The Cycling Chat Thread

[fen_boy]

Arrrgh, massive picture.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

...as long as the junction of steerer and blades is plenty beefy(gussetted ideally) then its fine...only personally I wouldn't start out that way, you're creating two stress points, the curve and the aforementioned join. I prefer the look of a raked fork but I can't see how it'll work better than a straight disk fork.

 

[a_chap]

a_chap - night riding is pretty popular, yes. I'm curious as that you saw so few cyclists. Was it 3bin the morning or something?

About half ten (pm). Not that late really.

Anyway, plenty of cyclists out today. If I knew how to hire a Boris bike and knew where the eff I was going I'd join them. As it is I'll make do with a wander looking for a decent place to eat/drink along the Edgeware Road.

 

[steeeve]

About half ten (pm). Not that late really.

Anyway, plenty of cyclists out today. If I knew how to hire a Boris bike and knew where the eff I was going I'd join them. As it is I'll make do with a wander looking for a decent place to eat/drink along the Edgeware Road.

you can just get one from the terminals with a debit card, dead easy you just get a 4 number code that lasts all day (in half our bouts to keep it cheap) no need to register or anything

 

[a_chap]

Thanks for the info Steeeve but I'd be a menace on the roads. And I'd get lost.

 

[Boycey]

...as long as the junction of steerer and blades is plenty beefy(gussetted ideally) then its fine...only personally I wouldn't start out that way, you're creating two stress points, the curve and the aforementioned join. I prefer the look of a raked fork but I can't see how it'll work better than a straight disk fork.

anything made by surly is unlikely to suffer from being "not beefy enough"

 

[Sprocket.]

I have in my collection a Raleigh Clubman I bought it in 1983 and was riding it until about seven years ago. It is time I think to get it back on the road at last. 531 frame handbuilt in Ilkeston by a chap called Mike Smart, I still have the certification.
I think a good overhaul, new saddle and bar tape and we will give it a go.
Will post photos ASAP.

 

[plurker]

Thanks for the info Steeeve but I'd be a menace on the roads. And I'd get lost.

Standard Borisbike rider then

 

[youbeauty]

anything made by surly is unlikely to suffer from being "not beefy enough"

The bottom braket shell/downtube junction of my Crosscheck wasn't beefy enough for my enormous muscles:

 

[iamwithnail]

Wow! Did that happen while you were riding? As a chunker, that gives me the fear.

 

[Sprocket.]

The bottom braket shell/downtube junction of my Crosscheck wasn't beefy enough for my enormous muscles: View attachment 70564

That looks like the weld has been allowed to cool too quickly on the down tube and seat tube joints, have you been in touch with Surly? Might be a fault that could become a trend in their manufacturing process, they may be grateful of a heads up.

 

[youbeauty]

It happened as I was pulling away from some lights in too high a gear so really low speed which was lucky. It took me a while to work out what had gone wrong - I thought the crank had come loose initially. The crack had probably been forming for ages without me noticing - you can see how clean I kept that bike!

I'd had the frame for ages and, at a guess, ridden about 12,000 miles on it so I didn't really owe me anything. I did send a photo to Surly but heard nothing.

 

[BigTom]

Trek have done a recall on any of their bikes with a front disc brake + quick release skewer, made from 2000-2015 - I think this is just the USA/Canada but it's easy for people to check their bike and see if it needs to be replaced, see if the QR level folds open more than 180degrees, so when it's in the open position, if it folds back more than that, it could go into the spokes of the wheel and needs replacing.

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2015...t-Disc-Brakes-to-Replace-Quick-Release-Lever/

 

[Boycey]

Riding without doing up the q/r is of course otherwise perfectly safe

 

[weepiper]

Riding without doing up the q/r is of course otherwise perfectly safe

There are some fucking idiots out there, as you will know

 

[sim667]

So I'm cycling to work now..

People walking in the fucking cycle path

 

[Boycey]

There are some fucking idiots out there, as you will know

Well represented fucking idiots.

How a court can rule that fault lies with the manufacturer for allowing a q/r to fold back more than 180deg rather than the dick who didn't tighten it i don't know.

 

[Boycey]

So I'm cycling to work now..

People walking in the fucking cycle path

Pass close and very fast and whisper "dickhead" in their ear.

 

[a_chap]

So I'm cycling to work now..

People walking in the fucking cycle path

And you're using Urban whilst riding

 

[golightly]

Just completed a round trip to Box Hill from Camberwell in 4 hours. I tend to just use my bike for commuting and rarely go out on a ride just for the sake of it, so I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was. loads of weekend cyclists around Box Hill though, which should not have come as any surprise.

 

[iamwithnail]

I came out to the inlaws at Bexley from Peckham today, similar reasons, albeit much shorter. Still, did it in 50 minutes (11.5m) and that was getting stuck at every bloody light (seriously, at least 8 of them) up and back down eltham hill.

 

[contadino]

Absolutely love my new old ride. Startled by the difference a centimetre on stem height makes. Hopefully through the tinkering phase and into the good riding phase.

Bike is running pretty much silent now - when I get the shifts right (non-indexed friction downtube shifters have taken some getting used to but I really like them now.)

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

friction shifters - every gear change is a work of art / labour of love. Very satisfying when you get it right.

 

[braindancer]

First 100 miler of the year today - through Hertfordshire and Essex, a never ending stream of Vote Conservative posters. Pissing with rain to begin with leading me to consider giving up but the sun came out eventually. I'm fucking wiped tonight....

 

[han]

Wow, well done you. Did you do a circular ride or get the train back?

I want to do 100 miles before I do the Dunwich Dynamo, but the most I've done is 58 last weekend so need to get my arse in gear!

 

[han]

First 100 miler of the year today - through Hertfordshire and Essex, a never ending stream of Vote Conservative posters.

I cycled to Outwood (Surrey) last weekend and was horrified at the number of UKIP posters in the windows of cottages in pretty little villages. Our green and pleasant land. [emoji15]

 

[braindancer]

Wow, well done you. Did you do a circular ride or get the train back?

I want to do 100 miles before I do the Dunwich Dynamo, but the most I've done is 58 last weekend so need to get my arse in gear!

I did a circular ride - a loop out through Herts and into North Essex to Saffron Walden for lunch - then back through Thaxted and Great Dunmow (which you go through on the dynamo) and back via Matching Green and Moreton. Lovely it was....

 

[han]

Lovely!

 

[golightly]

I cycled to Outwood (Surrey) last weekend and was horrified at the number of UKIP posters in the windows of cottages in pretty little villages. Our green and pleasant land. [emoji15]

Yeah, UKIP had a stall in Epsom when I went past yesterday.

 

[Dogsauce]

I'm back home after six and a half weeks holiday and took the pashley for an early morning run up to the car boot sale (jet lag had me awake at five something). 12km and 232m climbing on a 25kg bike is a rude way to start the morning when you're off-form. Had to push it a bit on my way up to the radio tower as I had someone on my tail on a hybrid and None Shall Pass. Coming home (mostly downhill) was more fun.

Lots of lib dem banners lining the road in leafy Cookridge, a few labour as I got further into town.