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by deliquium
18 Mar 2024, 8:22pm
Forum: Wanted
Topic: WTD Brooks B17
Replies: 4
Views: 109

Re: WTD Brooks B17

Any colour preference?
by deliquium
9 Mar 2024, 10:57pm
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: *SOLD* Shimano SL-BS79 10 speed bar end shifters
Replies: 3
Views: 383

*SOLD* Shimano SL-BS79 10 speed bar end shifters

*SOLD* As new, unmarked, mint condition, apart from minor scratch on barrel that fits inside the handlebar.

Cheapest new online I can find is £103 inc post

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-shifte ... ble-stops/

£63 inc Royal Mail Tracked insured post *SOLD*
by deliquium
9 Mar 2024, 5:42pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?
Replies: 15
Views: 816

Re: Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?

geomannie wrote: 9 Mar 2024, 5:38pm I posted this a few years ago about my Cateye Speedo stopping working temporarily while cycling past the Skelton Transmitting Station. You might find some of the replies about radio/magnetic interference interesting

viewtopic.php?p=1364596&hilit=Cateye#p1364596
Thanks geomannie👍
by deliquium
9 Mar 2024, 5:28pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?
Replies: 15
Views: 816

Re: Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?

Thanks all🙏

I did check the max speed and that was ok.

And if I remove the computer head unit and bring it upstairs to the kitchen or living room overnight - the mileage stays put everytime.
rareposter wrote: 9 Mar 2024, 3:52pm My guess is your great big oil-fired boiler (or some of the systems within it like a pump) are setting up magnetic fields and it's triggering the readout.
I've always suspected the relatively new (10 years) not so great big actually, Worcester Bosch boiler to be a ne'er do well sly and shifty sort, always trying its best to upset me it is, mainly in other less mysterious ways :evil:
by deliquium
9 Mar 2024, 2:10pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?
Replies: 15
Views: 816

Cateye cycle speedo/computer adds stealth miles overnight?

I keep 3 bikes in a substantial stone built, strongly locked 'shed' that also houses my property's oil fired CH boiler and a washing machine. I'm sure the bikes appreciate the warmth and security.

One of the bikes has a Cateye Strada Slim wireless cycle computer. Some days/nights the odometer adds mileages to itself. Never subtracts. This will be anywhere between 1 mile to 20 miles - but mostly towards the smaller amounts. It doesn't happen every night.

Why?
by deliquium
9 Mar 2024, 1:34pm
Forum: Wanted
Topic: 10s bar-end shifters - SRAM or Shimano
Replies: 2
Views: 188

Re: 10s bar-end shifters - SRAM or Shimano

I have a surplus pair of unmarked mint Shimano Dura-Ace SL-BS79 10 speed bar end shifters :)

PM sent
by deliquium
4 Mar 2024, 4:12pm
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: *SOLD* VO Grand Cru chromed quill stem 80mm
Replies: 2
Views: 524

*SOLD* VO Grand Cru chromed quill stem 80mm

Brand new never fitted, comes with original cloth bag and screw for bell or blanking. Bought for a project in 2020 that's fallen by the wayside :(

80mm length x 26mm clamp diameter. 110mm tall above minimum insertion mark. 22.2mm for 1" steerer tube.

Click here for retailer LINK

REDUCED second time to £39 inc post Royal Mail 48 Tracked SOLD
by deliquium
18 Feb 2024, 5:20pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Tudor Sport Plusses - Recommended??
Replies: 13
Views: 1355

Re: Tudor Sport Plusses - Recommended??

I wore them and the Tudor "longs" for a decade-ish from 1990. I liked them. Always worn with clip on braces. They got a bit saggy and heavy when wet and being a cotton/nylon mix took ages to dry out - but because they kept you warm, it wasn't an issue for me personally.

Then I started wearing just the "plusses" (new modern ones - but just the same as the older ones x 2 pairs), with long socks, again from around 2010 until 2019. That would have been during Autumn, Winter and Spring, cycling daily and averaging at least 800 miles per month in all weathers. I just liked them. I did buy a pair of Goretex over trousers - but hated them and the clammy legs and noise and general feeling over dressed discomfort. And preferred to ride with wet, slightly saggy, slightly heavier Tudors. Which wasn't really noticeable until I got off the bike, to be honest. The essential (for me) clip on braces made a huge positive difference in comfort and fit. I would imagine they'd feel noticeably Nora Batty saggy when wet without?

