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AG: Doorways
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
wrote: "Kickstand"? Heaven forefend! Flatfoots have no top tube. Really hard to lean one on a pole. And mine came with the kickstand as part of the frame, so you don't get clamp distortion. But there's a downside to the all-in-one-piece philosophy. I wanted a smaller chainwheel, and learned that it's welded to the crankset -- changing it would cost a substantial fraction of what I paid for the bike. So I'm stuck with a two-speed bike, the steering being too antsy for me to ever want to pedal while going downhill. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: Doorways
Joy Beeson wrote in
news On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin wrote: "Kickstand"? Heaven forefend! Flatfoots have no top tube. Really hard to lean one on a pole. I lean the saddle or crank the against the pole. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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AG: Doorways
On 4/18/2016 7:16 AM, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Joy Beeson wrote in news On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin wrote: "Kickstand"? Heaven forefend! Flatfoots have no top tube. Really hard to lean one on a pole. I lean the saddle or crank the against the pole. 40 years ago, a British friend showed me his trick: Put the curb side pedal just behind the direct downward (6 O'clock) position; prop that pedal on the curb, and lean the front wheel into the curb. The force of the curb upward on the pedal tries (weakly) to drive the bike forward; but the wheel turned into the curb prevents it from moving. It works, although it's not super-stable. For a bit of extra stability, add a Blackburn Stop Block http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5087/...71eb9ec3_o.jpg or something similar. Comparable devices are easy to make. But most of the time, I just lean my bike against a wall (with the Stop Block applied), or lie it down. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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AG: Doorways
Frank Krygowski wrote in news:nf493t$opr$1@dont-
email.me: On 4/18/2016 7:16 AM, Andrew Chaplin wrote: Joy Beeson wrote in news On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin wrote: "Kickstand"? Heaven forefend! Flatfoots have no top tube. Really hard to lean one on a pole. I lean the saddle or crank the against the pole. 40 years ago, a British friend showed me his trick: Put the curb side pedal just behind the direct downward (6 O'clock) position; prop that pedal on the curb, and lean the front wheel into the curb. The force of the curb upward on the pedal tries (weakly) to drive the bike forward; but the wheel turned into the curb prevents it from moving. I do that daily as I leave the House and turn to lock the front door. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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AG: Clipped wings
When you pin your pants at the ankles, resist the temptation to use the resulting wings as handles to help you get your foot over the saddle. This puts excessive strain on the pins, which may cause them to bend and open. No there's no story to go with that -- the buffer is BARE. Somebody ask a question. -- Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier, some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:16:14 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Chaplin
wrote: I lean the saddle or crank the against the pole. Tried the saddle-and-crank park on the street-number post on my way out the driveway the last time I rode the flatfoot, and it worked. The crank isn't nearly as far forward as I thought it was. (The curves of the tubes create an optical illusion that makes the distance between the bottom bracket and the seat post look much longer until one mentally extrapolates the straight portions of the tubes.) The short reach explains why it's so hard to pedal. Not as hard to pedal as the child-size paddle boat that drifted up on our beach a few years ago, but hard enough that I don't really mind that I can't go through a traffic light on it. (Eventually a motorboat came by with two children, and the father escorted them as they pedalled home. It's a small lake -- and I presume that shorter legs were less inconvenienced.) -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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AG: Endurance
You can keep going forever if you spend five minutes of each hour flat on your back with your arms stretched out to the sides. In warm weather, there should be a bottle of water by one hand and a bottle of juice beside the other. The trick lies in finding a place where you can do this without attracting ambulances. In Thatcher Park above Albany, New York, there is or was a flat-topped wall just high enough that it's obvious that a person who got up there is in good condition. So one can rest up before the four-mile coast to New Salem, whoopty-doo. No-one has ever bothered me while I was resting in a graveyard, but graveyards are not strategically placed. And in some, all the shady spots are full of poison ivy. Once I tried flaking out on a lawn that was frequently covered by the racing team from R.P.I. That doesn't work unless you bring the team with you. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: Snacks
