http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Silly sale season / guilty pleasures en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:09:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22328 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:50:49 +0000 kaputnik 22328@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah well you all saw what I said about parsnip cake :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22326 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:47:43 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 22326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Laidback, I'd already spotted kappies efforts on Flickr and was thinking along the same lines... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22322 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:42:10 +0000 wee folding bike 22322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gloves? </p> <p>Before we got hitched the memsahib used to remark on the way I turned up at pizza joints with oily mittens and didn't feel this to be a barrier to scoffing dinner. Now she knows I'll strip hubs in the kitchen.</p> <p>I'm wearing oil (and a few other things). Partly because I was putting a Reelight back into position but mostly because I was showing a friend at work how a three speed hub works. I took an old busted SRAM Brompton hub to work with me.</p> <p>Since he teaches physics he wondered if I could use the EBC wireless computer's erroneous speed reading to calculate the flashing frequency of my light. Sure enough you can. I used Numbers but you could also do it on the back of an envelope. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22314 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:53:45 +0000 ruggtomcat 22314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How about 'Congratulations! Its a BIKE!' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22308 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:36:11 +0000 kaputnik 22308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>you don't work in this industry do you?</em></p> <p>unfortunately not. I work for the sitting at a desk behind Excel 2003 industry...</p> <p><em>Is a Furai or the new Hurricane I think</em></p> <p>You should know, I got the picture from your site! It's <a href="http://www.challenge-recumbents.com/publichtml/index.php?language=en&amp;selection=semilowracers-furai-en">this one</a>.</p> <p>More to come, but watching Laurel and Hardy tonight. Got an idea for a cable snapping one, a road bike fail one and the SPD one is good too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22307 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:28:45 +0000 LaidBack 22307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very funny and very creative.. you don't work in this industry do you?</p> <p>Great effort... that should fill a page in the next CC!</p> <p><strong>Sorry your SpDs stuck - get well soon</strong> could be a good one.</p> <p><strong>rtc </strong><em>Gotta be a Challenge with the shock at that angle... </em><br /> Is a Furai or the new Hurricane I think... need to send them this!</p> <p>D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22216 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:40:34 +0000 ruggtomcat 22216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnic lol very good, is it wrong that I can identify the model of bent in the first one? Gotta be a Challenge with the shock at that angle... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22214 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:52:24 +0000 recombodna 22214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't do it.It'll be a bodge and you'll end up ruining the calipers and the blocks.They're the wrong size.....see if you can swap 'em for different ones or sell 'em and buy new ones that fit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22212 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:50:25 +0000 Arellcat 22212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kaputnik, those are brilliant. Epic fail! :)</p> <p>I removed a shard of grit from my tyre this evening. About 5mm long and shaped like a tiny little flint arrowhead. Kevlar, eh?</p> <p>Now: multitools. I was thinking about the Topeak Alien II or the Alien RX, for the sensibly sized chain tool and the multiplicity of Allen wrenches and spanners. Any other favourites amongst CCEers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22210 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:45:21 +0000 kaputnik 22210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5388306879/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5388306879_e247e1a270.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5388913554/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5388913554_0b1123b424.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22209 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:12:41 +0000 ruggtomcat 22209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat Seems to be the day for puncture repair, took a 3mm thorn from my '1 year anti-puncture guaranteed' conti's today. </p> <p>Careful you dont bond your gloves to the innertube! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22206 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:09:15 +0000 Smudge 22206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The faeries are tooling up and attacking cyclists? :-o<br /> I may have to revise my commuting route! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22205 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:06:59 +0000 Arellcat 22205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I'm mending this morning's Faerie attack, but you'll just have to take my word for it. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22204 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:04:33 +0000 Smudge 22204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's an obvious thought, (why didn't I think of that? I'm supposed to be an engineer fhs!) good point well made, and extra points for your oily gloves ;-)</p> <p>Don't have/use a dremel, but I have suitable size of round file... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22203 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:01:44 +0000 kaputnik 22203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I'm typing while still wearing oily rubber gloves as I'm currently waiting for some rubber solution glue to dry</em></p> <p>Best keep that sort of thing to yourself, Eric Pork-and-Pickle Pie doesn't need any more cyclo-rubber fetish ammunition. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22201 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:58:58 +0000 Arellcat 22201@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shaving the brake blocks might help initially but unless you do it right across their thickness they'll still head into the sidewall once they start to wear.</p> <p>Can you break out the Dremel and elongate the slots in the caliper? Bit drastic to do to brand new components, but you can probably gain at least an extra millimetre of drop that way.</p> <p>(for extra techie points, I'm typing while still wearing oily rubber gloves as I'm currently waiting for some rubber solution glue to dry, and the back wheel of my Brompton is languishing on my floor.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22200 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:56:45 +0000 Smudge 22200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:-)) very good! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22199 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:48:42 +0000 kaputnik 22199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>then when the other roadies enquire about your groupset you can say with a look of superiority "oh, it's a <em>custom</em> 105" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062&page=2#post-22198 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:44:07 +0000 Smudge 22198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup thanks guys, I think it may have to be a combination of the two, shave the edge of the blocks and mount them upside down maybe :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22197 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:41:00 +0000 ruggtomcat 22197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>shave the top edge off your brake blocks? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22196 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:40:41 +0000 kaputnik 22196@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've checked my 105 blocks. They seem to have an asymmetric profile. It's a long shot, but try mounting the blocks upside down. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22194 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:37:55 +0000 Smudge 22194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>not after just getting these lovely whizzy pro-lites today!! :-p </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22193 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:35:54 +0000 ruggtomcat 22193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>get a set of 702 rims? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22192 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:27:19 +0000 Smudge 22192@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5173/5388587238_5c38ae5440_m.jpg"><br /> arse :-(<br /> Any suggestions? :-/<br /> At least the front reaches (just...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22188 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:31:12 +0000 Smudge 22188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48806000@N02/5388436768/in/pool-cyclingedinburgh" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/48806000@N02/5388436768/in/pool-cyclingedinburgh</a><br /> Starting to look nice :-) but I'm a bit worried as to whether my new calipers reach deep enough to act on the rims properly :-/ should know after a little allen key waving tonight... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22138 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:32:27 +0000 steveo 22138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just got clearance from the bank manager for a purchase... new frame coming up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22126 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:55:58 +0000 kaputnik 22126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Kaffenback</em></p> <p>Beige bikes are going to be big in 2011 ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22125 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:50:07 +0000 wingpig 22125@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I make it only £134.98.<br /> I'm irritated by cheap frames as they make me think restoring my frame-in-the-loft is much more trouble than it's worth.<br /> Option B (where restoration was option A) would be getting a cheap but steelier newframe (such as that above) to which to attach en masse my current bike's cheap hardware, give or take a front derailleur clamp or seatpost. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22124 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:46:29 +0000 steveo 22124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>God i'm turning into Anth, Kaffenback retro saddle bag... next i'll be promising to launch a web site ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2062#post-22123 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:42:59 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 22123@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Would it help if I bigged up my lovely do-anything Kaffenback? </p>