Totally picked you out. Aaron in front, you about four cars back, then John
a car behind you. Pretty cool to see you flying down the hill!
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Esteban wrote:
> Eric - ENJOY the Big Eye. That's brewed about 300 ft. from where I
> now sit. Its a nice treat.
>
> It
Hi Kelly,
There is no perfect solution here but the goggles are your best bet. Not
sure where you live, but if you buy them at REI (including web store,
rei.com) you can always return them if they don't work to your satisfaction,
even after a good, lengthy test period. It is hard to find snow go
Here's a better link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25671...@n02/sets/72157625454695265/
esteban
On Dec 11, 11:14 pm, Esteban wrote:
> Eric - ENJOY the Big Eye. That's brewed about 300 ft. from where I
> now sit. Its a nice treat.
>
> It was a very fun day. Fantastic weather, and Aaron, James,
Eric - ENJOY the Big Eye. That's brewed about 300 ft. from where I
now sit. Its a nice treat.
It was a very fun day. Fantastic weather, and Aaron, James, and I
(who needed to get back from the mountains) really bombed down Topanga
Canyon. I knew you guys could see us from the ridge!
Photo docu
do it, it works wonders. fogs up if you're offroad, getting steamy, and not
moving; other than that i had no problem.
erik
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kelly wrote:
> Feet - Check - Wood Socks.. Boots whatever for temp
> Legs- Check - Wool underwear.. Musa - or jeans good to 25 degrees - Sn
Eric, I read your post while I was running out the door this morning. Just a
touch different over here, low 70's, breezy, sunny. No IPA though.
For the record, we started off with 10 riders in Santa Monica. Lost one
going up Westridge. Damn that's a climb and a half! Pretty close to losing
ano
Feet - Check - Wood Socks.. Boots whatever for temp
Legs- Check - Wool underwear.. Musa - or jeans good to 25 degrees -
Snow pants over wool and musa - down to 8 degrees
Body - Check - Any number of base layers, a shirt, sweater, many
different coats ../ turtle necks etc good to negative temps
head
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 04:59, Steve Palincsar wrote:
> Knee to top tube is a highly effective and well known (in my experience)
> way to stop /speed wobble/ -- as distinguished from "shimmy". And speed
> wobble happens with hands on the bars, in fact can be caused by those
> hands on the bar (de
Amazing. I used to commute by bike from SF to San Rafael, so I've done
the San Quentin detour hundreds of times, wishing for that tunnel to
be open. It's a great day. I hope they open the old railroad tunned
between Mill Valley and Corte Madera one day, too.
Philip
Philip Williamson
www.biketin
i nearly got hit right there a few weeks ago, it's great!
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Ray wrote:
> If you don't ride in Marin County, CA, then pardon the region-centric
> post.
>
> So, today I decided to incorporate a medium distance ride and some
> Christmas shopping. I pulled out the Atl
my point was intended to question the notions floating in this thread about
right/wrong, intentional/accidental that seem grounded in a sort of strange
sort of positivism grown from tired traffic laws based in patently false
traffic engineering theory.
i don't own a car, and i think most don't nee
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 18:55 -0800, newenglandbike wrote:
> "motorists are always putting everyone else in harms way, diminishing
> quality of life, contributing to health problems and increased
> mortality, making everyone subsidize their actions through state and
> federal taxes, necessitating war
"motorists are always putting everyone else in harms way, diminishing
quality of life, contributing to health problems and increased
mortality, making everyone subsidize their actions through state and
federal taxes, necessitating wars in foreign countries for oil field
security, impelling oil-spil
If you don't ride in Marin County, CA, then pardon the region-centric
post.
So, today I decided to incorporate a medium distance ride and some
Christmas shopping. I pulled out the Atlantis and one of my new Swift
Industries panniers and set out. Although the stores I wanted to
patronize are all
>"nope, wrong. yes you follow the law, but if you run into a car
without its lights on from behind you're still partly liable. you have
eyes, powerful >headlights, and an obligation to drive at a reasonable
speed for conditions such that you can brake for anything in the road
adequately.
To many
Erik wrote:
never an excuse to hit a cyclist or pedestrian, period.
Hogwash! If a motorist does not have sufficient time and distance to avoid a
collision, then there is a very legitimate excuse for colliding with a cyclist.
I don't know where Erik rides,
nope, wrong. yes you follow the law, but if you run into a car without its
lights on from behind you're still partly liable. you have eyes, powerful
headlights, and an obligation to drive at a reasonable speed for conditions
such that you can brake for *anything* in the road adequately.
what is mo
That is complete garbage to suggest a driver be responsible for not
hitting you no matter how dark or unlit up you are. Law should and does
in some places require lights. Just because you get run over by a car
doesn't make you a victim. The person that hits the idiot that ran the
stop or didn't bot
pretty sure i rode this one first today:
https://www.rivbike.com/assets/payloads/364/original_oct1visus.pdf
On Dec 11, 3:58 pm, eflayer wrote:
> did not have camera as i had no idea there would be anything to shoot.
> if you are half way interested now, i believe you will be in with two
> feet w
did not have camera as i had no idea there would be anything to shoot.
if you are half way interested now, i believe you will be in with two
feet when they arrive. let me say again, it really does fit my riding
style, i am intrigued by good looking sloping framesets, especially
lugged ones; which a
I am also intrigued by this bike. Did ya take any pictures?
