Education We Like to Ride Bicycles

We still need pics, I’ve not even had any in the Discord. Bad doge.

 

Hahaha, Mason’s boot triumphs again.

 

Pixelate it!

I chugged out another 56.6km/35.1 miles today. and got soaked in the process

 

I dug trails today, which visiting riders promptly declared too scary to ride.

Luckily 2 of the local teens who come and help dig had their bikes present, they cleared the new rock garden first try.

 

Holy crap

So yesterday I finally caved and bought some bike scales. Mostly to measure my tank collection. The bike in front of the camera? 38.1lb.



The 700c on the left? 17.9lb. LOL. So the BMX weighs twice as much as that road bike.

So then my mind starts the cogs."Can I make it lighter" and the answer was a resounding "nope". And then it hit me. I remembered that I bought this a while back. Need to fit it.



That will deffo save some grams. But the only thing I forgot was this..... The FSA Platinum Pro Mega Quad Ti BB

Or rather, one Titanium ISIS bb.



20 quid

 

Chain done.



And !



Two cable ties, sorted

 

No no, heavy 90s skewer made from steel. Ti one better

 

Love that you're making it lighter by the gram then chucking a stereo on the front .

Seeing this thread pop up reminds me I need to re-glue my tyres. The fact it takes about three days puts me off every time. And makes me wonder why I ever bothered getting tubulars in the first place.

Snore indeed.

 

Glue? you crazy.

Tub tape.



Pull off the red cover at each end, put on tyre, pull out red cover. Inflate, leave over night = done.

 

Have heard of said tape, but there are so many opinions out there, I've gone with the most repeated.

Having come off sideways at 78 km/h donating cells to the road safety people, plus knowing nothing about anything (reason I'm on these here forums in the first place), I tend to err on the side of "well, he said it was okay on the internet" and have stuck with (yep, did that) Continental glue.

 

It's 3M clear adhesive is all mate. And it is strong AF. The rear wheel on the bike is a tubby, and I did it with the tape. For the first time ever. It was tricky, but not that hard. Was more work cleaning off all the glue to be honest.

 

HERASEY!

Its not, it'll just annoy purists. Little trick on tubs, when you have initially glued them down, get a broom an lay it down then run the wheel up an down it with some weight behind it. Sorts any spots you missed gluing. Picked that trick up from an ex campag mechanic.

Oh, an my fast bike on its heavy aero wheels is 8.4Kg/18.52Lbs, if I put the climbing wheels on you can can take it down to 8Kg/17.6Lbs an I'm working on an uber lightweight one around 6.5Kg/14.4Lbs. That last one needs a sander theres about 50g or paint I want shot of.

 

You roadies are a strange, strange bunch.

 

I told you what to do before, have a good dump before riding.

I was a roadie but, even for time-trialling, I never saw the point of using tubs, even then high performance clinchers were very good and, so much easier to fit and, to repair if you puncture.

 

Yeah, glue cleaning is also something there's mixed opinions on. Do you put much sideways pressure on the taped wheel when you ride though? I've seen poorly stuck tubs roll off the rim when cornering at speed (which does shiit me up going into corners downhill). Result is rim contact with the road, broken wheel and nasty pile-ups.

Can you expand on this? I can't picture it. Broom is lengthways and wheel goes lengthways along it? Why not just roll it on the ground?

Have you seen what we wear? Just don't break Rule number 5.

Everything about this I now believe. I bought the carbon rims on a whim as they were dirt cheap second hand and were likely to save me about 3 minutes ... Then I picked up alloy-tracked clincher carbons and they've come on so much in tech terms it's unreal (still marginally heavier).

I do think I notice the difference, but then they're normally also on different bikes. When I do need to swap them, that's also a faff because I can't have the alloy brake pads running on the full carbon rims. FFS - talk about make life difficult for yourself. This is why I sit in the midst of thousands of unfinished projects and never get to enjoy any of them.

Time for a change of approach...

 

Sideways pressure no. I pretty much ride a 3.5 mile straight cycle path on the beach.

I’ve stopped leaning and stuff due to crashes because of oil or sand.

 

You do the rolling before inflating the tyre, although I don't see the point as surely, once the tyre is up beyond 100psi, it's going to be very tight on the rim anyway.

 

So, you wouldn't be riding down Cheddar Gorge like I used to, when I lived on The Mendips...