sleaterkinney
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Cheaper but not easier.
The Cycling Chat Thread
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
it’s easiest to put weight on your bike if you want to lose some from your body - I lost 3 stone in a few months just cos i was riding a 17kg bike with full panniers
ska invita
back on the other side
What do people think of this bike?
if it werent for the rust on the cogs looks amazing value (current bid £35)
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition | eBay
<p>Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition. </p><br /><br /><p>Bike was bought in the lock down as a spin bike to use with a bike hut turbo trainer . (Check out my other items as turbo trainer is for sale)</p><br /><p>Bike has been kept in garage see...
www.ebay.co.uk
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
What do people think of this bike?
if it werent for the rust on the cogs looks amazing value (current bid £35)Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition | eBay
<p>Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition. </p><br /><br /><p>Bike was bought in the lock down as a spin bike to use with a bike hut turbo trainer . (Check out my other items as turbo trainer is for sale)</p><br /><p>Bike has been kept in garage see...www.ebay.co.uk
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
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Citric or hydrochloric acid will dissolve iron oxide. It's just a pity they won't dissolve the rest of that bike.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It looks a bit tatty in places but nothing a bit of tlc and a few quids worth of bits won’t fix. All depends what it actually goes for really.What do people think of this bike?
if it werent for the rust on the cogs looks amazing value (current bid £35)Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition | eBay
<p>Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition. </p><br /><br /><p>Bike was bought in the lock down as a spin bike to use with a bike hut turbo trainer . (Check out my other items as turbo trainer is for sale)</p><br /><p>Bike has been kept in garage see...www.ebay.co.uk
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
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Cid
Proper break this time
95% of that will just be riding regularly. I mean I think you were on a commute, so over a fixed distance weight should have some effect, but not as much as you think. Rather obviously since you evidently continued to lose weight even after you'd dropped enough that you may as well have started on a 5kg ultimate weight weenie bike.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
does anyone have any experience using a junction with traffic lights that are triggered by sensors? I live on a new build (15 years ‘new’) estate that has its exit road onto one of the main commute roads in Leeds, and they’ve updated loads of lights,
priorities, lanes etc. the new lights controlling access to the main road seem to sense mass or mass of metal. you can see the sensors on the road approaching the lights - looks like an embossed box with a diagonal line across it. unfortunately they don’t seem to detect bikes. if i laid my old bike flat on the road inside the grid, it sometimes triggers the sequence, but not always, and now I’ve a new bike with a carbon frame, i often have to wait for another car to leave the estate, or run a red light when it’s ‘safe’ - I’m surmising that the sensor is even less responsive to a carbon frame than a steel or aluminium one? this could of course be bollocks as i don’t actually know how the sensors detect vehicles
priorities, lanes etc. the new lights controlling access to the main road seem to sense mass or mass of metal. you can see the sensors on the road approaching the lights - looks like an embossed box with a diagonal line across it. unfortunately they don’t seem to detect bikes. if i laid my old bike flat on the road inside the grid, it sometimes triggers the sequence, but not always, and now I’ve a new bike with a carbon frame, i often have to wait for another car to leave the estate, or run a red light when it’s ‘safe’ - I’m surmising that the sensor is even less responsive to a carbon frame than a steel or aluminium one? this could of course be bollocks as i don’t actually know how the sensors detect vehicles
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
BigTom
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure these use induction loops to detect something on top of them and that needs enough steel to produce the magnetic effect to change the inductive current on the loop and signal the lights to change.
How does a traffic light detect that a car has pulled up and is waiting for the light to change?
There is something exotic about the traffic lights that "know" you are there -- the instant you pull up, they change! How do they detect your presence?
auto.howstuffworks.com
How Traffic Lights Sensors Work | Automate Systems
How Traffic Lights Sensors Work
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There's one near me I can't trigger on my aluminium frame bike. I assume your old bike was steel?
It's a known issue that bikes won't trigger these sensors.
ska invita
back on the other side
what dont you like about it?
maomao
普費斯
There used to be one in my 2am commute home years ago. I couldn't set it off even by laying my bike down as was the received wisdom of the time. Give up, dismount and use the pedestrian crossing.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
He doesn’t like anything that isn’t several thousand pounds worth of carbon fibre and campagnolo
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Get some rust dissolver, paint on, wash off after an hour, oil. Sorted.What do people think of this bike?
if it werent for the rust on the cogs looks amazing value (current bid £35)Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition | eBay
<p>Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition. </p><br /><br /><p>Bike was bought in the lock down as a spin bike to use with a bike hut turbo trainer . (Check out my other items as turbo trainer is for sale)</p><br /><p>Bike has been kept in garage see...www.ebay.co.uk
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
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Who uses a cycle computer?...GPS type, mapping etc.
