Dimlo

[hirez]

Back on the nice bike (well, nice for me, since something from the carbon-fibre end of the shop would have been wasted) this AM due to tiresome puncture malarkey in the dark last night.

Bloody hell it's quick.

Yes, I know I'm the motive power and all I have to do is back off a cog or two and/or sit up and have a breather, but there's something about it that makes caning it on the big ring feel like a perfectly sensible thing to do. Rather than making the trip home a bonktastic slog.

I must put proper mudguards on the thing, otherwise the Audaxers will come round my house and complain.

[1] Tell me, O young persons. Is/was that a club-storming 'hit'?

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[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

It's always time for bike schwag.

Mudguards: The SKS raceblades are A1++++ would buy again. And I'm recently loving the term 'fraudax', for short-distance riding on long-distance bikes with mudguards.

[1]Footnote not referenced error.[2]

[2] Oh. There it is!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

YA Bikesnob-NYC AICM Pista.

Fraudax will be the new fixie. Or freestyle or whatever bastardry the Nathans get up to.

[kantti.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, fraudax is very good. I was just recently seriously thinking of buying a tourer, actually, until I realised that seven miles each way wasn't quite what they were designed for ...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, y-es. But then once the thing's in your garage (or hall or front room) it'll goad you into longer trips out.

Working out if that's a good thing or not is left as an exercise for the reader.

[whizzerandchips.livejournal.com]

Fraudax...Bwahahahaaa!

[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

I have lost your email address and wanted to ask you something. Could you drop me a note at dedbutdrmng@yahoo.com?

[alien8.livejournal.com]

ah the fun of mudguards

For the Jack of urban terrorism I have the choices of http://www.bojates.com/words/2007/11/02/mudguards-fenders-for-a-dahon-jack.. I might end up doing something about that this weekend once I get the rear wheel straightened...
(yes the wheels are.. shite. I wonder about replacing them..)

for the trek of non-carbon stuff there are no options, there are no holes. dry days only for that.

new frame is planned, just raised the handlebars as a short term fix pending proper sizing up.

Cycleshow at earls court shortly for much bike schwag and bling'ing!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I've a Crudcatcher on the hybrid, and it has a tedious failure mode. In that unless I'm cycling in a straight line, the bottom of the CC is draining water into one boot or the other.

Part of the reason for picking a SCR over something a bit more single-minded was that it's mudguard-friendly. Allegedly.

" . . . tiresome puncture malarkey . . ."

[jendama.livejournal.com]

You made that pun on purpose, didn't you?