General Cycling Discussion • Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Got the seatpost out! It's been sprayed with penetrant a couple more times while waiting for futher efforts. Clamped the steel bar thats bolted to the seatpost bolts to a steel verandah support....
View ArticleGeneral Cycling Discussion • Re: Tougher E-thing laws proposed to deal with...
Proposal to register e-things to combat e-thing riders illegally modifying their e-thingsElectric unicyclist's death prompts mother's call for tougher e-vehicle lawsABC onlineRemind me of the...
View ArticleBuying a bike / parts • Re: Glasses. Prescription or Contacts? Photochromic
I have used photochromtic specs for decades. They are a bit pricey, but work as advertised.Over the years, the response times (dark to light) have improved and dark is darker. You can combine the...
View ArticleThe Bike Shed • Re: Replace all components on current frame - or buy a new...
No, I'd suggest it's not worth it.And rather than a triple I recommend investigating a gravel bike with hydraulic brakes and 46/30 chainring. Your fear of the 11 speed chain being weaker is definitely...
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The Bike Shed • Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Yes, I thought that too but that's the first thing he checked.Seatpost (carbon) has been refitted and CF pasted, I swapped out both wheels and it was still there so it won't be the through axles,...
View ArticleInternational and National Tours and Events • Re: Latest International Road...
Grace Brown LBL Femme winner. First woman Aussie, great stuff. Missed that it was even on, only realised when I switched channels last night and came across the LBL mens race. A few falls, but nowhere...
View ArticleNew South Wales • Re: Parramatta river cycle way
Heads up that there is road/footpath works this week on the eastern side of the narrow bridge near Rheem at Rydalmere. When coming off the bridge heading west the path is closed off and there is an...
View ArticleCycling Health • Re: Plant Based Diet Thread
I'm posting this video because of how it ends.As usual, scientists like to get reductionist and try to figure out a specific chemical that causes a benefit, rather than taking a more holistic view of...
View ArticleTouring Bikes and Equipment • Re: Rain Jacket - Current Thinking
An update. I was holding off on a purchase, given it has been so dry here, so I didn't need a new jacket, but it is getting closer to winter, and I saw that 7MESH had the Copilot on sale with an extra...
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Cycling Safety and Advocacy • Re: To state the bleeding obvious Australian...
An “alternative solution” of course would be to increase wages and conditions in the industry to attract and retain more Aussies in the industry. So many different things to unpack with this subject,...
View ArticleMTB • Re: MTB night lighting - Recommendations
Sounds like a good find. EXPOSURE lights are the bees' knees —...The delivered price was $352 (yep, you read right) vs many sites having the same thing for $439.Now that DLS has stopped and darkness...
View ArticleCycling Safety and Advocacy • Re: 2021 Cycling fatalities
May 27, 2021 - 20 year old cyclist hit and killed at intersection with green lights for both cyclist and buses. 200 accounts of near misses at this location. Cyclist had right of way, death by blind...
View ArticleGeneral Cycling Discussion • Re: Autonomous cars? I think not
reminded me of this quite close to where I live in Melbourne - no idea on outcome...https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-hit ... autopilot/"Ms Agrawal had previously told Melbourne Magistrates Court...
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Queensland • Re: Bring back BQ Brisbane Mt Cootha ride
The road closures are a mute point. NRS run a different course than the UCI version but all fall under the tour de brisbane banner. And even then the NRS mens course is different from the NRS womens...
View ArticleInternational and National Tours and Events • Re: Cavendish Is Past His Prime
I will watch for the sport, certainly an aspect that will capture media and viewer attention… so more interesting whatever happens.Statistics: Posted by AUbicycles — Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:12 am
View ArticleCycling Trade • Stages shuts up shop - Another one bites the dust .... :shock:
https://escapecollective.com/stages-cyc ... workforce/Stages Cycling lays off entire workforceThe well-known power meter and indoor bike company has seemingly ceased operations. Stages Cycling...
View ArticleCycling Trade • Re: Stages shuts up shop - Another one bites the dust .......
Not sure they ever recovered from the bad reputation the developed for inaccuracy and failure, early on.Wouldn't have touched one personally. Perhaps my opinion was fairly common, justified or not,...
View ArticleCommuting • Re: How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...
A few highlights - swarm of pidgeons, vicious tiny dog, cyclist using phone while riding, pedestrians on the wrong side of the shared path ..... iframe Statistics: Posted by Retrobyte — Wed Apr 24,...
View ArticleNew South Wales • Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
While driving from Fairfield to try out the Malaysian hawker-style food stalls in Guildford with friends, I passed the bridge over the railway line which forms the eastern end of the Canal Shared Path...
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