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10-12-22, 12:26 PM
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10-12-22, 01:08 PM
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Also - people who think they could be climbers if only they had much lower gears than came stock on their bike, when their real problem is fitness and training.
10-12-22, 01:37 PM
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I thought this thread should in the Fifty Plus (50+) subforum, but even that would be a poor representation. Maybe BF needs a Seventy Five Plus (75+) subforum.
It’s as bad as going to the senior center.
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It’s as bad as going to the senior center.
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10-12-22, 01:54 PM
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Am I the only one here who sees the irony when folks read through long threads then complain about them?
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10-12-22, 02:17 PM
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They expect me to act like a grown up!
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10-12-22, 02:36 PM
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10-12-22, 03:54 PM
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10-12-22, 06:51 PM
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Honestly, the only thing that really bothers the hell out of me is using tools/processes outlined by people who clearly never tried to refine them, instead settling on the very first thing.
Incidentally, I was thinking of you and wondering if you were okay when I was going through the misbegotten tools in the basement of the shop and came across a bag of Kingsbridge cone wrenches (whose edges are rounded all the way around, see above). Glad to see that you are okay FBinNY
Incidentally, I was thinking of you and wondering if you were okay when I was going through the misbegotten tools in the basement of the shop and came across a bag of Kingsbridge cone wrenches (whose edges are rounded all the way around, see above). Glad to see that you are okay FBinNY
10-12-22, 07:12 PM
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When I was first getting into bikes in the mid-80s, l’d go check out bike books from the college library. Many (most?) were written during the 1970s bike boom. “Campy” was apparently a common nickname back then, and I’ve used it. I will agree that “Campag” for me sounds like shifting a bike chain coated in sand.
3DB997E6-74D2-4BCE-A8FF-C99F9634A972 by Richard Mozzarella, on Flickr(You can see this old bag has been bangin' roond the hotel minibar a while.)
I think Campagnola is a better name for bike parts.
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10-13-22, 12:30 AM
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10-13-22, 12:46 AM
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If you run your bicycle chain in a clean sealed environment, bathed in continuously filtered lubricant, and regularly heat it up enough to drive off the water, I suspect you’ll be quite happy with how long it lasts. You should probably build the chain links to tighter tolerances as well.
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10-22-22, 07:25 AM
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Mine would have to be run-on sentences like when someone blathers on and on with no punctuation in one long paragraph how am I supposed to read all of that and offer suggestions when I can’t even decipher the steps you’ve taken so far a few bulletpoints can go a long way ok I’m done carry on
10-22-22, 08:13 AM
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Parking in driveways and driving on parkways
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10-22-22, 09:35 AM
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It bugs me when people pepper their speech with the word 'like'. As in "I was like..."and "he was like..."and "like, we went to the movies and we were like...". 
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10-22-22, 11:10 AM
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I already responded to this thread. Maybe in error since we don’t have a dog or cat.
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10-22-22, 01:33 PM
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The MW dictionary defines "Meter" (among other things) as "an instrument for measuring and sometimes recording the time or amount of something". If that "something" is tension, then "tension meter" seems to me to be perfectly descriptive.
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10-22-22, 02:45 PM
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10-22-22, 03:10 PM
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Let’s ignore for a moment marketing and economies of scale.
If you run your bicycle chain in a clean sealed environment, bathed in continuously filtered lubricant, and regularly heat it up enough to drive off the water, I suspect you’ll be quite happy with how long it lasts. You should probably build the chain links to tighter tolerances as well.
If you run your bicycle chain in a clean sealed environment, bathed in continuously filtered lubricant, and regularly heat it up enough to drive off the water, I suspect you’ll be quite happy with how long it lasts. You should probably build the chain links to tighter tolerances as well.
10-23-22, 06:22 AM
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10-23-22, 06:53 AM
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The back sliding "real cyclist" that rail against others that dont agree with them. Such as----------you have to have an expensive kit to be a real cyclist and ride a very expensive bike. They rail against recumbents, trikes, disc brakes, metal frames, and those that dont maintain at least a cadence of 90. AND they wont admit that little Susie on her 16" wheel bike is a cyclist.
Oh yeah and they totally lose it if some one has electric assist on their bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah and they totally lose it if some one has electric assist on their bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11-04-22, 05:41 PM
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Continuing to lose small parts
Even worse, in my haste to fix something on the deck, I frequently forget to lay down a drop cloth until I lose a small, rare part between the deck boards. I’ve become quite good at fishing these wayward parts out with bent coat hangers, magnets on strings, tape on sticks, etc. People walking by must think that I’m an idiot when they see me pressing my face to the deck as I try to lasso that rare screw, nut, brake cable adjuster, (fill in the blank). Some day, hopefully within this lifetime, I’ll lay down a drop cloth first!
11-04-22, 06:31 PM
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Because I now need reading glasses, but have not got new prescription glasses yet, I have to peer closely without my glasses to examine small sub-components, then put my glasses back on to find the tools to actually adjust those sub-components.
Sigh, getting old sucks.
Sigh, getting old sucks.
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