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BraveUlysses posted:
if anything, it's a way for water to drain out e: beaten, AND a bad snipe 
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Get your bike shop to make you a custom carbon fiber skid plate, held in with neodymium magnets
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Hadlock posted:Get your bike shop to make you a custom carbon fiber skid plate, held in with neodymium magnets Or just use the existing plate and fill the holes with sugru or epoxy.
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osker posted:Or just use the existing plate and fill the holes with sugru or epoxy. Trap sprung, killjoy spotted
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Shadowhand00 posted:Without a dynamo on my current rig, I'm have more anxiety around carrying enough lights as well as enough batteries to ensure I can make it home without issue. With my dynamo, I literally never had to worry. You can just mail order prebuilt or custom wheels with the good hubs (H plus Son) from the UK. Certainly thecycleclinic.co.uk have options.
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SamsCola posted:Is a dynamo hub worth it compared to a battery? I guess it's better for long rides? IT DEPENDS dynamos (technically generators but whatever) hubs are generally more money up front (and can be fickle to maintain), and can't reach the brightness levels I'd be comfortable with nowadays but the convenience is just unbeatable.
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Apr 2, 2022 14:05
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 Hmm perhaps I should have gotten around to replacing these pulleys earlier!
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Apr 2, 2022 14:31
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lmao wow!
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Angryhead posted:
Impressive. Good news is the teeth don't do much.
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Angryhead posted:
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What do you guys like to lube the little axle bushes on those wheels with?
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Apr 2, 2022 19:01
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I use tenacious oil. Maybe a heavy gear oil is good if you have that laying around. e: I guess a bunch of internet people use very light oil, but that'll dry out fast. CopperHound fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Apr 2, 2022 19:04
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Just give it a spray of WD-40 before every ride like the people that owned every used bike I've ever bought did
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Apr 2, 2022 19:44
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Slavvy posted:What do you guys like to lube the little axle bushes on those wheels with? I pop off the cover and seals and put a tiny dab of ceramic grease and move it around.
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Dog Case posted:Just give it a spray of WD-40 before every ride like the people that owned every used bike I've ever bought did Every used bike I get (all of them) I take apart basically everything cause nothing is ever lubed. Those little wheels are often packed with crap and metal dust. I've been using liquid suspended moly grease/oil, I've tried heavy gear oil before and found it washes out easily (this is on MTB obv), I've tried bearing grease but it seemed to be too thick and just kinda got pushed out without doing anything. Seems like I'm not doing anything too wrong anyway.
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Apr 2, 2022 22:07
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I pop off the cover and seals and put a tiny dab of ceramic grease and move it around. I always liked how SRAM throws in a relatively huge syringe full of the stuff with Red pulleys.
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Apr 2, 2022 22:23
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Lmao lost my stages battery cover and battery during a ride and wasted 45 minutes trying to find it
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BraveUlysses posted:Lmao lost my stages battery cover and battery during a ride and wasted 45 minutes trying to find it New battery and electrical tape will save you my friend.
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Apr 3, 2022 13:19
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Just buy a new one at that point, they're like 3 bucks or something
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serious gaylord posted:New battery and electrical tape will save you my friend.
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Apr 3, 2022 15:46
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Anyone have any recommendations for a mini bike pump with an integrated CO2 inflator and hose function? Bonus points for including a mount to go under/next to a bottle cage.
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Apr 3, 2022 21:57
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Blackburn Co2fer
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EvilJoven posted:Blackburn Co2fer 
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Anyone have experience with the Garmin IQ virtual power meter (https://apps.garmin.com/en-RO/apps/dce959f6-1848-46b1-b80b-6b080940ebb7) or any virtual power meter really? I don't think a real power meter is a purchase I could justify to myself anytime in the foreseeable future, so when I saw the the Vpower app in the store, which claims to use the same formula as Strava to calculate wattage, I thought score. Strava's estimates aren't scientific by any means but they're at least a decent weathervane. I've done a few test rides with it now, and I'll be on a level road going a steady 15mph and this thing will be jumping all over the place, giving an estimate of 40 watts one second, jumping up to 170 the next, then back down to 20 and so on. It does this whether I've set it to provide instant estimates as well as estimates in 3/5/10 second intervals. I've also messed around with the calibrations for rolling resistance, bike weight, etc. Same problem. It'll read 0 watts when I'm at a dead stop so I know it's measuring something at least. This is true for my both my Edge 130 and my Vivoactive 3. Has anyone had any luck in getting this or any other virtual power meters to work?
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Apr 4, 2022 19:56
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No, because they’re garbage
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yeahhh thats what I thought thanks
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Here's a tip: I finally got mad that I'm always bending over squinting at side-walls and wrote out all the tire pressures I use and taped it to the wall of my garage.
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Apr 4, 2022 20:15
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I keep a spreadsheet with tire pressures and also suspension settings.
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i have a little dry erase board in my garage full of Important Numbers that I ignore and do everything based on feeling anyway
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Salt Fish posted:I finally got mad that I'm always bending over squinting at side-walls
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I just squeeze the tire and if it feels good it's right.
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I just memorize the numbers (because there are 2, maybe 4 if I'm riding my other bike) that I need to know from the calculators.
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bicievino posted:I just squeeze the tire and if it feels good it's right. Hell yeah.
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I just ride my bike until I go "Huh, probably should pump it up aye" Then act shocked that it was at 40 psi from 80psi
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I rode my bike to work today after getting it back from the shop (broken crank somehow!) and one thing I'm noticing is I can to like cran/bend my neck up quite a bit to see straight ahead. Does this imply I'm leaning too far forward? I feel like the bike seat height is good for my leg length, so maybe I should consider raising the handle bars? Another question, I didn't wear my Fitbit today but google suggests between "450 to 750 calories burned per hour of biking, seems like my total commute time in a day is 3 hours. But there's a number of times where I'm able to coast a bit after fierce uphill periods. Does the uphill and cruising periods sorta average out? How many calories should I think I'm burning?
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Raenir Salazar posted:I rode my bike to work today after getting it back from the shop (broken crank somehow!) and one thing I'm noticing is I can to like cran/bend my neck up quite a bit to see straight ahead. Does this imply I'm leaning too far forward? Need a picture, but more likely that you're not used to the posture.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I rode my bike to work today after getting it back from the shop (broken crank somehow!) and one thing I'm noticing is I can to like cran/bend my neck up quite a bit to see straight ahead. Does this imply I'm leaning too far forward? It's not clear from your post if you were okay with this bike before or how long you went without riding, but it is possible you lost some of your core fitness/strength.
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I should have *more* core strength now because all winter I've been exercising, weight lifting, seeing a personal trainer, and also using the bike as a stationary. The main difference is as a stationary I'm sitting more straight up on the seat but outdoors I'm putting my weight forward because it feels like I go faster. Which I think follows from my earlier observations in the thread with the tennis elbow issue. I don't feel any issues with my elbows biking outside because I'm more naturally bending forward which bends my elbows more while as a stationary I'm sitting straighter or leaning back.
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Did you make any changes as a result of the trip to the fitters
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