Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

thebouldwhacker

I gave a mate a loan of my Rockhopper back in aug, I got it back the other night and just went out to put it back together and ................ rust

The evening he called to collect it it was up on my stand being washed and oiled it was as pretty as the day I bought it. When I picked it up from him it was dark but he is a tidy guy so I didnt even think of checking it. Chucked it into the car, got home and chucked it in the bike shed.

The rear group: rust
chain: rust
front: rust
Shocks:rust and ceased
frame is filthy and anything that could be rusted is........ I'm devastated.

manwithaplan

friendship: rust

ednwireland

Beasty wrote: »

To avoid breaking site rules I have had to remove the image of the person the Guards are seeking in connection with their enquires

i thought his face was stolen

Beasty

ednwireland wrote: »

i thought his face was stolen

The last thing I'd want to steal is bcmf's image!

RobFowl

Miklos

Holy moses.

Captain Havoc

NickWray wrote: »

Holy moses.

Yes, Moses was holy, it says so in the bible.

AstraMonti

Looks fast!

Dermot Illogical

RobFowl wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSI_O1M4NI

Captain Havoc

AstraMonti wrote: »

Looks fast!

Would you be saying that if I was pictured on it? No, didn't think so

Miklos

AstraMonti wrote: »

Looks fast even at a standstill!

Home:Ballyhoura

manwithaplan

She has a saddle for a hat. That Philip Treacy's a genius.

Darkglasses

Seatpost slipped all the way down suddenly on my cycle home this evening...Very very odd feeling.

Captain Havoc

I hope I don't freeze to death on the way home this evening, be the hokey tis cowld.

thebouldwhacker

So did you make it back ok?

Holyboy

I thought it was actually very mild this evening, maybe there's something wrong with my body or summit!

petethedrummer

It was a lovely evening for it. I extended my commute home.

tomasrojo

petethedrummer wrote: »

It was a lovely evening for it. I extended my commute home.

Yes, I love this weather. Had a very nice cycle this evening.

thebouldwhacker

Shorts and sun block?

tomasrojo

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Shorts and sun block?

I like bracing weather. Once you get your layers right, you can spin along at a nice pace and not break a sweat. And sounds at night seem to have a nicer quality when it's cold (something to do with lower humidity maybe?).

Cookie_Monster

Got me a cadence sensor from Garmin last night and set it up.

what's the point of the spoke sensor, does it just record distance or does it factor in anywhere to calcs. I presume it may be for computers without GPS to calc distances based on wheel size and revolutions?

Lumen

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Got me a cadence sensor from Garmin last night and set it up.

what's the point of the spoke sensor, does it just record distance or does it factor in anywhere to calcs. I presume it may be for computers without GPS to calc distances based on wheel size and revolutions?

I use a Garmin without a speed sensor. It works fine. One less bit of clutter on the bike.

Beasty

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Got me a cadence sensor from Garmin last night and set it up.

what's the point of the spoke sensor, does it just record distance or does it factor in anywhere to calcs. I presume it may be for computers without GPS to calc distances based on wheel size and revolutions?

It also takes over calculating the speed if there is no GPS signal - for example on indoor tracks

Idleater

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I presume it may be for computers without GPS to calc distances based on wheel size and revolutions?

It's actually both, it works just like the magnet for a cateye, the unit corrects the speed and distance of the gps when signal is bad or slow.
Without it all distances and speed are gps based. I use that on the mtb when under trees and slow speed.

RobFowl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOlry6zgWg

AstraMonti

That was awkward.

I am in work and I am ordering through the phone some wheels and the magic question appears.. "What color nipples do you want? I have black,white and red. " So.. i naturally reply "Hm.. black or white nipples? No white is not going to work, I ll go with the black nipples." By the time I realised what I said, I had few eyes around looking at me funny..

Lumen

AstraMonti wrote: »

That was awkward.

I am in work and I am ordering through the phone some wheels and the magic question appears.. "What color nipples do you want? I have black,white and red. " So.. i naturally reply "Hm.. black or white nipples? No white is not going to work, I ll go with the black nipples." By the time I realised what I said, I had few eyes around looking at me funny..

Bigserious1

Just went in freewheeling (i think) on Pearse street because I had given up on trying to adjust my derailleur and the guy there adjusted the two of them on the spot. Wouldnt take anything for the job either. No affiliation just thought it was decent of him.

furiousox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqOoVetljiw

thebouldwhacker

Like chilli and chocolate, it shouldn't work but does....

Holyboy

I really need to stop looking at bicycle tool websites, I'm going to end up broke!
Does any one know of any discussion groups or any thing? Because I really have a problem:o

Crow92

Holyboy wrote: »

I really need to stop looking at bicycle tool websites, I'm going to end up broke!
Does any one know of any discussion groups or any thing? Because I really have a problem:o

Talk to me about the tools :P do you have the morningstar freehub tool and morningstar j-tool?

Holyboy

Crow92 wrote: »

Talk to me about the tools :P do you have the morningstar freehub tool and morningstar j-tool?

Not yet, I have drooled over them enough though, some day I will have ALL the tools, might need a bigger shop first though! Phil Wood spoke cutting and threading tool is on the list but $3,900 is a big spend:eek:
Do I build enough wheels to warrant it, yes(that's obviously a maybe!)

Crow92

Holyboy wrote: »

Not yet, I have drooled over them enough though, some day I will have ALL the tools, might need a bigger shop first though! Phil Wood spoke cutting and threading tool is on the list but $3,900 is a big spend:eek:
Do I build enough wheels to warrant it, yes(that's obviously a maybe!)

I assume you'd need to pay customs/vat on them aswell??... hmmm... How is the repair business going?? Busy this side of the year?

