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Depends a LOT on the terrain. The more weight on your bike and back, the more hitting roots and rocks in your bike will just suck. Overhead limbs to snag your pack? You gotta think about that too....

My bad....I just looked at the cruiser style top tube and thought it might have a traditional style stem fitting. The 29er wheels and the front/rear discs should have tipped me off that it might...

30 year old bikes??? They're still using the same Allen shaft /anchor adjusting system on many many bikes nowadays.

And I prefaced what I said with regular stem fitting...not a top of the line...

Before you start messing with a new stem and bike shops (who might love to sell you a new stem you might not need!).....


....there should be an Allen screw on top of the stem fitting. Find the...

Sounds like a cheap B-movie script:

"After driving around all evening with no luck, the two guyz in the white van finally find their mark on a Luxo-racer. They follow the stooge to the health...

Well in my friend's defense, he wasn't using that bike as a townie...only using it for training rides.


And when I asked him why he didn't lock the wheels as well he said the cable wouldn't go...

I guess he figured the well-lit parking lot was going to make a difference. I'm sure it did....gave the thieves plenty of light to work their disappearing act.It's sure not like they didn't have...

I was riding yesterday and broke the sprocket-side chain stay just forward of the drop out. It appears to be a stress crack that gradually widened until finally breaking...no major impact happened...

Had a friend call me last night blubbering about his stolen bike parts...yes bike PARTS...not bike.


See this guy recently moved to LA from Anchorage and has been jonesing over getting a really...

I've learned the hard and very greasy way that the key to chair. efficiency and longevity is to keep your chain ultra clean. Invest in one of those chain cleaner things that you attach to the chain...

A YouTube vid of Skatopia;
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I grew up in some places that were pretty Sk8 averse. I wish I was older when we lived in Geneva, Switzerland, as that city oddly had a growing skate...

A little too close to your own reality for comfort, eh Jer?


Growing up, we had a painting in our living room of an old Spanish women dressed in a black shawl...age crept out of her every pore...

Yeah...that was prolly me. ;)


But after many conversations with a distancer that does century races in his sleep and has had many more problems over time with free-ball bearing sets than he...

Well, I've never taken this bottom bracket apart...and it has always worked just fine before these problems started developing, thus it wouldn't be a reversed shaft or missing or too many bearings...

On my vintage touring bike, I've got what I presume to be an old school cup and cone bottom bracket that has been doing some weird things lately...both the outer threaded ring and the main...

What cracks me up is when guys like Jer and Doughboyshredder (and yes, I put them in approximately the same category) think that those who disagree with them are, of course, de facto 'retards'. That...

The two are not, in fact, on the same level. The 1st amendment bespeaks the right to free speech unbridled by the hands of government, and you take that original writing and correctly extend that to...

That statement makes no sense whatsoever. I've said all along that Newtown was the work of a deranged lunatic, and that the work of such loons should not and can not be catalytic to authoritarian...

Well, as long as crazy gun nut ignoramuses exist that get a! hard-on over things go pow and give them an artificial feeling of power, I don't really see many assault rifles being melted down....so...

I like old vintage road bikes and am not into fancy carbon fiber Cervellos (although old school Colnagos are more my style of Italian bikes, especially if fitted out with Campy record).


Anyway,...

Second on using Helicoil for that application, as you can go back to using original thread size.

Now whether helicoil makes an insert for something as thin as a hanger, I'm not sure. You'd have...

Wrong forum, jongy jong dong Hong! This belongs in the Gimp medical advice forum. Good luck.

Actually, since you bring it up, I'd like to know YOUR thoughts on the Citizens United decision.

Ummm.....wow.

Number one: The VT shooter was using high-capacity magazines in his re-loading. I can't remember the original capacity of his 'clips' (and yes I know how much you gun freaks hate...

Wait a.minute....I thought everyone here already knew that Downtrodden Brain was a talking mannequin on loan from Macy's Department Store.

