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I cannot resist. Here is brother Erik.
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Another one: I got back into cycling ten years ago. For the first couple of years I ran my rear brake cable/housing to the right of the head tube instead of elegantly looping it around on the left. Because I didn't know any better and didn't take notice of how it was done on other bikes. Ugh. Painful to look at! |
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Anyway. Here's one I learned recently--not cycling related: If you put a grocery bag over your hand/foot before stuffing it in to your wet suit, you'll slide right in, even when it's already wet. As soon as your bag covered hand/foot emerges from the sleeve/leg, just pull the bag out, put it on your next appendage, and repeat. |
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If you put plastic bags over your feet before stuffing them into your cycling shoes (as well as putting on overshoes/booties) in the winter you can buy an extra half hour or so on the bike on frosty days in the dead of winter without needing chemical toe warmers.
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I've never had a problem with rattling CO2 cartridges 'cause I always tape em together with a valve extender in the valley between the 2 cartridges.
...then it don't matter what valve you run 'cause there's always a valve extender with you M |
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My aunt Matilda's mustache, tubulars in the muck are fine and maybe even.....superior!!! But put the far superior tubular tire in an old sock...done.
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low tech high utilty only whippets for mešµ |
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Saw this on the book of face. A true 'doh!' moment
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Got another one. I've been fiddling with my rear derailleur for a few days now. Turns out the thread in the barrel adjuster was stripped. I got the LBS to tap out the derailleur and put in a new barrel adjuster.
But in the course of doing all this, a strand on the cable started coming loose. Peeved, I thought I was going to need to get a new cable, but then I had a brainwave: what if I just peeled the strand back to before the cable stop on the chainstay? Eh? Well, what do you know. It worked! I guess now I just have to see how long my ingenious fix lasts. |
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Replace that cable! or at least use silver solder, lotās of flux and solder that sucker solid. |
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Ignore the pessimism! Iāve done that ācut the stray cable strand below the pinch boltā many times. Never had any problems! Good job thinking of the hack and employing it!
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This is my town bike, so I'm not doing any "rides" per se. In fact, I just got back from a trip to the supermarket loaded down with cartons of almond milk and sundry other comestibles. Rode like a charm.
I even had a carton of eggs stuffed into one saddlebag. Went over some bumpy asphalt, but no cracks. You could say that, erm...the cracks did not produce cracks. |
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so true
old's cool
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