Classic & Vintage - I don't know anything about ......

Complete that sentence. Silly idea for a thread, and it'll probably end up being a short thread, but I thought it might be kind of a nice change of pace.

My list is way too long, but I'll start.

I don't anything about brifters or ergo.

But I'm learning. As I do every day here.

Campagnolo (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/793220-Mondia-Anyone-Know-This-Marque-CL-Find?p=13737646&viewfull=1#post13737646). With that said, a bicycle I acquired yesterday has some Campagnolo on it. It's my first Italian steed! ;) New thread coming soon!

...building wheels. Although I have built a set under the careful watching eyes of my nephew. I still just can't get my mind wrapped around it well enough to feel confident to do a set on my own.

Tying a Wooly Bugger.

http://www.develoflies.com/images/products/flies/streamers/wooly_bugger_black.jpg

Which is precisely what I am messing up now. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeelEfkFPk

Don't know much about history...

Seriously, could stand to know more about rebuilding hubs. Been real hit and miss on my rebuilds, and need some better cone wrenches.

Stupid modern wheels!! Jeez you'd think they could make it less complicated. The hubs all seem to have their own way of going together, and don't get me started on the multitude of different spoke nipples. I saw some yesterday that looked like a reverse (male)torx? The spokes are another thing. I have been trying to fix a wheel for a week and a half now, and they had to be ordered. The nipples didn't come with the spokes, so I had to call in again. Seriously? wtf?,,,,BD

Don't know much about history...



"don't know much biology" ....... :P

in all honesty i consider myself fairly knowledgeable about biology :)

Freehubs are a completely different matter

Brifters, and clipless pedals. I suppose I should give them both a try ;)

Cheers,
Chris

Anything from europe, I find peugeot especialy perplexing. Brifters: I hope to learn about very soon.

Bikes! Though I am learning more and more everyday.

Cambio Corsa other than it looks scary to use.

Direct drive bikes! I was doing a local tv interview for a nonprofit I started this year and the interviewer asked how I felt about direct drive bikes. I was caught a little off guard because our focus is used bikes....we dont see very many of those (if any at all!)

Tying a Wooly Bugger.

http://www.develoflies.com/images/products/flies/streamers/wooly_bugger_black.jpg


Those bead heads always give me trouble. Killer fly.

Campagnolo (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/793220-Mondia-Anyone-Know-This-Marque-CL-Find?p=13737646&viewfull=1#post13737646). With that said, a bicycle I acquired yesterday has some Campagnolo on it. It's my first Italian steed! ;) New thread coming soon!

You're going to have to change your sig line. ;)

...a heavy repainted frame I picked up on CL for no good reason. I also don't know anything about those funky shifters built into brake levers, flip flop hubs, chain tensioners, deep v rims, servicing hubs/pedals/BBs, etc. with sealed bearing cartridges, and countless other things I don't know I don't know.

Vintage Campy. I know the theory but not the practice.

Igh

Mountain bikes, they are just too heavy and the tires are too fat for me to get terribly interested in. My son has one, but I just recently built him a nice SR bike with touring bars, sort of a lightweight beach cruiser. He never rides the mountain bike anymore.

If my coworker was here, he could finish it with....Freewheels:lol:. Honestly, my 24 year old coworker(who now has an internship as a mechanical engineer I might add!) took the rear wheel off of an 86 Schwinn Traveler, stared quizzically at the rear hub, and then turned to me. "How do you take this thing off?".,,,,BD

Anything from europe, I find peugeot especialy perplexing. Brifters: I hope to learn about very soon.


Peugeots are awesome!?

The most important thing to learn about brifters, is to make absolutely sure they're shifted all the way down before you feed a cable through. I did that a couple of times by accident... NEVER again!:lol::bang:,,,,BD

You're going to have to change your sig line. ;)

Perhaps, but don't bet on it. :D

Igh

Huh!? Really? ;)

French bikes...

...other than the anger management.

this thread?

Bicycles from the roaring twenties what did flappers ride back then?

...building wheels. Although I have built a set under the careful watching eyes of my nephew. I still just can't get my mind wrapped around it well enough to feel confident to do a set on my own.

I learned in stages. The mechanic at the LBS taught me how to replace a spoke and subsequently true the wheel. I had a very out-of-true older wheel that I totally loosened all the spokes on, then retensioned it. Finally I built a wheel from scratch, although I got help from the LBS in selecting components and sizing the spokes.

If my coworker was here, he could finish it with....Freewheels:lol:. Honestly, my 24 year old coworker(who now has an internship as a mechanical engineer I might add!) took the rear wheel off of an 86 Schwinn Traveler, stared quizzically at the rear hub, and then turned to me. "How do you take this thing off?".,,,,BD

It's not readily apparent when you first look at it, that's for sure.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk

Anything from europe, I find peugeot especialy perplexing. Brifters: I hope to learn about very soon.