I've recently been out cycling with someone else who's super fit and took me on routes I've never been. It's given me a bit more motivation to try doign things I might not have done before. I'm not very good at planning so being able to find routes and upload them sounds like it might be a simple way to get me away from routes I've become stuck in.
I've seen a deal on a Garmin 530...£225 for the MTB bundle. I don't ride MTB but new mate has suggested doing the Cambrian way and he'll lend me a bike.
Will it be the game changer I'm thinking it might?
I've recently been out cycling with someone else who's super fit and took me on routes I've never been. It's given me a bit more motivation to try doign things I might not have done before. I'm not very good at planning so being able to find routes and upload them sounds like it might be a simple way to get me away from routes I've become stuck in.
I've seen a deal on a Garmin 530...£225 for the MTB bundle. I don't ride MTB but new mate has suggested doing the Cambrian way and he'll lend me a bike.
Will it be the game changer I'm thinking it might?
I was in a similar boat and bought the same one I think and don't go out without it. easy to put other people's routes on there from Strava, or make your own in the Garmin website and upload them. then no stress when you're out about being lost or having to think about turns etc. definitely a good thing for exploring. you can also just wing it and then use it to take you home when you're knackered.
ska invita
back on the other side
Can't this kind of thing be done on a phone without buying more tech?
Leafster
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I've got the 530 too. Not used any other bike computer so I've got nothing to compare it to but it works for my needs.
It has struggled keeping on planned routes occasionally, telling me I've gone wrong and to turn around but I think that's when I've been off road and the GPS hasn't been quite so accurate. It's mostly sorted itself out when I've moved to a slightly different location though.
It has struggled keeping on planned routes occasionally, telling me I've gone wrong and to turn around but I think that's when I've been off road and the GPS hasn't been quite so accurate. It's mostly sorted itself out when I've moved to a slightly different location though.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Some ideas on this thread:
Cycle route mapping - recommendations?
What do you use to plan cycle routes? My current method: use bikemap.net website to plan the route, then download the .gpx file, send it to my phone, and use it within Osmand (open street map app for android) to follow the route on the bike. Advantages are that it's free, and everything is...
www.urban75.net
That's my other option....phone and quadlock.....or are other cheaper mounts adequate?... Mind you my phone battery won't stand up to a long day cycling, means carrying a powerbank etc.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Wouldn't want to put my regular phone on the bars anyway, a crash could prove costly, so it would either be an old phone from CEX or a dedicated GPS thing. As it is just look at OS maps and footpathmap.co.uk before heading off and printing out any tricky to remember bits, which seems to work, but I have quite a good memory for maps.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I just use Strava to record and keep my phone in my pocket. I don't use it for route planning as such (well sometimes I might to spot good ways to connect difficult areas, you can select so that it shows you popular routes which means lots of cyclists go that way, which often but not always means it's a good way to go).
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
The handlebars look a bit suspect, it's been kept outside and not a great bike to begin with.What do people think of this bike?
if it werent for the rust on the cogs looks amazing value (current bid £35)Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition | eBay
<p>Carrera Crossfire 1 Ladies Hybrid Bike 17” Frame 28” Wheels In Good Condition. </p><br /><br /><p>Bike was bought in the lock down as a spin bike to use with a bike hut turbo trainer . (Check out my other items as turbo trainer is for sale)</p><br /><p>Bike has been kept in garage see...www.ebay.co.uk
how hard would it be to deal with that rust? or cost to replace even?
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sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
The garmin connect app is really easy to plot routes on.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I have a Wahoo Element Bolt and honestly can’t imagine riding without it now.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
Here it is new: Carrera Crossfire 1 Womens Hybrid Bike 2020 - White - S, M, L Frames | Halfords UK If you can get it for cheap and clean the rust off, it would do a job. Maybe the rust is beneficial because it will keep the bidding low. As you can see in the specs it weighs 15.4 kg - quite a lot if you have to carry it upstairs.
ska invita
back on the other side
finding it hard to find a good womens sit up and beg positioned bike is...they all look pretty bulky to me
thanks for that
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
Just noticed that the seller says it's a 2013 model. Sorry to mislead you.
