Category: Two Wheels Good
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Elevations
Endless I will modify and add to this post. (It is an endless post.) Devices and Technological Garmin Edge 130 elevations My Garmin Edge 130 is an “entry level” GPS device with a barometric altimeter. That model is no longer on the market. A small head unit with a barometer is at and entry level…
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Distances from CRD 3
Endless I moved to NW Esquimalt to the house I refer to as location CRD3 in late June, 2023. I have noted distances from home on the routes I ride often. There are many ways of adding to a ride; I am concentrating on simple routes. This post will be updated without a change in…
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Vic West, CRD 2
I moved to Victoria West in 2020, part of the City of Victoria on the Esquimalt side of the Gorge, west of urban Victoria. As of November 2020, I was north (or west) of the Bay Street Bridge, north of the Johnson Street Bridge, near the Selkirk Trestle. I was few hundred m. west of…
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Escape Collective
Cycling Tips Magazine CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web publication in 2013). In my view, CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Nerd Alert podcast was informative. Mergers and Acquisitions Pocket Outdoor Media, the corporate owner of Beta,…
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2022 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2022 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. Good year. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6095.1 Km. I rode with a hernia. Medical care was slow. I made more notes of maintenance. I started lubricating the drive train with paraffin. The weather in November and December…
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Bike Chains 4 – Lubricant quality
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. Prices Motor Oil & Gear Oil Motor oil, the lubricating oil distilled and sold for use in 4 stroke internal combustion engines, was sold in quart…
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Bike Chains 7 – Melted Paraffin Immersion
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. Wax Not dripped Paraffin is a wax, a dry solid, which is melted down into a low viscosity (thin) liquid, and applied to a chain immersed…
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Getting Tires Right
Tires Pneumatic Modern tires allow cyclists to ride pavements, gravel, trails, dirt, mud, and other surfaces. Pneumatic tires, pneumatically inflated with compressed air, were invented and industrially produced before the end of the 19th century. Earlier, solid rubber was used to manufacture bicycle tires. It was better than other material. Getting a bouncy wheel that…
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Bike Chains Project
My project to learn enough about bike chains and lubrication to replace my chain, change my use of lubricants, and maintain my bike better started in 2021 and was nearly complete in April 2022. At that time I wrote the 8 posts listed here. I have been making corrections and some changes after further thoughts.…
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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…