Category: Two Wheels Good
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Bike Chains 8 – Learnings for Make Benefit
An endless post These are lessons from playing with lubricants and bike chains. I have posted what I have written to date. This post will become an endlessly updated post. Satisficing At one time, the problem of what was good enough could be answered with a slogan such as “close enough for government work” or…
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Bike Chains 5 – Cleaning
Endless Post These are lessons. This post will be an endlessly updated post. Introduction Clean the Bike The solid surfaces of the bike frame and fork are protected with paint – like an automobile or motorcycle. The solid surfaces can be hosed off or gently scrubbed. Cleaning the bike exposes the joints and the open…
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Bike Chains 6 – Durability
Endless Post This post will become an endlessly updated post. It has been reviewed and edited March 20, 2024. Bikes Other Drive Systems The Sturmey-Archer 3-speed AW internal gear hub system was used on Raleigh bicycles for many years. There are articles and resources at Bicycle Technical Information (“BTI” – the Sheldon Brown site), such…
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Bike Chains 3 – Lubrication
Introduction Endless Post This post is an endlessly updated post. This post was updated April 5, 2024. Scope This post: This post will discuss lubrication with little discussion of consumer-led testing and specific modern lubricants. The next post in this series, # 4, will consider consumer-led testing, data-driven assessment of lubricants, and some innovations in…
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Bike Chains 2 – Roller Chain
Introduction Endless Post This post is an endlessly updated post. It has been updated, particularly in March and April 2024I will try to note the approximate date of the latest update. This post was most recently updated April 5, 2024. Links to Web pages are in the text. Scope This post discusses the steel bicycle…
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Bike Chains 1 – Chain Wear
Introduction Endless Post This post is an endlessly updated post. I have made several corrections and changes. In March and April 2024 I reoranized and revised extensively. This post has been most recently updated April 5, 2024. My revisions were affected by an update to a WordPress theme Scope This post will explain: Finding Chain…
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Cycling in 2021
Active outdoors through another year of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21. I moved to Victoria West in November 2020. I had a few months transition before I vacated the house in James Bay. I was busy moving in the early months of 2021. I learned the most efficient routes to places to meet Mike or…
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Bikes; Wider tires
All Kinds The modern safety bicycle was first manufactured and sold at the end of the 19th century. Most sources recognize John Kemp Starley, the manufacturer of the Rover bicyles in the late 1880s, as the inventor. The Engineering Sport website provides a concise overview of the evolution of the bicycle. Earlier in the late…
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Pedals
Replacement My old pedals were worn and had been damaged by corrosion after an incident in storage last winter Platform or Clipless Bike pedals have been flat (platform) pedals since safety bicycles began to be made and sold. Many bikes are sold with flat pedals, which riders will replace. Bikeradar did a large survey or…
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Tubeless Ready Tires
A new feature and experience This started with my discovering the difficulties of dismounting tubeless ready tires from my gravel bike in the fall of 2019 and the spring of 2020. Changing a tire is not supposed to be a job requiring shop time. Tires, in principle, can be repaired and replaced by a user.…