Supersuperleeds
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- Leicester
Cheers, my legs are feeling it, but it has been worth it.
Tales from today's commute....
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Cheers, my legs are feeling it, but it has been worth it.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
I noticed something interesting on yesterday's commute home - about halfway home, the regular clicking sound that I think is coming from my freewheel body completely stopped, and I didn't hear it for the rest of that commute, or the commute to work this morning 
. On the weekend, I had removed, cleaned, greased and reinstalled the rear hub and freewheel body, putting some high-viscosity chain oil into the freewheel body while I was at it. However, during my Monday to Wednesday commutes, and the ride to work on Thursday, the clicking sound continued. I was planning to replace the freewheel body this coming weekend, but now I'm not so sure: perhaps I should just wait and see if the clicking noise returns. Very intriguing! It's almost as if something shifted inside the ratchet-and-pawl mechanism to eliminate the source of the noise?
By the way, I found this interesting article on the various freewheel body (sometimes termed 'freehub body') designs, definitely worth a read
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/work-freehub-body.html
. On the weekend, I had removed, cleaned, greased and reinstalled the rear hub and freewheel body, putting some high-viscosity chain oil into the freewheel body while I was at it. However, during my Monday to Wednesday commutes, and the ride to work on Thursday, the clicking sound continued. I was planning to replace the freewheel body this coming weekend, but now I'm not so sure: perhaps I should just wait and see if the clicking noise returns. Very intriguing! It's almost as if something shifted inside the ratchet-and-pawl mechanism to eliminate the source of the noise?By the way, I found this interesting article on the various freewheel body (sometimes termed 'freehub body') designs, definitely worth a read
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/work-freehub-body.html
Nearly squashed by a bus near Waterloo today. I'm sure many of your know the bus stops in front of Waterloo station facing IMAX. Was behind a bus which had pulled out to the outside of 2 other buses that were still just moving out from the stop. The bus I was behind was trying to follow those 2 other buses through the green light. I carried on through the outside cycle lane hoping to get in front of the bus to establish my position but the driver did not see me at all (this is what he said when I spoke to him at the next stop on Waterloo Bridge) and carried on pulling out trying to scrape through the green light. He pushed me right up against the kerb as a result and my shoulder was pushed against the bus with my right foot right against the kerb, squashed so that my shoes unclipped.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Traffic surprisingly light today - drove in 
chqshaitan
Guru
- Location
- Warringon
still bloody cold, but made a big difference by wearing a buff over my lower face. Was pedding along up a hill, gears started slipping and i thought what the hell.
Got off the bike to find a large twig wrapped all the way around my gear cassette, didnt even know that i had gone over one!
Got off the bike to find a large twig wrapped all the way around my gear cassette, didnt even know that i had gone over one!
Embarrassingly managed to fall off my ice bike this morning, at very low speed and on a dry ice free road
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U-turning in the road( a manoeuvre I completed successfully many times before on this road), right winter boot toe just catches the front mudguard, the front mudguard just touches the front tyre. Unfortunately the front tyre has studs which grip the mudguard and bend it in half causing an abrupt halt whilst half way into the u-turn. Then the realisation I am a $^$%£ idiot as I go down quite slowly.
Managed to bend the stays and mudguard back so that could ride it the short distance home and change bikes.
Will attempt to coerce the mudguard back in to shape this week.
The only other damage was to my pride, thank fully no-one recorded the topple over on video, oh wait
.U-turning in the road( a manoeuvre I completed successfully many times before on this road), right winter boot toe just catches the front mudguard, the front mudguard just touches the front tyre. Unfortunately the front tyre has studs which grip the mudguard and bend it in half causing an abrupt halt whilst half way into the u-turn. Then the realisation I am a $^$%£ idiot as I go down quite slowly.
Managed to bend the stays and mudguard back so that could ride it the short distance home and change bikes.
Will attempt to coerce the mudguard back in to shape this week.
The only other damage was to my pride, thank fully no-one recorded the topple over on video, oh wait
Didn't ride home yesterday evening as my Met office weather app said heavy snow from midnight last night to 9am today and living out in the sticks it can be impossible to get back into work, its now 9am and the snow has just started wtf??? there's 20 miles I wont get back!!, can anyone recommend a good reliable weather app for the iphone as the Met office app is next to useless? 
chqshaitan
Guru
- Location
- Warringon
oo damn, that sucks,with the way british weather is, its guess work at the best of times mate. I have an android phone with weatherbug on, and it can use three different sources for the information and they all differ by varying degrees.
MisterStan
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I took the bus. Lots of people coughing and moaning about the cold. It was awful. The only bonus was that I got to finish a book i've been reading.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Why the bus? It was great riding this morning if you were dressed nice n' warm.
MisterStan
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My one year old has her 3rd tooth coming through. I think I probably only got 2 hours sleep max last night. She's normally very good, only seems to have trouble when she's teething, which we learned with the first two coming through together. I'm already on my 3rd coffee and not drinking decaf today.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Flat tyre when I went to get the bike out this morning, threw the ice tyres on instead and will fix it tonight. Not as windy as yesterday but still cold.
Even more impressive when you realise you've been using studded tyres for alot of your rides.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Over 600 miles on the studded tyres so far this year, great investment, I am sure I could have done a lot of my miles on normal tyres, but the confidence in the studs has let me continue doing the extended commute
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
As I hinted at yesterday I changed my route today and did a hybrid of an older route and yesterday's route. I got up 5 mins earlier incase I got lost on the new roads in the transition but apart from one wrong turning I was fine and getting away that we bit earlier meant I missed most of the school runs, I did catch the end of the shift worker peak though at Fengate; thankfully I'm more confident at filtering with the fixed now and other than a spot of congestion nothing significant happened other than I enjoyed my ride
