey with shop's name.
The $12.50 was the best money ever spent repairing a wheel after a sliding crash. The frame&fork only needed a tweak, but then completely checked on an alignment table.
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01-25-21, 05:08 PM
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Brooks...... beloved magical leather seat made by elves/trolls in england....
Sheldon. Sheldon Brown, mechanic, tinker and writer who has passed away but lives on on the web with some still great and updated information. have quoted many times on BB removal tool, drilling out front fork for recessed brakes and iso/british/italian hub specs
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01-25-21, 05:09 PM
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FF
Could be Front Freewheel (shudder) but here mostly refers to Frame and Fork, ans in for sale with no headset or other parts.
Could be Front Freewheel (shudder) but here mostly refers to Frame and Fork, ans in for sale with no headset or other parts.
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01-25-21, 05:26 PM
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