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I had a Cateye Enduro for years which was excellent but eventually dropped off somewhere
I'm looking for replacement with similar functions - particularly being able to switch off auto stop/start - so I can see average speed including stops, which you really need for touring, audaxing etc. Some don't have this and it's often not clear from the web site specs.
Any recommendations?

I don't think the IRA ever put anybody off moving about in Britain. Or Ireland for that matter, though I suppose you might want to have avoided The Falls Road in the bad old days.
The risk of death by terrorism is pretty low down the scale.

Stripping down to find why headset failing (Stronglight O'light AL 1 1/8") only to find head tube and fork tube have thick layer of pinkish sand all over. Some has descended into the lower bearing and knackered it.
But how could it have got there? There are only two small holes where head tube meets frame tubes. Otherwise completely closed. Couldn't have found it's way in past the bearings.
It looks to me like this could only have been there from the beginning. Sand blasting or casting sand perhaps?
Anybody experienced this?

NB I haven't cycled anywhere near a source of fine pink sand! This is a road bike - a few miles on good trails is as rough as I go.

PS I now recall that the same sand was in the bottom bracket shell when I serviced it a year ago.

Better off without front panniers, if you can get all your kit in. If there's any weight in there you can get a pendulum effect making hill climbing much harder work on the arms.

mjr wrote:

ribblerouser wrote:I've used Carradry 2X10 litre panniers for years, and found them to be very tough and waterproof, seldom take them off the touring/utility bike now.

Do you secure them to the bike while stopped? How? Thanks in advance.

String is good. In fact essential for when catches, brackets, straps fail. Very difficult to undo in a hurry if you are trying to steal something - add a wire bike lock so a knife would be no use.
The best string is that nice nylon stuff used for walking boot laces. Doesn't tangle. Always carry string.
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Thanks for useful suggestions.
I'll fiddle with the V brakes first. If no good I'll go for the up-hanger. On the other hand drilling the stem seems simplest and tidy. I did this years ago on an old Mercian with a very pretty Milremo stem.
Spoilt for choice!

I got a pair of small Carradice Carradry. They were carracrap.
The pannier rack catches all lost their rivets in no time at all which was a PITA on a tour.
They are waterproof up to a point but not 100% which means in heavy weather it gets in and stays in. A much better option is water resistant - with stuff packed in poly bags if you anticipate any bad weather. Or Ortleib with the rollover tops.

Front panniers are best avoided except if very light loaded. If too heavy you can get an adverse pendulum effect which can make going up a hill more difficult

Tifosi looks well made. Two sets of roller bearings (tapered?). Fitted OK with a bit of cautious tapping with wooden mallet.
Problem - stack height doesn't allow for fitting the yoke for the canti brake cable.
Solution - fit V brakes lifted from an old mountain bike. Or does that mean more problems? It's a 12 year old Galaxy.

I had Brooks pro for years but it started to be uncomfortable for no apparent reason - must have been my buttock changing! So dumped it and went back to a Selle San Marco Rolls. Now got two of them and they are totally comfortable - and seem to last forever (15 years one of them still going strong as good as new)

It's not a bad idea to have two (radically) different saddles (e.g. a Brooks and a Selle) and swap them whenever one becomes uncomfortable - the pressure points will be different. So if you get a new one don't dump the old one!

Brucey wrote:you don't need one with roller bearings; a tange with loose balls will work fine (better even) IMHO

cheers

I'm sure you are right but I've ordered a "Tifosi" with needle bearings in the meantime.
I had a Stronglight A9 with needles for many faultless years (other bike) and hadn't realised the design had changed until I dismantled this one.

Miche no longer available. I'd be greatful for any suggestions for a 1" threaded headset with roller bearings.

Brucey wrote:I agree with the above comments re the 'old A9' headset (which had non-sealed angled roller bearings) but IIRC the current A9 headset contains two cartridge ball bearings and is similarly built to lots of other headsets with cartridge bearings in them.

Rightly or wrongly, I assumed the OP meant the latter sort rather than the former.

cheers

Yep two CBs. Obviously needs roller bearings like the old design.
I've ordered a "Miche" (with rollers).

It's not been right on my Dawes Galaxy for a long time - never seem to be able to get it adjusted spot on so I thought time for renewal. But surprisingly the cartridge bearings were in perfect condition - in other words the CBs themselves had worked themselves loose in the shells, with no way of taking up the slack.
I'd call that a design fault.
Now looking for a better alternative!

The ones not to get are cheapo "Thinsulated from Aldi which are fine and comfortable in the dry but soak up water like a sponge.

For waterproof and warm maybe separate the functions - loose but waterproof over-gloves and lightweight ski glove liners inside?

TonyR wrote:

wearwell wrote:I know with absolute certainty that today is Wednesday. And you do too.

Do you? At the time you wrote that it was Tuesday in some parts of the world and currently its Thursday in other parts.

I knew that too. It was (still is) Wednesday here.