genejockey 

Bad batch of steel? Or cheap-as 26 year old hub that's never been serviced?

genejockey 

Excellent reason not to buy the R600 that guy's dangling at me.

This morning I immunized myself against buying it by letting Mrs. GeneJockey know that I was restoring my old R500 as my winter project, and mentioning that R600 while saying I need another bike like I need a hole in the head. Since she DIDN'T say, "Go ahead! You deserve it!", it has now been moved firmly into the "Don't do that!" category. By contrast, last year when I mentioned that the rear rim on the Bianchi was full of cracks and I wanted to buy a new wheelset, she essentially said, "Well, duh. Of course!"

genejockey 

Not. Definitely not. Aluminum bikes with small tubes tend to be noodly. The point of the big tubes is to make them stiffer, and you can make bigger tubes with Aluminum than steel because it's so much less dense, so you can have a really stiff frame without a huge weight penalty. Older Cannondales are notoriously stiff, and I REALLY noticed this when I got the Ritchey and rode over the same rides I'd done on the Cannondale. There were some corners on my favorite descent with iffy pavement, and the rear wheel of the C'dale would hop a bit going over those. The Ritchey just carved them, no hop, just a little rumble.

SO, the restored R500 will NOT be used as a mountain goat. Strictly flat and rolling, with only short climbs and short smooth descents. Especially since the largest cassette I can put on it is a 12-25. I can't do 3 miles of 8% on 39 x 25 these days.

MoAlpha

Why just one cone with all that spalling, then?

genejockey 

And only on half of it. Who knows? One thing I noticed was that the non-drive side cone and lock nut might have been a little loose. Don't know if that would do it. As it is, once I eliminated any play in the rim when clamped in the forks, there's still a slight crunchiness, which I hope the new cone will cure.

The Dura Ace hubs on the Ritchey are as old, and have gone thousands of miles more without service, but they're still great. I'm afraid to mess with them, but also afraid not to.

Velo Vol 

Where is the censor when you need it?

MoAlpha

Likely BF thread: "Is it okay to rest my bike with the wheels in one position for a week or do I need to rotate them periodically?"

MoAlpha

Shhhh.

WhyFi

Pipes almost never pop at the freezing location - expanding ice is an indirect cause of burst pipes, not a direct cause. Rather than the ice swelling and bursting the pipe, it's the ice expanding and pressurizing the water trapped in the line (between the freezing point and a shut-off). Since water doesn't have much squish, it only take a little expansion within a sealed volume to make the line pressure skyrocket to several times the rated pressure of the lines. This is why it's advised to let a faucet drip when there's a danger of freezing pipes - you're not looking to prevent the freezing, you're looking to provide a pressure relief.

None of these things would be a problem in a sewer.

abshipp 

This is the source of my current frustration. I want a comfortable, reasonably quick, and reasonably light bike for the upcoming season but I have neither room nor money for another bike. So I am trying to think of the best way to play musical components with the stuff I have. There's no really good options IMO.

The most handwringing I'm doing is due to the replacement fork on the 716. Its' large offset allows for good handling with a handlebar bag but it is shorter than the stock fork and the top tube is ever so slightly sloping downwards. It's been like that all last year and I've never gotten over it.

I could swap back to the stock fork, but the frame has cantilever bosses brazed on for 650b wheels and the stock fork has no bosses and isn't powdercoated to match the frame.

So I either have the stock fork modified with 650b cantilever posts and powdercoated to match, or I slice the canti posts off of the frame and re-powder both frame and fork but have to go back to sidepull brakes. But then I have the option to run the original spec 700c wheels and I seem to remember liking how it rode with the wheels it was designed to run from the factory...imagine that...

But then that leaves the question of what to do with the chrome SLT....

seedsbelize 

I've traveled woth folks with reward cards. They become a slave to that card. No thanks.

WhyFi

Sell all of them and get the quiver-killing Caledonia.

genejockey 

I was thinking more of whatever you flush not making it very far down the pipe before it freezes. Then the next flush freezing on top of it, and so on, eventually blocking the pipe. But of course, I may be full of **** here. Plumbing and electricity I leave to others.

Here in Earthquake Country, that's also dry 8 months or more of the year, you think about what to do if the city water fails and you still need to deal with bodily functions. Hence, Mrs. GeneJockey buying a 5 gal bucket with a toilet seat lid. You line it with a garbage bag. But you can do the same with a toilet. Saves water, because a 1 gallon flush would need 8 lbs of melted snow.

abshipp 

I'm flattered that you think the heap of old steel in my garage is worth anything close to that

Also, rude of you to make me look and see that the stack/reach of the 61cm frame is basically the same as the 716

Bah Humbug

I assume that's a pic of a snorkel; that's not only not stock but very rare.

genejockey 

My understanding is that you actually DO have to do that if you go tubeless.

seedsbelize 

My bike buying days are over. I haven't even ridden in almost two weeks. I find myself wondering if my riding days are over too. I'm not riding much, in part because the drivers in my area become more aggressive by the day. I am the only recreational road rider in 20 miles in one direction, and hundreds of miles in the rest of the directions. Off road or nothing. I get run off the road right here in town.

MoAlpha

I do give my tubeless wheels a spin once a month or something. I've never had them unseal, though.

Velo Vol 

Said folks were doing it wrong.

WhyFi

Work on the Murphy bed began in earnest over the long weekend. Damn, I just want this thing to be done. Getting close - waiting on the final coat of paint to dry on the cabinet carcass. It's already mounted to the wall seven ways to Sunday, and it's drilled for all of the mounting hardware and assist pistons to secure and articulate the metal frame (which I've already assembled). I should have it functional either tonight or tomorrow and then I can get things squared away and return to a bit of normalcy. I'll probably start on the decorative door panels next week or so, but that won't involve turning the house upside down.

abshipp 

Anyone else watching today?

Velo Vol 

Nope, but I am watching this.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasa...ex.html#public

seedsbelize 

I got some old Campy hubs that hadn't been serviced for many years, and not used either. Like a fool I opened them up. Don't do it.

abshipp 

Ah that's a much better feed. YouTube is being very glitchy today.

WhyFi

I suppose it's possible, but waste pipes are considerably larger, they have to be buried deeper than the lowest sink/toilet/shower in the house, and, other than the traps in the house, they've got a pitch to keep stuff moving along. The smaller, always full water mains would be much, much more prone.