Feels pretty good. Initially a little firm but seems to have broken in a bit already (less than 100 miles riding). I had ridden a B.17 Standard in Portland for a while but never really loved it, so far the Narrow seems to fit better. I purchased an Aardvark waterproof saddle cover from [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Bikes’
February 3, 2010
Cambodia by bicycle
It is a truth universally acknowledged in Siem Reap that a foreigner on the street must be in need of a tuk tuk (technically, these are not tuk tuks, they are moto-remorques, a trailer hitched to a scooter, but that’s a rather big French mouthful). It could be 9 o’clock at night, you could [...]
August 17, 2009
V1 Octalink? 105 or Dura Ace, you choose!
I found this awesome quote in rec.bicycles.tech while looking for setup tips on the old Dura-Ace 7700 Bottom Bracket:
The Octalink crank attachment, its feet of clay, has no preload
between the facets of the square spline and therefore frets (tiny
motion] elastically, even if it has no actual backlash in torque.
Aluminum parts against steel are a classic [...]
July 14, 2009
Gunks’ V4 – early bike rides & Bing!
Ryan and I went to the East Trapps yesterday to Boxcar and Andrew’s Boulder problem. I mananged to send the normal Andrew’s V4 problem by late in the afternoon. No luck on the Black Rock V5, and the V3 Baby Hole almost went, but we wanted to save a little skin and tendon [...]
January 24, 2009
Getting doored & handlebar shapes a New York rite of passage
So Zoe and I were having a lazy Saturday after having some Astoria coal fired thin crust pizza at a nice Italian place on Broadway and 29th called “Sac’s Pizza Place” (it was quite good) anyhow, we were biking back home down Broadway to Vernon Blvd. and there was a line of traffic probably heading [...]
November 15, 2008
Campy 10 Shifts Shimano 8!
Bless you kind souls at CTC UK who creating the rear shifting cable pull ratio page. It seems, despite all the other irrational things that happen in this world, by a stroke of luck Campagnolo 10 Speed Ergo levers such as the ones I own will shift 8 speeds using a normal Shimano rear [...]
