Phil (ascentale)19h ago

Hi #BikeNite, it's Wednesday here, and time for our weekly call for questions. See below. I hope you are having a good week!

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This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

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Show threadMatthew Newell1d ago

@doersino super-nice bike - you have good taste, good advisors, or both.

Stuff strapped to or hanging off the bike will get shaken about. If I have something delicate I use a small cycling specific back pack. Aside from shoulder straps and waist It straps twice across chest, so it is pretty much part of me. I guess that's not what you want to hear - bearing in mind the back comment.

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Show threadEllie Kennard2d ago
@doersino
Congratulations! The best thing you can do in my opinion.
This is a question for #bikenite I think!
Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)2d ago

@griotspeak I seem to recall this being a question on #BikeNite in the past. I wish we had a place to archive previous conversations that's easier to find things than Mastodon search.

But hopefully someone remembers. @bikenite

Pete2d ago
@ascentale @bikenite Remember eons ago we had a #BikeNite question about pedal powered machines? Well I was watching a documentary film about folk living off grid yesterday and there was a guy who made himself feel better about 'wasting' his wind and sun generated leccy in watching the hockey on TV by grinding flour by pedalling while he did so. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4235130/
Captain Button3d ago

Asking for the technical terms for what I want.

Air pumps for bicycles used to screw on. Nowadays everything seems to be "push on and then move a lever."

Very bad experiences with the latter.

Am I doing it wrong?

When I've finished pumping I move the lever back, it still doesn't want to come off. I often end up losing the air pressure I just put in getting it off, and at least once I ruined the tube by pulling the valve off.

Can I get a screw-on adapter? Named what?

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Show threadCainmark Does Not Comply 🚲3d ago

@moz @ascentale @[email protected] @bikenite

A6. I always carry duct tape. I forgot about it as an emergency use item.

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Show threadAxel 🚴😷🐧πŸͺ⌨ | #WeAreNatenom3d ago
@moira @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A3 continued: On the Electric G-Line I usually chose the e-assist level at the start of the ride as you had to switch it a the battery. I nearly never turn it off as it's rather hilly here and the Electric G-Line only has 4 gears with only 150% of range. Since recently (only 1 ride uphill with trailer back from the LSB so far) I have an up/down switch on the handlebar, so I might switch the e-assist levels more often in future.
Show threadAxel 🚴😷🐧πŸͺ⌨ | #WeAreNatenom3d ago
@moira @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A3: Indeed, I use the #Velospeeder e-assist on my red-white Brompton also like a gearing, either for steep hills, or speed on flat or slight uphill grounds. Besides a mechanical bowden wire based switch which puts the friction wheels on the rim or pulls it away again, I also have a potentiometer with turn knob (too small to call it a wheel) on the handlebar where I can adjust how much the e-assist helps. (IIRC it adjusts the Watts used.)
Show threadAxel 🚴😷🐧πŸͺ⌨ | #WeAreNatenom3d ago
@kim @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A3 follow-up: A Brompton with 7-speed hub gear sounds non-standard. I so far only know of 1,2 (sprockets), 3 (hub, BSR/BWR), 4 (sprockets), 5 (old Sturmey Archer hub), 6 (2Γ—3), 8 (Alfine in the G-Line) and 12 (4Γ—3) gears ex-works, but not 7. Front derailleurs seem non-trivial with the Brompton due to the bottom bracket not sitting at the bottom end of the seatpost, but in front of it.