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The concept adopted by today's Gaddi branded tube goes back to the first two years of pneumatic tire production. https://archive.org/stream/bearings818931894cycl#page/n13/mode/1up The imaged tube was of natural rubber and therefore much more elastic than the butyl rubber used today, which is...

I agree so wholeheartedly. Free trade has helped every person in this world. Those who lost jobs exported have the benefit of the goods they need at vastly lower prices. Anyone of an age remembers how much we used to pay for lousy goods (and USA-made consumables like cars and televisions were...

“Don't talk so much, old sport,” commanded Gatsby. “Play!”

We know it is not a guided process, other than that predicated by what goes around...

Horrible day for all Americans, that tariffs will harm our purchasing power and also everyone in the country is going to pay their state sales tax for every online purchase. Give me Hillary (gulp, grin, horrible, too) or give me Toronto!

It happened that the connection was dirty or otherwise imperfect. All the current was going through a small, concentrated spot. This caused local heating sufficient to melt the plastic. It is important to always blow out our connectors of this type with compressed air, and if we use a light...

Bravo, Chris. I would only suggest that the wider tape would be better. It's a bit more fiddly to stretch and place between the bead hooks, but 24mm will fit. Just over 26mm will in fact, fit, and positively prevent any creep of the tape margin into the covered spoke holes. Regardless...

I rode five miles today toward Key Biscayne on pedal power alone. The exercise felt great. I did not turn on the assist until the Wm. Powell Bridge (4.5% grade) because by then I had had enough. I had to get home quickly to get ready for work. With assist, I did. It is good to be served by...

Since most bike chains are neglected, all lubrication schemes are good, I think. For myself, I have gradually gravitated to using synthetic ATF from a dropper bottle. After a run if there is dirt on the tires I hose everything down, flush off all the grit I can, I force the water jet on the...

AH, Youth, it is as you now know, a matter of giving much greater care when the parts are more high strung by nature, more delicate. High quality does not always mean low maintenance. High quality may require delicate care well worth the trouble. "...deep buried in here is a verge with two...

with my display revived by the new parts received yesterday, I can now measure with accuracy the speed of my bike manually or electrically powered. It is faster than I previously thought. Thin and relatively large tires definitely help, they help a lot.

I wish I still had the terrible siren! OH, I would I get in trouble with it on a bike, ha ha! Sold over ten years ago through ebay to an Australian collector, it worked like new. It was a caution, alright. How does German engineering at the height of the Second World War compare to your...

Ha ha. Love that horn above! The one I have is much smaller than it is loud. Three tone choices, of which the police whistle imitation is the only truly loud sound. So, I disabled the tone selector button with superglue. It remains always a police whistle now. In moderate traffic the cars...

The original display quit working for cause unknown, a failure unrelated to my months-ago cable modifications. Thanks to Juiced Bikes for the replacement display seen here. They did not owe me, my experiments anull warranty rights, but Juiced took care of me anyway. Thanks for that, Juiced Bikes!

Hi John, I am about 165 today (am losing weight by virtue of having no e-assist the past few weeks, grin) and because of the relatively large volume of the present tires there is no fear on streets of rim cutting the tire. But I think I may stick with 30 or 35PSI, a slightly high sort of...

Gosh, yes, Bruce, any lubrication will work great to keep the seal working optimally and ward off rust from the chrome plated steel tube, rust that would quickly eat the seal lip. I guess Suntour advocates an oily cloth wipe because that wiping off of grit is something they want done. I...

Anybody here use a skinny cable lock? Fun exercise: Get yourself a pair of wire cutters 6" ought to do. Park and lock your bike, Franklin. Hold the cutters behind your back, Franklin. Back up innocently to your bike but pretend it is somebody else's bike. Pretend to be a bike thief (lol)...

CCS owners, do not forget that the stock fork has adjustable spring tension. And if it is adjusted to float the load, it works pretty well! It's just heavy! Until I learned to adjust my bike's NCX, it did very little shock absorbing. The spring was preloaded much too strong. Also, for...

I should be up and running electrically again next week, JoePah. It would be great fun for the three of us and maybe more, to meet and share bikes and a run or two! We Ar E Miami