To return to the OPs question.
My two bits.
No, I don't think it is unreasonable, but stopping someone and telling them they are doing wrong may cause annoyance and possibly anger.
So probably inadvisable.
Perhaps better to make plain by other means that you are being dazzled. Shading your eyes from the glare makes it pretty obvious that the over bright lights are causing you difficulties and is less likely to lead to conflict.
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- 19 Mar 2024, 4:05pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Would it be unreasonable … ?
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- 18 Mar 2024, 12:16pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Touring shoes for bunions and wide feet
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Re: Touring shoes for bunions and wide feet
My second recommendation:
EXUSTAR Stelvio. Comfy and reasonably wide. SPD fitting, if that's your thing.
From our friends at Spa Cycles:
https://spacycles.co.uk/m6b0s154p3382/E ... 5-SPD-Shoe
EXUSTAR Stelvio. Comfy and reasonably wide. SPD fitting, if that's your thing.
From our friends at Spa Cycles:
https://spacycles.co.uk/m6b0s154p3382/E ... 5-SPD-Shoe
- 17 Mar 2024, 3:50pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Touring shoes for bunions and wide feet
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Re: Touring shoes for bunions and wide feet
I find these very comfortable. A wide fitting.
However, I don't suffer from bunions.
https://williamlennon.co.uk/product-cat ... cle-shoes/
As you can see, they are not SPD. For me, in deference to my knees, that is a good thing.
Others, no doubt will condemn them for that reason alone.
I currently wear 276, but will try C2 next.
IMHO an excellent UK product.
EDIT: Note reference to bunion in C2 review.
However, I don't suffer from bunions.
https://williamlennon.co.uk/product-cat ... cle-shoes/
As you can see, they are not SPD. For me, in deference to my knees, that is a good thing.
Others, no doubt will condemn them for that reason alone.
I currently wear 276, but will try C2 next.
IMHO an excellent UK product.
EDIT: Note reference to bunion in C2 review.
- 14 Mar 2024, 2:02pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Why not have dual front discs?
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Re: Why not have dual front discs?
Why not have a single disc mounted around the centre line of the front hub ?
Oh, yes. It's called a rim brake.
Oh, yes. It's called a rim brake.
- 14 Mar 2024, 10:37am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
- Replies: 145
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
8/ the captious air volume of 26" tyres provides a very cushy ride - even with the smaller sizes.Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 8:26am6/ Widely and cheaply available.jimlews wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 8:58pmAs I see it, the attraction is fivefold.Nearholmer wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 7:19pm I genuinely don’t quite get this mid-90s MTB thing (the wheels seem too small to me, and did at the time)
1/ The 26" wheel size allows generous clearances.
2/ The 26" wheel allows the designer to design for generous toe clearance. ie. no possibility of overlap with the front tyre/mudguard.
3/ The typically long chainstays and long front end (see2/) results in a magic carpet ride over rough ground.
4/ The 26" tyre size is still pretty much universally available and the generous clearances allow fitment of any tyre from 26X1.25 right up to 26X2.125, so in an emergency a new tyre that 'will do' is cheaply obtainable pretty much anywhere in the world.
5/ They are about as close as it is possible to get to an unbustable bicycle.
7/ Appeal to many forumisers' memories of their own youth.
9/ Modern slicks in this size are no slower than 650 or 700 sizes and in some comparisons are faster.
10/ the 26" rim builds into a much stronger wheel...
.../ and counting...
- 14 Mar 2024, 10:31am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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- 13 Mar 2024, 8:58pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
As I see it, the attraction is fivefold.Nearholmer wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 7:19pm I genuinely don’t quite get this mid-90s MTB thing (the wheels seem too small to me, and did at the time)
1/ The 26" wheel size allows generous clearances.
2/ The 26" wheel allows the designer to design for generous toe clearance. ie. no possibility of overlap with the front tyre/mudguard.
3/ The typically long chainstays and long front end (see2/) results in a magic carpet ride over rough ground.
4/ The 26" tyre size is still pretty much universally available and the generous clearances allow fitment of any tyre from 26X1.25 right up to 26X2.125, so in an emergency a new tyre that 'will do' is cheaply obtainable pretty much anywhere in the world.
5/ They are about as close as it is possible to get to an unbustable bicycle.
However, other wheel sizes are available; as are other manufacturers:
http://www.halletthandbuiltcycles.com/6 ... nture.html
https://www.stanforthbikes.co.uk/skyelander700c
- 13 Mar 2024, 6:16pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
- Replies: 145
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
The OPs requirements shout 90s mountain bike, to me.
