urgent! please help vanessa! she lives with her transphobic family. she is poor, #disabled, & needs help with basic necessities and medical treatment. she's unable to get a job. anything helps!
#Shimano is so annoying… I’ve been trying to eliminate bottom bracket/crankset clicking on my #gravel#bicycle. In theory it should be easy. BSA, Hollowtech… If there’s even one, microscopic grain of dirt, it’s gonna click and/or rub, no matter what…
I’ve removed crankset, BB, cleaned it, drowned it in lube and assembled it again, torqued to spec. I bet it’s gonna click right away I start my next ride…
Na, dann wollen wir mal: Moin Moin, ich bin #neuhier (auf dieser Instanz) und freue mich als Hobby-Radler, Klimaschützer, Musiker und FOSS-Enthusiast auf gleichgesinnte. #bicycle#bass#climatejustice#foss
If you #bike in #Baltimore, you might be interested to know that Margo Bruner-Settles's anti-bike-lane billboard truck ran a red light in front of me today.
I'm in fits and bursts with getting back into biking. I obsessively won't get on a bike w/o the tools to fix a flat. So I carry tube, patch kit, levers, and a pump. And then there's no sense in bringing that w/o bring a few handtools, (allen wrench, multi-screwdriver).
Wow I already typed all that and haven't gotten to my question.
You know that joke in airplane where he says start from the beginning, and the guy is like "well it began with the dinosaurs...".
When @glitter and I got to the bottom of a long hill while #cycling yesterday, I heard the tell-tale sign of a #tubeless leak in my front tire, a well-used #Panaracer#GravelKing. She even said it was smoking, but I knew it was just sealant blowing out.
Thankfully, it was at the end of our ride and I didn't have to deal with steering on a floppy tire. I did snap this picture, though. :blobfoxsweating:
I tried seating it again today and it just wouldn't hold air because of the same spot. That's when I noticed the bulge in the sidewall near the bead, so I decided to toss the tire and put on a fresh (identical) one I had in reserve. The new tire seated without issue, aside from how I had to do it twice because I put it on the wrong way the first time. :blobfoxgooglymlem:
This isn't a knock on Panaracer tire quality, of course. The tire's been through a lot and there was only so much tread left anyway.