ide up and down
Cherry Canyon Motorway, with some bonus time in the hills above the Rose
Bowl.
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storage. Let me know if you want any specific dimensions.
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On Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 2:04:53 PM UTC-6 SallyG wrote:
Thanksgiving Holiday Traffic!
Hah, that's great! I also had a few turkeys cross in front of me on my ride
today. I rang my bell at them but they paid zero attention.
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but I'm still pretty flexible and find that putting the tops of the bars
level with the saddle and not too far away gives me the best combination of
power (what little I have), several riding positions, and long-distance
comfort.
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Sam coming off Mt Lukens a few weeks ago, I've
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Hoo boy, just the kind of person you want leading a group ride... one of
the reasons I stopped going on group rides.
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not maximizing the total range of the system, but I very much prefer to
make that trade-off. At 41%, the 14-tooth gap on the Silver 42x28's on my
Sams is pretty much the outer limit for me. The Wide-Low (38x24) is a 46%
jump which is pretty high.
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honest-to-goodness float the pedal after the shift for, it takes just
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you're not supposed to, the shift goes to hell, you lose your momentum,
you fail.
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so I found that skinnier tires worked much better.
Unfortunately, that means that when dealing with frozen ruts, there's a lot
more bone shaking going on. Nokian W106 (700x35) on my Quickbeam were the
best combo I ever used for commuting in Milwaukee.
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a "popularity" measure of the segments. I like Andy's suggestion,
though, that it's a metaphor for a person's life. Plenty of ups and downs.
My cycling goals that I set for 2023 were "Ride a lot. Enjoy it all." I
didn't quite get to "a lot",
sand on the pavement (April in
Wisconsin!) he used his front brake and went down. In trying to pull his
foot from the pedal he very badly tore up the ligaments in his knee.
Needless to say, when he got back on the bike the next year, I had tossed
the clips and straps.
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nding-less pedals also have to be matched with compatible shoes.
I've experienced a similar issue as Patrick, where the pins on a pedal
don't line up nicely with the bottom of a shoe, and spent the whole ride
trying to find a comfortable foot placement.
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On Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 5:21:42 PM UTC-6 Neale S. wrote:
👋 from Glassell Park, hope to see you out there. Sounds like we need
another L.A. Riv Ride soon.
I will be in San Gabriel 2/11-2/17 and my West Coast Sam would enjoy
meeting some relatives.
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le if anyone is interested). She has a Trek 310 (Reynolds 531 main
tubes!).
Looking forward to hopefully seeing a few people there.
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Just one option, but I could also get over to the Griffith Park area, and I’d
always love to find new routes. I’ve also ridden some around Griffith Park and
loved it.
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way they switched to the Columbus standard, where top
tube and down tube walls are the same. The Heron Road bikes have .1mm
thinner top tube walls than down tube, and my prototype has extra heavy
stays, so there you go.
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. Also, the ST22 rides on DT TK540 rims,
compared to Mavic MA2 on the Heron. Someday I'll put the Heron's wheels on
the ST22 and see how that changes things; I expect it will change a lot.
Don't underestimate the importance of the fork to the feel and handling of
a bike.
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appears to be two dimensional in the plane of the frame, which wouldn’t
represent what Jan Heine has described as his planing hypothesis.
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them being closed unexpectedly. Had to hop a fence
to get out and avoid backtracking a few miles.
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Sam Hillborne here, the Space Horse isn’t getting much love.
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en able to ride a bike for a while. My last meet
up with him was in fact at Jones Coffee Roasters. He still likes to hang
out there.
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he basket on the front. I keep it
reasonably clean, but it lives in the garage and is going to be riding on
salty streets soon.
This thread could easily occur on a Porsche mailing list, too. My Boxster
is definitely not "precious"!
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a bike ride - I'd rather spend
those 2 hours riding!
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and efficiency of your position; 6) core strength is hugely
important; and 7) the right fit is very dependent on how much power you are
generating while riding. When it's set up correctly, I feel better on the
bike than I do off the bike.
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back a bit going up hills.
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There aren't many combo's that line up with even 1 mm clicks.
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t a Shimano 9-speed lever can work with a SunTour rear derailer and a
Shimano 8-speed cassette.
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will probably be a good match with BarCons.
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me. I went down
on my right side and bent the derailer hanger a bit. Let me tell you, that
sure ruined the indexing!
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amount of cable pull for a given amount of derailer travel. That allows
more room for error in the cables.
