Everyone is interested. Once you go over 80 kilos modern bikes are more breakable. Unless of course you get one made of scaffolding poles from Halfordsmail@nickavery.com wrote: ↑25 Apr 2022, 8:14am Just in case anybody is interested, the Spa wheels turned up trumps. Still as true as the day they were born.
Now I have a clanking under heavy climbing from the BB
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- 25 Apr 2022, 9:45am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Wheels for a big person
- Replies: 27
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Re: Wheels for a big person
- 6 Apr 2022, 11:01am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
And good luck to Mrs Trev. I ride witha group of middle aged men and women and we just adjust accordingly. There’s no good men trying to behave like cycling pros. I live on a long hill (for essex) and when the tour of Britain came here the pros who weren’t in the sprint were sitting up chatting and pushing a big gear, often no hands. They are just different! Much better to respond to the folks you’re with
- 5 Apr 2022, 5:11pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
My wife’s attitude is she doesn’t need the tyre lever and thumb thing while im next to her with trye levers and thumbs. Its hard to disagreeTrevA wrote: ↑2 Mar 2022, 1:03pm I used my Tyre Glider for the first time today, albeit at home, but on a tyre that had been in a cold garage. At first, I couldn’t work out how to use it and had to watch the video, but after a bit of practice I found it works well.
What’s really good though is that my wife can use it easily. She’s never been able to get tyres on and off using tyre levers and thumbs, so it’s a game changer for her and she can ride with confidence on her own without having to worry about punctures.
- 18 Feb 2022, 2:28pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
The ones that catch me out are the extra wobbly casings, like Challenge Strada Biancas. They are like greased pigs
- 18 Feb 2022, 2:18pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
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Re: Tyre Glider
i agree. Lots of their work gets on my wick, especially all that pc stuff. Lots of their work serves me well. With the insurance and the magazine, the region support officers, the campaigning and advocacy - I think it’s well worth the money Everything has to compromise on some point.
- 16 Feb 2022, 4:39pm
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Statins - side effects
- Replies: 702
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Re: Statins - side effects
My own experience reflects yours closely. And Im afraid the subject has become so dirty my first response reading about a new survey or survey of surveys is, cui bono?mjr wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 4:05pmYes, this is paywalled.Jdsk wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 3:32pm New study:
"Prevalence of statin intolerance: a meta-analysis":
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva ... 15/6529098
(may be paywalled).
I've read other coverage this morning and because it is a meta-analysis, it is sand built on sand. Its conclusions on prevalence level should be regarded as shaky because of the poor methodology of many intolerance studies which fail to account for memory and other cognitive problems being among the adverse effects.
In my own case, I was incapable of remembering some of the problems I suffered, much less to link them to the statins. My GP at the time was a pompous ass and it took a locum GP to spot a link between likely onset of problems and start of statin use. If I had been part of a statin intolerance trial at certain points before that, I would probably have answered questionnaires that all was fine, simply because I had forgotten chunks of time where I had problems. After all, I kept taking the damned things until I could not stand up!
It definitely wasn't the "drucebo effect". Back then, I knew little of the side-effects except insomnia when starting use and I really thought they would work for me like they did for my father... but now I wonder whether they really worked for him because he did some pretty odd stuff near the end of his life... but we can never know.
I'm also a bit grumpy about Professor Smeeth quoted in the Guardian seeming to say that we should like statins partly because they are cheap. Firstly, that's not always been true (rosuvastatin was $260/month until a patent expired in 2016), and secondly, that's rather beside the point of whether they're safe and effective for a particular patient, surely?
Finally, it's interesting to see "exercise" among the side-effect risk-increasers on there, because I don't recall that being stated in any meta-analysis I've seen. I wonder what level of exercise that is and whether there's an increase of adverse effect risk with increase of exercise, which would have implications for cycle-tourists.
- 14 Feb 2022, 4:16pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: trim skewers to length?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1073
Re: trim skewers to length?
Oh you will regret it when you decide to add a trailer hitch!
- 13 Feb 2022, 4:44pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Cycle magazine - my feet fall off the edges of the pedals
- Replies: 8
- Views: 838
Re: Cycle magazine - my feet fall off the edges of the pedals
I use clipless on my ebike which is ridiculous, really, but I found my right foot slipped off the pedal quite a lot, especially in wet weather. I suppose I could have used toe clips and straps but I'm so used to clipless and already have the shoes for my other bikes, so it's simpler
- 13 Feb 2022, 1:39pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
If ever I wear these out I’ll give them a try.
- 13 Feb 2022, 12:48pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
I’m sure you’re fine I would just hold off until the next time I have to put Marathon Plus on the Brompton! At the rate I use the Brommie that may be neverS2L wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 12:27pm Re. Technique…
There might be a trick I am missing, but I have changed tyres for 35 years now… and it’s getting harder rather than easier… if there was a better technique for me to learn, I would have learned it by now… clearly I am not up to the job and quite happy to invest a tenner in a contraption that makes it easier
- 13 Feb 2022, 10:47am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
I can manage any tyre on any of my bikes with some of those blue plastic levers Park tools sell. God knows what they are made of but they seem indestructible. On very difficult tyres I use toe straps too.S2L wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 10:13am The problem is that before rims became universally tubeless ready, fitting a tyre was relatively easy, in many cases you could do it with bare hands (ah, those Vittoria Corsa on Ambrosio rims, a doddle!). Now it's near impossible in most cases, hence the sprouting of all sorts of plastic contraptions to help with the job... I welcome them all
- 12 Feb 2022, 9:48am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
I’m surprised Mick hasnt been given some as a ‘social influencer’. The Kardshian of cycling
- 11 Feb 2022, 4:43pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tyre Glider
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7677
Re: Tyre Glider
Looks like talc or soapy water might help - it seems to work rather like the steel gizmos they use on car tyres in workshops
- 11 Feb 2022, 3:14pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: rear facing camera
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1296
Re: rear facing camera
This was a good post! I thought the 'bungs' were seals or even one end of a welding - but in fact they were exactly bungs. So I pried them out with a spudger then took out the screws. This is the result.
Of course I still have to search one out and wield the soldering iron, but if successful it may be the cheapest solution yet. I don't think the problem here is a capacitor - when connected to the usb power source the light works fine. Anyway, if it doesn't work all I've lost is the price of a battery. Thanks John
update £6 on eBay for a battery
- 11 Feb 2022, 9:01am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: rear facing camera
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1296
Re: rear facing camera
Thanks slowtwitch and others - lots of good clues here!