Squirrels

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Jobst Brandt

Quoted message said:

More pix:

http://tinyurl.com/b7of2

Ah, yes, an excerpt from that previous squirrel thread. The right
fork tube bent, the left tore nearly through instead.

The posited rationale for avoidance of paired-spoke large-gap wheels
might not be sufficiently strong to persuade the fashion-driven buyer
by itself. Even when taken with the rest of the arguments against
them, I have my doubts about whether it will have any effect. The
mere fact that manufacturers like Trek have put such wheels on so much
of their line (and some shops would probably charge extra to swap to a
cheaper but more rationally-designed wheel) makes it likely, in my
opinion, that many buyers are going to regard all such objections as
mere alarmist finger-pointing. I'm sure that they would be wont to
say "But what's the likelihood of this happening?" And, in point of
fact, the likelihood of getting squirrel-spiked is very low. The
facts which demonstrate that they're simply not a good idea to begin
with ought to comprise the more relevant consideration, and they're
already being ignored widely. It would be perfectly consistent for
any additional minor objections to be dismissed as well.

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Jobst Brandt said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
<http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg>. 😉

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Quoted message said:

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
<http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg>. 😉

That chainring isn't squirrel proof though.

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Quoted message said:

Jobst Brandt said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
<http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg>. 😉

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Quoted message said:

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

It's easy to avoid, just get one of these:
http://www.turbospoke.com

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Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Heh, are the forks covered by Trek's lifetime warranty?

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

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Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

This squirrel may not be enjoying his corporeal form any longer but he sure
is doing well as a meme. Hasn't everyone seen this one by now? Let the
tree rat rest in peace!

Cal

damyth said:

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

Yeah, that's the real reason to avoid these wheels---the daredevil
squirrels learned to dive through normal wheels, where there is room
to pass through the spokes. Now they get hung up on the narrow
sections of paired spokes wheels 8-).

Joe

Johnny Sunset said:

Jobst Brandt said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired
spokes with openings for critters to jump through.

Bike with squirrel proof wheel covers:
<http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/EdGinCobra1.jpg>. 😉

Where's the cup-holder on that thing?

Quoted message said:

More pix:

http://tinyurl.com/b7of2

Jobst Brandt

If you look at the first photo on this link you can see the second
nipple at an angle behind the first. No he did not get between the
close spokes. The spoke just pushed the body into a bit of a v.

Here's another example of the genius of our cycling forebearers:

http://www.pauldowns.com/shopsite/UnfortunateSquirrel.html

Note that the Pederson, along with its many other virtues, was clearly
designed to survive squirrrel suicide attempts.

Mort

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Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Yes, the several hundred critters who have bounced off my 32
conventionally spoked wheels are testimony to avoiding this situation.
Never mind the more important technical considerations.

Phil H

CEarly said:

This squirrel may not be enjoying his corporeal form any longer but he sure
is doing well as a meme. Hasn't everyone seen this one by now? Let the
tree rat rest in peace!

It's Groundhog Day...oh no, that was Thursday

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Heh, are the forks covered by Trek's lifetime warranty?

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

The apparent lack of trauma (torn-apart squirrel casing, as it were) is also
quite interesting. Those photos have been circulating around the 'net for
some time, without any explanation (in english; perhaps if someone can
translate Chinese we might get some more information? Otherwise, the
possibility exists that this may enter the "myth & lore" section of Internet
history.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Heh, are the forks covered by Trek's lifetime warranty?

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

Phil Holman' piholmanc@yourservice said:

Yes, the several hundred critters who have bounced off my 32
conventionally spoked wheels are testimony to avoiding this situation.
Never mind the more important technical considerations.

.... like trail choice?

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

perhaps if someone can translate Chinese we might get some more
information?

Only if somebody else translates from Korean to Chinese first.

-Luns

In article
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damyth said:

Quoted message said:

From wreck.bike.de:

http://bike.jinbo.net/down/board/album/Squirell3.jpg

Good looking fork and spokes. A good reason to not ride paired spokes
with openings for critters to jump through.

Jobst Brandt

Heh, are the forks covered by Trek's lifetime warranty?

But on a more serious note, is it my imagination, or is the squirrel
caught in the _narrow_ part between spokes on that wheel? Please look
at the photos real carefully. If so, I doubt if more traditional 32
spoke wheels would have helped.

Top photograph shows both spoke nipples visible in front
of the critter.

--
Michael Press

All right, I'm sold.

The one thing these pictures fail to convey is the splatter pattern
these creatures produce on your khakis. My front wheel once digested a
sparrow on my way to work. I got a few questions that day.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

More pix:

http://tinyurl.com/b7of2

Jobst Brandt

And another:

http://community.livejournal.com/bikepirates/1331468.html

Note durability of squirrel-resistant high-spoke-count wheel, plus
unimpeachable disk wheel ejection solution.

It's clear that for the sake of the squirrels, we must adopt solid disc
wheels front and rear. This will cause both a visual deterrent and a
safer interface if contact does occur.

Think of the squirrels,

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos