Category: Two Wheels Good
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2023 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2023 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6,638.6 Km. I continued to make notes of maintenance. I continued to lubricate the drive train with paraffin. I changed the tires and tubes during the year. Recovery from surgery in January restricted…
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West Esquimalt 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 cycling computer which I used until 2024 was an “entry level” GPS device, no longer on the market, with a barometric altimeter. . The software was written several years ago…
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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 In my view, CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web publication in 2013). It was published successfully as a web publication, with associated podcasts and other internet content. The Nerd…
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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 this year than in the past. I started lubricating the drive train with paraffin.…
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Bike Chains, Part 4
Preliminary Endless Article This is Part 4 of a series of 9 posts organized as a single work, collectively “endless”. There are 8 parts, individually published as posts on this blog, and a table of contents of the series in the 9th post. The series is organized into sections, numbered for reference, in the series…
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Bike Chains, Part 7
Preliminary Endless Post This is Part 7 of a series of 9 posts organized as a single work, collectively “endless”. There are 8 parts, individually published as posts on this blog, and a table of contents of the series in the 9th post. The series is organized into sections, numbered for reference, in the series…
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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, 9 (Index)
This is Part 9 of a series of 9 posts organized as a single work, collectively “endless”. From March-August 2024 I reorganized and revised the long article extensively. There are 8 parts, individually published as posts on this blog. This is the table of contents of the series, the 9th post. This post has been…