Holyboy

Crow92 wrote: »

I assume you'd need to pay customs/vat on them aswell??... hmmm... How is the repair business going?? Busy this side of the year?

Vat yes, customs depending where they come from, Ireland is a nightmare for getting anything out of the ordinary.
Repair business is very busy indeed, new years resolutions and the good weather are helping, always looking for strange stuff though even if it leaves me at a loss, the boring stuff makes the money but it's no fun:rolleyes:

Crow92

Holyboy wrote: »

Vat yes, customs depending where they come from, Ireland is a nightmare for getting anything out of the ordinary.
Repair business is very busy indeed, new years resolutions and the good weather are helping, always looking for strange stuff though even if it leaves me at a loss, the boring stuff makes the money but it's no fun:rolleyes:

How is your skills at removing rusted seatposts? lol.

Bought a giro200 bike frame 3 months ago that turned out has basically fused shut. probably gonna throw it over to rothar at some stage.

have you ever thought of making (welding) steel framed bikes?

tomasrojo

Crow92 wrote: »

Talk to me about the tools :P do you have the morningstar freehub tool and morningstar j-tool?

Is the former for cleaning out and regreasing the freehub? I got one for Christmas. Email correspondence with Paul Morningstar is very entertaining.

Crow92

tomasrojo wrote: »

Is the former for cleaning out and regreasing the freehub? I got one for Christmas. Email correspondence with Paul Morningstar is very entertaining.

Yea it is, the latter afaik is for removing the rubber cover on the freehub.

What were so entertaining bout the emails?:D

Holyboy

Crow92 wrote: »

How is your skills at removing rusted seatposts? lol.

Bought a giro200 bike frame 3 months ago that turned out has basically fused shut. probably gonna throw it over to rothar at some stage.

have you ever thought of making (welding) steel framed bikes?

Making custom frames is on my to do list and has been for about five years, but to do it right will take time, I'm not a bodger!!(And would never weld one;))
I have NEVER failed to remove a seatpost, even if it takes months of trying, it'll come out some how!

tomasrojo

Crow92 wrote: »

Yea it is, the latter afaik is for removing the rubber cover on the freehub.

What were so entertaining bout the emails?:D

I think he spent his youth in the sixties, and retains a freewheeling informality in his prose style.

I ordered the reusable dust cap last spring, and he very kindly included an offcut of deckchair material that I might use as a tyre boot. He claimed in the note he tucked into the parcel that the deckchair had recently been sat on by J. Lo.

My wife then ordered by the entire freehub buddy for Christmas, and since her name is Bernadette he got into an extended email conversation about Bernadette Devlin, and how progressive-thinking persons in the sixties were fans of what she was doing.

tomasrojo

Holyboy wrote: »

Making custom frames is on my to do list and has been for about five years, but to do it right will take time, I'm not a bodger!!(And would never weld one;))
I have NEVER failed to remove a seatpost, even if it takes months of trying, it'll come out some how!

I'll mention you to a friend of mine. He has an incredibly obstinate one.

Crow92

Holyboy wrote: »

Making custom frames is on my to do list and has been for about five years, but to do it right will take time, I'm not a bodger!!(And would never weld one;))
I have NEVER failed to remove a seatpost, even if it takes months of trying, it'll come out some how!

Ha I'd be half tempted to through it at you to see what your made of :P it actually took you months a trying before to remove one?

Actually, a good project would be to make one of those bamboo bikes.that'd be class.

How big is your shop? I really must pop by to look at it sometime (I've said that before). I've honestly felt slightly dis-satisfied with every bike shop I've been in. (not suggestesting yours will be :P)

Holyboy

Crow92 wrote: »

Ha I'd be half tempted to through it at you to see what your made of :P it actually took you months a trying before to remove one?

Actually, a good project would be to make one of those bamboo bikes.that'd be class.

How big is your shop? I really must pop by to look at it sometime (I've said that before). I've honestly felt slightly dis-satisfied with every bike shop I've been in. (not suggestesting yours will be :P)

It can take time for a brilliant mind to kick into action, four months to remove a Miche BB......but no one else could do it:D
I accept your challenge, bring it on I say!
My cave is tiny, some what the same as a box room in a three bed suburban house but I'm stuck with it for now, still waiting for TR to pop in and say hello, I see Bromptons and trailers all day every day and always wonder, is that him??:pac:

tomasrojo

I do sometimes go that way. Dammit, I should pop in and say hello!

Doctor Bob

Holyboy wrote: »

still waiting for TR to pop in and say hello, I see Bromptons and trailers all day every day and always wonder, is that him??:pac:

You'd be better off waiting until darkness falls- he's the one with airplanes trying to land on his back.:)

I may soon have a bottom bracket for your attention (eccentric, aluminium, stubborn). What's that they say about an irresistible force meeting an immovable object? Well, something's gotta give, something's gotta give, something's gotta give...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cicORv-hMQ0

abcdggs

Holyboy wrote: »

Crow92 wrote: »

How is your skills at removing rusted seatposts? lol.

Bought a giro200 bike frame 3 months ago that turned out has basically fused shut. probably gonna throw it over to rothar at some stage.

have you ever thought of making (welding) steel framed bikes?

Making custom frames is on my to do list and has been for about five years, but to do it right will take time, I'm not a bodger!!(And would never weld one;))
I have NEVER failed to remove a seatpost, even if it takes months of trying, it'll come out some how!

Hey holyboy

we've actually got a really tough seatpost in rothar at the minute. The owner attempted to remove the seat post but broke it about 1cm above the seat post clamp. Any thoughts? Where is your shop based?

AstraMonti

What?

CramCycle

AstraMonti wrote: »

What?

I hate you for making me think about that for even a millisecond.

petethedrummer

so the bum is ok?