johndoh – Member

I drive an Audi A6 2.0tdi SLine Special Edition (owned from new) so no, not envy

So much ammunition…
…must resist…

willber – Member
We find a bike shop and buy the parts to sort it out

Well you obviously didn’t.

Only time I’ve ever been star struck was when I bumped into Tony Hart.
Almost shook his hand off I was so excited to meet him.
He was very friendly and polite, exactly as you’d imagine.

Northwind – Member

I was on Songs of Praise once.

I once called Harry Secombe a fat ****.

I haven’t ridden a 29″ bike, which is better for wheelies?

I would not have thought that you would lose modulation by having air in the lines.
Are the brakes new?
Different pads?
How long have you had them?

monkeysfeet – Member

Now, are aftermarket alloy wheels as good as original manufacturer own, or not?

Considering your OEM wheels only lasted three years, I’d suggest that they may even be better. 😆

ahwiles – Member

*my other measurement device looks like this:

I used to play with CMMs, handy for checking your frame has been welded together straight. 🙂

Maybe not this one:

😯

I used to have one of those, except it was the metre long version.
£800. 🙂

irelanst – Member

Mitutoyo digital, probably a 150mm one would be fine. I have them at work and at home and they just work.

You can get cheap Chinese imports that are fine when nice and clean but stop working when they get a bit of swarf/cutting fluid on them.

Another vote for Mitutoyo if you can stretch to it (£70?), although that *may be overkill for your needs.
I’ve dismantled, cleaned, reassembled and calibrated pretty much every brand of vernier and digital caliper and Mitutoyo is always the one I’d recommend.
Mine’s about 15 years old now.

ETA: *will be overkill. If you’re not going to use it that much a cheap one would be fine.

mattjg – Member

Car-dooring’s not really an ‘accident’ is it? Surely it’s negligence or carelessness on part of the car-doorer?

Actually there is case law that puts some of the burden of responsibility onto the road user passing the parked vehicle.

How much for this sort of thing in today’s money:

Adjustable travel (63/80/100)
Adjustable spring rate*
Adjustable preload/rebound/compression
3.8lbs (~1.7kg)

*Ok, maybe changing the spring is not what you’d call adjustable.

tkirkus – Member

I’ve a Litespeed Lookout Mtn titanium frame which I’ve had for years,was my first proper bike and I love dearly. The problem is I never use it. What should I do? Build it into a bike I would rarely use, give it to a friend or sell it?

Tim

I’d like to be your friend. 😳

I would check that badly calibrated counts as malfunctioning before running any reds…

Inattention.

Mr Agreeable – Member

Second arch on the left, there’s a good chap.

Lose the argument, play the troll card.
What next, “I know you are but what am I?”. 😆
🙄

simons_nicolai-uk – Member

This I love. Now I’m reading this as someone who is trying to argue that speeding should not be prosecuted/made a priority because it’s not a ‘significant’ cause of accidents. Maybe I’ve not picked up the whole thread but that’s how it looks.

Well, yes.
We should make the more common causes of accidents a priority to address.

That’s some pretty simple logic I’m following right there, how about you?

Are are you just going to jump in with Mr Agreeable (a misnomer if ever I saw one) on the grounds that I pointed out your road use was shit?
Do you drive like that when in a car?
Someone does something wrong, so give ’em a nudge!

Attitude.
That’s the key.

Mr Agreeable – Member

So the best you can do blah blah blah

I stated that speeding is a minor cause of accidents, which it is.
I’ve given you a source.
I don’t see what your problem is?
Unless you want to argue about whether less than 4% equates itself to being incredibly minor?
I don’t see how as

it’s a tiny proportion – about 6%

according to yourself.
I also fail to see how my national newspaper source is any less valid than your anti-driver blog.

unklehomered – Member

How many involve speeding vehicles? It may not be the primary cause, but it is always going to increase the risk of injury.

That is correct, however it is my belief that by plastering over the cut we mask the severity of the causal problems which will continue to grow until we run out of plasters!
We need to think about the long term solution to safe road use, which I believe is better training, for all road users.
Unfortunately nobody wants to do that. Everyone wants to blame everyone else for problems on the road and not take responsibility for themselves.
Look at the anti-driver sentiments on this forum. They are exactly the same as the anti-cyclist opinions expressed on motoring forums.
It’s all driven by the same thing; selfishness.
Selfish car drivers don’t like bikes because they slow them down.
Selfish bike riders don’t like cars because they slow them down.

I blame the false sense of entitlement that the Labour government introduced. 8)

We need to shift people’s attitudes back to when we took responsibility for ourselves and start being a little more neighbourly.

simons_nicolai-uk – Member

Thanks. I think the prick was the guy who undertook me in slow moving traffic, pulled alongside, then proceeded to move sideways into the space I was occupying.

Absolutely, but no need to stoop to his level. In this case the moral high ground is also the physically safest. 🙂

Mr Agreeable – Member

So with a quick bit of Googling you’ve found a stat which says that 1 in 8 fatal accidents are caused by speeding. *slow clap*

No, after looking at government statistics, I have seen that speed in excess of the limit is the primary cause of less than 4% of accidents.

Here’s a link for you.

