Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-20 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 20 Apr 2014, at 06:49, "David Mann" wrote: > > I've found the guides on the Park Tools website to be very useful. One was > useful in convincing me that what I wanted to do was far too risky for me to > attempt myself :) > Me too. I also have a copy of their book, which is pretty good.

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-19 Thread David Mann
On Apr 19, 2014, at 6:09 pm, Bob W-PDML wrote: > Indeed. I can true wheels, but building them is way beyond my ambition. I'll > get something decent ready-made. That would be my advice! To be honest I can't even true them. I think I've only ever needed that done a couple of times and I took

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 18 Apr 2014, at 23:39, "Stan Halpin" wrote: > > >> On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: >> >> So, after last weekend's fun in the woods I've bought a purpose-built >> cyclocross frameset, which I will build up to use as an off-road-only bike >> to avoid damaging my custom Robert

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread knarf
Sounds like Jackie Stewart! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agajiJOtlyc&feature=youtube_gdata_player Cheers, frank On 18 April, 2014 6:04:02 PM EDT, Bob W-PDML wrote: >So, after last weekend's fun in the woods I've bought a purpose-built >cyclocross frameset, which I will build up to use as an

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread steve harley
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014, at 16:04, Bob W-PDML wrote: > So, after last weekend's fun in the woods I've bought a purpose-built > cyclocross frameset, which I will build up to use as an off-road-only > bike to avoid damaging my custom Roberts audax. i've done pretty much every thing but build wheels, b

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread Stan Halpin
On Apr 18, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > So, after last weekend's fun in the woods I've bought a purpose-built > cyclocross frameset, which I will build up to use as an off-road-only bike to > avoid damaging my custom Roberts audax. > > This will be the first time I've built a bike f

Re: OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread Mark Roberts
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OT: how to avoid actually riding your bike

2014-04-18 Thread Bob W-PDML
So, after last weekend's fun in the woods I've bought a purpose-built cyclocross frameset, which I will build up to use as an off-road-only bike to avoid damaging my custom Roberts audax. This will be the first time I've built a bike from the frame & forks up. The idea is to have a relatively