Wrong. It means someone who has been taught the right way to work on their bike.Most people who are not committed into turning their bike into an expensive BSO pay attention to details..
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Valves/tyre logos. Do you align?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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coogan - Member
Bollocks! It's a flippin' tyre for god's sake. It gets covered in mud and you can't see the logos anyway.So you don't align to help find the puncture, and you don't clean the tyre before trying to fix it. What's the rest of the bike like?
Dancake - Member
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Change hands, you're injuring yourself...Posted 1 year ago # -
No, I have far more important things to do like making sure all the handles on the cups in the cupboard face the same way.
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No I don't, I've never lined the logos up. It's easy enough to find and fix a puncture. The rest of the bike has mud on it too. It's crazy, but I find carrying a bucket of soapy water and brushes in my pack a bit of a clutter to clean each bit of mud off as it lands on the frame off road...
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So you don't align to help find the puncture, and you don't clean the tyre before trying to fix it. What's the rest of the bike like?
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OK - I'm almost certainly being thick here, but this I can kind of understand;
nuke - Member
A rather crap excuse but I find if I line the logos up I can quickly spot where the valve is when changing a flatAlthough I suspect the aesthetic sense is strong with nuke
What I don't really get at all is this (and it seems to be the reason for most aligners aligning...);
andrewh - Member
Always.
Reason for doing this proved the other day. Out riding with some mates, one punctured. He removed tube and gave it to the other one, who found the hole and said it's about a quarter of the way round from the valve. Of by this time the tyre had been removed from the rim and we had no idea where a quarter turn was. If had lined them up properly...Surely running your fingers round the inside of the tyre takes all of five seconds, combined with a quick visual inspection? Especially given that the vaaaast majority of punctures I've had, and that my mates have had, don't leave anything stuck in the tyre - they're pinch punctures, broken glass not picked up by the tyre etc. I've only ever had a thorn in my tyre once - maybe I'm lucky.
Like I said - I honestly don't get it - am I missing the point?
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epicyclo - Member
So you don't align to help find the puncture, and you don't clean the tyre before trying to fix it. What's the rest of the bike like?
All mine are in perfect working order - almost obsessive so. I do not line tyres up tho - simply see no point. I remove the stickers off rims as well as they are ugly. Eyes and fingers allow me to find punctures and the valve hole
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My name is Gary & I align my rim/tyre logos.
There, i've said it at last.
Phew!!
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When you've got OCD as bad as me, its the only way you can look at your own bike.
OOOOooooooh yes. I align, everytime. I have no choice.
Think Melvin Udall and you're some way there.
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epicyclo - Member
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cookeaa - Member
...probably the same fools that buy helicopter tape...
Do you ride your bike?yep explain why I "need" either of the products I mentioned in order to ride?
neo guards - you paid £15 for an old mouse mat? an old bit of inner tube does the same job...
Helicopter tape? why bother? its an MTB every scratch and chip is a battle scar to be proud of. your bike still gets scuffed on the one spot you.didn't think to put your sticky back plastic. it does look shit....
products for mugs.
seems to me there's far too many people worrying about logo alignments, rebuilding wheels because OCD and 'the voices' told them to and sticking 1/2 a pound of clear plastic all over their dandy horses and not actually riding the buggers.
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Surely running your fingers round the inside of the tyre takes all of five seconds, combined with a quick visual inspection? Especially given that the vaaaast majority of punctures I've had, and that my mates have had, don't leave anything stuck in the tyre - they're pinch punctures, broken glass not picked up by the tyre etc. I've only ever had a thorn in my tyre once - maybe I'm lucky.
I'm guessing that I've seen a LOT more punctures than you have. It can often be extremely difficult to find the offending object by either sight or by touch. One wee tip is to run a paper tissue around the inside of the tyre, whereupon a little thread of it will catch on the sharp bit, highlighting the object. Of course, this doesn't help find the sodding little bit of glass which retreats back into the safety of the tread until there's a bit of pressure on it.Like I said - I honestly don't get it - am I missing the point?
The "alignment for speedy puncture repairs" thing is genuine enough.
Oh - have you noticed that lots of wheels now come with one or two odd-coloured spokes to highlight where the valve is? That I don't get - especially on a road bike.
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Nowt wrong with heli tape/ frame protection - I've seen gear and brake cables rub through an aluminium frame.
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I nearly asked the tyre place to align my car tyres last time I put some new ones on the car!
I decided I'd better not or they'd think I was insane
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Of course I align.
Fix hole in tube, pop valve through rim, realign tyre logo, check tyre carcass above patch for spiky thing. The whole aesthetic / anal / STW peer group pressure aspect just adds to the overall pleasure of it.
PS Kudos for re-lacing a wheel to line up the hub logo with the rim. Class!
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DT Swiss hubs have the logo the "wrong" way round.....
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I pull the stickers off my rims, and frankly I wish tyres didn't have logos at all...
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Hello everyone. My name is Rick, and I align.
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I'm one of the first people to give in to the urge to line everything up on my desk at right angles, but this has always struck me as a giant wind-up somebody started which has grown legs and run away.
1. If you can't see the valve sticking out of the tire, should you really be out on any kind of vehicle in public ?
2. How do you ever leave the house for worrying about the bike getting dirty anyway ?
3. Life really is too short - and how many punctures do you get ?
All IMHO of course.
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Of course I align the logo/valve. It's just aesthetics and attention to detail.
The one exception is when fixing punctures in a race situation - ideally the whole tyre doesn't need to come off but whatever, I just fix it, get the tyre back on and inflatePosted 1 year ago #
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