I'm the opposite. European bikes and components is what I like. The French stuff is great. Asian bikes and components, not even interested.

I've set-up a bike with brifters, no big deal. Give me downtube shifters, so much crisper and more direct feel.

What I really dont know is BB spindle widths.

what goes on in women's minds...







...even though I am 10 years happily married and have a beautiful 6 yo daughter.

Those bead heads always give me trouble. Killer fly.

Yes it is, but I am tired of paying for them.

We use them for smallmouth on the Zumbrota River, and tend to lose quite a few.

So, I am trying to tie my own.

They don't look so red hot, but they'll hopefully work as well.

Stamps..... until I saw these on a poster in the Post Office
http://media.nj.com/nj_off-road_biking/photo/bikestampsbigjpg-0a2d4a60c2013a41.jpg
According the the sign, they are 2012 Forever Stamps

Besides what goes on in women's heads....

IGH
French cranksets/BBs
Brifter overhauls
Campy (modern) model timeline/offering/identifying...1990+
Care and feeding of CF frames. ;)
The ridiculous combinations and types of integrated and internal headsets.
MTB suspension overhauls
SRAM
bicycle disc brake systems and standards.

But I have you sorry lot here to ask for help. :D

what goes on in women's minds... ...even though I am 10 years happily married and have a beautiful 6 yo daughter.

Next month will be 25 years for me. After the first month I simply gave up. Now if Vulcan mind melds were to become a reality... ;)

long ponderances
answers are still hidden
japanese poems

:thumb:

I don't know anything about cruisers, sting rays, French bikes, kick stands, bottle generators, CF frames, CF rims, turkey levers and suicide levers.

but they'll hopefully work as well.

I'm sure they will. That's one of the beauties of the W. Bugger. They don't have to look all that good and they still work well.
Being so near saltwater I've really gotten out of practice tying freshwater flies.

Stupid modern wheels!! Jeez you'd think they could make it less complicated. The hubs all seem to have their own way of going together, and don't get me started on the multitude of different spoke nipples. I saw some yesterday that looked like a reverse (male)torx? The spokes are another thing. I have been trying to fix a wheel for a week and a half now, and they had to be ordered. The nipples didn't come with the spokes, so I had to call in again. Seriously? wtf?,,,,BD

Were they on those DT Swiss "Tricon" wheels? Because if they were, the Torx aspect is just the beginning of their silliness. I sincerely hope I never have to true one.


Mountain bikes, they are just too heavy and the tires are too fat for me to get terribly interested in.

They're not all heavy. My last two XC mountain bikes hold three consecutive course records on our local Midnight Century and come in around 18-19 pounds when set up for that. It's funny when I show up for a road ride with my XC bike and it's the lightest bike there :D

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff237/mechBgon/Elite99/IMG_0576.jpg
^ 18.3 pounds in an extra-large


What I don't know much about is IGH. The "black box" nature of them inspires me to NOT open them up and mess with their guts :thumb: This goes double for ones that are long out-of-production, where parts won't be available if I mess something up.

I never thought I would see the day when men are publicly, although still anonymous, that they do not know anything :)

After reading hundreds of posts, I don't know anything about what the best chain lube is.

Classic Literature

I never thought I would see the day when men are publicly, although still anonymous, that they do not know anything :)

Ha, just like there's an episode in every sitcom where the boy finds out his dad is not omnipotent and all-knowing. My entire football (I refuse to call it soccer. Now go watch that handegg game of yours, americans) team found that out when the dads teamed up to form an all-dad superforce in a father's match against a competing team. After two strained ankles, one bad back and many hilarious slides the game was finally over and many dreams were shattered.

I never thought I would see the day when men are publicly, although still anonymous, that they do not know anything :)

Like I said BG, I thought it would be a nice change of pace.

I don't know anything about how to reply to this thread.

After reading hundreds of posts, I don't know anything about what the best chain lube is.

Ding! Ding! I think we have a winner. (Although the womens' minds ones are close.)

I could fill a 12 volume encyclopaedia with things I don't know nothing about.

I never thought I would see the day when men are publicly, although still anonymous, that they do not know anything :)

Not about really important things anyway. That's why we waste time fiddling around with old bikes yet we are quite happy.

If I knew something about enlightenment philosophy I'd know that the only thing that I know is that I know nothing.

/ourobouros

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff237/mechBgon/Elite99/IMG_0576.jpg



Is that a rigid CF fork?


What I don't know much about is IGH. The "black box" nature of them inspires me to NOT open them up and mess with their guts :thumb: This goes double for ones that are long out-of-production, where parts won't be available if I mess something up.

I disassembled and overhauled my Nexus 4 IGH... it's really easy, there's only 1 way you can assemble it, not complicated at all.