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would love to but friday night's are not good for me #redseapedestrian

Gear cable snapped on my UA yesterday. After looking through YouTube videos I've ordered replacement inner wires & a cable end gadget. Fingers crossed; it's as easy as it looks. Anyone here have any advice?

You are right. It surely must be possible to make them non-slip. Some of them have tarmac on them

why do they put slippery drain covers at road junctions? nearly went arse over this evening, what with wind, rain & man-hole cover
just sayin

very cool. Is that an eccentric BB?

I've been contemplating a mirror but it would need to stick out quite far to double up to ward off close passes. Any ideas?

Ha! Misread - for a mo I thought it sounded like you wanted the kids measured

I've had the slipping problem with my second Enviolo hub. Now on 3rd and expect it to go wrong any time now as the 2yr warranty ends early November.

If the hub is less than 2yrs old Enviolo will probably replace, though with my 2nd one they got a bit iffy & in the end sent me the new hub, not a pre-built wheel as when the first one broke. This may have been due to Covid issues. Luckily my meagre wheel building skills were good enough.

Incidentally, I think the slipping issue was worse in hot weather - may be something to do with the oil inside the hub being a bit thinner?

well it does vary. tbh i've never looked at the year as a whole, but it's usually about £30/month and the bikes would cost about £7500 to replace

My bikes are insured on household contents ins. but I was unsure whether the cargo bike (which is used exclusively for work) would be covered as it's a commercial vehicle, so I took the belt & braces approach & insured separately through Laka

Recall some of the aforementioned. Shout out to @ma3k for many rides to the coast, @pajamas for Those Bright Bright Lights rides especially with Tron Sq, @middleofnowhere for steering me - half cut - the wrong way up many one way streets to be first to the next pub on @Bernie 's Guinness fandango

yep, good thinking

hmm, it's a 3-stage ladder and weighs 37kg. Did toy with this sort of thing when I first got the UA but it seemed a bit scary

Anyone on here think this is nuts - before I try it. It's an idea for schlepping my big ladder without having to use my van. Ladder is 3.6m. The idea is some sort of pivoting coupling on ebd of my UA pannier rack, and a pair of wheels clamped to the other end of the ladder, probably with a visibility flag on back

I use cargo bike for my decorating & carpentry work. I've even bought a 4-section extension ladder (ok for 1st floor guttering sometimes) which sits in top of the cargo box. I have a small van which sits on the driveway unused most weeks. Suprises me too that so few trades people use cargo bikes.

looks pretty cool. have you thought about a/some drain holes? If water gets in, how does it get out?

Well tomorrow I'm going to up the tension to more like 135kgf. We'll see...

FYI, it is 2x lacing (large hub), bare bike ir 49kg, I'm 70kg, cargo box is roughly 15kg plus whatever I'm schlepping!

Just looked up the rim & looks like 1400N which google tells me is 142kgf. Think I need to up the tension!

Cheers all for help

OK, any idea what the suggested tension should be?

Well, i stressed the spokes & did a bit of leaning on the rims, though there wasn't much tweaking needed after doing so.

Think I'll run it as is (just re-tensioned & trued up the wheel) for a week or so & keep my eye on the spoke tension. Also, I'll take an 11g spoke key with me. If it all stays true I'll try some this thread-lock & keep fingers crossed

Spokes measured 2.27mm on my vernier guage. On the chart, 2.3mm was nearest and 27 worked out as 92kgf. Don't know the rim make so can't look up/ask the correct tension

Spoke tension was around 27 on my guage. Chart measured spokes in mm so wasn't an exact match. They are pretty chunky spokes & I used an 11g spoke key.

@Thrustvector it's an Enviolo (Nuvinci) hub, dunno rims & 36 spokes.

I should point out that the wheel/spokes were fine for first year & I've only done about 20miles since I rebuilt the wheel. I kind of expect a bit of trueing after a few miles, but these spokes had just rattled loose.

Can one use some type of threadlock after greasing/lacing/trueing a wheel?

... also had an issue letting air out of back tyre - the self-healing tube I thought would be a good idea managed to seal up the valve! ffs

Anyone had issues with thick (11 guage) spokes working loose?
About 10 miles into a 17 mile journey my UA suddenly started to wobble. First thing I checked was front tyre/wheel/steering rod, then I noticed back wheel (that I'd recently re-built) was untrue. In fact all the spokes on the drive side were so loose that I could hand spin them to tighten a bit - I didn't have an 11g spoke key with me. A friend sent me a clip saying that thick spokes have a prepensity to work loose. Is this true? If so, does that mean I need to strip the wheel down, degrease & re-lace with threadlock?

not too sure, but I'd estimate 30-100kg, so with the bike, box & me it's prob 160-230kg