Cycling Forum / General / Technical / February 2008

Today I aligned the rear dropouts on a beater bike, that someone had
pinched together trying to install a too-narrow hub using skewer
pressure. Well, the skewer snapped, and when a suitably spaced hub was
found later it didn't want to seat properly, tightening one axle nut

I'm being driven slowly insane by a noise I have been unable to track
down.  It sounds like:
   tink... tink TANK... ... ... TANKtink...
tink... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... tink ... ... TANK ... ...

. . . and picking up a couple Road Morphs for our road bikes, as has been
suggested. While I'm at it I'll also get a CO2 inflater -- I've never used
one of those. I see threaded and non-threaded varieties, and several CO2
inflaters listed at performancebike.com -- ...

I have been bike-surfing quite a bit recently (still looking for new
touring cyclocross bike)
and it seems that whenever I see older model it is cheaper and has
better components.

Rice Lewis & Son put the fishing reels, lures, baseball mitts,
ammunition, and revolvers in the very back:
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/bicycleaccess00riceuoft
The rest is bicycle stuff, such as two versions of the Ramsey swinging

I'll be getting my new rims for the Dew tomorrow. They'll be drilled
for Presta. But I've got a Black & Decker and I ain't scared to use
it. I know this is a much covered issue, but it's winter, and I wanna
see stoles flying and skull caps ripped off.

I'm taking apart a 1985 Trek I recently purchased and I'm wondering if
the uneven wear pattern I'm seeing on the headset fixed races is
telling me the ends of the head tube aren't parallel.
The crown race and the two fixed head tube races are all showing

Just got a new pair of Vredestein Fortezza, 28", 700x25c, 160psi tires
for my road bike.
I found some unused tubes from an older bike in my bike box.  The box
says they are 700x35-38C/27x1/34".

IMPORTANT ROAD RIDING CASE
Mr. Percy Letchford, of the Finchley Tricycle Club, was summoned at
the Brentford Petty Sessions, on Saturday last, for "furious riding"
in the Kew Bridge Road, Brentford.

is it possible to fit a pair of 2002 rock shox boxxer forks to my 2004
marin wolf ridge bike which now has a chris king headset? i know some
people will say don't, but i just want to know whether it would be
possible and whether it would be difficult to do.

I just browsed thru the FAQ have not seen any  links - does anybody
happen
to have collection of links to reliable Internet vendors selling
parts ?

Have been having problem with shifting reliably on to one particular cog at
the rear end... 50% of time it will just "clatter" unless I make an extra
big sweep of the lever... it is not cassette-specific and having swapped out
the rear derailer have found it is not ...

Hi friends,
I'm join inthis group today.
I'm brazilian and I'm entusiastic recumbent bikes.
You can see one of my homebuilt bikes in www.luisfranz.blogspot.com

http://www.google.com/patents?id=apBaAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA37&dq=406445&source=gbs_selec
ted_pages&cad=0_1
Cheers,
Carl Fogel