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BeastPussy posted:I can never ever figure out how to go around the hoods the same way and make it look good so I just cross my fingers and then throw a shitload of tape to finish near the stem and divert attention. This is pretty much the same thing that happens whenever I have to wear a tie
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Out MTB riding with a friend tonight, noticed his pedals which are knockoffs of mine, were angled weird. Pointed it out and he mentioned his feet has been slipping off tonight even though they're pinned flats. Fast forward 10 minutes, we figure out his pedals are loose so we stop to tighten them. This is when I have a thought that his pedals are carbon copies of mine and he somehow put them on the wrong sides. "dude there's an R on this pedal, see?" He tried to tough it out against my protests that we call it a night but lasted another 2 minutes before one was hanging out of the crank by 15 degrees ending the night, and the life of those cranks. At least they were new, but cheap. Dunno how he gorilla'd those threads in there, he's not a huge dude, and claimed it wasn't harder than usual. admitted he might have been high at the time of assembly
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Jun 3, 2021 05:23
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Duck and Cover posted:I went with the Karoo 2 because it seems to have a processor that’s not underpowered. I'm not sure if processor power is that important for a thing that sits on my handlebars and records where I've been and might possibly tell me where to go. That's been a solved processor power problem for a long time.
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There was a big thing in the eReader thread for months where people were pissed about the new Kindles not having USB-C ports. USB-C is completely useless for an Amazon e-reader that updates over wifi.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'm not sure if processor power is that important for a thing that sits on my handlebars and records where I've been and might possibly tell me where to go. That's been a solved processor power problem for a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIrtCZkIx8E&t=1096s Having things be snappier just feels nicer (which isn't just based on the processor). You're right though in that the Garmin seems to function. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:There was a big thing in the eReader thread for months where people were pissed about the new Kindles not having USB-C ports. USB-C is completely useless for an Amazon e-reader that updates over wifi. People want usb-c for power delivery so they don't need to worry about having the right cable. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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Jun 3, 2021 05:53
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It was mildly annoying when I bought mini the big fire for her graphic novels and me a paperwhite a 2 years ago and hers was usb-c and mine wasn’t. If only because Amazon are sending out much higher quality usb-c cables. Am I the only one who loves their pandemic bike above all others? It’s not the exact bike I wanted but it didn’t let me down by being out of stock, and it and I have been through some weird times in 2020/2021. learnincurve fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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Jun 3, 2021 07:07
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Berthoud sells expanding bar-end plugs with a little rearview mirror: https://berthoudcycles.fr/en/798-525-bar-end-mirror-and-matching-plug-silver-anodized-and-leather.html#/11-color-black
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learnincurve posted:
Mine is a solid second place behind my DD, but they're very different bikes and the pandemic purchase is far and away the prettiest, so I'm not complaining
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:There was a big thing in the eReader thread for months where people were pissed about the new Kindles not having USB-C ports. USB-C is completely useless for an Amazon e-reader that updates over wifi. USB-C is a much more robust connector and soon to be more common charging port. It’s not solely about speed there.
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Yeah for power delivery alone USB-C is real nice. You aren't going to need the high current charging profiles for most bike devices, but only having to deal with one type of cable is nice. When I was looking up how easy it is to swap batteries in my original ELEMNT for when the time comes I found a guy in Malaysia who also switched the connector in his from micro-USB to USB-C. It doesn't look like a hard job at all if I can find the part.
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Jun 3, 2021 08:25
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I genuinely can't think of the last time I plugged any device in to transfer data. Just make everything usb-c so I need less cables.
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kimbo305 posted:I take pictures as I unwrap the old tape and it has a 100% failure rate for helping me redo them. Coxswain Balls posted:Yeah for power delivery alone USB-C is real nice. You aren't going to need the high current charging profiles for most bike devices, but only having to deal with one type of cable is nice.
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XIII posted:https://handupgloves.com/collections/shorties-gloves Ah these look great but it doesn’t look like they’re readily available in post-Brexit UK!
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Is there a reason bikes don't have dynamos or something to charge batteries? I mean in bikes where they have electronic shifters. It would be only a couple of watts. Maybe even don't have a battery at all and just use a capacitor to store the energy for gear changes?
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Jun 3, 2021 11:23
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When Shimano introduced di2 with the Nexave groupset it ran on a dynamo, they even had a rear dynamo hub. That was meant for a heavy city bike / hybrid though. When di2 returned with Dura-ace a dynamo would be far too heavy for a race bike. I kinda don't see a use case currently where dynamo and electronic gears would make much sense. E: A di2 rando bike maybe but that's such a niche of a niche.
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I'm putting ultegra di2 on my audax bike. It'll have a dynamo at some point, but it's not worth the investment yet.Ihmemies posted:Is there a reason bikes don't have dynamos or something to charge batteries? I mean in bikes where they have electronic shifters. It would be only a couple of watts. Maybe even don't have a battery at all and just use a capacitor to store the energy for gear changes? They're expensive, heavy and unnecessary. A battery needs to be recharged every few weeks (or months, if you do less riding). Also bear in mind that a couple of watts is far, far, more than these devices need to run.
