Daniel R Hicks

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Old, tired, crazy.

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May 4	answered	Is a Racing-Bike making creaking noises a sign of equipment damage?
May 3	comment	Determining front & rear derailleur compatibility The May 2013 IEEE Spectrum contains an article about a DIY electronic shifter conversion, using a servo motor and an Arduino computer. An interesting aspect of this is that the computer can be programmed to shift at any "pitch", even potentially handling sprockets of uneven thickness. Thus compatibility problems are greatly reduced. (Unfortunately the article does not seem to be online.)
May 3	comment	Chain guard for a belt-drive bike? Get a velcro strap. When you take it off, velcro it around the handlebar (or to a pannier strap, etc). I lose all sorts of stuff, but have 20-year-old leg straps.
May 3	comment	How to ride to work without sweating? @hillsons - Yeah, it should be noted that everyone sweats all the time. It's just that the sweat evaporates faster than it occurs so your skin is never visibly wet. To reduce visible sweat you ultimately either reduce sweat production or increase evaporation.
May 3	comment	Chain guard for a belt-drive bike? What do you have against the leg strap, if I might ask?
May 2	answered	How to ride to work without sweating?
May 2	comment	How to ride to work without sweating? Ride naked -- it's the only way.
May 2	comment	Continuous Peloton @heltonbiker - You probably need to have a prime number of cyclists.
May 2	comment	Continuous Peloton Certainly could be done. A little hard to coordinate, getting started -- probably start with fewer riders and add more as things settle in. And there's a danger that self-reenforcing harmonics would occur in the speed-up/slow-down response of the riders, leading to collisions.
May 2	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? Re your blowout, keep in mind that when the tube is damaged by pinching so is the tire. If you've had a bunch of snakebites likely the tire was pretty badly chewed up.
May 2	comment	Is there a reason why one's calfs would ache on a Turbo or Spinner, but not when riding on the road? Yeah, it's certainly highly unlikely that a cyclist would experience the full-blown compartment syndrome. In particular, the cycling motion does not cut off blood flow like squats do, and squats (or something similar) are usually the coup de grace. But it's good to be aware of the danger. ..... But my original point was that the lower legs have a propensity to swell and become compressed, much more than other muscles, and this contributes to the lower leg pain described by the OP.
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? (BTW, is your problem with the front tire or the rear?)
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? (Do make sure that you're not damaging the tubes while mounting. And with your problem you should probably run the narrowest tube you can find that claims to fit your tire.)
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? According to Sheldon, on 13 rims you should be running a tire width between 18 and 25. In my opinion, with that narrow of a rim, you should be running a tire pressure of about 150. And if you just inflate until it "feels right", you'll probably end up below 100.
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? (And with tires (apparently) that narrow you need to be inflating daily, at least.)
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? What size are your tires? (Your rims are 13mm, which is pretty narrow.) You probably should be running 150 psi or so. Inflating until it "feels good" is not gonna hack it.
May 1	comment	Is there anything I can do to prevent snakebites (pinch flats)? Run wider rims, run higher pressure.
May 1	comment	What is the braking (stopping) distance for bicycles? For a bicycle it depends a lot on how aware the two riders are of each other. The rider behind, eg, can watch the feet and hands of the rider in front, and even watch the brake calipers, to see when the rider in front may be slowing. The rider in front, of course, needs to not make any terribly sudden moves.
May 1	comment	Should I sell a custom built mountain bike as a full bike or break it into parts? Donate it to the local bike recycling group.
May 1	comment	Is there a reason why one's calfs would ache on a Turbo or Spinner, but not when riding on the road? (Reflecting on this, a cyclist might set up a serious situation by cycling all day and then forcing himself to do a major climb at the end of the day.)