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Old 07-02-08 | 07:05 AM
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Bikes: 2001 Lemond Nevada City; ~1987 Peugeot US Express; ~1985 Panasonic Sport 500

Originally Posted by Trickery
not bad, i just watched a few of these and there decent. They are really short though, i was hopeing the video would help me with a freewheel\cassett problem im haveing but no luck....
Originally Posted by dark13star
Not bad, but not great either. I just watched the movie on headset adjustment and there is no mention of torque, or even guidance for hand tightening. Over or under-tightening the stem can be fairly serious.
Yeah. I figured that the site would be of dubious value to most here, thought I hoped that it would be at least a little more useful that what it appears to be. Not even mentioning torque settings, even to say, "check with manufacturer specifications", does seem to be quite the omission that can potentially be very dangerous.

I guess I'm most glad about seeing posts like this outside of the context of a bike related website. The lifehacker post didn't make any reference to high gas prices and a sudden increase in people commuting by bike, but they've had a lot of those types of posts in the recent past.

Also, many comments to this piece mentioned sheldonbrown.com and parktool.com/repair.
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