Used Chopsticks, What Do You Do? Most Whimsical, Practical, or Creative Ideas.

I worked on a very high-end Ti bikepacking/adventure bike. It had super high-end mechanical brakes because you don't want to be way out in the wilderness and have a hydro issue. It was easy to dial the inner pad adjustment. I also have a gravel bike with GRX mechanically actuated hydraulic brakes.
When installing a quick link a chopstick can jam in the derailleur so it is not like fighting a bear trap.
 
stompandgo said:
Those that don't like mechanical road caliper brakes have never experienced good mechanical road caliper brakes.
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They are also lighter weight. With less rotational mass. Really good stuff is really good. Bob White is a couple blocks away. I ride tuned calipers almost daily. Just tap once to shed rain before applying in those conditions. The fulcrum diameter is 622 not 160mm, so much more leverage pull; by almost 5 times. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world". I would rather a great chef make a simple dish than a mediocre one make a complex dish, every time, such as a very simple French pastry with one batter and five textures.


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That's a little bit simplistic of an understanding. The amount of force applied by hydraulics is many fold. That's why heavy equipment such as earth movers all operate via hydraulics.
Ever use a hydraulic punch? I can punch a 4.5 inch hole in 1/8" steel with 11 tons of force using human input.
 
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teskow said:
Good point so let's start naming some things from the past that were mechanically operated verses hydraulic and or electrically.
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BIKES. For the last several days I have been going analog and loving it. This tuned Giant Escape it thrilling and responsive and as fast as my Specialized Vado. But without any fillers, filters, or dilutions. It is like skinny dipping. Next it is getting Big Apples, 622-50's, so it will fly over broken pavement and cobbles and not get flats. I did use a chopstick when installing the bio-wax chain.
 
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The better half uses a chop stick to lite the stove top burner,
and I can't figure out WHY that single burner won't lite.........
out of all of the 4 others..........that light every time.
 
I just hosted a BBQ with mesquite charcoal. I lit it with a split chopstick and used bio-chain wax pellets to get the party started. Anybody can wax it. That makes it easier to eat the bean at the party.

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Eating those BBQ Ranch Beans is so much easier when they have been teased with bio-chain wax before the picnic. It is just so much smother. Not every cyclist knows how to lick the beans and to hit the gee-wiz spot rhythm at the same time, over and over for like 50 times before coming home on the round trip at a 145c circumference at a cadence of 90 for the desert cake cream topping. Mostly all the hippy ranch beans around here tend to be a little more than a hairy experience, which takes more effort and practice to eat all those beans at the Ranch BBQ. But someone needs to do it. Chopsticks are not needed for finger food.
 
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