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just like back in the day
actually thinking about looking for bike related part time work
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yeah was thinking about it
better money as its getting cold out
i would be a bit worried that it would make me hate riding though? and not sure you can get much part time stuff?oh yeah back to tires: just changed to a brontager cheepo
you can black out the letter so it says 'on rage' :)
anyway its fine, bit slippy but thats fun -
scott not scot [quote]jonnywilkinson been rolling on schwalbe blizzard sports for over 4000 miles now. only bought them cos they were cheap but with only one puncture in that time am kinda happy about them. they make a nice zippy sound when skidding too
i have the blizzards on my old bike too....no problems so far.....maxxis re-fuse on the newer bike....also no problems...but then i've barely sat on a bike in months..:([/quote]
we seem to have some issues here scott
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I'm disappointed with a tyre if I get less than 2yrs or 10,000 miles out of it - whichever comes sooner.
No skidmarks, obviously.
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From Sheldon Browns
Skid Patch
Fixed-gear riders who make a habit of doing "skip stops" you will wear the rear tire out considerably faster than those who use a brake. This problem is exacerbated by certain gear ratios, because they may tend to repeatedly skid on the same section of the tire. Riders who plan to do a lot of skip stops should consider the ratio when selecting their chainring and rear sprocket. The mathematics of this is actually fairly simple: * Simplify the gear ratio to the smallest equivalent whole number ratio. * The denominator of the resulting fraction is the number of skid patches you will have on your rear tire. Examples: 44/16 simplifies to 11/4, so there would be 4 skid patches. 45/15 simplifies to 3/1 so there would only be 1 skid patch. 42/15 simplifies to 14/5, so there would be 5 skid patches. 43/15 can't be further simplified, so there would be 15 skid patches. This is based on the assumption that you always skid with the same foot forward. If you are an ambidextrous skidder, and the calculation gives an even result, your number of skid patches will be the same. If you are an ambidextrous skidder, and have an odd denominator, the number of possible skid patches will be doubled.So given this info from Mr Brown
You want to have as many skid patches as possible, clearly the best way is to have a gog which is a prime number (13, 17, 19) or a prime number chainring (harder to find). If you have a low number of skid patches. Every so often loosen your rear wheel and move the chain round your cog a few teeth there by moving the skid patches to a new part of the tyre.
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le car what's a hockey stop?
what's a hockey stop?
what's a hockey stop?
Haha - that will teach me not to post from mobile internet. Stupid tiny computer gizmos.
Hockey stop is when you turn the bars while pulling a little skid so that the back end of the bike swings around. It stops you in a shorter distance than a normal skid. I'm not very good at it and don't use it very often, but it's my main emergency brake tactic. Doesn't eat tyres in the same way as long skids but you get some cool sideways skid marks on the tyre!
Also I run 49x19 so get 19 skid patches which helps with the tyre wear.
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le car I'm bad at maths. So I have ONE skid patch. mmm.
in your pants!
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velocity boy [quote]peejay78 how long does your tires live?
'People called Romanes they go the house'?
Hours later and this still makes me laugh.
Not least because the image clarifying the quote doesn't work.[/quote]
it does work, sort of... you know what i mean. it may have been a little bit oblique but i always operate under the assumption that everyone can tell what's going on inside my mind.
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