Forum: Techniques
March 10th 09, 05:12 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 11
Views: 820
Five Ten brand shoes for cycling??
Carl Sundquist wrote:
_THEY_SUCK_
wrote:
Well here is a guy who bought some for bike riding....
read his thoughts
scroll down to where he talks abt the...
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Forum: Techniques
March 10th 09, 04:10 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 4
Views: 452
Winter
jim beam wrote:
A Muzi wrote:
It's still winter in some parts of the earth and here is a
great location:
...
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Forum: Techniques
March 9th 09, 11:32 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 166
Views: 3,055
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Forum: Techniques
March 9th 09, 10:44 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 166
Views: 3,055
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Forum: Techniques
March 8th 09, 10:13 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,206
Great Steel Ride Across the Golden Gate Today
A Muzi wrote:
Well, Fabricius knew a thing or two about getting value for the
treasury! Seems pretty well made. For the first two millennia, anyway.
The 'no wheels during daylight' rule...
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Forum: Techniques
March 8th 09, 10:03 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 71
Views: 1,996
tall guy road bike
jim beam wrote:
SMS wrote:
Chalo wrote:
All the relevant tubes are a size up from what Merckx rode. Thicker
walled, too. And 4130 CrMo may be "low grade steel" to you, but most
...
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Forum: Techniques
March 8th 09, 09:33 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,206
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 10:31 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 79
Views: 2,423
Tin plated wire for binding spokes
Nick L Plate wrote:
Is the bond created using tin plated steel wire and tinmans solder
more resilient than that made with zinc plated wire. For use on zinc
plated, chrome or stainless...
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 09:26 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,119
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 09:08 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 79
Views: 2,423
Tin plated wire for binding spokes
Nick L Plate wrote:
Is the bond created using tin plated steel wire and tinmans solder
more resilient than that made with zinc plated wire. For use on zinc
plated, chrome or stainless spokes. ...
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 08:55 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 1,437
Views: 38,015
700/23 vs 700/25 tires ?
Tim McNamara wrote:
-much snip-
Psychology plays a role, too- for example, I have never been driven by
the need to win. When I got beaten in a sprint, for example, it didn't
really bother...
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 05:02 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,119
Jobst's The Bicycle Wheel
wrote:
[...]
This picture of Brandt's followers explains everything:
http://tinyurl.com/v2cbg
The Arkansas Association of Bicycle...
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Forum: Techniques
March 7th 09, 04:54 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,119
ugh grut ba spoke
datakoll wrote:
well gee whiz. Line drawings are beautiful, communicative
educational....
no problem.
but seriously and not thinned skinned abt being antiquo
can the Brandt book process...
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Forum: Techniques
March 6th 09, 09:18 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 1,437
Views: 38,015
700/23 vs 700/25 tires ?
wrote:
Dear John,
Good heavens, more self-effacing modesty!
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
Dear Cowardly Carl
I'm especially not...
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Forum: Techniques
March 6th 09, 04:38 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 1,437
Views: 38,015
700/23 vs 700/25 tires ?
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
And another guy - you - doesn't offer numbers except pulled out of the
air, talks abour racing from a position of ignorance, and doesn't
understand...
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Forum: Techniques
March 5th 09, 09:33 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 6
Views: 469
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Forum: Techniques
March 5th 09, 05:26 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,119
Jobst's The Bicycle Wheel
Keiron wrote:
[---]
Andrew Price wrote:
However, my wheel building is still shocking! :)
Perhaps you shouldn't have sold the book then ...
Keiron wrote:
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Forum: Techniques
March 4th 09, 07:55 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 6
Views: 469
best source for info on older campy parts?
Doug smith wrote:
I'm looking for a good source on parts specs for older Campy stuff,
circa 1985. I want to rebuild the hubs and possibly replace balls, cups
and cones. I did replace the...
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Forum: Techniques
March 4th 09, 05:18 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 14
Views: 741
Pass-through spokes
Barry wrote:
On last Saturday's ride I noticed someone's wheels (I don't remember the
brand) had the nipples at the hub instead of the rim. The spokes were twice
as long as normal, and went...
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Forum: Techniques
March 4th 09, 05:14 PM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 82
Views: 1,402
Freshly patched tube test.
A hole in a 4-inch piece of
plastic pipe often lets me patch near the valve stem.
Barry wrote:
How do you use the plastic pipe? I can't visualize this.
"Plastic pipe"? Circumlocution...
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Forum: Techniques
March 4th 09, 05:14 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 218
Views: 4,294
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Forum: Techniques
March 3rd 09, 01:54 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 218
Views: 4,294
Inexpensive bike for both touring and off road
A Muzi wrote:
I just pulled the top and down tubes out of a well-worn 1973 Raleigh.
Chalo wrote:
Why?
To replace then crash-crunched tubes
The inside surfaces are bare grey steel except...
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Forum: Techniques
March 3rd 09, 01:44 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 50
Views: 1,695
Wrong wrong wrong.... (ON topic)
datakoll aka gene daniels wrote: oh carl that reasoning went out of style somewhere around 1954
even in Kansas
Tom Sherman wrote:
Even in West Grain...
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Forum: Techniques
March 3rd 09, 01:30 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 77
Views: 2,608
Fixies?
Chalo wrote:
[...]
Fixed gearing, though, is like manual spark advance on cars-- there
were good reasons that it was superseded a long time ago, and there
are no good reasons to...
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Forum: Techniques
March 3rd 09, 01:27 AM Posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Replies: 218
Views: 4,294
Inexpensive bike for both touring and off road
datakoll wrote:
caveyacht ! premptore....
I dunno. I know caustic from removing rust. Not seeing the tubes
insides, assume rust and go for the complete steel treatment.
Inquiries on this...
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