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Originally Posted by sr20det
anyways, do you guys have anything planned for the long weekend yet?
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I'm gonna be in Ottawa Thurs - Sat. If anyone wants to go for a ride on Sunday I'll likely be down for that... especially since I'm missing a training ride on Saturday.
eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?
eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?
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Oui, I believe so.
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
my chain seems to have stretched all of a sudden.. what's up with that? Suddenly in the past week it doesn't seem to line up with the chainring teeth and it's gotten super noisy. I assume that == chain stretch.
Guess I'll pick up a new one!
Guess I'll pick up a new one!
"The standard way to measure chain wear is with a ruler or steel tape measure. This can be done without removing the chain from the bicycle. The normal technique is to measure a one-foot length, placing an inch mark of the ruler exactly in the middle of one rivet, then looking at the corresponding rivet 12 complete links away. On a new, unworn chain, this rivet will also line up exactly with an inch mark. With a worn chain, the rivet will be past the inch mark."
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
I'm gonna be in Ottawa Thurs - Sat. If anyone wants to go for a ride on Sunday I'll likely be down for that... especially since I'm missing a training ride on Saturday.
eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?
eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
how long have you had your current chain? do you mean "line up" from side to side or up and down (great language)? if it's not lined up horizontally then that's a chainline issue. have you changed the chain since installing chainrings/cogs? you can always measure the chain to see if it's worn. according to sheldon brown:
"The standard way to measure chain wear is with a ruler or steel tape measure. This can be done without removing the chain from the bicycle. The normal technique is to measure a one-foot length, placing an inch mark of the ruler exactly in the middle of one rivet, then looking at the corresponding rivet 12 complete links away. On a new, unworn chain, this rivet will also line up exactly with an inch mark. With a worn chain, the rivet will be past the inch mark."
"The standard way to measure chain wear is with a ruler or steel tape measure. This can be done without removing the chain from the bicycle. The normal technique is to measure a one-foot length, placing an inch mark of the ruler exactly in the middle of one rivet, then looking at the corresponding rivet 12 complete links away. On a new, unworn chain, this rivet will also line up exactly with an inch mark. With a worn chain, the rivet will be past the inch mark."
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
i'm not sure yet but i may be riding from mississauga (sp) to glen williams (to the bakery in glen williams) on sunday with some fellow fixie riders. about 100km round trip if you're interested.
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
no, not chainline.. that looks pretty good. It's more like the chain isn't sitting on the ring tight anymore. On the top of the chainring it sits pretty snug, but as the chain wraps around towards the bottom it winds up with a little gap since I think the space between the links is larger than the space between the teeth. Make sense? And yeah, I should just measure it.
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
I'm still working up to the (likely psychological) 100km barrier. You make it sound casual enough to make me think "I don't want to be Mr LagBehind".
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I was going to ride to my friends place in St. Catharines on friday and then back on sat but not sure if i'll ever finish this ****ing c programming assignment in time.
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i managed to get 2 flats while running errands at lunch today. 2! luckily one of those errands was to urbane so i could get a new tube. curse you glass ridden streets!
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
hardly. if i make it sound casual it's because the pace and the company is casual. if it's any consolation, this was the first longish ride i did out in the country on a fixed gear and i didn't think it was possible at the time but that turned out to be, as you say, entirely phsychological and it ended up being a great ride. i also wasn't using a bike computer at the time so that helped my not think of the distance.
Edit PSA: apparently "debauchery" which I initially used in place of "partying" has a sexual connotation, which I suspected but wasn't sure about until after I hit submit and THEN looked it up on dictionary.com.
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alright, last post then i'm going to bed (for the shop rats among us):anyone know if push the envelope is still making their little hip pouches with the lock holster? stoopid me i somehow lost/got rid of mine in last year's spring cleaning and now i can't find them for sale anywhere.
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Well I was going to quote it but you changed it too fast. My browser has it cached...!
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.
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Originally Posted by operator
Well I was going to quote it but you changed it too fast. My browser has it cached...!
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.
#3817
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I could be up for a long ride on sunday to celebrate the end of classes. Undecided what bike I'll ride... I have no idea how good the cyclops is for long distances. Could be a real pain in the ass... chances are my spicer would be more appropriate. Why is life so difficult?
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
alright, last post then i'm going to bed (for the shop rats among us):anyone know if push the envelope is still making their little hip pouches with the lock holster? stoopid me i somehow lost/got rid of mine in last year's spring cleaning and now i can't find them for sale anywhere.
If you are lucky, you can catch her at Urbane sometimes or just call them up.
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Originally Posted by Shiznaz
I could be up for a long ride on sunday to celebrate the end of classes. Undecided what bike I'll ride... I have no idea how good the cyclops is for long distances. Could be a real pain in the ass... chances are my spicer would be more appropriate. Why is life so difficult?
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Nope, been to every single one so far... even my art class yesterday when we met up at the gallery and drank champale for 3 hours while eating leftover carrot cake.. what a waste of time. I've got 3500 words of essay to do for tomorrow and I need to go and supervise the gallery from 2-5pm today. Hooray!
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Reba's at Urbane today - might be a good time to call.
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Originally Posted by eyefloater
Reba's at Urbane today - might be a good time to call.
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Polly I like the idea of the curved tube as well as long as the drop out can let me mount a screw tire.
Road front end gets my vote. Long skinny feet love touchin' the front wheel.
Good luck to all the students finishing stuff up in the Easter crunch.
Road front end gets my vote. Long skinny feet love touchin' the front wheel.
Good luck to all the students finishing stuff up in the Easter crunch.
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Operator: Just ordered some new "tyres" from probikekit. Got 2 rubino pro's and 2 michelin prorace 2.
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
no, not chainline.. that looks pretty good. It's more like the chain isn't sitting on the ring tight anymore. On the top of the chainring it sits pretty snug, but as the chain wraps around towards the bottom it winds up with a little gap since I think the space between the links is larger than the space between the teeth. Make sense? And yeah, I should just measure it.
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truneo that tuned park internal nipple wrench work ??