http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The "what's this bit for then" thread en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:48:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89652 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:58:36 +0000 cb 89652@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh aye, I remember why I usually stay out of technical discussions! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89650 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:49:39 +0000 PS 89650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cb I almost posted the same comment last night, but realised I had misread which stay K and Ub were talking about. </p> <p>The chain hanger braze-on is usually on the seatstay (ie, higher up the frame), rather than on the chainstay. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89630 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:33:51 +0000 cb 89630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"It took me yonks to figure out the little peg on the inside of the right-hand chainstay of an old, steel-framed bike is for hanging a chain-guard from. "</p> <p>Not for hanging the chain on when you remove the rear wheel then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89601 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:56:09 +0000 Uberuce 89601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, now I unnerstaun.</p> <p>It does have to be said I'd have been no help if I hadn't been on my own old Raleigh that day to nip over and compare. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89588 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:41:48 +0000 kaputnik 89588@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Uberuce - getting someone more knowledgeable on the subject of chainguard pegs to tell you what a bit is for counts as "figuring it out". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89586 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:16:03 +0000 Uberuce 89586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>It took me yonks to figure out the little peg on the inside of the right-hand chainstay of an old, steel-framed bike is for hanging a chain-guard from.</em></p> <p>Ahem-ahem-ahem. A certain Mr U. MacDonald of this parish figured that out for you. He remembers it well since it was about the second or third PY meet he ever did and it was nerdily exciting to tell a cyclist of your miles what something did on a bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89582 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:05:30 +0000 Baldcyclist 89582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, used to use them in the Mountain TTs sometimes too.</p> <p>When they were banned (cos they're unsafe??), they used to just use the brake cables instead (cos that's really safe!). Now they don't even have cables to hold onto, they kind of just dangle their wrists over the handle bars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89579 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:51:33 +0000 kaputnik 89579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks JP.</p> <p>It took me yonks to figure out the little peg on the inside of the right-hand chainstay of an old, steel-framed bike is for hanging a chain-guard from. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89578 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:37:09 +0000 Jackson Priest 89578@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They're Spinaci bar extensions (or a variation of). They were used in the pro peloton for a bit in the 90s, before they got banned.<br /> Yours anorakily,<br /> J Priest. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89576 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:31:46 +0000 chdot 89576@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Curious variation on tri-bars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8807#post-89575 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:14:34 +0000 kaputnik 89575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Much like the discussion about what the little threaded hole on someone's top tube was for, a place to put those questions about seemingly random and unexplained parts of the bicycle for resolution by the panel.</p> <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8323/8145714172_76e873d02e.jpg"><br /> <strong>Exhibit A.</strong><br /> For hanging shopping bags from? </p>