Who among us rides in the wet?!?
I donāt think they do anymore. I got mine from Starbike, or maybe one of the other German distributors, after Schwalbe stopped listing them as available. I really donāt know what Iāll replace them with when they die. I have a pair of Smart Sams, but that tread is way overkill for anything I use that bike for, and theyāre not nearly as nice to ride. For around town, I just stick to unbelted 26x1.75 Paselas - theyāre cheap, and mostly okay.
theyre obviously not the tool for the job but theyre the tools in front of meā¦
has anyone tubeless converted a VO diagonale rim?
Almost 5k mi on a pair of ReFuse 40c. I ordered some Hutchinson Overide 38c to replace them.
Well worn ReFuse at 39.2 on a 19 mm R460. Not bad for chronically undersized Maxxis advertised as 40c.
New Overide after mounting at 36.1. Kinda underwhelming for what is supposed to be a 38c. Maybe itāll stretch.
My overrides measured exactly 38 on a 21mm rim after a ride or two. Didnāt measure them before riding though.
thereās something satisfying about the level of accuracy achievable for non critical measurements with a cheap cheap pair of plastic vernier calipers. i keep meaning to buy a bunch just to have kicking around like we did tape measures a while back in my household
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I really should do that. for many things I care about 0.1mm and maybe an idea of hundredths
Fun fact, the optical resolution you can discern looking at line breaks on a vernier scale is quite a bit smaller than the spacing between individual cones on the retina. thereās a long history of vision research around the question of how that works
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so fucking cool
Good to know. Iām going to give them a good thrashing this weekend. Iāll check again, if Iām not too cracked.
@karl_dandleton I dripped some sort of solvent on the Vernier part, so I donāt have 6 or 7. Theyāre still serviceable for most things.
so cheap who cares!
in tire news- gucci convinced me to try the teen hearse tires. itās my last ditch effort to convince myself that 650x48 isnāt just too damned chubby for my preferences
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So Runny Arse has decided that tread is cool now, despite telling us that its not necessary, for a long time, and supple side walls have been added to with 2 extra levels of sturdy-side-wall-ways. Is the only thing left to reinvent narrow tires ?
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Anyone know where I can find more speed blends? Pookie had a set and loved them until one day when she neglected to secure the skewer on her front wheel and arrived home to find one of her beloved speed blend tires missing.
Recently, we were on a family ride and saw a bike nerd with a set on a fixie. She kept looking at him like she was going to mug him, or maybe ask him where he got his tires. Iām sure it was an old fixie.
Anyway, anyone got any stashed away?
https://www.nashbar.com/cult-vans-tire-pink-camo-black-20-x-2.40-05-tire-cv-2.40-rcamo/p1156183?v=963301 maybe close enough? A couple camo colors are available in 26. I think wheelie kids like these sorts of things, the SE big ripper crew might know where to find em.
Verniers are some of my favorite little things! Even the cheapest shit ones give a way higher level of precision than you need for ordinary bike stuff. I did get a sack of plastic verniers from Lee Valley many years ago and they are still in abundance at my place. Imperial/Metric Vernier Caliper - Lee Valley Tools
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Wow! Today I learned how to read a vernier caliper!
I mean I knew how to read the mms but today I learned that the other lines let you accurately measure fractions of mms! Thatās amazing!
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no batteries or nothin! dirt cheap (if you want the dirt cheap ones- they can also be exceedingly expensive if you need the really good ones) and they work just fine for what most of us need!