Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread Patrick Moore
Oh, one of my most recent and very modest triumphs, while I was filling in at Stevie's, was to be assigned a cheap and older MTB with this sort of dragging freewheel; the ticket called for freewheel replacement. I removed it and soaked it ferociously in an increasingly potent series of cleaners, t

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread Patrick Moore
If I understand clearly what you fw is doing, the freewheel is not freewheeling properly; there is some drag, either in the pawls or elsewhere inside the fw. I've had this happen with cassettes that were old and very gummed up from years of no cleaning. Even at 50+ mph, a fw that is working properl

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread Joe Bernard
Yes, that's my experience on the organized Tahoe rides. I did clockwise once by myself on a Romulus..I probably wouldn't do that again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving email

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread Bill Lindsay
Terrific. On a semi-organized ride with lots of riders, I'm sure it's fine. Thanks for that. On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 11:43:24 AM UTC-7, René wrote: > > Yes, the official ride is always clockwise. On the first ride of the year, > first Sunday of June, since it's the official all-country T

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread René Sterental
Yes, the official ride is always clockwise. On the first ride of the year, first Sunday of June, since it's the official all-country Team in Training ride with teams coming from all over the country, they close the climb to Emerald Bay/Vikingsholm from 6:30 - 8:00 AM on the same direction, so cycli

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread René Sterental
Oops! Photos are now Public. Sorry about that if you tried to view the album. René On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:18 AM, René Sterental wrote: > Thanks Joe. I'll check that. > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Joe Bernard wrote: > >> Something is binding up in the cassette area and causing the fr

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread René Sterental
Thanks Joe. I'll check that. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Joe Bernard wrote: > Something is binding up in the cassette area and causing the freehub to > not backpedal freely. Mark at RBW might have an answer for you...he's been > working on bikes forever, and riding/racing them in crazy cond

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread Joe Bernard
Something is binding up in the cassette area and causing the freehub to not backpedal freely. Mark at RBW might have an answer for you...he's been working on bikes forever, and riding/racing them in crazy conditions which gunk everything up. But the first/easiest step would be to pull and reinst

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-07 Thread René Sterental
Thank you so much for all your comments. I feel awesome and proud that I did it! Glad you've enjoyed my report. Here are the photos! I have to get some better setup to easily take photos while riding, but just carried my iPhone and didn't stop at every vantage point like I would have normally. htt

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-05 Thread Evan E.
Congratulations, Rene! Inspiring! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send

Re: [RBW] Re: Lake Tahoe 72 mile ride succesfully completed!

2016-06-05 Thread James Chang
Hi Rene, Your AHH sounds like an awesome ride. Looking forward to them photos. James Chang Taipei, Taiwan On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: > Awesome! Way to go! > > On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 9:53:10 PM UTC-4, René wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm exhilarated at having com