Top tips

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote

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* the only way you can be reasonably sure you've been seen is when you have made (and at least
briefly held) eye contact with the person in question.

Yeah, but just because you've made eye contact with one member of a group of pedestrians don't
assume they'll have the common sense to convey the situation of an approaching bike to any of the
other members in their group.

"John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The thread on racks and panniers leads me to relate my top tip.

On my rack I always keep two sail ties. These are light elastic loops, with plastic hooks. Cost
around a pound or so from a yacht chandler. I find they do a better job than bungees, are lighter
and (touch wood) havent been pinched yet. Easy to hook on - you just double the non-hook end
around the rack, stretch over the load and hook the other end on. Works a treat for French bread.

So let the thread commence - what's your top tip?

If you are short-sighted you can get cheap narrow glasses that you can slide up the handlebar ends.
Helps a lot mending punctures, reading train timetables, cafe menus etc etc.

"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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* Minoura space bars sound and look like a really good idea but are actually rubbish for carrying
anything heaver than a helium baloon unless you only ride on a well maintained velodrome track.

mine's actually Rather Good and Rather useful and it carries two lights

Rather

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Efficiently. Sorry to hear you don't find benefit from one.

I have two and whilst one is loaded with a Cateye OS1.0 speedo that clocked me at 999.6mph the other
day (why it couldn't manage the extra 0.3mph I son't know) and the other with a Polar HRM. I am
installing the new front Cateye light I ordered in the next day or two (following ng recommendations
of course!) and I shall report back on the vibrations or failures of the Space bars

It better bloody work though, I like to have all my gadgets laid out in front of me on the bars!

Simonb said:

If left outside in very cold weather, a damp cassette can freeze up with its ratchett in the
freewheel position. This mysterious phenomenon leaves your bike unrideable until the ice melts.
The next day the problem starts again. Eventually, you take it to your LBS and the cassette is
given a good soaking with GT85 and you're asked if you left the bike out overnight.

A frozen freewheel can be unstuck by peeing on it. That's not a joke!

~PB

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I have two and whilst one is loaded with a Cateye OS1.0 speedo that

clocked

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me at 999.6mph the other day (why it couldn't manage the extra 0.3mph I son't know)

This is because you are an unfit slob, obviously. That or you were going

uphill

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in a headwind ;-)

I am the former, hence the need to get some more miles in so I can do the latter :o)

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It better bloody work though, I like to have all my gadgets laid out in front of me on the bars!

Mine is fine - honestly - and the roads of deepest rural Norfolk are not

noted

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for their pothole-free, vibration-free surfaces.

Having tried the trusty roads of Norfolk, I can assure you they have the same amount of consistency
as the trusty roads of Bucks/Oxon which is not a lot as you know!

marc said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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I think I may have been a boy scout in a previous existance ;-)

Only if you flashback with an American accent :-(

Or the previous existance was before 1966.

Bring back the lemon squeezer!

Tim
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Julian said:

If you are short-sighted you can get cheap narrow glasses that you can slide up the handlebar
ends. Helps a lot mending punctures, reading train timetables, cafe menus etc etc.

I obtained an excellent folding pair from Lidle for just £1.50.

The arms fold in half then the whole glasses do to.

John B

Arthur Clune said:

Buy a trailer!

Yeah!

I was very tempted by a trailer, but then I saw the 8 Freight, had a test ride when I was in the
Smoke recently, and I've now got one on order. Shouldn't be long before it lands and I can clear all
the freight jobs that have built up round the back (bits of old shed, old gas fire) and start doing
trips to the coal merchant myself.

I will have one of Mike Burrows' personal creations!

Pete.
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"John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The thread on racks and panniers leads me to relate my top tip.

On my rack I always keep two sail ties. These are light elastic loops, with plastic hooks. Cost
around a pound or so from a yacht chandler. I find they do a better job than bungees, are lighter
and (touch wood) havent been pinched yet. Easy to hook on - you just double the non-hook end
around the rack, stretch over the load and hook the other end on. Works a treat for French bread.

So let the thread commence - what's your top tip?

Buy a bread maker.

"Julian" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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So let the thread commence - what's your top tip?

If you are short-sighted you can get cheap narrow glasses that you can slide up the handlebar
ends. Helps a lot mending punctures, reading train timetables, cafe menus etc etc.

Presumably you mean long-sighted? (can see distance, but not close up)

cheers, clive

(short-sighted)

John Hearns said:

The thread on racks and panniers leads me to relate my top tip.

On my rack I always keep two sail ties. These are light elastic loops, with plastic hooks. Cost
around a pound or so from a yacht chandler. I find they do a better job than bungees, are lighter
and (touch wood) havent been pinched yet. Easy to hook on - you just double the non-hook end
around the rack, stretch over the load and hook the other end on. Works a treat for French bread.

So let the thread commence - what's your top tip?

P*ss before putting ones bib longs on

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Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Never sail on uphill water.

Could be useful for water skiiing though.

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* Minoura space bars sound and look like a really good idea but are actually rubbish for carrying
anything heaver than a helium baloon unless you only ride on a well maintained velodrome track.

In which case, why would you need a rack?

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"Dave Kahn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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unless you only ride on a well maintained velodrome track.

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In which case, why would you need a rack?

To wind up the roadies, obviously.

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"Dave Kahn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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unless you only ride on a well maintained velodrome track.

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In which case, why would you need a rack?

To wind up the roadies, obviously.

You should also have sandwiches in a tupperware box on the rack for full effect.

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Ian said:

You should also have sandwiches in a tupperware box on the rack for full effect.

For top marks, consider the following scenario:

Grate frend gNick has been allowed to compete in an end of season "10" in his fully-faired
Windcheetah. Stick-bike winner is one Roger Hammond who, later that winter, would go on to become
World Junior Cyclo-Cross Champion. gNick is, as one might surmise from a casual scrutiny of the
machines involved, a Several of minutes faster.

But, on levering himself out of a vehicle which weighs about half a hundredweight on its own, he
first extracts a heavy and clanking bag of Tools and Stuff. Delving into this, he extracts a smaller
bag, from which he produces, in a manner almost, but not quite, entirely unlike David Git, er,
Blaine, a packet of Regal and a Zippo. Out comes a Regal, flame is applied to the tip thereof and
vent is given to the the great sigh of pleasure common to all nicotine addicts who haven't sparked
up a [censored] for at least twenty minutes.

Roadie jaws hit the tarmac on all sides.

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pig pog <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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* Minoura space bars sound and look like a really good idea but are actually rubbish for carrying
anything heaver than a helium baloon unless you only ride on a well maintained velodrome track.

In which case, why would you need a rack?

Oops, twit! I now realise that Minoura space bars are not a rack. They are that T-shaped thingy you
can use to extend your handlebar real estate.

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