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chris crash · 21st August 2008

take EPO

MrSmith · 21st August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by winston

Buy a bike that is suitable for the purpose for which you intend to use it.

winston, you just might be right.
but I can't see your revolutionary ideas being accepted on this forum.

Multi Grooves · 21st August 2008

have some batteries for you lights

BringMeMyFix · 21st August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris crash

take EPO

... and some decent masking agents.

atomic.a · 21st August 2008

give up smoking....

Platini · 21st August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by philxthomas

Chain tugs, cause I'm shit at getting chain tension right and everyone loves a tug.

+1

livingasleep · 21st August 2008

chain tugs ftw. never have another slack chain comment.

deadly fanny pack · 22nd August 2008

Have two well adjusted brakes, even if your riding clipless fixed.

Dont run a deep drop stem & deep drop track bars on the street and then only put tape on the bit you cant reach.

hippy · 23rd August 2008

£10 = 3 pints. Why the fuck are you spending it on your silly bikes? :P

nimhbus · 23rd August 2008

tosspants

antibard · 25th August 2008

a pair of nos ambrosio montreal medaille d'or rims for €15... with some free hubs thrown in
thats around £6 each
i bought three pairs
might flog one
i love italy!

TheBrick(Tommy) · 25th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by hippy

£10 = 3 pints. Why the fuck are you spending it on your silly bikes? :P

£10 = small bottle of rum + two cans of beer + pasty + mars bar. FTW.

You will ride much better.

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

well, i just did the spoke-tighten. 1/4 ish turn all the way round.

all appears to be well, though some spokes do appear to be looser than others, which is to be expected, i'm sure.

my question, chums, is this ; should i tighten these errant spokes some more? really bring them back into line? or should i leave well enough alone?

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

Mark a loose spoke (tape it?) - tighten 1/2 a turn - check trueness - carry on/abort...

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

ok, will do

how tight should they all be, then?

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

oh, and - does it matter if the tyre is inflated or deflated?

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

As tight as you want them?

For general riding, a little bit of flex when you 'pince' 2 spokes towards each other, halfway between the final crossing and rim.

Jesus, I don't know - 440Hz?

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

You could let a bit of air out the tube, but it doesn't really matter. When you build a wheel, the tension drops a bit when you first stick a tyre on and inflate it - compressing the rim I suppose.

TheBrick(Tommy) · 25th August 2008

google about spoke tension by pitch. There is a website somewhere with a table of approximate notes which your spoke should correspond to depending on the cross pattern front back, no of spokes etc. Sheldon used to use a tape recording of various notes I read somewhere.

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

That is so fucking anal. May appeal to nimhbus though... I mean on account of his trade.

TheBrick(Tommy) · 25th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by BringMeMyFix

That is so fucking anal. May appeal to nimhbus though... I mean on account of his trade.

Yep. Never done it myself but I HEAR it works.

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

well, almost, except i'm fucking useless at tuning things by ear. if it was a case of Eq'ing them, then i'd be all over it.

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

Just make sure you scoop out some of the 4kHz to counter-balance the human audiological system's bias at that frequency.

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

i thought it was 2khz

briankwan · 25th August 2008

tyres

BringMeMyFix · 25th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by nimhbus

i thought it was 2khz

Not according to the audiology part of my speech/language therapy training. You could say 3.5kHz.

And you have to consider the whole system, from Cochlea to Helix (outer ear). But a range from about 1.5kHz to 4kHz is more accute than the rest, so I'm not dissing you.

nimhbus · 25th August 2008

i had no idea what you're talking about, to be fair - i don't know anything about it.

well, apart from my personal idea of where the key frequencies of human speech lie.

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Multi Grooves	have some batteries for you lights Last edited by Multi Grooves; 21st August 2008 at 09:57.. Reason: poor grammer
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21st August 2008	#57
livingasleep	chain tugs ftw. never have another slack chain comment.
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22nd August 2008	#58
deadly fanny pack	Have two well adjusted brakes, even if your riding clipless fixed. Dont run a deep drop stem & deep drop track bars on the street and then only put tape on the bit you cant reach.
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23rd August 2008	#59
hippy	£10 = 3 pints. Why the fuck are you spending it on your silly bikes? :P
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25th August 2008	#61
antibard	a pair of nos ambrosio montreal medaille d'or rims for €15... with some free hubs thrown in thats around £6 each i bought three pairs might flog one i love italy!
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25th August 2008	#63
nimhbus	well, i just did the spoke-tighten. 1/4 ish turn all the way round. all appears to be well, though some spokes do appear to be looser than others, which is to be expected, i'm sure. my question, chums, is this ; should i tighten these errant spokes some more? really bring them back into line? or should i leave well enough alone?
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25th August 2008	#64
BringMeMyFix	Mark a loose spoke (tape it?) - tighten 1/2 a turn - check trueness - carry on/abort...
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25th August 2008	#69
TheBrick(Tommy)	google about spoke tension by pitch. There is a website somewhere with a table of approximate notes which your spoke should correspond to depending on the cross pattern front back, no of spokes etc. Sheldon used to use a tape recording of various notes I read somewhere.
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