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by drossall
18 Mar 2024, 5:02pm
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used
Replies: 1
Views: 104

HG500 10-speed cassette slightly used

Can anyone use this? 12-28T.

I got it on a wheel, but I don't have any 10-speed stuff so it's no use to me. I believe it may have been used only for a handful of rides on a trainer. Whilst it looks OK, I can't guarantee the use, so sold as seen really.

A tenner to Oxfam maybe? Just really need to get rid of it. Postage at cost or pick up if you're in the North Herts or central London/Old Street areas.
by drossall
18 Mar 2024, 10:15am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 16
Views: 543

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

TheBomber wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 7:42pmI think that because it isn’t widely known that you can get Campag hubs that take Shimano cassettes, and because Campag are understandably reluctant to make a big thing of it in marketing, that they came up with Fulcrum wheels.
I either didn't know or had forgotten that Fulcrum was a Campagnolo brand, to be honest.

There is something I recall about 8-speed (Campagnolo) splines being softer than 9, that might make 8-speed hubs not such a long-term option. I've stopped using my 8-speed stuff in favour of slightly-less-ancient 9.
by drossall
17 Mar 2024, 3:13pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 16
Views: 543

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

NickJP wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 3:41amThis is definitely wrong as regards Campagnolo.
Serves me right for being too definite :oops: But I think it's fair to say that most interchanging goes on with third-party hubs, and relatively few Campagnolo, and possibly no Shimano at all, hubs can be made to take the other brand's cassettes?
by drossall
16 Mar 2024, 8:15pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel
Replies: 16
Views: 543

Re: Re-using an old 8-speed Campagnolo wheel

It's not the hub proper, it's the body (the splined bit onto which the cassette slides). Campagnolo and Shimano have never made available bodies for each other's cassettes. You'd need an independent hub to make the kind of swap you are proposing, in either direction. For example, though it's of no use with your hub, a number of independent hubs take Novatec bodies.
by drossall
14 Mar 2024, 9:30pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman
Replies: 26
Views: 786

Re: Headset on Claud Butler Dalesman

Rob D wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 4:39pm Not sure ehy the photo turned round 90⁰...
Because phones tend to have orientation sensors in them, and embed the orientation in the picture. Some programs that display pictures take notice of the orientation information, and some don't. Jdsk will have used a photo editor of some kind to rotate the picture. That way it comes out the right way regardless.
by drossall
14 Mar 2024, 5:27pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

On a tarmac surface, I think I'd have spotted anything like that when I was looking for the puncture. But it's true that I never did figure out exactly what happened.
by drossall
12 Mar 2024, 10:15pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 56
Views: 2111

Re: Filthy bridleway

Pete Owens wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 10:04pmBut just because a route is designated as a public footpath does not mean of itself that cycling is illegal. For that you need explicit no cycling signs.
I'm not sure I understand this. As I see it, if a route is designated as a public footpath, there is no more reason to believe that cycling is allowed than for cutting across a random field where no rights of way are designated at all. That way lies anarchy, surely? Unless we are going to deny property rights entirely, we have to have some respect and ride where we actively know that we are allowed to do so, rather than anywhere except where we know that we cannot.
by drossall
12 Mar 2024, 5:24pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 56
Views: 2111

Re: Filthy bridleway

Nearholmer wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 10:46pm And, as if all that wasn’t muddy enough, there are public footpaths where the landowner has explicitly granted permission for people to ride bikes, which is potentially very confusing.
Not far from us, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation has arranged with landowners the Greenway, where cyclists can ride almost a complete loop, substantially on permissive paths. There are many other permissive paths in the area as well - pretty much, around the perimeter of the town, it's safe to assume that, if there is a clear field boundary, you can walk along it. If there's a clear and well-worn track, you can probably cycle on it too.

Other localities will have similar things of course.
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 10:35pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 56
Views: 2111

Re: Filthy bridleway

Well certainly there is no right to ride a bike on a public footpath.

Pushing one, that's definitely a grey area. As I understand it, we have the right to walk, and to do things normally associated with walking, such as stopping and looking at the view. It's not so clear whether we actually have the right to stop for a picnic, push a bike, push a pushchair, and so on. The only way to find out is to have a case go to court and, rather reasonably, no-one involved in any incident has been inclined to take matters that far.
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 10:12pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

Thank you. I hadn't thought of doing that :D
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 8:40pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 56
Views: 2111

Re: Filthy bridleway

basingstoke123 wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 7:15pmI was also thinking of footpaths that are separated from the highway, for example, running through as housing estate.
They are different again. I imagine that the land is in some sense public, because there will often be adjacent play areas and open ground for the use of the public. However, such footpaths are not part of any highway, and hence are not governed by the highway law that keeps footways for the exclusive (at least in theory) use of pedestrians. Generally, council byelaws and the like will govern the use of paths in town, away from the road. Typically, councils make byelaws that exclude bikes.

That's why you'll often see a passage between two houses with a "No Cycling" sign. It's running away from a footway where cycling wasn't allowed in the first place. So why a sign on the passage and, more to the point, no sign on the path alongside the road? Because the latter is covered by a generic law applying to all footways (barring various exceptions such as shared use), whereas the former is governed by a specific byelaw for that path, or a group of paths in which that is included.

And cycling on paths that aren't covered by any of these is a trespass against the landowner. That includes on public footpaths, because the right of way is only for pedestrians, and hence doesn't cover you as a cyclist.
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 6:45pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

Yup. I was only a few hundred yards away from work, which I had just left. And I'd have noticed if that thing were sticking out much for the first few revs. The (back) wheel would have jammed, for a start :lol:
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 6:42pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Filthy bridleway
Replies: 56
Views: 2111

Re: Filthy bridleway

basingstoke123 wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 12:24am I also do not fully understand the difference between a public footpath and a 'normal' footpath within a town.
Depends what you mean by a "normal" footpath. A public footpath is a right of way across someone else's land. A "footpath" alongside a road is the part of the highway devoted to pedestrians, and highways are shared facilities for the public to pass freely back and forth with their chattels, or some such wording. I assume that the land itself is, in that case, owned on all our behalves by the relevant highway or other authority. Basically these things all derive from different historic rights, and you have to figure out what you're dealing with as a first step. "Footpath" is too vague/generic a term for that purpose.
by drossall
11 Mar 2024, 6:12pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

531colin wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:00pm I don’t think I’m imagining it, I think I have seen ( on here) a photo of a nail not just embedded in a (rear?) tyre, but also piercing the rim. That implies to me a lot of force.
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This one? I never figured out what happened. I was riding on the Stevenage cycle paths, and there was a bump, followed by a pssst. Took me a while to realise that I had 37 spokes. That was 10 or 15 years ago now.
by drossall
7 Mar 2024, 8:10am
Forum: On the road
Topic: 20mph Did you know, FACT!
Replies: 55
Views: 5985

Re: 20mph Did you know, FACT!

Same as for bikes then. You're expected to ride considerately, but no specific limits as for cars.