Like I said, a minor cause of accidents.
I trust you will now retract your statement which is shown to be in error, assuming it was made in error and you’re not a weasly maggot of a cowardly liar, which I’m sure you’re not. *coffee bean shake*

Mr Agreeable – Member

As statements pulled out of thin air go, that’s up there with the best of them.

4% of accidents have speed in excess of limit as primary cause.
You can bump that up to about 14% if you’re only looking at fatals.

Government stats, look them up whilst you are looking up sources for your claims, as I’m sure you didn’t pull them out of thin air.

stumpy01 – Member

Anyway – back to the F1 Quali…..

Fell asleep before he even finished the sentence. 😉

Dales_rider – Member

It is when you are not overtaking anything

No it isn’t. 😀

You really didn’t need to justify using your car to get to work, you know.
It’s ok, it’s your choice. 🙂

unklehomered – Member

While you have a point sbob, merely surrendering the road everytime doesn’t alert the driver to the fact he might nearly have killed someone, and reinforces the notion they have somekind of supremacy over cyclists. If I did something which a cyclist found threatening, inimidating or dangerous, I would want to know about it.

Which is why I boarded the bus (with bike) further down the road to remonstrate with the driver, once it was safe to do so. 😆

Mr Agreeable – Member

It is not necessary to be an apologist for red light jumping or pavement riding cyclists to point out that the risks they pose are many orders of magnitude less than the risks to pedestrians and cyclists from poorly controlled motor vehicles

Unfortunately that opens the door for antagonists like me to point out that speeding is an incredibly minor cause of accidents, even though I don’t, of course, advocate speeding, nor partake in excesses of the speed limit myself. 😀

bencooper – Member

So cyclists should quietly and unobtrusively get out of the way?

Two courses of action:

1. Remove yourself from danger.
2. Don’t remove yourself from danger.

Why do so many cyclists who constantly complain about car drivers being dangerous pick option 2?
Do they want to avoid danger or not?
It would appear that being a self righteous prick is more important than their own safety.

The last incident I had was a bus driver pulling out on me.
Did I slap the side of the bus?
No.
Because the safest thing for me to do at that time was remove myself from the area of possible conflict, which I did.

Safe road use isn’t **** rocket science.

boxbuster – Member

I live in Cambridge, there are loads of reckless cyclists and even as someone who cycles everyday and doesn’t really get stressed they often manage to wind me up.

Would you say it has (relatively) recently got worse?
I’m sure I’ve noticed an increase in fixed gear fashion victims weaving between peds crossing the road, running reds and generally exhibiting shit, selfish road use.

Dales_rider – Member

I drove to work yesterday [2 miles] and saw 0 cyclists and quite a few cars. 5 of which were commiting traffic offences. most serious being going through a red light. Other 4 were crossing double white lines, failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing and 2 parking on pavements.

It is not always illegal to cross solid white lines, and parking on the pavement is not in itself illegal for most of the UK, not that I’m defending the actions of the motorists that I didn’t witness, of course.

(2 mile car journey? Shame on you!)
😛

simons_nicolai-uk – Member

Car owners seem to get very protective of their cars – I’ve been screamed at – ‘don’t you dare touch my f&&&ing car’ – when I’ve slapped a panel of a car that’s been about to sideswipe me.

If you’ve got time to slap a car, you’ve got time to brake out of danger.

Stop being a prick. 💡

grantway – Member

ian martin – Member
For me the term ‘society’ means sharing.

With you 100%

Sweet.
I currently earn less than you, give me some money please. 🙂

Salmon and a dirty Sanchez for me, but it’s my own fault for importing my women from overseas.

geordiepaul – Member

I recently damaged the frame on my carbon road bike after someone mentioned I might be covered under my M&S home insurance

Fraud is a very serious offence…

ktmblag – Member

+1 for bondhus

And another.
All the machinists I’ve ever worked with used Bondhus.

camo16 – Member

Brilliant advice. Thanks all.

It’s a Sun Tour from around 1984.

In that case I don’t think they will be indexed as Suntour didn’t release their Accushift indexed levers until 1987, so the centre screw is possibly just for mounting onto the frame, and the wire D-ring is for adjusting tension, as mentioned in the first reply. 😳

(Though in my defence, the D-ring pictured on the 105 shifters is for switching between indexed and friction, I have them on my Peugeot road bike from many, many moons ago.)

wwaswas – Member

If it’s proper 80’s they’ll be for the friction – they hadn’t invented indexing

1984

If they are Shimano, you should be able to twist the loop clockwise (at least on the right hand side for the rear mech) to enable indexed shifting.
To stop them slipping you tighten the screw in the middle.
I think.
It has been over twenty years…

It’s more like the bottom one – there’s a loop of metal, but there’s a screw fixing too

The loop of metal is for switching between indexed and friction gears, the centre fixing is for tension.

ETA: for the Shimano ones pictured.
Ah, front mech. They weren’t indexed, were they?

I still have my ’95 GT Tequesta.
A friend has an 80s Marin Palisades Trail, and when I was at his place for a party recently I spotted some tatty old bikes in the shed, one of which was an original Orange P7 with Pace forks and Maguras. The whols thing had been brush painted with blackboard paint.

in reality, if you are notified of a pending prosecution, the accused has the legal right to see all evidence that will be presented to bring the prosecution.

Only when the accused has declined the Fixed Penalty will there be a prosecution pending. 💡