Cycling UK Forum

Would it be a good idea to add an oil port to new SA hubs?

AtoB suggest oiling by removing indicator chain and pouring in light oil here.

If these were standard wheels, and your wheel brakes, you walk into a shop, buy an off the shelf wheel and swap the dynamo.

As opposed to walk into shop, leave bike, wheel, come back several days later and collect.

The ability to remove it/ replace it wiithout a wheel build seems useful, whilst keeping the efficiency of a proper hub dynamo.

As hubs can have disc rotor mounts on one side, there seems no reason not to be hub dynamos that attach to these and are thus easily removed and attached/swapped. To allow discs as well the hub would simply need to have a mounting on each side.

This would be like a nice version of the AUFA spoke dynamo.

Any further expanations/answers?

I thought the downwash might be more useful if aimed to the right of the bike forming a red 'do not enter' area of road: to try and get more room from passing cars

I noticed this V brake levers on a fixed drop bar bike in a posh shoe shops window: A "dia-tech goldfinger", and futher research indicates that it will fit up to 25.4mm bars (ie drops), allowing V withs drops in a straight forward manner. Only 12.99. NB I havent got one (?yet?)


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Thus presumably available from CTC shop.

I think the wrist indicators could be useful at night, as they flash whilst waiting to turn right, which is reasuringly eyecatching.

As long as they are bright, the correct colour (amber) and flash at the correct rate(1-2Hz), I think a motorist should instantly recognise them as turn signals.

Current arm bands seem to flash at the wrong rate.

I prefer the front rack as an overflow, I find an SQR saddlebag stabilises the bike when you stand on the pedals.

Perhaps if someone tried this they could send photograph(s) and description to Cycle

gaz wrote:

abradleyInf wrote:if the police are not to enforce it, the law should simply be deleted, theres no point in having it.

Many might say the same of a 20mph limit near schools, 70mph on A roads and Motorways and just about everything in between.

By all means seek the amendment of the pedal reflector laws but be careful about using the argument of existing non-enforcement.

I didnt mean delete any law that is not enforced!!

I think it is clear I what I mean is: the DoT do not wish the police to ever enforce this law, therefore the best way of ensuring that the police never enforce it, is to remove the undesired law.

Deleting the law seems simple: I cant see how it could go wrong, an exclusion clause could.

When I suggested correcting the pedal reflector law (to the DoT), they replied they would because the police wouldnt enforce it:

therefore I dont see the point of asking for alternatives for recumbants/clipless pedals, making the law more complex:

if the police are not to enforce it, the law should simply be deleted, theres no point in having it:

the highway code already suggests extra reflective stuff, and could comment on the effectiveness of ankle bands/pedal reflectors if desired.

The law on pedal reflectors fitted to bike point of sale could remain, along with the loop hole on bike mnus pedals: thus most bikes would still come with them.

You can now buy 1W ECE approved motorcycle turn indicators at halfords:
thus, if you have 12/14V mountain lamps, all you would need to make homemade indicators (instead of the bycynals), is a handlebar switch, appropriate LED motorcycle capable turn relay(s), appropriate stalks and cables, to gain a proper indicator system, running from the 12-14V battery. Just need to connect the cables.

Useful for the minority of cyclists who would want such indicators.

These are old M handlebars with cross-brace (now replaced by the newer reinforced ones that require no brace)
The brake levers are mountain bike ones (now shimano R440) the blackness is just tape (now paint)
the luggage is just the cover bag,attached to bars(because I use a Carradice saddlebag), similarly, the zipped case-logic pouch is just a music cassette/player bag
(holds 4AA battery in one compartment, general stuff in other)

(unfortunately?) no, it just folds, for when the bike is folded,
i.e. a folding indicator for a folding bike.

"I want to know why motorcycles are too intimidating to share Bus lanes with you when you are already sharing the lane with an 8 tonne Bus! "

Buses are slow and predictable, once in front of one I can usually stay in front, as it stops to pick up passengers, giving it the same average speed.

Express busses will (and have to due to their width) change lanes to pass me, if I have not managed to let them past. Motorcyclists can squeeze past if they are bad.

Some motorcycles have passed right up to my elbow, either in or just outside bus lanes (are allowed where I live).
I shall mention that large sedate motorcyclists do this least (only one so far), so far it has been mainly two strokes and race replicas. Two strokes get suddenly louder as they pass (too closely) making me jump.

(I noticed that one motorcyclist gave the preceding unhelmeted cyclist the proper amount of space)

Two strokes are very polluting: their use should be discouraged.

I dont see why bus lanes are seen as safer for motorcyclists (rather than just a short cut): the motorcyclist is undertaking (probably faster than a cyclist) and nearer to junctions with cars waiting to pull out.

I think cycling outside the bus lane would be more dangerous for cyclists due their slower speed and I most dislike being stranded with faster traffic on the left: motorcycles can easily keep pace with traffic.

Motocycles only save 50% of fuel compared to a car, and so I don't think this is enough to do any special measures to encourage them in towns compared to walking and cycling: the fuel cost saving should be enough of an incentive.

Valveless Two strokes are so unclean they should be banned