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Jun 3, 2021 11:42
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Dynamos are wicked heavy is most of the problem. You can also feel the 3w and while it doesn't change much to a ride, it's not as pleasant a feeling.
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Ihmemies posted:Is there a reason bikes don't have dynamos or something to charge batteries? I mean in bikes where they have electronic shifters. It would be only a couple of watts. Maybe even don't have a battery at all and just use a capacitor to store the energy for gear changes? Right now any bike with (di2, etap/wxs) electronic shifting is likely to either be 1) high end enough that the weight is undesirable 2) an e-bike where the propulsion pack provides the lighting/shifting power.
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About 5 years ago I saw a startup Dutch company that had turned an entire front wheel into a Dynamo/ERS e bike conversation kit - the main point of it was that it was swappable to any bike without any wiring and it would be on a constant recharge and then release. I will go to my grave sad that I never got to own one.
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I don't understand how you'd convert a front wheel only, you'd have to torque/pedal sensing. Did you mean the copenhagen wheel?
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Jun 3, 2021 13:27
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There's also Swytch which works on a front wheel motor.
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Ah! see I think it might have been someone trying to rip off the Copenhagen wheel. Now I’m sad I can’t buy the Copenhagen wheel either 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's also Swytch which works on a front wheel motor.
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Duck and Cover posted:People want usb-c for power delivery so they don't need to worry about having the right cable. Everyone on god's green earth has three thousand micro-USB cables by now e.pilot posted:USB-C is a much more robust connector and soon to be more common charging port. It’s not solely about speed there. I have never broken a micro-USB connector and I don't know anyone who has. It's an absolutely trivial thing to base your purchases on.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Everyone on god's green earth has three thousand micro-USB cables by now Yeah and they don't work with my phone, the thing I charge most and so am most likely to have a cable on me for.
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Calling the CEO of Wahoo and threatening to beat him up unless he makes a bike computer with a USB-C port
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Calling the CEO of Wahoo and threatening to beat him up unless he makes a bike computer with a USB-C port I like the USB-C connector on my new Bolt. Symmetrical connectors are the best.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Calling the CEO of Wahoo and threatening to beat him up unless he makes a bike computer with a USB-C port It's 2021, any new release that doesn't have USB-C should be rightfully marked down. Maybe not a dealbreaker for most people, but I can easily see why it's annoying.
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Vando posted:It's 2021, any new release that doesn't have USB-C should be rightfully marked down. Maybe not a dealbreaker for most people, but I can easily see why it's annoying. Sennheiser said they kept micro-usb on their headsets because the cable retention is better than USB-C fwiw. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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Though tbh about the weight of a dynamo system: with high end parts you'll gain maybe 300 grams on the front hub and save weight on the lights being very light without batteries. That's kinda approaching the territory of if you remember to take your phone with you or not.
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anyone in the Portland/Vancouver (the Oregon and Washington ones respectively) know of good bike fitting services?
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Havana Affair posted:Though tbh about the weight of a dynamo system: with high end parts you'll gain maybe 300 grams on the front hub and save weight on the lights being very light without batteries. That's kinda approaching the territory of if you remember to take your phone with you or not. Racers generally don't carry a phone, or lights. On an audax bike? Yeah not a big deal.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Racers generally don't carry a phone, or lights The ultra racers I know definitely have both and a dynamo hub. The fastest known times on things like the Arkansas high country are usually by people with lights and a hub.
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He’s probably talking about road racers (crits, TTs, road races, etc), not endurance/marathon type events.
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Time posted:The ultra racers I know definitely have both and a dynamo hub. The fastest known times on things like the Arkansas high country are usually by people with lights and a hub. Ultra racing isn't time trialling or road racing. Remember that the question was about why high end electronic shifters aren't powered by dynamos. Ultra racers also tend to be on audax bikes.
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Since the shifters use very little electrical energy, it might be possible to have a sub-watt dynamo in the idler wheel of the derailleur with a capacitor for store.
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VideoGameVet posted:Since the shifters use very little electrical energy, it might be possible to have a sub-watt dynamo in the idler wheel of the derailleur with a capacitor for store. Potentially, but that complicates the system enormously for very very marginal benefit. It's 100% possible to do, it's just not economically viable or useful.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Ultra racing isn't time trialling or road racing. Remember that the question was about why high end electronic shifters aren't powered by dynamos. I get what you’re saying in relation to actual road racing or time trialing and take your point overall. I 100% agree it’s not needed for shifting - the battery capacity on di2 is pretty wild already
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's also Swytch which works on a front wheel motor. I will never, ever buy a Swytch thingy, purely because of the youtube advert with the posho accent on those techbros and their bloody hipster penny farthing. Grr.
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meltie posted:I will never, ever buy a Swytch thingy, purely because of the youtube advert with the posho accent on those techbros and their bloody hipster penny farthing. Grr. Yeah it's London wanker as hell
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