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    Where are all the recumbents?

    64t is a big chainwheel. Is the cog correspondingly huge? If you give it shorter cranks, you effectively have higher gears
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    Where are all the recumbents?

    Is the chainring home-made? I think it is square taper. What is wrong with square taper? My Grasshopper is square taper.
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    Where are all the recumbents?

    Remember to tie it down.
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    Recommendations on lighting

    A long time ago I posted on this forum about being blinded and really annoyed by oncoming car headlights. Last night I was riding towards a cyclist with a really horrible bright light on his head. I have A Schmidt dynamo and Edelux. Looks bright from where I sit. Never seen it coming towards me.
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    Where are all the recumbents?

    Non-hijack of thread: I did the London Critical Mass a few times on my Grasshopper and there was always a few 'bents there. And hand-bikes. Hijack of thread: That Zockra is too low for the cracked, cratered and speed-bumped streets of London.
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    I cut the boom

    No terrifying brake failures so far. Someone somewhere on the net said that with Nokon the inners stretch really badly. Not in my case so far.
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    Update on Abbott

    I think that is untestable. You have to stop cycling, so you will lose your fitness. Catch-22.
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    I cut the boom

    The Hylex brakes kept leaking. Front and back. New o-rings, more fluid, more fluid. Fluid everywhere, can't stop. I gave up and got TRP Hy-rd. These are hydraulic, with the reservoirs built into the callipers, and actuated with Bowden cables. I got TRP levers, the same shape as the Hylex...
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    ODRAM Cyclist Murderer Facing Trial in Michigan

    Deepest sympathies to snilard. Zzzorse is right.
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    Something (really stupid) happened on the way to the Park

    Larry manages to fall off without even being on the bike. Glad you and the bike are okay. Amazing that all the drivers avoided hitting it. Did it really lift, or just fall out backwards? Larry is getting so fast that he will probably be flying his V soon. These bikes really do climb.
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    UMCA Century Road Record Attempt - Oct 11, 2015

    Obviously
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    Tired of being mistreated by motorists?

    A Vendetta with that thing would live up to its name.
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    UMCA Century Road Record Attempt - Oct 11, 2015

    Larry "Cruz Merckx" Oslund! We need smoke grenades on our bikes.
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    UMCA Century Road Record Attempt - Oct 11, 2015

    UMCA fastest ever! Mr O is older than me (52) but is faster than I will ever be, even if I got a Vendetta. When I am hurtling down a steep hill I will try to imagine that it is flat and I am a gnome.
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    i am off to cross the continent 28th sept 2015 4000klm fremantle to newcastle.

    You shouldn't have said that...
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    Seat Mod

    Looks similar to the Grasshopper seat, on which I never notice the upward curve
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    i am off to cross the continent 28th sept 2015 4000klm fremantle to newcastle.

    Australia chucks everything at Jond. Terrible heat, terrible headwind, terrible motorists. Such is life. Stick at it Jond
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    Wider tires for the fall / winter?

    No mudguards, then.
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    Positive thoughts for Abbott

    Diabetes, virus, blackout, bang on the coconut, heart attack. Recovering. Goes to show how tough the MBB people are. I like the sound of Abbott's employer though. A week off? You're having a laugh. Lifting restrictions? ******* wuss.
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    i am off to cross the continent 28th sept 2015 4000klm fremantle to newcastle.

    I agree with Lief again. And with DuncanWatson. Fall to the left. If you are in Oz or Dear Old Blighty you protect your mirror too.
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