Folding Bikes - Downchoobe creak

There's a tiny creak from my bike. Press on the right H/bar, and there's a click/creak. Swapped out the stem, still creaks. Swapped out the h/bar, because I'm a geek, no change. CLamped mole wrench on handlepost clamp. No creak. Fixed it with a velcro pad. :-)




Pix of geek bars, plus satnav. I hate getting lost. Don't you? The satnav is in the car normally, but the HYde PArk chaps do get lost occasionally. <ahem>

You didnee mention the QR on the stem - Is that tight enough/


but the HYde PArk chaps do get lost occasionally. <ahem>


Excuse us! We were not lost - We just didn't know where we were going. :p

You didnee mention the QR on the stem - Is that tight enough/



Excuse us! We were not lost - We just didn't know where we were going. :p


Arrr. I think so, but since I gave up wrestling in sago pudding, I'm not as strong as I was.


'Lost' is a relative state of mind. Sometimes, nobody cares.....:o

I've put a mount for my Blackberry on my Mini, due to my propensity for getting lost. I have to go somewhere different every time I'm in London, in extreme cases way out into the Borough of Newham. I have discovered, through careful experimentation, that London is Quite Big.

Every metal on metal contact point should be lubed. That should solve your creepy creek.

Thanks,
Yan

Every metal on metal contact point should be lubed. That should solve your creepy creek.

Thanks,
Yan


Cripes! I shall hack down to the chauffer's quarters with an oil can, pronto!

Thank 'ee, young man.

I've put a mount for my Blackberry on my Mini, due to my propensity for getting lost. I have to go somewhere different every time I'm in London, in extreme cases way out into the Borough of Newham. I have discovered, through careful experimentation, that London is Quite Big.

I always mistrusted satnav, but now, I've got used to having all of Yoorop street mapping stored in a box the size of a packet of gaspers.

It's quite good for cycling even without a handlebar mount. The squawking nags of Sonia: ( get s' onya nerves) "TURN LEFT AT THE JUNCTION" can be heard three blocks away on a quiet road, so I chuck it in my back pack and listen to the voices.....


Back on topic: swapping out the handlebars for 'upmarket' MTB Easton straight bars and a stem has resulted in precisely ZERO weight savings. (I checked). The stock bars weigh about the same as the MTB bars after the Eastons were shortened, and the heavy duty stem is er, heavier than the adjustable stock Downchoob stem.

Being a bicycle geek is sometimes not very helpful. I was going to put some eye-candy Deore brake levers on, but really, darlings, what's the point? The originals work fine and I'm just increasing the risk of the bike being stolen.

The black bars are quite sexy though, innit?

but to the serious point implied in the title of the thread. Is it downchoob, downtoob, or even downtyube, pronunciationwise?

Down Choob Icks Eff Ess.

Downchoobe makes me think of someone with a Portuguese/Brazilian accent... except you missed the part at the end... Downchoobee is how my dad would probably say it.

--sam

ahh, voce falar Portuguese ? Seu pai e Brasileiro ? (Is that right - about my limit).

How would other names sound in Portuguese - Brompton ? Tikit ? Swift ? Xootr?

I've put a mount for my Blackberry on my Mini, due to my propensity for getting lost. I have to go somewhere different every time I'm in London, in extreme cases way out into the Borough of Newham. I have discovered, through careful experimentation, that London is Quite Big.

that's pretty good Gus. :)

as to other names, maybe something like this...

Brompiton
Tikitch
Swiftch or Swiftee (depending)

Xootr is a trick question... I don't even know how to pronounce that in English. LOL

--sam

Zooter, I think.

I rather like DownScoob, which is another creation of Snafu's (possibly in conjunction with Hanna Barbera)

As for true Brazilian-Portuguese pronunciations... 14R would be a better person to ask. I grew up in the states and my Portuguese is at Kindergarten level. My Spanish is only marginally better. Sad because it was my first language. But when you live in places without anyone to speak with... you sorta just lose the language.

I agree on losing - I did some work in Brazil, and my brother lives there with his family, I invested a lot in learning, but without practice it goes. But Sao Paulo, there they could use some folding bikes....