CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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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.
Exhibit A.
For hanging shopping bags from?
Curious variation on tri-bars.
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.
Yours anorakily,
J Priest.
Thanks JP.
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.
Aye, used to use them in the Mountain TTs sometimes too.
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.
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.
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.
@Uberuce - getting someone more knowledgeable on the subject of chainguard pegs to tell you what a bit is for counts as "figuring it out".
Ah, now I unnerstaun.
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.
"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. "
Not for hanging the chain on when you remove the rear wheel then?
@cb I almost posted the same comment last night, but realised I had misread which stay K and Ub were talking about.
The chain hanger braze-on is usually on the seatstay (ie, higher up the frame), rather than on the chainstay.
Oh aye, I remember why I usually stay out of technical discussions!
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