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I have a road bike with dropped bars, I have been diagnosed with arthritis in both my wrists. I think flat bars would be more painful for my wrists, it the gear changing that absolutely kills my wrists. I am thinking of changing to a Jones H bar or butterfly bar. Can anyone suggest anything differe...

Any chance of you posting a screenshot of one of your routes Sweep? I can only think of one way your method would work and it would mean that the purple line just goes straight from turn to turn without actually following the road or trail in between those points. Hope you can show me otherwise as I...

I'd be interested to hear how those levers work with those brakes John. Very seriously considering swapping my drops for trekking bars. I'll let you know how I get on with them Bill. PS,when we get some predictable weather we'll have to get out for another ride with Colin :) We certainly will :D

If I'm using a tool a lot I buy the best,but for occasional or emergency,one off uses I buy something cheaper.Some years ago I bought a cheapo DSL multitool very similar to this one(but without the bits set):- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anpro-Multi-Tool-Pliers-Stainless-Screwdriver/dp/B01MS4864I/ref=...

Gear shifters - https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m2b0s108p3261/SHIMANO-Claris-SL-2400-8-speed-road-flat-bar-levers Brake levers - https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m2b0s103p1056/SHIMANO-R550-flat-bar-levers At one time Shimano did a Claris 8 spd triple STI set but it seems no longer available. MTB front mechs ...

I'd be interested to hear how those levers work with those brakes John.
Very seriously considering swapping my drops for trekking bars.

Only perfect cyclists who (due to a time singularity) have one minute of lofty rumination over the presented risks associated with each second of cycling (c.f. previous posts insinuating my fault) It was your fault! Solid stationary non invisible post. The only other thing that was moving was you. ...

reohn2 wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:. ....
It's bad the op got injured cycling.
It's bad there's street signing there which isn't hivviz or lighted to prevent such accidents
This shouldn't be the way it is.
This is how it is across the country..... .

That just about sums it up.

Agreed.

The 2 above photos were clearly taken at night. Amazingly, I too can see the pole in both shots, so not invisible as the op suggests. The OP said it was drizzling, so, it would have been much harder to see anything . But not invisible. But even so, I think we've been through this a few times, and w...

The 2 above photos were clearly taken at night.
Amazingly, I too can see the pole in both shots, so not invisible as the op suggests.

I bought a cheap one early this year with the intention of using to beef up my fitness when the weather was too gloomy. My gawd it's soooooooooooooooooo boring! It's had maybe 90 mins use in total over 4 or 5 times and then I couldn't take it anymore. Its been folded up and stashed away since way be...

I'm currently running an 11-34 cassette to a 24-36-46 chainset. The same front mech that ran the old 28-38-48 chainset works perfectly fine here. Yours might also be just as good. My Wayfarer is still pretty stable at 2.5mph going up silly steep rocky climbs and the front wheel has yet to lift. Unlo...

The driver admitted that he wasn't concentrating. In which case he shouldn't have been moving. Entirely his fault. It is perfectly legal to filter through traffic so that can't be used against you. However, when approaching any point in the road where traffic might turn across your path, it'd be wis...

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If it was placed in the middle of the path as suggested by Vorpal, [...] I think you may have misunderstood a suggestion. Fair point. However, there is but one lane on that particular cycle path, not two. If you chopped your fingers off with an axe while cutting firewood, would you blame the axe? I...