Macy's called him back into service when the arm fell off...

The downturn (downturd?) in posting obviously corresponds exactly with the downfall of Downtrodden Brain.



(although ILkeCandy has taken over the reins of the Horse of the MorAns quite...

Depends......while that revolver will pack a bigger punch, that little semi-auto will be easier to draw a bead on someone with bracketed shots.

I don't know what size ammo that little thing uses,...

Let's see: How many of those mass-killings involved military-derived assault weapons? Oh that's right...nearly ALL of them (except the VA Tech Shootings, which used hand -guns).


Are 30 round...

Yes...you read that exactly right. I'll say it again: I'm so glad Obama's gun control bill failed!


Have I gone nuts? Nahh...maybe just enough to make things interesting but not certifiable yet....

Yes...but then they just started blowing up cars, instead.

I seriously started hearing people on the radio calling for banning garbage cans in public places. And I can never seem to FIND a...

In the wake of this horrific event in Boston. we MUST ban all garbage cans NOW. And not just in Boston, but in every zip code in America...small town and large. People might put bombs in there. ...

Noooo. The tails will be tips and the tips will be tails! Get it right!! ;)

Sorta reminds me of those stabbings in China that likewise resulted only in injuries, not deaths.

Had that crazy kook in Texas had a gun,............. ???

Another interesting note is that in 1940 or so, Winston Churchill, in an attempt to secure unity amongst the British Isles during WW II, sent a private cable to the leader of the Nationalist faction...

[QUOTE=hutash;3960277]Ummmm, because nearly all of them were born there? Often for many generations. To go back to your ridiculous analogy, which you were the one to use, it is lake saying all the...

ILC has obviously learned how to leave his own skin and shed his personality, then. Good for him.

What....you can't be serious. I wasn't. even making the association of Manhattan/Nederland and Belfast/England. relationships with any seriousness. You aren't with it enough to pick that up? Doesn'...

Maybe you can explain in what way instead of making an empty statement like that.

Oviously Northern Ireland is a polarizing topic, but the essence of argument is the backing up of one's...

Actually, what I'd love is a government that respects an individual's legitimate right to do do what they want in their own home as long as it doesn't trammel the rights or safety or privacy of other...

Having any discourse with you is.like conversing with a parrot. How many times do I have to tell you that I am COMPLETELY against most illegitimate limits to personal freedom.

Now I admit that...

Sparky:

The IRA had a legitimate gripe about the English thugs being in a corner of their island country.

Yes. they used techniques that I don't endorse, like bombings and such, but they,...

See, that's one thing you've always gotten wrong. Police states in the WESTERN world (Cuba excepted...but Cuba isn't really a police state), are usually brought into existence by the aggregate...

My thoughts on Margaret Thatcher are two fold.

One one hand, she was basically the Ronald Reagan of the UK, so basically I despised her politics immensely. She played a big role in ushering in...

I think DBS has obviously taken over the reins from DBT as Grand Oompah of Club Stupid of polyass. Look....they only need to change the initials on the club letterhead and the various signboards by...

Yeah...it was just a thought that suddenly had as I listened to my BB begin screaching like a Howler monkey and then come to a halt. I hadn't repacked the BB in quite some time and the result was a...

I would like to be able to tap a zircon grease fitting into my bottom bracket.on both my road bike and my mtb.

Both brackets are rebuildable individual ball-bearing units, not the bearing...

Heh heh...

No...I wore pants today.


I'm just so damn glad I didn't have to listen to a speech by that plastic stick figure Romney today!!That would suck on so many different levels!!!

Well...that sure seemed to work for GWB, didn't it? After his re-election he felt vindicated for his assinine actions during his first term and also felt he had thus a mandate for even more assinine...

Your timeline is off by at least half a year. The break-in of the Democratic National Convention headquarters at the Watergate hotel/office complex was in July 1972...but Nixon's involvement in the...