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Beautiful!
"Wicked Pissah” … I grew up in Cohasset … I know what that means.
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> On Dec 17, 2022, at 7:38 AM, Russell Duncan wrote:
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> Fall colors of a different sort: native grassland, Flint Hills, Kansas.
> Sorry, no actual Riv bi
Sorry, guess I should have posted that to the First Ride of 2023 thread !
On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 4:57:41 PM UTC-6 Ted Durant wrote:
> Travel, severe respiratory infection (not COVID, flu, or RSV, thankfully),
> and this is the best I can do for my first ride of 2023. I'l
ile from The Cub House, and I'm really
pleased they'll do the build for me. Mine is Lime Olive and will feature
plenty of little brass bits, along with the olive cable housing from
SimWorks. Drop bar build, because that's how I roll.
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Sim.works has the Nissen housing, for those that are interested.
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es of shifting
into the large/large with too short a chain can be pretty severe ...
tearing off your rear derailer ... so often it's best to make the chain
longer and not use the small/small combos (or ignore the rattling when you
do).
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winter riding, which is that the roads get a
lot narrower so the cars get closer.
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Hi All -
Working on my Lime Olive Sam build, I am trying to find a couple of 2mm
brass 1" headset spacers. The usual retail options aren't available.
Anybody have a couple they are willing to spare? Please contact me offline.
Thanks!
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Thanks Joshua. RBW list is amazing.
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virtually everyone runs 622. My saddle height is around 700mm and for
42-52mm tires 584 rims require no compromise in frame dimensions.
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(I think 54 or 56?), please let me know! I'll send a RONA t-shirt as a
finder's fee :-)
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to feel heavy when lifting, compared to some other steel frames. But I
loved the way it rode.
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name. I happen to be lucky enough to live near him and his true best pal,
his wife, Shoe. And I get to see them regularly at Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra concerts.
Regarding my Waterford keep your eyes out for the next issue of
American Randonneur.
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ke all the others.
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ATB. Head lugs match what were on my Riv ATB, built at Waterford around
'96 or so. Also, my ATB had vertical dropouts, where this one has short
horizontals.
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college in MN) and put whitewalls and shiny chrome fenders on it.
Full disclosure, I think I forgot to lock it up that night.
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g in the winter on my Breadwinner G-Road.
They're certainly not as silent as Jan would have you believe, but they're
not slow.
I don't think there is any component that has a bigger impact on how a bike
feels than tires.
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On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 9:40:45 AM UTC-5 Ted Durant wrote:
I have had nothing but VERY positive experiences with Rene Herse tires
I should add that most of my experience is with tubes, but I have done
tubeless with some RH EL and std casing tires, and I've gone back to using
tub
acking the thread, I also have a pair of
Dromarti shoes, black, size 43, available. And some Shimano XC5's, gray, 43.
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enough to relieve the pressure on the bunionettes on my feet.
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also helps that they are
tradition lace-up shoes. Well, helped ... apparently there's no market for
that feature anymore.
Top tip for checking shoe fit. Pull out the insoles and stand on them.
You'll immediately see the difference between the shoe shape and your foot
shape. It's
and form balls, whatever
size you like, but I aim for something a bit smaller than a golf ball. Roll
the ball in coconut flour and set aside to cool and harden.
They stay remarkably solid even in a warm handlebar bag, but if you put
them in a pocket you'll probably have a mess.
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days.
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elsewhere.
The trailer lasted well into childhood for our two daughters. Most
important thing was that every ride had to be about the food. We still have
it and are hoping our grandchildren will ride in it soon.
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at that point. So, in the car seat, they had plenty of head support and
didn't seem to mind the helmet we had for them.
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You can put a 1000mm stem on there and super long backward reaching bars
and your leverage won't have changed. The amount of flex in that system
will likely have changed though, and that could impact "feel" in other ways.
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ot too cold.
Sunny and upper 70's here this week ... I'll still be wearing SS polo
shirts or LS seersucker.
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are softer, looser knit, and the
forefoot stays reasonably loose. Lately I've also been trying and liking
Injinji socks with separate toes, which are really good for keeping my
forefoot from being overly constricted.
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amazing - melted the sap like magic.
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Grant wrote, "I think we're at the point in bicycle history where lugged
frames will either undergo a renaissance or face extinction..."
It's nice to be on the other side of almost 25 years later and see which
way it went!
