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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-15-14, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Today's ride was super foggy the first hour or so. It was wet and gritty. Luckily we missed the ice spots and no crashes or flats.

Somehow I over-loosened my front wheel's nut opposite the QR lever, and in the process lost the stupid little cylindrical spring that goes between the hub and the nut.

I was daring and rode without it!
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Another good question. Taking baths in Perrier, I imagine.
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My company just officially announced our move to a new location... slightly closer to my home.

I'm debating commuting by bike.
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It was the OC friggin Black Ice Capades out there this AM. I'm amazed I didn't hit the deck.
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Old 01-15-14, 01:25 PM
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My company just officially announced our move to a new location... slightly closer to my home.

I'm debating commuting by bike.
What's to debate? Makes the day awesome.
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What's to debate? Makes the day awesome.
16 miles of city traffic each way in one of the deadliest cities in one of the deadliest states of the country.

Yeah... I think this is going to be a "just do it and stop overthinking it" situation.
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My 15 miles each way were a lot more fun when I could take more backroads to work, now that we moved office locations its just not as fun. Still, its an easy way to get in 30 miles each day. I'm hoping to start back up next week, I've been rather lazy the last month or so.
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BTW does anyone know the name of the little springs that go on the QR skewer? I figure there is an official term.
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Originally Posted by TampaRaleigh
16 miles of city traffic each way in one of the deadliest cities in one of the deadliest states of the country.

Yeah... I think this is going to be a "just do it and stop overthinking it" situation.
Understood completely. Give it a shot, and if it doesn't pan out, or turns even more harrowing than just riding your bike, at least you gave it a shot.
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Originally Posted by datlas
BTW does anyone know the name of the little springs that go on the QR skewer? I figure there is an official term.
QR Skewer Springs.
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Quick Release Skewer Springs.
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QR Skewer springs? Who'd a thunk it?

Maybe I can start calling them datlas springs.
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What exactly is the point of the springs? I've had one missing for about 6 months now.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Another good question. Taking baths in Perrier, I imagine.
No doubt.

I noticed that Wegman's had 12 packs of one liter Perrier, last night.
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Originally Posted by SpeshulEd
What exactly is the point of the springs? I've had one missing for about 6 months now.
It just makes it easier to slip the wheel into the dropouts when the QR is open. Nothing more.
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Originally Posted by SpeshulEd
What exactly is the point of the springs? I've had one missing for about 6 months now.
They keep the skewer and the nut pushed away from the dropouts. Makes for easier in/out.
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woops shoulda refreshed first...
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The spring usually just gets in the way for me. In fact, thats why I'm missing one, it got stuck in the fort and bent to hell.
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I see them stuck in forks quite a bit, usually when conical ones are on backwards- big side facing in.
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You can go weight weenie and pitch the springs. Between all four, you can probably drop over a gram!!
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I have Ti skewer springs.
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You can go weight weenie and pitch the springs. Between all four, you can probably drop over a microgram!!
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coasting should start racing in Taiwan. The video for inspiration. Less eating, more climbing.

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Less eating, more climbing.
Yeah it's that first part that's a pisser for him.
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