What is the best Eroica 5 speed freewheel?
02-15-20, 12:44 PM
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Or push it. Or carry it. By any means necessary. Except the sag wagon. I try to avoid that.
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02-15-20, 12:52 PM
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02-15-20, 12:56 PM
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Whoa whoa whoa!!! There are rules!
p.s. I just did 55/4660 with a 13-26 ultra 6 with a PC850 on my Raleigh and it was pretty smooth. Hmmm....
p.s. I just did 55/4660 with a 13-26 ultra 6 with a PC850 on my Raleigh and it was pretty smooth. Hmmm....
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02-15-20, 01:00 PM
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Depends. In a very heroic manner, I've bonked, bonked hard. As I am sitting on the side of the road, I have contemplated pulling out the phone. If it were raining, or if it was getting dark or something that would suck, I'd call. But typically, if you sit for a while, you can limp home. I'll definitely look for shortcuts at that point. I ain't getting paid for being heroic.
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Who exactly cares if you walk your bike? Some dumbass/tongue-in-cheek rule that has nothing to do with this event?
And honestly I don't care if you want to be heroic or not, but what I don't understand are all the hand-wringing threads about equipment. It's just a bike. Ride it.
And honestly I don't care if you want to be heroic or not, but what I don't understand are all the hand-wringing threads about equipment. It's just a bike. Ride it.
While I love "the rules" and think they are completely beautiful, I quote them in jest, especially when they agree with my thoughts on cycling :-P.
I too am a big fan of "just ride the bike" I ride plenty of "crap bikes" on long rides, bikes that no "real cyclist" would be caught dead on.
Just last night I tuned up an old POS Batavus for a friend, steel rims were all over the place, I actually used a 5 pound sledge and some 2x4 to pre true the rims before turning spokes, the bike actually, the chains rims were so bent that during every crank revolution it would shift form the big ring to the little ring, I fixed that with the 5 pound sledge too. The rims don't touch the brake pads any more and the bike actually rides quite nice, its a notably nicer bike than the first bike I rode a century on, but with the cottered crank and steel rims it's of little interest to, anyone, really.
02-18-20, 10:32 PM
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Depends. In a very heroic manner, I've bonked, bonked hard. As I am sitting on the side of the road, I have contemplated pulling out the phone. If it were raining, or if it was getting dark or something that would suck, I'd call. But typically, if you sit for a while, you can limp home. I'll definitely look for shortcuts at that point. I ain't getting paid for being heroic.
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02-19-20, 07:59 AM
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No one pays me to judge. But if they did...
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02-19-20, 11:06 AM
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