Daniel R Hicks

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Old, tired, crazy.

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Sep 12	comment	Can a headlight battery be reconditioned if it won't hold a charge? Yep, and if you overheat the battery you damage it. And the plating on the battery terminals is often resistant to solder.
Sep 12	comment	Can a headlight battery be reconditioned if it won't hold a charge? Well, you've got an electrical engineer right here. Could well be a lead/acid gel cell -- more likely than NiCad. If it's a gel cell it very likely is a standard size that can be replaced without real serious disassembly, though it may involve some soldering. The gel cell will be a single "brick" (or maybe two), generally of black plastic. NiCads will be cylinders that look more or less like regular flashlight batteries, with metal strips spot-welded on the ends jumping from one cell to the next. The lead/acid battery is heavy, but had several times the capacity of NiCad for the volume.
Sep 12	answered	Do Master Link pliers help with SS / fixie chain assembly?
Sep 12	answered	Can a headlight battery be reconditioned if it won't hold a charge?
Sep 12	comment	Any source for Shimano shoelaces? Thanks -- those look better than anything I've found so far.
Sep 12	asked	Any source for Shimano shoelaces?
Sep 12	comment	What bike+equipment for a long daily urban commute? @freiheit -- Why do you go around all the time editing old threads and creating "zombies"?
Sep 11	revised	Cruiser bottom bracket is clicking and grinding added 224 characters in body
Sep 11	comment	How to significantly lower HR[avg] while improving performance output The vast majority of cyclists do about 50 miles the first season, 20 the second, and zero thereafter. But the serious amateur cyclists I'm familiar with probably do a 35-70 mile ride (maybe two) most summer weekends and a similar amount in shorter rides during the week.
Sep 11	answered	Cruiser bottom bracket is clicking and grinding
Sep 10	comment	Can a front wheel have a different number of bearings on each side? Note that the new balls will be tighter, so make sure they aren't so tight that they'll bind.
Sep 10	comment	Why are frame pads no longer readily available? You can walk into any hardware store and buy foam pipe insulation and a roll of electrical tape. What more do you need?
Sep 9	answered	Can a greasy chain cause the chain to come off the rings?
Sep 9	comment	Keeping your feet dry (or do you not even care?) Plastic bags over the socks works (& inside shoes) works pretty well if it's cold enough that you don't sweat too much. Otherwise, rubber booties.
Sep 9	comment	Does drafting cause resistance to the lead rider? (And all this, of course, presupposes that the conditions we're talking about don't include the grappling hook I use to latch onto the leader so that I don't have to pedal.)
Sep 9	comment	Does drafting cause resistance to the lead rider? Of course, the Kamm effect doesn't mean that the truncated teardrop is more efficient, only that it's not less efficient, and the vehicle is saved the additional length, weight, and skin drag of the tail. In the case of drafting the follower is bearing the "expense" of those items.
Sep 9	answered	Does drafting cause resistance to the lead rider?
Sep 9	comment	What items should be in a bare-minimum first-aid / emergency kit? On my legs any sort of "wrap" rolls up and slides off in short order. (Ordinary knee braces, eg, won't stay put for more than 5 minutes.) Plus I have a mild sensory processing disorder which makes anything that tight "unpleasant".
Sep 9	comment	Why should I use a mirror? I do only maybe 20% of my riding on trails/paths and the rest on roads.
Sep 9	comment	Can a front wheel have a different number of bearings on each side? I've never seen cracked bearing balls anywhere. Sounds like your procedure is keeping the elephants away.