Rob in Seattle
On Dec 11, 2010, at 2:40 PM, eflayer wrote:
> i was there to buy a couple of things. got to see and ride two
> prototypes. i thought they were both aesthetically gorgeous. i am
> sucker for many of grant's color choices
Which must the Motown view ...
On Saturday, December 11, 2010, hobie wrote:
> Shimmy,shimmy,cocoa pop
>
> On Dec 10, 1:03 pm, William wrote:
>> I am a recent subscriber of Bicycle Quarterly. I had thought about
>> subscribing for a while, and two things about the newest issue made me
>> pu
i was there to buy a couple of things. got to see and ride two
prototypes. i thought they were both aesthetically gorgeous. i am
sucker for many of grant's color choices; the oranges, the hillborne
green, and wonder if the production sans will end up in the blue i saw
today. i am a rider who apprec
Will,
This isn't an RBW or even Nitto product but it is IMHO the best rack for a
bike that has a caliper brake and fork dropout eyelets:
http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/racks-decaleurs/racks/vo-constructeur-front-rack.html.
It is a bit of a project to install, but sits nice and
If no one here has one, i'd suggest giving Rivendell a call; there's
a good chance they can hook you up with one.
On Dec 11, 2:15 pm, ccanter wrote:
> I promised myself no more bikes. In a moment of weakness this morning
> I bought myself a saaaweeet Quickbeam with a gorgeous custom paint
> jo
Shimmy,shimmy,cocoa pop
On Dec 10, 1:03 pm, William wrote:
> I am a recent subscriber of Bicycle Quarterly. I had thought about
> subscribing for a while, and two things about the newest issue made me
> pull the trigger. One was the write up about the Bilenky 650B tandem
> (dude, I want on
I promised myself no more bikes. In a moment of weakness this morning
I bought myself a saaaweeet Quickbeam with a gorgeous custom paint
job. It's a steel blue/grey metallic with a light grey barber pole
stripe on the seat tube. Only thing is it has no head badge. Long
shot.. would any of you
I had an experiance with a high speed shimmy .. always over 50 mph and
if I was trying to turn it was even worse. Tried everything. Giant
eventually gave me a new frame .. only because they didn't have a
matching fork for the frame I had.. in that case they believed it to be
in the frame. It was pu
I also have a first-generation Kogswell P/R. It shimmied badly with a
5 - 10 pound load in a Wald basket zip-tied to the top of a Blackburn
rear rack. I could feel the weight of the load wagging like a dog's
tail. With the same commuting payload in panniers on the same rack,
no shimmy. There wa
I know there are pictures of this out there, but I do not have time to
find it at the moment. If you visualize the metal strap that attaches
the rack at the top, when properly installed and the rack is slid as
far back towards the frame as it will go, the strap is actually a
little long, allowing
Depending on where the eyelets are mounted, this might work:
http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/racks-decaleurs/racks/vo-randonneur-front-rack-stainless-steel.html
There's also a version with an integrated decaleur.
Bill
On Dec 11, 7:31 am, Will M wrote:
> I’ve been talking off
I’ve been talking offline to Mike “Leaf Slayer” about this; thought
I’d open up the question to a larger audience.
If you had a Ram (i.e., standard caliper brakes) and Riv's fork braze-
ons for a small front rack, the Mark’s Rack is the best choice right?
(i.e., this http://www.flickr.com/photos/4
Actually this was much better than karaoke... I had a great dinner at
the pub and enjoyed 3 great beers, including one of my favorites,
Ommegang Rare Vos...
I was looking forward to a nice ride home, so I started up the canal
path, when I encountered a veritable mob of cyclists (with blinding
light
My own short way of thinking about it is "I am invisible." My bikes
have one or two tail lights, a couple of headlights. Usually wear a
reflective vest and my bags have reflecting areas on them. With the
way drivers generally react, am still totally and completely
invisible.
There are limits to
Two (hopefully quick) examples from my limited experience in the past
few years. Worst shimmy ever had was on a 1st generation Kogswell
that Esteban now owns. Would even shimmy when riding with both hands
on the bars. A guess - my weight at the time acted to overload the
bike causing the shimmy.
Okay, am now officially jealous.
Thursday - 20 hour power outage. Bikes locked in garage. Today
(Saturday) about 4 or 5 inches of snow with a lot more coming. Mebbe
a foot or more. And windy.
If I'm foolhardy, will try to ride one mile to a store and back. Just
to get out. Otherwise it's th
You could also split each grip down the enter lengthwise, glue-'em
back together over the bars, and do a cloth-wrap twine/shellack job to
finish it off. I wrapped a set of cork grips myself and it feels
pretty good. You would never see the split once it's done.
Marty
On Dec 10, 4:15 pm, Michael D
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 23:10 -0500, stanwas...@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Some time ago I read somewhere, here perhaps, that a possible
> technique for eliminating a shimmy on a bicycle was to gently apply
> pressure to the top tube with one's knee, assuming one could not be
> bothered to return ones ha
Ray provided a link to the reflective "Triangle" that Rivendell sells.
When I'm commuting in the dark, I always use multiple LED lights and
reflective "things".
When I was riding home from work in the dark last year my wife drove
buy me on our street. She first saw the LED lights (Planet Bike Su
I rode motorcycles about 30 years ago, and there was an aftermarket product
that was seen as having the potential to help - the adjustable hydraulic
steering damper. It was a miniature version of a car shock absorber,
looking about as large around as a tailgate lifter off of a modern car.
They oft
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