I'm with you Brewster, I just switched from cantis to Vs and I'm never
going back! All with the stock Shimano pads that came with the V-brakes,
too. My problems were most likely caused by my inability to set the cantis
up properly, but the squeal and shudder is gone and I have 100× better
stopp
Hey Michael, any pics of the fork?Flattish crown or rounded? I
might be interested thank you -Mike
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Michael Hechmer wrote:
> I have a very nice, nearly new chrome, 1" threaded, studed fork. It has
> lots of clearance and a very long steer tube
FWIW I found the nick in the tube and patched with the Foss patches which
don't require any glue. Seems to work fine and certainly less messy than
German stuff. I'm going to try to keep track of the incidence of flats
with the Foss tubes as opposed to my wheels with regular (and much cheaper)
Out riding on my Rambouillet yesterday, which has Silver DT shifters, I got
a ghost shift. This happens rarely, every 35-50 miles or so, enough that I
usually just chalk it up to user error. But this time I got to thinking
about why this works so well for me while others have so much difficult
Thanks for posting that Matt.
My PBH is 90.5 to 91 depending on what time of day I measure. There's a
lot of overlap in sizing as you can see from the list Matt posted, the
slightly sloping TT makes these pretty adaptable bikes, fit-wise.
On Friday, August 24, 2012 4:31:09 PM UTC-5, Matt Beebe
One thing to consider when shifting closer spaced cogs is the greater
precision of newer rear derailleurs compared to older ones. I was
surprised at how badly the 8 sp XT rd shifted compared to the 9 sp era
LX, and my brother tells me that 6 sp era Shimano rds are even less
precise.
When I first i
Kathy & Alex, CONGRATULATIONS!
Those bikes are both beautiful!
Jealous X2!
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Brian Hanson wrote:
> Wow! Congrats, Alex!
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Alex Moll <
> alex_m...@lkstevens.wednet.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yup - I couldn't resist. That custom makes
I doubt any bike shops in the city have tandem rentals anymore,they take up
to much floor space. The really good buys on used bikes are north of
manhattan in westchester county. Try Craigslist in westchester. Its a 15
drive w. no traffic from northern NYC on the Henry Hudson parkway. Also try
C
I started with 46 cm Noodles based on info here and the Riv site. Rode them for
a while and liked them well enough. Tried 45 cm Nitto rando bars next. While 45
is the widest they make, that is at the ends of the drops. The hoods are about
7cm narrower, making these feel like 38s. Surprisingly, I
Just Ride!
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Thanks for the details, Michael - nice write up. I had given up on
anything over 8 speed with friction a while ago. If I ever come into a
short cage derailler, I may try again. I'm on index at this point with the
shimano shifters and haven't thought about it, but I certainly appreciate
the feel
On Friday, August 24, 2012 5:21:14 PM UTC-7, Tim McNamara wrote:
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> Aaagggh!!
>
>
> OK, just kidding. My tandem came with mini-V brakes. They are not a
> panacea because they take a lot of cable travel for road levers, so there
> is very little tolerance for a rim that gets twea
Hey alex - what are doing with your AHH? :)
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I recommend doing what I did. I live in NYC, own a Riv, but needed a
beater for knocking around the city.
I'd check in with an outfit called Recycle-A-Bicycle. They do the
good work of accepting donated bikes and training youngsters to fix
them, then selling them reasonably to the public. That'
I am not convinced that rd cage length is the culprit here.
The extra length is from the pivot to the lower idler wheel isn't it?
The top idler wheel is in pretty much the same place and thats the one
driving how the chain comes at the cluster.
What mechanism do you think causes the long cage model
For those interested in seeing a well-constructed defense of Lance
Armstrong w/ ensuing discussion, see this Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/yqer4/usada_to_ban_lance_armstrong_for_life_strip_tour/c5xzfwx
FWIW, I'm in the camp of "you've got to be freaking kidding to think
that
I was thinking the other day, it is remarkable in this day and age when we
can pretend to put a man on the moon, we can’t get derailleurs to shift
just right.
:-)
If it is the rear derailleur ghost shifting, it may be that the shifter
isn’t tightened enough. Or there is too much extran
Here's a photo of a 2011 Bombadil I found of Flickr ... this looks good !
