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Brooks was actively selling to the US market from the earliest days of the cycling boom here, by 1892 (at least) they were promoting saddles essentially similar to some they still sell today. I'll look for an early Brooks advert and add it here.... Hello and greetings to rexel 1! David...

I dunno, but I will try Brooks again. Years ago had a sprung, B-66 but it was too wide for my narrow sit bones. Have been riding a fair amount on a narrow, padded plastic saddle and it suits me fine. I do not do well on a wide saddle. However, there is a narrow and firm saddle I am going to...

I dunno about "group," yet, but you are welcome! Erik and I are going for a night ride on Wednesday night this week. Anybody read this and want to join us, please do. We are going to start out from a century ago, former rock quarry, Merrie Christmas Park,

Ravi, you are the single best champion of cycling in the world (I do not unsupportably suggest). And you live today in the original, the epicenter of cycling, CHICAGO. Oh, what a great history you have made already and are making...

Thanks! Yes, that looks like the tool I bought on the cheap. My cheap tool is cast steel and it is hardened. The many sizes on it are mostly inapplicable. I chose two, opposite slots that were a skosh too tight, and hand-relieved them with a moto tool abrasive wheel to be a very, very snug...

I have three. A no-name cruiser I used to get my life restarted a year and half ago. Redid it in matt dark red from Krylon Fusion spray cans. Then, in May a year ago, I got a coaster braked single speed track frame Critical Cycles Harper off Amazon for two bills delivered. Then, in December of...

If the battery case is carefully fitted to the frame bumps will not harm the bike. I JUMP curbs and do not shy from bumps. A tiny bit of battery-to-frame play has lately been noted. No loss of electrical contact because it is very small play and my plug socket has been floating since the day...

...the shake will increase in time because the plastic mounts have to take all that guff of the heavy battery. The problem is entirely manageable. A) loosen the lock nut of the frame mounted plug as shown in my demo video. Apply a bit of School Glue or similar reversible gunk to stop...

This battery mount system must be made hold the battery without any shake. If there is any shake that shake will increase in time. One way to stop the battery jittering its fit looser is to use the "gel tape" sort of fix recommended by (where did I read that?) Reention. For myself, I am going...

Ditto to the above. And what a great town to live in, too! A very nice story. Your wife is beautiful and gracious. You too, am sure!

Well, no-one should crush chainstays like I did! OTOH, I have two Schwalbe G-One Speed "2.0" inch Snakeskin I am not using. I will give up one of them and keep one in reserve. PM me if you would like one? Cost for you is postage. It is about 1.9" wide in a CCS wheel. It will clear the...

I have the standard battery. Your excellent photos above confirm the hypothesis that a rigidly mounted plug into the rigid socket of a shifting battery will destroy the integrity of the electrical contact..

Please consider to first try doing it yourself? There is a plethora of DIY truing videos on YouTube. But let me bold this point: I have yet to find a properly fitting spoke wrench for the CCS spoke nipples. Does anyone know of a wrench (please provide link) that fits right without...

In my opinion it is vital to loosen the nut that holds the key socket plug, as shown in my video. The socket plug should float so it can follow the female socket of the battery pack when the pack slightly moves around. My battery is not entirely immobile after it clicks in. But it does not...

I think, maybe, Ravi, you could post another location? Maybe two? More? Please do! (grin!)

Counterpoint. English teeth today have been stained and rotted by centuries swilling tea with sugar formerly refined from beets and modern dentistry in the USA is an unaffordable necessity driving thousands to Mexico and Thailand where they do not die because smallpox vaccine was reinvented by...

We cannot bring back what was deliberately taken apart by the leading capitalists of our society. We cannot in a free market economy preserve by good unions or trade protectionism the basic fact that the dollar decides our selfish futures. I do not mourn lousy two hundred dollar RCA USA-made...

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Whoa and no worries there, John! You can with a hand file align the tire to the space between the chainstays and seat stays. First, however, try to true the wheel with tire for zero rub. Then, if needed, and pull the rim as much as possible to the required side by spoke tension adjustment...

Glad you are OK. Life: the only valuable. Please stick around for good. Life: the only valuable (I just wrote that and it seems to be an original expression. Life is the only valuable. Who else will agree? It's for John Peck)