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- 5 Mar 2024, 4:27pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: New groupset for an old Galaxy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1649
Re: New groupset for an old Galaxy
Thank you Brucey
- 5 Mar 2024, 1:38pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: New groupset for an old Galaxy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1649
Re: New groupset for an old Galaxy
Thankyou for all the interested and helpful replies. I do want to keep the bike and keep it running for sentimental reasons more than anything. Here's some pics, it's grubby at the mo and I'm waiting on a nice day to degunge it. It has been running clunky and occasionally slipping even when sparkling clean
- 26 Feb 2024, 3:30pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: New groupset for an old Galaxy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1649
Re: New groupset for an old Galaxy
The bike has been cleaned and serviced multiple times, the changing has been shakey for years and wiser than me who've seen the bike feel the mixture of parts is the problem.
I'm not remotely interested in 12 speed, just looking for a compatible 8-9 speed set up. I don't have drops, they went in the recycling years ago and it's been butterfly bars for yonks. The shifters were friction thumb shifter for years and these worked well, more recently last 10 years they've been indexed.
Last full big service was 2022 and it's only occasionally used now for local journeys.
Drop rear spacing is 130 it was stretched by Ninon in Notting Hill back in the 90s to accomodate a tandem rear hub and it runs 8 speed.
I'm not remotely interested in 12 speed, just looking for a compatible 8-9 speed set up. I don't have drops, they went in the recycling years ago and it's been butterfly bars for yonks. The shifters were friction thumb shifter for years and these worked well, more recently last 10 years they've been indexed.
Last full big service was 2022 and it's only occasionally used now for local journeys.
Drop rear spacing is 130 it was stretched by Ninon in Notting Hill back in the 90s to accomodate a tandem rear hub and it runs 8 speed.
- 26 Feb 2024, 2:32pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: New groupset for an old Galaxy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1649
New groupset for an old Galaxy
Hello, I've a 1989 Dawes Galaxy which has taken me around the globe in those years, it's now relegated to second bike status and has a mixture of parts that mean shifting is anything but positive and clean. I've been advised that a new transmission groupset would be the answer. Any recommendations as to something I should buy please?
- 3 Jul 2021, 10:20pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4548
Re: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
Fair enough CJ, happy to stand corrected on that and thankyou for putting me right. I thought the Holidays were advertised at mates rates!!CJ wrote: ↑3 Jul 2021, 6:44pmThat's not entirely true either. Yes, most of our participants came from the membership, but CTC and later Cycling UK charged handsomely for access to that audience via the magazine. We asked for 'mates rates' but didn't get 'em. Kevin Mayne milked those tourists for every possible penny. So CTC Holidays and Tours paid the same rate for advertising in the magazine as any other holiday company and perhaps even more than some. As I wrote, for many years it was cheaper for the Company to insert our brochure with another magazine: Cycling Plus! As for website, the Company had to buy its own and beg for a link, which was hidden pretty deep by CTC/CUK (presently three layers down, select 'Go Cycling', then the far-from-obvious 'Special Events' and finally plain 'Holidays', which could be any old holidays, but is ours).
The tours were mentioned but rarely in magazine articles or Cycle Clips and this lack of publicity, lack of any joined-up thinking from HQ was a continual, inexplicable and inexcusable problem. When some staff member decided to invent a CTC Tour Leader qualification and training course, did he approach CTC's exisiting body of highly experienced Tour Leaders? What do you think? The first we heard of it was when the course was done, dusted and being delivered by CTC! Was that rude, arrogant, contemptuous or just plain stupid ignorance? We sent a leader on it but it wouldn't do, didn't cover the planning and booking side at all. To field naive applications from people who'd done the course we had to rename ourselves Tour Managers, which to be fair was a better description of the scope of the task. That was until 2019, when CUK moved to reduce us to volunteers. Is management a volunteer role? No I didn't think so either!
- 2 Jul 2021, 9:28pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4548
Re: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
Does your household insurance cover you for driving a car and potentially injuring a 3rd party or do you need separate car 3rd party cover? If not, it may not cover you for doing the same on a bicycle away from your home.chris_suffolk wrote: ↑2 Jul 2021, 5:43pm Not been on a CTC tour, and doesn't look like I'll get the chance now.
It's interesting that a number of responses above mention that one of the main reasons for joining the CTC is for insurance. Do these people not have household insurance, which (in all cases I've seen) covers liability insurance for the whole household? Just wondering why the CTC insurance is so much better than the cover I get effectively for free, as I'm going to buy household insurance anyway.
- 2 Jul 2021, 8:53pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4548
Re: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
'The ONLY thing CTC ever did to help the Tours was to act as guarantor of last resort, which helped the Company get better rates for insurance and bonding arrangements. These funds the Holiday Company has gradually replaced out of retained profits, such that CTC, upon winding up CTC Holidays, will rake in an estimated windfall of some £400,000!'
