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by crossy
29 Jan 2024, 7:22am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Stena line to Holland with a Brompton as foot passenger
Replies: 25
Views: 2392

Re: Stena line to Holland with a Brompton as foot passenger

Richard when you took the Bike Friday on the boat was it a quick fold and what bag was it.
by crossy
12 Jan 2024, 4:00pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff
Replies: 77
Views: 4790

Re: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff

The thing that has suprised me SJS removed the the Rohloff internals and put new ones in for me. That cost me £250 so basically a new hub with 2 year warranty, but if I bought a new one it would have cost me £1200 does that mean the external bits cost £950?
by crossy
11 Jan 2024, 4:51pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff
Replies: 77
Views: 4790

Re: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff

The Orange has sliding drop outs and looks like a single speed. The triple and rear mech is on an ICE trike.
by crossy
10 Jan 2024, 9:29pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff
Replies: 77
Views: 4790

Re: Stanforth Skylander Rohloff

Rohloff has changed the gear ratio to 1.9 and the oil fill to 12.5 ml the flush is still 25ml. I’m 63 now but fitted the lowest gearing I could get to future proof it 34 x 17 I could have gone 2 teeth lower on the chain ring at 32 tooth but SJS cycles didn’t have a 32 in when I upgraded an Orange P7. I also have an ICE trike that has a triple chainring set on the front 22, 32, 44 with a 17 tooth sprocket on the back. I can use the 32 and 44 chainring but the 22 would be too low for the Rohloff. The trike was 3 x 9 so i kept the triple and the same rear mech to tension the chain.
by crossy
23 Dec 2023, 3:14pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Hearing Aid Advice
Replies: 23
Views: 1736

Re: Hearing Aid Advice

I have NHS ones. The ones issued to me have Bluetooth, With Apple products you can download an app to pair with your hearing aids, With Android devices you need to get a device that attaches to the item to send blue tooth to your hearing aids. I carry my hearing aids in a glasses case when I’m on the bike and put them in when I stop. I have discovered Aftershock bone conductor headphones which I use with the Garmin gps or phone app. They do fit when you are wearing your hearing aids as well.
by crossy
23 Dec 2023, 3:03pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Towns and Villages in Wiltshire
Replies: 85
Views: 19414

Re: Towns and Villages in Wiltshire

Yay I got my 350 today hopefully I’ll get some more before the end of the year.
by crossy
11 Dec 2023, 5:06pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Phone Mount for Ice Trike
Replies: 10
Views: 340

Re: Phone Mount for Ice Trike

I have a t bar mount I bought from Icelleta it is a Terracycle brand I have it on my left handlebar on it I have a Garmin out front mount and a Topeak dry case mount. I can fit a 1030 plus and a Samsung A12 it is a bit of a squeeze but they do fit together. The other side I have a mirror mount on that one I have put my Rohloff grip changer with the mirror sticking out from that. I started off putting the topeak mount on the cross bar that holds the wheels on sorry bit off brain freeze can’t think of the word for it.
by crossy
30 Nov 2023, 3:49pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Cycle computers for Navigation.
Replies: 71
Views: 8361

Re: Cycle computers for Navigation.

I’ve had a problem with my Samsung A12 using navigation apps I tried everything but finally found the answer on yacf website, gps sub section. The new updates for android cuts off the app from working in the background. So when I tried using the OS map app for instance the recording was all over the place looking at it he recording afterwards there were lots of straight lines and the mileage was well out. Just tried it after following the instructions to fix it and the OS app worked well. Hope this helps if other people have this problem. What I hope to do is use the OS app following a route and a basic cycle computer with the screen blanked out and only showing distance.
by crossy
20 Nov 2023, 7:30am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Kilometers or Miles?
Replies: 311
Views: 22724

Re: Kilometers or Miles?

I find the easiest way to convert km to miles or the other way round is 10km = 6ish miles.
by crossy
20 Nov 2023, 7:22am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Kilometers or Miles?
Replies: 311
Views: 22724

Re: Kilometers or Miles?

I’m doing Edington numbers at the moment my riding is at 59 ie I’ve ridden 59 miles59 times, I need another 10 rides to make 62. This is using imperial miles as it’s easier than using metric. For the same distance 62 miles I have to ride that 62 times. The metric equivalent 100km would take another 38 rides so definitely imperial is easier for that.
by crossy
21 Oct 2023, 3:30pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Towns and Villages in Wiltshire
Replies: 85
Views: 19414

Re: Towns and Villages in Wiltshire

I went out and got all the Vs today luckily they were all close together, Managed to get 8 villages in all today. So that’s all the Vs, Ys. I’ll try and get Zeals next week that will be the Zs finished
by crossy
15 Oct 2023, 8:16am
Forum: Cycling UK Topics and Discussions
Topic: Cycling Magazine
Replies: 5
Views: 3922

Re: Cycling Magazine

It wouldn’t have been so bad if the pages were there but upside down, but they were missing just repeated ones.
by crossy
14 Oct 2023, 5:03pm
Forum: Cycling UK Topics and Discussions
Topic: Cycling Magazine
Replies: 5
Views: 3922

Re: Cycling Magazine

I phoned and complained they sent a new one.
by crossy
9 Oct 2023, 12:26pm
Forum: Cycling UK Topics and Discussions
Topic: Cycling Magazine
Replies: 5
Views: 3922

Cycling Magazine

My copy has just arrived not good. It’s ok to page 42 then it misses pages 43 - 58. From page 42 the pages are upside down pages 59 - 76 then returns the right way up repeating 59 - 76.
by crossy
29 Sep 2023, 12:18pm
Forum: Non-standard, Human Powered Vehicles
Topic: Peer Gynt
Replies: 6
Views: 4120

Re: Peer Gynt

It looks like the For sale is only 2 pages once the post gets too old it drops off the page