Cycling UK Forum

home-made tool for me...

what are people's upper limits in terms of £s for a tyre? some seem to be ridiculously priced at the moment..! weak pound i know but some tyres are as expensive as car ones. about £25.00 which usually means I can afford my favourite gp4000s ii, although just lately I haven't seen any priced below £...

perhaps the nosepiece doesn't strain the hull as much on the of the 'carved' version?

... I'm 5' 10" and I can easily ride with the S bars, but I'm not sure how I would get on if I was 5" taller. Even at my height the Brompton always feels like a very small/low bike. I came very close to buying the extending seat tube but I JUST managed to get away with using the standard ...

I have been looking today and spoke to p&o as it seems more expensive for two cyclists on a day trip than up to nine people in a car. The booking clerk looked into it and agreed it was crazy so why not take the car and bikes and park in Calais! Am I missing something? don't accept this nonsense...

Has anyone else experienced this? I had a tiagra left arm work loose by several mm (after being correctly torqued) - it didn't creak but must have been moving as the preload cap unwound (it's only plastic and the threads weren't stripped). surprisingly, there was no noticeable play when riding - I ...

honesty wrote:I’ve got an DT Swiss RR465 rim on my rear wheel. It’s got wear indicators, small holes, on both sides. On my rim the holes are still visible on one side but one the other they’re only tiny pin pricks.

just out of interest, how many miles on the rim?

another BBB user here - no problems

Something else just occurred. If memory serves, shouldn't plain bushes intended for grease have grooves? Which suggests a plain bush like this might be happier with oil. Years ago I had a lovely little brass oil pump that had a grease nipple end. I think originally part of a cycle toolkit from the ...

also kojak quality seems very variable. i had a pair of new folding kojaks in 700c x 35mm - tyres which are marketed heavily on their (light) weight and advertised as weighing 330 grams. both of mine weighed 400 grams.
I imagine this would also have a large effect on rolling resistance.

Vorpal wrote:If you don't clean them, the surface will collect dust, and abrsive particles and it will rub in the creases and ruin the leather (that will happen whether you use polish or oil).

+1.

for protection my preference is dubbin (wax and tallow) melted in with a hair drier.

Gattonero wrote:What I can tell you is that I have tried, not just assumed that self-adhesive patches would work in different situations, ....

that's useful to know.
how did you come to settle on the lezyne patches? did you try any other brands?
thanks.

for winter riding leaf blower followed by chainsaw bar oil thinned with white spirit applied immediately after a wet ride. I tried thinning the bar oil with something more evaporative (is that a word?) - cellulose gun-wash I think - but it coagulated the oil.

Update: Stainless forks in KVA MS3 (similar PH S/S to Reynolds 931 but not identical) with canti mounts and uncut 320mm steerer; 850gm. where did you buy the fork from? Custom build by Richard Hallett as the offset was a bit larger than anything off the peg. Went for SS partly for novelty. thanks -...

RJC wrote:Update:
Stainless forks in KVA MS3 (similar PH S/S to Reynolds 931 but not identical) with canti mounts and uncut 320mm steerer; 850gm.

where did you buy the fork from?