Or something like this :
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/bikes/thorn ... blue-used/
Or something like this :
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/bikes/thorn ... blue-used/
- 13 Mar 2024, 5:39pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
A fair point, except that even gentlest, most innocuous seeming offroad can become a quagmire down the (off)road.rareposter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 4:30pm I'd assume from the OP's thread title of gentle off-road that there are no plans for hub deep muddy bridleways or extreme terrain...
It is not usually clear at the outset what you are letting yourself in for until you are in up to the axles.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
However, such rides are often the most rewarding.
- 13 Mar 2024, 12:28pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
I wouldn't use that in UK offroad conditions. There just isn't enough mud clearance, let alone mudguard clearance.oaklec wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 8:22pm How about a Sonder Santiago?
https://alpkit.com/collections/sonder-santiago
Edit - Oops, already suggested on page 2. I'll get my coat...
There is perhaps 5mm under the fork crown. The whole thing would become completely clagged up within 100yds
on a typical UK bridalpath.
- 12 Mar 2024, 2:16pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Oldest bike
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Re: Oldest bike
My oldest ridable bike is a 1961 Dawes Dalesman
But in the pending - awaiting renovation department I have:
Claud Butler Cavallier lugless. Coronation or Festival of Britain model. I forget which.
1945 Sun (Vittesse model, I think)
1949 Stokes of London. Very high quality clubmans iron.
1950s Leach Marathon, Not sure of exact date of manufacture.
1959 Holdsworth Hurricane
1960s Holdsworth Magestic May be early '70s
But in the pending - awaiting renovation department I have:
Claud Butler Cavallier lugless. Coronation or Festival of Britain model. I forget which.
1945 Sun (Vittesse model, I think)
1949 Stokes of London. Very high quality clubmans iron.
1950s Leach Marathon, Not sure of exact date of manufacture.
1959 Holdsworth Hurricane
1960s Holdsworth Magestic May be early '70s
- 11 Mar 2024, 6:45pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
Also:Nearholmer wrote: ↑11 Mar 2024, 5:57pm For my education, what sort of figures (mm) constitute long, medium, and short trail in this context?
This is interesting https://www.renehersecycles.com/trail-d ... ke-stable/
https://bikeinsights.com/cyclopedia/trail
High trail 95mm
Low trail 35mm
- 10 Mar 2024, 5:57pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
Thanks for the links Colin.
Much of interest to get stuck into there
Much of interest to get stuck into there
- 10 Mar 2024, 4:43pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
Colin, dear chap, you don't need to ask my pardon.
I am a mere babe in the woods compared to your design experience.
But you are right, the original front end was much too racy for me.
You might say that I've "Frenchified" it.
- 10 Mar 2024, 3:50pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
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Re: Tourer for gentle off-roading?
FWIW.
I agree with djnotts
Second hand is the way to go.
I have found that a traditional touring frameset is perfectly fine for gentle off-roading and better for the purpose than the
MTB / ATB designs I have.
I am especially fond of two.
Firstly a 531st Raleigh Randonneur is the only bike on which I have managed to cross the Brecon Beacons without having to dismount.
It's only downside is that it doesn't like a bar bag.
The second is a Dawes Galaxy circa 1981 also 531st. Initially, I thought the geometry a bit weird - 71deg seat tube & 73deg head tube
and consequently, a long top tube. The latter means that I am more stretched along this bike, rather than perched on top. I swapped the
the Dawes fork (1&3/4" offset) for a Holdsworth item (2&5/8" offset) because I prefer it.
A nice long wheelbase and 27" wheels soak up potholes admirably.
I agree with djnotts
Second hand is the way to go.
I have found that a traditional touring frameset is perfectly fine for gentle off-roading and better for the purpose than the
MTB / ATB designs I have.
I am especially fond of two.
Firstly a 531st Raleigh Randonneur is the only bike on which I have managed to cross the Brecon Beacons without having to dismount.
It's only downside is that it doesn't like a bar bag.
The second is a Dawes Galaxy circa 1981 also 531st. Initially, I thought the geometry a bit weird - 71deg seat tube & 73deg head tube
and consequently, a long top tube. The latter means that I am more stretched along this bike, rather than perched on top. I swapped the
the Dawes fork (1&3/4" offset) for a Holdsworth item (2&5/8" offset) because I prefer it.
A nice long wheelbase and 27" wheels soak up potholes admirably.