I feel your pain. I had to get a LBS man to read the millimeters of a crankset's Q the other day. And I'm as stiff as a board; working in the garden -- weeds and dog poo -- help. And dropping small bits in the garage. I keep a pair of reading glasses in each room of the house, including the garage, and while working on the bike, irritably alternate between jamming them on and tearing them off.
To cap Eliot with an even better poet: *An aged man is but a paltry thing,* *A tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing* *For every tatter in its mortal dress.* WB Yeats, *Sailing to Byzantium* Patrick Moore, who uses his reading glasses to read the marks on his torque wrenches On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Michael Hechmer <[email protected]> wrote: > I am an old man in a dry month, > Being read to by a boy waiting for the rain. > T.S. Eliot > > Yep, guys in lycra now go by so fast they don''t have time to say hello. > I see that my bike repair manual has a 1981 copyright. My tools are all > pretty much old too, but aging better than me. Arthritis in my left hand, > and I can no longer trust the strength in my arms to tell me when a bolt is > tight enough. I can't hold the old beam style torque wrench and bend over > to read it at the same time. > > Sooooo, I need a one of those "new" clique style, or electronic torque > wrench. But which one? and ouch look at the price! I looked at a > Craftsman, but the online reviews were not encouraging. Ditto, > surprisingly, for Park. And of course for complete bike coverage one > really needs two torque wrenches. Topeak sells one that covers the full > range of our needs but there are no dealers here in northern VT, so I would > have to go to Quebec and buy one with the owners manual in French. Or, > sight unseen, online, for a whopping $269. > > What's your experience? > > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
