Cycling UK Forum

I am considering having my Dahon Speed Pro resprayed and would like the 'original' decals put on. I can't find original transfers anywhere (they obviously exist for many standard brands such as Raleigh, Dawes, etc.) and have so far only found US based companies that do DIY decals.
Does anyone know a UK based company that can do this stuff. Anyone used them? Recommendations?

thanks

Martin

thanks Brucy

I have got that one BUT that doesn't help me. I can't get the box to lock into the gear change pin that sits in the hub. The indicator is moving now when the housing is off BUT it doesn't go anywhere near the three settings in the window or change gears.

Martin

Hi everyone

hopefully someone is out there who can help. I have a 2003/4 Dahon Speed Pro, which is a lovely folder and have just done leg two of Lands End to John O'Groats on it with friends.

I had a rear puncture and somehow forgot the trick with the gear settings to get the box off and then - importantly - on again. I am now with only the lower set of gears (i.e. the 'hill' settings) and cannot get the box to lock into the pin that does the gear shifting in the internal hub or shift into the higher settings.

Any idea how I can get back the whole system back to work again? The Dahon website/information is less than useful and haven't found anything on the web ...

thanks

Martin

mr riff raff wrote:Prendas Ciclismo.

http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ty ... 43&ID=1037

Cheap. Choice of colours. Stay up. Keep your arms warm.

ordered a pair of these at £7.95 ... if they don't work I'll try the 'tights' solution

thanks for all your advice, as ever very useful.

Martin

Hi all

I want to get some arm warmers for the 'interim' period (what interim???) and had a look on wiggle/ribble/etc. and can't make sense of what to get. Firstly - I could go for goretex stuff but am not sure whether it's worth it?

Secondly - size. I see short/medium/long without any indication of what that means??? Anyone any help for me?

thanks

Martin

Just got back to my original thread and postings ...

So I will for now keep the calipers and levers, replace cables and housing and by the Koolstop pads/cartridges which may well do the trick (had already considered buying the coolstop salmon ones after some conversations with Koolstop in Holland (or was it Belgium).

thanks all for your advice.

Martin

[url]the weinmann brakes are likely not going to work as well as the modern stuff[/url]

I assume that's more the calipers than the levers ???

Martin

Ok, reach of the brakes (Weinmann, 1970s stuff)) seems to be 40-60mm, rims are aluminium. Pads are indescript, bogstandard 'no-name' pads. Cables, er, don't know, brake cables??? As for wet weather and ineffective brakes - even in the dry they are not exactly "stunning" performers.



Martin

Blimey, blinded by science ... Need to go and check, cables are the ones that the shop fitted 18 months ago when last serviced (not much help, is it).

The rest I'll have to look at, but know they are alu wheels.

Martin

I am trying to get my head 'round how to make brakes on my 1973 ti Raleigh road bike better. It still has the original Weinmann brakes on, side pull callipers and new pads. No comparison with the sora/STI. combination on my modern audax bike. What will make the difference - putting on modern callipers (eg soras) or STIs or both?

Thanks

Martin

Hi everyone

at long last I am finally committed to cycling from Malvern via Oxford, London, through Belgium to Luxembourg, down the Moselle Valley to Koblenz and down the Rhine to Bonn, my home town. Plan is to do this over about 2 weeks in May/June next year.

Anyone interested in joining me, possibly for part or even all of the way? Planning to stay mostly in youth hostels (cheaper), not more than 80 miles/day (as long as the route which I haven't properly plotted yet) lends itself to that.

I am 51 (so will be 52 next year), cycle about 20 miles to work every day, have done some touring (but only in the UK), so have reasonable core fitness. I will be on a audax/touring bike with 18 gears, minimal luggage (there are hills on the way !!!). Language-wise, I speak German fluently (as I am German) and can just about get buy in French but am now starting to polish up my leftover school french

Anyone interested, let me know.

Martin

... seems to be a bit of a "challenge".

I am planning a one way cycle trip from Malvern (where I live) to my birth place, Bonn in Germany. Plan is to cycle there in May/June 2013 and fly back from Cologne airport to probably Birmingham or Bristol.

So far, I have only been able to find some info from KLM who say they take bicycles but the bike box they can provide (at a cost) is only available from Shiphol Airport (Amsterdam). Hmpfff.

Anyone any experience of this type of operation??? Any thoughts on how to make this work (and I don't want to go on the Eurostar, as my wife will be 'welcoming' me in Bonn and then fly back with me).

thanks

Martin

any thoughts on what to use to top up/replace brake fluid? Any ordinary DOT 4 fluid?

Martin

I have recently built up a new bike (audax/touring) with various new and used parts (including a Titanium frame).

My friend, who sold me various bits also sold me - to get me on the road quickly - a set of Shimano RS-10 wheels with 700x23 tyres. These aren't really comfy for my taste, so have decided to go for something different (although in the short term I've put some 700x25 tyres on).

If I want to be able to put either 25 or even 28 tyres on, what kind of wheels would I be looking for? Is there a 'guide' around that can help me choose online?

thanks

martin

Just wanted to 'vent frustration' about a recent cycling trip from Malvern/Worcs to Shropshire (Wilderhope YHA near Ludlow).

Cycled with a couple of friends last weekend from Malvern to the hostel, using mostly B and unclassified roads and have to say that I came back with very mixed feelings.

Scenery - absolutely beautiful. Traffic - gentle and many very thoughtsful and considerate drivers. State of roads ... no, I won't talk about potholes, this is covered elsewhere. I am getting increasingly frustrated by the kind of tarmac which local councils use to 'repair' roads, the very coarse variety which is just about ok for driving on in a car (although probably very noisy). On a bike with tyres at reasonable pressure it becomes increasingly painful to ride. But, and this is the real issue for me - what we don't see under the surface seems to have been maintained so badly that cycling on the actual tarmac is not only uncomfortable (uneven, small holes) but also at times dangerous.

I don't understand that the UK is just not able to maintain its roads as the French or Germans have been and still are doing on a much larger road network?

Martin