Cycling UK Forum

I bought a hydraulic disc brake, hose and lever from them in late 2015. A couple of weeks ago the lever started leaking fluid and the brake stopped working. I sent them a warranty claim by email and they sent be straight back a brand new replacement of all three components, gratis , without any need...

On the grounds that to make a Ti fork as non-noodly as a steel one would require more mass of material than a quality steel one.

hamster wrote:That's not exactly surprising is it? Something with zero components being more reliable than one with (say) 100.

Did I say it was?

Oh and right back at you.

the colour differential should be more than suffice to signify that there is a vehicle in front There may possibly be a colour differential at night but there will not be during the day, a BS quality light just doesnt knock out enough light to be seen in daylight diffused by fog. Dead right. You al...

Tubes in frames are in triangles. Supported at both ends

Steerers and fork blades are supported at one end and have an oscilllatory load at the other. Different kettle of fish.

Nexus 3s seem to be pretty reliable. The 8s and 11s need fuss over cables and rotary couplers and protection from ice...and oil baths. I've used most of them over the years, broken many of them, and never found one that is genuinely minimal maintenance and reliable in the way that fixed is Unless yo...

well, I doubt I'd opt to ride 15 hours in thick fog for fun*, but for the hour commute I would (do) just put the bright lights on and get on with it. High intensity LED rear lights have been a game-changer for fog. I can remember about 25 years ago being on a club run and being caught in fog. It rea...

Here's an idea. Why doesn't someone make a rigid ferrule with a rubber orifice (like in a football) in the wall of the ferrule to accept a straw. The ferrule could be spliced in half-way along each Bowden cable to allow lubrication to be forced in. In winter, this could be done before each ride to ...

Alfines and kinked cables don't play well together even after the cable is straightened. Unless you can get the cable entirely straight and kink-free like new, which I never have, it adds a degree of uncertainty to the gear shift. Time to change the cable if it's kinked.

Since supplanted by an ebay Rogers

Both are single wheel drive, and on the hills round here they just flounder. Lean back enough to keep the wheel down and the front crabs into the ditch. Sit up a bit and the drive wheel spins helplessly. I rode this one a lot on flatter lands.

Cork causing flavour problems is an issue with rosé wines. We drink a lot of rosé and it was affecting perhaps one in 3 or 4 at one time. I've only ever experienced it once or twice with red and I can't ever remember it with white.

I do like a cork, having said that.

Dave's right that for an urban cyclist, the risk associated with forks failing (unless you don;t listen to the creaks and clicks) or unless you hit something and keep riding the same forks) is less than being taken out by a car My riding is mostly endless miles of mostly-empty roads. certainly when ...

The Day One reviewed in this months' magazine looks very nice. It's entirely incorrect to suggest that it shouldn't be run fixed though. I purposely don;t use a lockring on my fixed bikes to prevent damage if the chain unships at the back. I've never unscrewed a sprocket by leg force. Looks like yo...

[quote="531colin" why would I go looking for 1" steerer in carbon or alloy when I can have 1 1/8" to 1 1/2" tapered steerers with a greater margin of safety, and no disadvantage for my sort of riding? .[/quote] Why not indeed, on a new bike. But lots of bikes were sold with ...

I'm unsure whether the people saying they wouldn't trust an aluminium steerer are talking about carbon blades with ally steerer or whether this includes forks made completely of aluminium. Talk of no fatigue limit implies it refers to any aluminium steerer (even, say, on a steel fork if anyone's ev...