Recent content by novocaine

cut the rattley leg off and make it a P1? :) can you see it through the breather hole at the bottom of the leg?

SOHCAHTOA

edit to add, other options are available for a lot cheaper from big rock candy mountain.

try jagwire elite link.

You need to spend more time on leg day. :)

See what you mean now, thanks. yes, very old bit of tech, think vintage rather than retro. they aren't all that common and I don't think they were back then. Not much in the way of light is cast by them and it was a pretty short overlap between bicycle for the masses and electricity (20 years...

why wouldn't it be real? good price for an oil burner.

yer and the bastard won't share it.

Steel has a higher Rockwell than almost any titanium alloy does. Steel is plus 50 and up, HC steel (decent knifes that have been tempered correctly) are in the 60/70 range. Titanium is below 50, some are even below 40. no it won't blunt your knife. still don't want one though, because...

was it the musters or the adams family that drove a car like this? I quiet like it in a perverse sort of way.

acetic acid is what you want. it's made in vinegar and it's what gives it it's smell and taste. cheaper stuff tends to have a higher concentration of it because it's been distilled quicker and watered down.

not with a clutch. I WANT A CLUTCH, and one on the derailleur too. :)

I've been watching them with interest as I'd like a clutched rear on the gravel 🤢bike. I think they are all one to one pull though so won't really work with Shimano road levers :(.

vague recollection of it. also, share's a name with me, so I was interested from the outset.

was he the dude who injured his neck half way through and wound up making a frame out of drain pipe to support his head?