Recent content by spokewrench

By sling, do you mean a wire rope with crimped eyes? What diameter? What length?

That was the least of their problems. Some tracks were only 1/2 mile and banked at 50 degrees. A racer who went down would be impaled with large splinters, often fatally. Control of a motorcycle was tenuous, and when one flew over the rim, there could be mass decapitations. I wonder if any...

In 1969, BMW motorcycles adopted Porsche fade-proof brake linings. That was a disgusting marketing decision. I've never heard of brake fade on a motorcycle, and if these linings absorbed moisture from the air, touching them could lock the wheel, especially the front wheel, with dual leading...

I guess you don't mean you wear socks over Army boots... The Boy Scout manual recommended wearing dress socks under boot socks. So did the Marine Corps manual. I was 33 before I caught on. Palms and soles sweat in response to friction. That's why walking would soon cause my boot socks to get...

I'm not talking about being tough. I keep my thermostat at 69 in winter, but a few years ago I'd wear long underwear indoors. That's because the vests I had didn't cover my neck and lower torso. I found better vests and quit wearing long underwear, indoors or out. If I got chilly indoors with a...

My rides aren't many miles but may last half an hour in windy conditions in the teens. For 50 years, I've found a vest the most important cold-weather clothing, if it comes up to my jaw and down to my hips, like this one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077FJ6FLR Second is a skullcap under my helmet...

If you wonder how many links to add or subtract, take the difference in chainwheel diameters in inches and multiply by pi. That will be the chain difference in half inches, which is the number of links. Then just take the nearest whole number. For example, if you replaced an 8" ring with a 9"...

An acronym is just A Contrived Reduction Of Nouns Yielding Mnemonics. :rolleyes:

I have a metal cutter, too. I won't have to crank it manually after I fasten it to the cogwheel on my derailleur. That's a job for J B Weld.

I guess that rules out my cart with a 24" track width! (The scale says 52.0 pounds.) The cart is rated for 1,000 pounds. I see the single-wheel trailer is rated for 70. How about a cargo bike? My Abound is rated for 140 pounds on the rear rack. I've hauled loads of sawed logs up a sort of cow...

I'd use 2 wheels. The trailer can be shorter, you don't have to worry about tongue weight, and the hitch can swivel about the longitudinal axis. Sure enough, all Amazon's bicycle trailers seem to have 2 wheels. I wouldn't worry about brakes. I can't imagine towing a bicycle trailer fast enough...

Then you disagree with Marijuana Moment magazine. "Conventional wisdom has long held that water filtration makes for a cleaner, less harmful consumption experience."

Scientists in Thailand and Wisconsin have found that it doesn't work pretty good. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/smoking-marijuana-with-a-water-bong-doesnt-effectively-filter-compounds-from-smoke-study-suggests/ By 1602, smoking had a bad reputation in England. It stank and caused disease...

Isn't a BMS supposed to prevent overcharging? Wouldn't a UL approved BMS do it well? I once dropped my Radrunner battery 9" onto concrete. I'd been concerned about the possibility since it was new. It was hard to keep hold of that battery, especially during removal. OTOH, the plastic panel on...

Some sources say baking soda works. CO2 is 38% heavier than O2, so maybe it could get sucked in and keep the generated gases from mixing or dilute them too much for combustion. This source agrees with you, that a baking-soda extinguisher won't work...