Rust-resistant chains

(FWI, I'm an American)

Biltema's products have, in the past, been more similar to the American
bicycle market than the Swedish one, compared to Clas Ohlson. They
were more geared towards sporting (that is, less practical) bicycles
with no dynamo-run lights, fenders, racks, or internal gearing. The
kind of stuff you buy to let sit in your garage for months, instead of
riding on errands.

Dans le message de
news:[email hidden],
Adam Rush <[email hidden]> a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré :

Quoted message said:

(FWI, I'm an American)

Biltema's products have, in the past, been more similar to the
American bicycle market than the Swedish one, compared to Clas
Ohlson. They were more geared towards sporting (that is, less
practical) bicycles with no dynamo-run lights, fenders, racks, or
internal gearing. The kind of stuff you buy to let sit in your
garage for months, instead of riding on errands.

Except for the lack of sunlight, there's no big problem riding a racing bike
to do errands. From slippers to shoes is the same time, be they cleated or
running shoes, and adding a cuff band is no time at all. We have a drudge
bike, with lights, for when it's really dark, but otherwise, I get around
just fine. Same for commuting. I'm comfortable on the bike, which is what
matters to me.
--
Sandy

The above is guaranteed 100% free of sarcasm,
denigration, snotty remarks, indifference, platitudes, fuming demands that
"you do the math", conceited visions of a better world on wheels according
to [insert NAME here].

I'll admit, to the left of my sits my only bicycle, a 28-622 Panasonic
racing bike with improvised fenders. Sure I can put on my backpacker's
backpack and get the groceries, but it's not practical.

Besides, the sporting bicycles I was talking about were mountain and
mountainesque bicycles. They're trend for the same reasons pickups and
SUV's are in the US, not because suddenly everybody's out trail riding
in the woods nowadays.

(On a side note, Biltema's racing bikes are really quite nice, all
things considered.)

"Groda" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

... in a land where summer
lasts 11 hours and 36 minutes and slush falls from the sky already
saturated with rock salt.

Where would that be???? I thought, that I live in such a place, but you seem
not to be my neighbour...

Cheers,

Tomek LI

Michael Press said:

Stainless steel bicycle drive train chains? First I heard
of them. Where?

You haven't heard of them since they are fabulously expensive, so maybe
not available at a sane LBS. Wipperman makes them.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of
_`\(,_ | business.
(_)/ (_) |

In article <[email hidden]>,

Groda said:

That kind of cavalier attitude won't help me any in a land where summer
lasts 11 hours and 36 minutes and slush falls from the sky already
saturated with rock salt.

I didn't know you were posting from Detroit!

--
Strayhorn

³Excuse me, brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?" - F.Z.

Detroit, my ass! They're at the same latitude as the French Riviera.

Lube my man lube.

Quoted message said:

Lube my man lube.

Family newsgroup, Craze.

Bill Sornson said:

Quoted message said:

Lube my man lube.

Family newsgroup, Craze.

It seems that Mr. Bill missed this post: <
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--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Well isn't that just too cool!
A bike chain in a diamond necklace presentation case. I can see it all
now, soft lighting, Champaign, romantic music playing, some guy
kneeling down in front of his wife in a beautiful satin dress, on
Valentines Day with this case in his hands, reverently handing it to
her. She opens it while basking in the glow of thinking she's getting a
diamond necklace, only to find a gaud damned bicycle chain! To add
insult to injury, it's a $100 plus bicycle chain.
At least now I know why I'm so slow. I need a Wipperman Titanium
boutique chain.
If Larry Ellison owns a bike, I'm sure this is it's chain.
And another divorce attorney will be making a huge down payment on a
new yacht.

Is this camp or do these guys really take themselves seriously? A chain
in a diamond presentation case, sheete man! John

Oh, noooo!

Johnny Sunset said:

Bill Sornson said:

Quoted message said:

Lube my man lube.

Family newsgroup, Craze.

It seems that Mr. Bill missed this post: <
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Mr. Tom has some strange bookmarks, apparently.

Bill "that ain't the Crazy *I* know" S.

john said:

Well isn't that just too cool!
A bike chain in a diamond necklace presentation case. I can see it all
now, soft lighting, Champaign,

Champaign, Illinois? None of the cyclists I used to know there would
fall for such foolishness.

Quoted message said:

romantic music playing, some guy
kneeling down in front of his wife in a beautiful satin dress, on
Valentines Day with this case in his hands, reverently handing it to
her. She opens it while basking in the glow of thinking she's getting a
diamond necklace, only to find a gaud damned bicycle chain! To add
insult to injury, it's a $100 plus bicycle chain.
At least now I know why I'm so slow. I need a Wipperman Titanium
boutique chain.
If Larry Ellison owns a bike, I'm sure this is it's chain.
And another divorce attorney will be making a huge down payment on a
new yacht.

Is this camp or do these guys really take themselves seriously? A chain
in a diamond presentation case, sheete man! John

Someone obviously missed the 24-carat gold plated Rohloff chain:
<http://www.rohloff.de/en/products/gifts/index.html>.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

In article <[email hidden]>, john

() said:

Well isn't that just too cool!
A bike chain in a diamond necklace presentation case. I can see it all
now, soft lighting, Champaign, romantic music playing, some guy
kneeling down in front of his wife in a beautiful satin dress, on
Valentines Day with this case in his hands, reverently handing it to
her. She opens it while basking in the glow of thinking she's getting a
diamond necklace, only to find a gaud damned bicycle chain! To add
insult to injury, it's a $100 plus bicycle chain.
At least now I know why I'm so slow. I need a Wipperman Titanium
boutique chain.
If Larry Ellison owns a bike, I'm sure this is it's chain.
And another divorce attorney will be making a huge down payment on a
new yacht.

Is this camp or do these guys really take themselves seriously? A chain
in a diamond presentation case, sheete man! John

Nice. I'll take three...

....for each recumbent!

Perhaps not.

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Here, take these cheese-shaped stilts. You'll know when to use them.

Just out of curosity, why would stainless steel be bad for a bicycle
chain? It works fine for spokes.

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Stainless steel alloys can contain up to 40 ppm of Evil.

Depending on the quantities of this and other trace elements, it can
make it faster wearing, difficult to machine, and prone to
non-stainlessness.