That's not entirely true, as CTC and later Cycling UK also offered a ready made audience for tours, via advertising in the magazine and website to a select audience and wider that was worth a lot of money.
That's not entirely true, as CTC and later Cycling UK also offered a ready made audience for tours, via advertising in the magazine and website to a select audience and wider that was worth a lot of money.
- 2 Jul 2021, 1:30pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4548
Re: CTC Holidays and Tours to Cease Trading
I don't know, why do the words micturate up and Brewery keep forcing themselves into your consciousness?al_yrpal wrote: ↑2 Jul 2021, 11:56amQED! Whilst Cycling UK is keen to get more folks on bikes, but in that case the virus is doing a far better job...Chris Jeggo wrote: ↑1 Jul 2021, 9:42pm
So the Cyclists' Touring Club can no longer organise Cycle Tours. Why do the words "pi*s-up" and "brewery" keep forcing themselves to the forefront of my consciousness?
Al
As well as killing thousands, the pandemic has done for a lot a businesses, it's unlikely anybody associated with the company took this decision lightly and it's a terrible shame. But the holiday business served only a bit over 1000 of a membership of 71k, it probably won't be missed by most members. It's a real shame, but doesn't stop anybody touring with dozens of other companies out there many run by former members of CTCH&T, who cut their tour leading teeth with our club.
Why folks come on this forum just to knock Cycling UK baffles me.
- 20 Jun 2020, 7:47am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15981
Re: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
PH wrote:GPC wrote:Nope not that thread, maybe you should check before assuming something that may not be correct?
I haven't made any assumption.
You assumed that's the route I was talking about PH. No matter. The advice I received that day was incredibly helpful, I never found the route difficult because I don't think I had ridden the route at that point.
- 20 Jun 2020, 7:45am
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15981
Re: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
That thread was an example of helpful responses really useful ones in fact, quite the opposite to one that I was talking about. However, this current thread is probably a good example of why the proposed OP would not work as intended. Look how far it has already strayed.
- 19 Jun 2020, 9:53pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15981
Re: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
Nope not that thread, maybe you should check before assuming something that may not be correct?
- 19 Jun 2020, 2:23pm
- Forum: Touring & Expedition
- Topic: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15981
Re: Ideas to Consider for Prospective New Tourers
HobbesOnTour wrote:Honestly, the best advice to give to a newbie tourer would be to ask their questions somewhere else.
Threads get filled with highly detailed bickering and sniping.
It's a real shame because while there certainly are many knowledgeable, experienced and technically minded people here, I can't but help feel that's it's just not a friendly environment. And that's not taking some of the downright nasty, negative posts into account. I know myself I was reading here for about 5 years before I made my first post.
I can understand that attitude in a "competitive" forum, it just strikes me as the antithesis of what a "Touring & Expedition" forum should be like.
Like I say, I think it's a shame.
I agree. Last year I asked route advice of this forum. I was planning one of my group tour holidays and during the recce had been shocked at how bad and frankly unfit for touring a section of the NCN was. (I was asking for alternative route suggestions) Among the very unhelpful responses were:
1.Use the bike suitable for the route! (I'd never ridden the route previously, hence the recce and as it formed part of the NCN I assumed it would be ride able in the most basic sense).
2. 'I rode it there and back in a few hours easy peasy etc'. (it really wasn't, in the end I laid on a minibus and trailer to ferry clients 20 miles to avoid that section).
Sometimes folks are really helpful I have had good advice from here today on another matter. But sometimes folks here are plonkers.
- 19 Jun 2020, 2:11pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: What is this cable channel for
- Replies: 7
- Views: 535
Re: What is this cable channel for
gregoryoftours wrote:By the way the rails on your front pannier rack need swapping sides and inverting. This will allow them to be as horizontal as possible, unless you're looking for a slope on them on purpose. Nice bike, and nice pannier racks!
Sorted, thank you for some good advice there Aileen said, 'god, their eyesight is good if they spotted that!'
- 19 Jun 2020, 7:32am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: What is this cable channel for
- Replies: 7
- Views: 535
Re: What is this cable channel for
gregoryoftours wrote:By the way the rails on your front pannier rack need swapping sides and inverting. This will allow them to be as horizontal as possible, unless you're looking for a slope on them on purpose. Nice bike, and nice pannier racks!
That's how it arrived but what you say makes sense. Thank you
- 19 Jun 2020, 7:31am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: What is this cable channel for
- Replies: 7
- Views: 535
Re: What is this cable channel for
The Fitter wrote:If the bike is a Genesis Tour de fer, then it is to cover the wire from the dynamo up to the front light. It sticks to the inside of the right hand fork. Mine came off within a couple of months. I have used cable ties to hold it in place.
Thank you, that makes sense, the front dynamo is wound around the fork. Thank you