Re: [RBW] Re: Dyno Rack Light with no rear rack?

2014-12-18 Thread Eli Daniel
I have Spanninga pixeo taillights mounted onto the plastic fenders on two bikes (planet bike and SKS). They're great taillights: bright, super lightweight, and mount easily even on plastic fenders. And they're quite inexpensive. (They have a battery-powered version too, but I'm talking about

Re: [RBW] Toddlers, Kids, Urban Transport, and your Riv

2014-08-28 Thread Eli Daniel
have plenty of room for picking up groceries or whatever else. But definitely a transport bike: it's REALLY heavy, bolt upright, doesn't go fast. -- Eli Daniel Somerville, MA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group

Re: [RBW] Toddlers, Kids, Urban Transport, and your Riv

2014-08-25 Thread Eli Daniel
and still have plenty of room for picking up groceries or whatever else. But definitely a transport bike: it's REALLY heavy, bolt upright, doesn't go fast. -- Eli Daniel Somerville, MA On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:04 PM, 'Jay B' via RBW Owners Bunch rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com wrote: howdy

Re: [RBW] Anyone use front bag on a Sam like Rando-style?

2014-04-10 Thread Eli Daniel
I have a small front bag (acorn mini rando bag), in which I carry a U lock, tools, spare tube, sunglasses, lunch, etc, atop a Mark's rack on my Sam. That amount of weight (a couple pounds) seems fine and easy to get used to, but also not totally ideal. I keep doing it because I sometimes have a

Re: [RBW] A study in Slope in Pictures

2014-01-04 Thread Eli Daniel
are almost the same). But they're still both pretty significantly different from my naive assumption of what grade meant. A 10-percent grade, for example, means a roughly 5.7-degree angle using either sin- or tan-based systems, and not a 9% angle (10% of 90) like I would have thought. -Eli Daniel

Re: [RBW] Tires/Wheels for new Sam Hillborne

2013-08-08 Thread Eli Daniel
I have a 56 Sam with 37mm Soma New Express tires under longboards, and there's plenty more room. If the Marathons are really 3mm fatter, I'd think it would be fine. -Eli On Aug 6, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Mark Taintor marktain...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new 56 cm Sam that's going to be built up in