Yep. Your bike is dirty, and your garage is a real mess. ;)
Love the look of the Berthoud flap and hardware.
Gernot I don't see no dirt, time for new glasses? Huber
On Sep 17, 6:42 am, Kelly Sleeper tkslee...@gmail.com wrote:
Photos here.. ya bike is dirty
Mark. Remove. Drill. Reinstall. Mark the next.
That sums it up. I don't find it tedious, but it ain't fast. Think of
it as meditation and you'll be all right. And the Winter 2011 BQ
article *is* excellent. I found the bit on how to massage the fender
line especially helpful (bend the fender
One point: Do not do anything involving bicycles and fasteners over grass.
Usually if (WHEN!)
you drop one it will become buried under all the grass and not findable.
Then you're faced with
replacing a usually unique bolt or washer (such as something on a Campy or
Shimano part) that
may or may
The low front is great on the road .. wet roads especially great... however
it does drag the grass when I cut t through fields or yards or even bounce
off a curb.
Kelly
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Alex Wetmore had (has?) a site on his touring tweaks, featuring DIY
mudflaps. His reasoning is that a flap blocks more water from soaking your
feet, BB, crank, and chain, the lower it's bottom extends. So, as low as
you can, as long as any contact with the ground is tolerable.
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On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 07:29 -0400, Ken Freeman wrote:
One point: Do not do anything involving bicycles and fasteners over
grass. Usually if (WHEN!)
you drop one it will become buried under all the grass and not
findable. Then you're faced with
replacing a usually unique bolt or washer
I think the relative difficulty of mounting aluminum fenders varies
from one bike to another. I acquired my Honjo fenders before the
YouTube existed, and I used a photograph in a book to get the fender
struts positioned correctly (a photo of a very cherry Rene Herse
Randonneuse bike in the book
Kelly,
I laughed reading this. I did my first metal fender installation last
winter (after many an SKS install) and felt the same way. I think we
forget that metal fenders at one point were only done by shops that
actually custom fit them to bikes. As you have shown, while fenders
today are
I heard many stories, even from people working for bike shops, about the
difficulty... well, I kind of assumed they meant tedium... of mounting
metal fenders. I always suspected that it wouldn't be *too* tedious compared
to putting on SKS chromoplastic ones, which I had done several different
Kelly, thank you, thank you, thank you for the honesty of your post. As
both an amateur mechanic and amateur woodworker I have been repeatedly
snookered by expert instructions that lulled me into thinking something
would be straightforward and doable, only to be reduced to speaking
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 15:07 -0700, Michael Hechmer wrote:
Kelly, thank you, thank you, thank you for the honesty of your post.
As both an amateur mechanic and amateur woodworker I have been
repeatedly snookered by expert instructions that lulled me into
thinking something would be
Ok all this install uninstall breath stuff... they make 5 lb sludge hammers
for that and the aggression is relieved quicker. :)
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Ok the photos are here.. bike is dirty and not the show quality most of
ya'll post...
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Photos here.. ya bike is dirty
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tksleeper/sets/72157627561999537/
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On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 16:37 -0700, Kelly Sleeper wrote:
Ok all this install uninstall breath stuff... they make 5 lb sludge
hammers for that and the aggression is relieved quicker. :)
That is not the path to success, Grasshopper. And besides, as the song
says
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