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can only ride B-17's in a more upright position, and I have to be
positioned a little forward on them. I also ride a Berthoud Aspin, which is
a similar shape and width in cross-section but has a bit less cant and
scoop.
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On Feb 29, 2024, at 1:21 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote:" It's 275mm wide,"That's probably the length, not the width. :)Yup. Shouldn’t try to make rushed posts before getting on a plane. It’s 140mm wide BL in ECOn Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 8:39:54 AM UTC-8 Ted Durant wrote:On
une the fit.
Anything more than a very thin pad in biking shorts ruins the ride for me.
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be offset from the center axis of the bolt, to put the inner face closer to
the inside edge of the brake arm.
A bit of Googling came up with zilch. Anybody handy with machining
stainless steel rod stock?
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k the weight gain, if
there is any, would be enough to change my mind.
One thing that the CX and Rene Herse brakes have in common, that makes them
such a pleasure (and so much easier) to work on, is the quality of the
hardware.
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take photos. On mine, working from
memory, the washers that have the channels for holding the brake pad post
and the brake pad posts themselves deformed, making fine adjustment
impossible. The eyebolt openings may also have deformed.
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, skinny FIR rims. I just discovered
that Rene Herse 32mm tires fit with room to spare, measuring 29mm on those
skinny rims. I also found a NOS 13-26 cassette to replace the 12-23 that I
had on there. Talk about an upgrade! All of a sudden I like this bike a
lot more.
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lights. I haven't tested
that to see if the generator makes enough power to run the lights and still
add to the battery charge level.
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electrons. I also like the idea of being able to power the lights from the
battery instead of the generator when I’m on a long climb. Every watt
counts :-) But day in, day out, I like having the lights “always on”
running off the generator.
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trouble
with chain fit using thicker cogs with thinner spacers. If somebody finds
or assembles a complete table of cog and spacer thickness spec’s, that
would be a significant contribution to humankind.
I’ll be posting on a related topic, soon.
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and gravel riding that doesn’t
involve, say, more than 10% extended climbing grades. You’ll have to build
your own cassette, though. A 2x11 or 2x12 two-range setup as I’ve describe
above, though, is very practical and pretty widely available.
Spreadsheet available upon request.
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ld” 9 speed to
“new” 9 speed and later. Always marching to their own beat, those Italians.
My choice of shifters will depend on several factors, including the gearing,
the derailer, whether I feel indexing is important, and whether I want to deal
with the additional complication of handlebar-mount
On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 2:05:32 PM UTC-5 Garth wrote:
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I can confirm that a Vx GT and a Cyclone MkII GT will cover 9 -11 cog
cassettes. In fact, a Cyclone MkII GT executes flawless index shifting on a
9-speed 12-36 cassette using Shimano 10-speed bar end shifters.
After more
components will
be a factor.
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As Snoopy said long ago: "Some of us prefer to sacrifice comfort for style".
I’m not comfortable riding a bike with an ugly derailer so I don’t have
conflicting objectives.
:-)
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definitely have an impact on whether an
old derailer has enough sweep for a given setup.
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ing from a much more modern source of inspiration … my 1979 Fuji
America.:-)
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o, and that the opposite was
true, that downtube shifters could be mounted on Shimano bar-end pods. And
thus were born the Silver 1 bar-end shifters.
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Bottom line ... you have to match your friction levers to your derailer and
cog count combo if you want a system that works without a lot of fiddling.
Not that fiddling is bad, necessarily. But you also should feel free to
decide that indexing is better for your style of riding.
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taking it easy and
need the high and near positions.
I won't opine much on "which bike", because once you figure out your fit
criteria, any bike that allows you to have that position will work fine. I
have my Sam Hillbornes set up almost identically to my custom Waterford ST
a
l look good on most of my bikes. I'm
concerned about the fragility of the valve stem interface. No data or
anecdotes, yet, on durability and ease of repair.
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ride quality, my first impression is quite
positive. TBD on the durability and flat-resistance.
Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA
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d it reduces
rotational inertia, all of which makes a bike feel “zippier”.)
I saw the Periwinkle sample and am stupidly tempted to get a third Sam.
But I also understand the curiosity about a true road bike. My Heron and Riv
Road and Waterford ST-22 have around 33,000 kms on them since 20
ded 6 tubes to get 4 tires going. That makes the economics a
little harder to justify. It also makes carrying a new one as a spare a bit
of Russian roulette.
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Milwaukee WI USA
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looked at their tubes - is that collar
attached or flapping around?
Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA
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