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Cycling product design, construction, maintenance, etc.
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Spoke life with disc brakes
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A discussion on CrazyGuyOnaBike.com has one camp claiming that disc brakes shorten spoke life enough to eliminate the seeming advantage in rim life discs bring. Any opinions here?
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Fund Raiser for Jay Guthrie
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[link] I know some of you here have benefited from the products of Jtek Engineering. Myself I don't know Jay personally, but I enjoy the ability to mix and match components and his Shiftmate has provided a route to mix The shifter I want and the derailleur I want without having to worry about... more »
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The trickle down effect
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I was wondering what in heck Shimano Nexave was and I learned from googling that it is Shimano's name for a group of comfort bike components. I also learned that Shimano has a DI2 electronic automatic derailleur setup within this group. See [link] or [link]... more »
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wheel building: uneven tension between inbound and outbound spokes
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Hi, I have built a few wheels, and recently bought the Park TM-1 spoke tension meter. On a rear wheel I am building now I noticed that all the outbound spokes (spokes whose heads are on the inside of the hub flange) have lower tension than the inbound spokes. This is particularly noticeable on the drive side, where the difference is... more »
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Tire-making, continued....
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I've gotten in some of the materials (kevlar thread, latex, fumed silica) but not all (still need fabric). I also stopped by china-mart and bought a $12 26" white-wall "beach cruiser" tire packaged under the Bell name, but marked Innova. I decided to cut apart an existing tire to see how it was made, and all I had... more »
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News in the world of Global Warming
 
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Like so many things I recommend giving this time to prove itself out before acting or speaking rashly. But then, that's how I felt about Global Warmism itself. Short version: The British Met office at Hadley has been allegedly hacked and years of emails and documents were opened and exposed on the internets. The... more »
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Shimano & Campagnolo Road Brake efficiency
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I have this weird question. I have one road bike (steel) with a 2000 Campy 10sp Alloy Chorus shifters and matching double-pivot Chorus brakes (pre Skeleton). I have another similiar geometry road bike (aluminum, carbon stays) with Shimano DA7700 shifters and Ultegra 6600 brakes. The Shimano bike stops better, it has more stopping... more »
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Ed Dolan and the fair sex
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These cycling newsgroups are rampant with anti-women messages, even equating them with whores. The fact is that women are angels. Any man who does not consider a woman an angel is a beast. I am a life long hermit and have had very little contact with women, but I knew my mother well and my sister. They were and are both angels. In fact,... more »
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