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I use Marathon Winter Studs. This week I used just a front tyre on the icy roads which worked out fine.

I don’t really see them as snow tyres - it seems to me that fat knobblies would be better for that.

On the other hand, for well frozen hard-pack snow, front and back studded tyres can work well.

I misjudged the weather this morning and hit black ice and ended up on the road - one very bruised thigh! Caught out by the road surface on a small bridge over a little river being colder than rest of the road. Air temperature about 3 or 4 degrees but had been colder yesterday and was drizzle in th...

I believe the forecast air temperature is usually for 2m above the ground, hence the air next to the ground could be lower unless the wind keeps the air mixed.

Often, gritted roads are damp when ungritted roads are dry which confuses the issue somewhat.

As far as I can tell from a quick bit of googling, fire extinguishers can still be colour coded with a coloured band and (not surprisingly) there is a justifiable reason for making them all post box red.

If it's going slack on a weekly basis then maybe the answer is a chain tensioner. Obviously depending on your frame this may not be a trivial solution ;) Well, it’s not really going slack, or at least probably not by your meaning of the word. I might take a picture later to try to indicate the leve...

Bez wrote:Fair enough, there's slack and there's slack, I guess, but I can't help thinking that if it's what you'd actually call "slack" then the obvious step is to fix that.

I can fix it but I prefer not to have to fiddle with the bike on a weekly basis.

Bez wrote:I'm not sure why you're determined to run the chain slack. It means the chain falls off. Am I missing something?

It’s not particularly slack which is why I found it surprising that the chain bounces off. As I said, the previous chain was fully bushed and was much less prone to derailing.

I commute on a single speed bike and I’m getting this issue since I put the current chain on - KMC S1. I realise I could keep the chain tighter but I’d rather be able to run it with a little bit of slack. You may have adjusted it with too much slack when you put the new chain on. You should have ab...

if your chainring doesn't have full height teeth (because it is really meant for a derailleur system) then that is likely where your troubles lie IME. I suggest getting a chainring with full height teeth if you don't have one already. BTW a KMC B1 chain is fully bushed and is less flexible laterall...

I commute on a single speed bike and I’m getting this issue since I put the current chain on - KMC S1. I realise I could keep the chain tighter but I’d rather be able to run it with a little bit of slack. I think what is happening is that sometimes going over a bump (rough tarmac) the chain shakes l...

I’ve hardly done any cycle touring but I walk and camp sometimes. I never cook when camping. Breakfast is the only meal I eat in the tent and that will typically be croissants or similar with a cold coffee drink - unless the campsite has cooking facilities.

Little toe

Losing altitude

Verbal gymnastics

If I type in a place name I get some previews and a map symbol bottom right.