This is mostly from memory -- now that my range is so short, I nearly always plan on eating at a fast-food joint, and the food I carry has to stay good through several expeditions that don't meet with an emergency. Aside: you should always carry some bike fuel that you don't plan to eat. You won't need it often, but when you do, you will be *very* glad that you brought it. Once, on a supported tour, I was too tired to fight the crowd at suppertime . . . and by the time I noticed that the crowd was people going back for seconds, they had run out of food. But I had two high-calorie muffins in my luggage, and did just fine. That incident is probably why, whenever I fantasize about feeding a randonneur tour -- those guys are a cook's daydream -- whatever the menu, my plans include giving unopened boxes of spaghetti and cans of spaghetti sauce to Our Father's House. The main menu would never be pasta -- I once read an interview with a Boston-Montreal-Boston rider who said that he got so fed up with pasta that he would have killed for a baked potato. So my menu features an oven filled with one huge potato per person (plus ten percent for error), a sack or two of raw small potatoes and two microwaves (three if I can borrow Kiddie Kollege's microwave) for seconds, and several crock pots of toppings. Jambalaya would be good, but doesn't allow for individual taste -- suppose you put garlic in it and someone is allergic to garlic? Two kinds of rice and the aforementioned crockpots of toppings. Of course, any peasant food would be good bike fuel. But I don't think I'd be good at serving tortillas even though one can buy them ready made. Fish and poi? No way to get the ingredients even if I knew what to do with them. Could go back to my own peasant roots and serve good ol' Hoosier tamale pie, but that's the same problem as jambalaya, and I don't think anyone under seventy would recognize plain polenta as food. Shucks, there are people older than I am who won't touch it. Perhaps spanish hamburger and an assortment of starches? And that's enough to make a post; this being the only post in the buffer, I'll save my original topic for another post. If I can remember what I meant to say. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: Snacks
On Mon, 9 May 2016 22:58:53 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: Peasant food? I nominate pierogi! Preferably with a variety of fillings, not just the classic potato. If you can come up with a way to make them hot and ready to eat while cycling, I'll nominate you for canonization. (And two popes ago, you'd have been a shoo-in!) I think the support crews for the Race Across America have worked that out. It is rumored that one rider rode no-hands while using a Frisbee for a plate. I hope he ate with his fingers. Just looked up "pierogi" on Wikipedia. Sounds like something you could drop into a pot of boiling water a few at a time as riders straggle into the feeding station. Also sounds a lot like my favorite lunch at the Chinatown Express. Garnished with fried onion? As good for on-demand. The fast riders get fried onions, the stragglers get caramelized onion. A little farther down, I got to "fried in butter after boiling". Freshening them up in butter would be quicker than boiling to order, and they could be kept warm on a steam table. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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AG: Snacks
On 5/7/2016 8:45 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
This is mostly from memory -- now that my range is so short, I nearly always plan on eating at a fast-food joint, and the food I carry has to stay good through several expeditions that don't meet with an emergency. Aside: you should always carry some bike fuel that you don't plan to eat. You won't need it often, but when you do, you will be *very* glad that you brought it. Once, on a supported tour, I was too tired to fight the crowd at suppertime . . . and by the time I noticed that the crowd was people going back for seconds, they had run out of food. But I had two high-calorie muffins in my luggage, and did just fine. That incident is probably why, whenever I fantasize about feeding a randonneur tour -- those guys are a cook's daydream -- whatever the menu, my plans include giving unopened boxes of spaghetti and cans of spaghetti sauce to Our Father's House. The main menu would never be pasta -- I once read an interview with a Boston-Montreal-Boston rider who said that he got so fed up with pasta that he would have killed for a baked potato. So my menu features an oven filled with one huge potato per person (plus ten percent for error), a sack or two of raw small potatoes and two microwaves (three if I can borrow Kiddie Kollege's microwave) for seconds, and several crock pots of toppings. Jambalaya would be good, but doesn't allow for individual taste -- suppose you put garlic in it and someone is allergic to garlic? Two kinds of rice and the aforementioned crockpots of toppings. Of course, any peasant food would be good bike fuel. But I don't think I'd be good at serving tortillas even though one can buy them ready made. Fish and poi? No way to get the ingredients even if I knew what to do with them. Could go back to my own peasant roots and serve good ol' Hoosier tamale pie, but that's the same problem as jambalaya, and I don't think anyone under seventy would recognize plain polenta as food. Shucks, there are people older than I am who won't touch it. Perhaps spanish hamburger and an assortment of starches? And that's enough to make a post; this being the only post in the buffer, I'll save my original topic for another post. If I can remember what I meant to say. Peasant food? I nominate pierogi! Preferably with a variety of fillings, not just the classic potato. If you can come up with a way to make them hot and ready to eat while cycling, I'll nominate you for canonization. (And two popes ago, you'd have been a shoo-in!) -- - Frank Krygowski |
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