I had size Small.

Always wore with a pair of padded short liners - the type which came with some German "Gonso" Palermo ¾ length summer "plusses"

Personally, never had any issue with the quality and no problems with sewing etc - that would have been around 19,000 miles for the latest ones.

What size are you? Happy to post you a used pair of my Small to try out for a month or so?
by deliquium
11 Feb 2024, 7:04pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Should electric bikes go faster
Replies: 96
Views: 5628

Re: Should electric bikes go faster

Why do bicycles need more speed?

Motor traffic is dangerous enough driven at any speed without due attention, why add more danger with potentially faster bicycles? What's the point of travelling faster? It certainly cannot be safety can it?

The issue about e-assist helping to keep up on 'club runs' is just a personal me me me wanna be in a certain type of gang.

The very efficient bicycle (including limited e-assist) as transport AND enjoyment AND responsible citizenship, is difficult to undispute, isn't it?

WE all know the problem - and it ain't bicycles ridden at reasonable bicycle speeds
by deliquium
9 Feb 2024, 5:52pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Should electric bikes go faster
Replies: 96
Views: 5628

Re: Should electric bikes go faster

PH wrote: 9 Feb 2024, 5:38pm the whole point of the regulation is to keep E-bikes in the same classification, and following the same regulations, as pedal cycles.
👍 Very important point
by deliquium
9 Feb 2024, 2:20pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Should electric bikes go faster
Replies: 96
Views: 5628

Re: Should electric bikes go faster

No, I wouldn't sign it either.

Assist up to 15.5mph is more than fine and dandy for little old me cycling on the flat.

One of my e-Bikes has a Bosch Performance Line CX 85Nm motor, the acceleration from standstill in all modes apart from Eco is scary and potential dangerous, just the lightest pressure on the pedals for just half a stroke and you can be a very long way 'up the road'. I've set up a custom motor profile to dial that acceleration right back when I just use it for on road riding.

I guess it's easy to understand why folks might be disappointed when the assist cuts out, having got to 15mph with barely any effort - and then boof! it's like hitting a wall. But presumably they'd feel the same annoyance if the limit was 20mph?
by deliquium
21 Jan 2024, 4:20pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Winter cycling photos and writeups
Replies: 205
Views: 23951

Re: Winter cycling photos and writeups

2013, en route from Newtown to Presteigne for a romantic date on my 1992 Gerorge Longstaff tourer. Photo having climbed out of Dolfor on the B4355 approaching the top near Banc Gorddwr?

(Click on image for larger version)
by deliquium
5 Jan 2024, 2:33pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Thru axle wheel not wanting to drop out - SORTED
Replies: 38
Views: 2475

Re: Thru axle wheel not wanting to drop out - SORTED

PH wrote: 5 Jan 2024, 2:07pm Good result, but they look so significantly different, that IMO it ought to have been picked up long before it got to you. The fork manufacturer's quality control, bike assembly QC, and our last line of defence the PDI from the retailer, all seem to have either missed it or not cared.
Totally agree, but to give the retailer their due, they did sort it pronto and amicably once it was brought to their attention and I was able to deal with the same reasonable person.

Compare that to the 4 x £2000+ e-bikes which all had to be returned to Wiggle and eventually refunded AND the £2200 e-bike form Halfords that was refunded after a 'mechanic' damaged components whilst undertaking a 'repair' with the wrong replacement item. In those instances I had to 'deal with' bicycle ignorant people in remote Customer Care departments and continuously quoting the Consumers Rights Act 2015 at them, before any thing satisfactory occurred.

I'll happily deal with Freeborn Bikes again👍
by deliquium
5 Jan 2024, 10:28am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Thru axle wheel not wanting to drop out - SORTED
Replies: 38
Views: 2475

Re: Thru axle wheel not wanting to drop out - SORTED

SORTED👍

Original new bike's closed end forks collected Wednesday as arranged. Arrived at the shop yesterday morning. Replacement lower legs fitted and sent back the same day. Just arrived👍

Many thanks to Joe at Freeborn bikes https://www.freeborn.co.uk/ for dealing with the problem in a swift and satisfactory manner. Excellent personal service :D