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6009/5948903520_e38ea02c36_z.jpg
Also, make sure your cable cuts are clean and there is no drag in the
cable. With the long arms of these ... from what I have read you should
have no problem
Embarrassingly, I have an absolutely awful time getting precise shifting with
my Gran Compe shifter/LX SGS RD/Shimano 12-36t 9-speed cassette combo. Almost
every time I stand up, I get the sickening crunch type downshift. I have
non-ratcheting Shimano 600 friction shifters/Deore SGS RD on my oth
Drop the cassette to 7 or 8 speed. I found that worked well in the city -
easier to do by feel... That or try Michael's suggestion of going to a
short cage derailler. Either way it means a new cassette :(
Brian
Seattle, WA
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Scot Brooks wrote:
> Embarrassingly,
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 11:42 -0700, Scot Brooks wrote:
> Embarrassingly, I have an absolutely awful time getting precise shifting with
> my Gran Compe shifter/LX SGS RD/Shimano 12-36t 9-speed cassette combo. Almost
> every time I stand up, I get the sickening crunch type downshift. I have
> non-r
Seven speed can be a good solution for a friction triple. I commuted on a 7
sped freewheel for many years and it worked fine for me. But 7 spd
cassettes are rare, generally of lower quality and often have very big
jumps between cog sizes. I like the availability of 12-27 & 11-28 9
speed cas
maybe not a lot of Riv content here, but if you're into S240 with your main
squeeze you might be interested.
First subtract one from all tent mfg. size claims, this is a roomy,
comfortable, rain & wind proof, 2 person tent.
Tarptent Rainshadow II: http://www.tarptent.com/rainshadow2.html
Super
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 14:05 -0700, Michael Hechmer wrote:
> Seven speed can be a good solution for a friction triple. I commuted
> on a 7 sped freewheel for many years and it worked fine for me. But 7
> spd cassettes are rare, generally of lower quality and often have very
> big jumps between cog
>
> I find it amazing that you wear out 11T sprockets. I have 13T sprockets
> I've been using (on 12-27 --> 13-30 9 speed conversions) that I've been
> using since 2005 that are still fine. I'm amazed your 11s get any wear
> at all, since (as already noted) 11 x anything is so high as to be
Thanks for writing up your experiences with these different and quite
interesting bikes. I could never get the Silvers to work for me. I wish Grant
had gone one (big) step more in engineering and designed them with a ratcheting
action like the Suntour Bar-ends I had on some of my older bikes.
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 15:41 -0700, Phil Bickford wrote:
>
> It might be enough to convince me to go back to five speed cassettes.
AFAIK there never were five speed cassettes.
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Very interesting; I find the Silvers far better than the old SunTour
Power Rachets; in fact, the Silvers are the best BES I've ever used. I
don't have a problem with them loosening. I use them off road, too.
Perhaps I just have lower expectations? I am pretty sure I shift less
than most multi-speed
Probably less steel in all these photos than there is in one Rivendell frame,
but it's still exciting to watch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/campyonlyguy/sets/72157631241418378/show/
Enjoy!
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Sorry about your experience Phil. Mine has been quite different.
I spent nearly 20 years riding and racing with Campy DT shifters and NR
deraillers. They had a definite overshift and it became second nature to
me to shift pass the gear (first 6 & then 7 spd freewheels) and back a
smidge. In
Hello everyone,
I installed the front longboard today.
*There are two probs with the front end of the fender I am having (forks
forward):*
1. The fender rises farther away from the tire as it moves toward the front
of the bike, creating alot more gap bewteen tire and fender.
I can only gues
This dearth of 8 speed cassettes had me momentarily worried, until I saw it
wasn't so. For instance, here's a range of 12-21 thru 13-26:
http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=12017&category=42
in addition to all the usual 11-something.
Which is comforting, because 8 spe
I don't seem to have made my point clear. During the deliberations, the
judge in Dallas admonished the USADA for having evidence too weak to be
heard in a a public prosecution against Armstrong. His decision was not
against that, but Armstrong's suit which he dismissed because an
arbitration
Thanks for your interest, Ryan - I thought, briefly, about selling it - but
don't think I could ever let it go. The AHH is going to get a bit more
practical, now. The new bike is pushing out my old Schwinn Sports Tourer
townie/porteur poseur. So the Hilsen will soon be sporting a kickstand and
I applaud the threadjackers here.
For my part, the only brakes that have NOT given me grief in the last...
12.5 years... are the V-brakes on my Bontrager. Disc, single-pivot and
dual-pivot sidepulls, cantis both high and low -profile have all laid me
out. the v-brakes are the only ones that jus
In 1996, a friend passed along to me a Rivendell catalog that he'd received
in the mail. At the time, I didn't ride a bike or care about bikes, but I
cared about catalogs (I'm a copywriter). Well, that RBW catalog rocked my
world. I read it into the small hours. After all these years I'm still a
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