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That looks like the rim side of the tube. If that's correct, Mr. Tuffy wouldn't help, would it? Back in the day, a puncture could be a blowout, sounding like a gunshot. I think they use different rubber these days. The flats I've had in the last four years have been much slower. If I'd...

Wearing a brim like that is inadvisable if you ever play poker with Trinity.

@Stefan Mikes Why did you not want to participate in this thread? Those soles are Stealth Rubber, developed for rock climbing. Do you really need those pins or do you just like their looks? One of the pictures speaks for itself. You pedal with your arch over the spindle. To me, that's bizarre...

Oh no! Do soccer balls have pins these days? Are they to catch cheaters redhanded? So your shoe won't slip when you kick it?

Do you need pins? Wet or dry, I have no slipping at all on alloy pedals with the pins removed. If others need pins or cleats, maybe it's because they have soles of EVA, which may be more common than real rubber. I wouldn't want EVA soles or tires. There's another solution that doesn't require...

The topsider is a sort of slipper. "CVO" means "canvas vulcanized oxford." It's similar to what the Navy used to issue. I'm not saying you'd like it, but it worked out for me. For me, the rubber sole was the first selling point. Another was that it won't come unglued, as is common these days...

There seems to be a variety of Five Tens. Some resemble my Sperry Striper II CVOs, which are holding up very well after an estimated 1200 miles. Paul Sperry made the first deck shoe after slipping and falling off his sailboat in 1935. (Fortunately, he kept hold of a line and pulled himself...

The opening was great. The feds grab his bumper and he releases it. He evades them by using the parking brake for a bootlegger's u-turn. The film shows a wheel flying off his car. I guess that was another bit of wit. Next, he decides to smoke as he negotiates a mountain road, unlit by anything...

I'd like to try elongated pedals, but if mine were as ostentatious as yours, they'd know snobbery was involved. I could cut 6" pieces of 1 x 4. Instead of gaudy pins, I could use down-home 1" drywall screws, whose ends would protrude 6mm. I'd strap the boards to my BV-PDs with zip ties. That...

I wondered which of the 1,010 Bosch-equipped bikes you rode. Then I saw your clues. It was the Thompson Enigma, right? Skechers! I'm not criticizing your judgment. Real shoes wouldn't have seemed important if you were expected to pedal only 15 miles a day on an electric bike and every guest...

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In “Thunder Road,” a pretty girl is sitting with her beau when she hears a distinctive sound a mile away. She says, “That’s Luke!” She runs to the parking lot and greets him by opening the door and jumping in. The beau moans, “Nobody can compete with him. He’s got the loudest pipes in the...

A caliper will deflect a spray from most directions, so maybe spray didn't get into the front. My calipers are at different angles, so if water got into your front, maybe it drained better. During a humid period, a third bike would start clanking each morning as soon as I touched the brakes...

I paid $500 for a Radmission, and another $200 for fenders, front and rear racks, and maybe other accessories. I think I'd paid 3 times more for a similarly equipped Radrunner, and I find the Radmission a much better bike. Some expensive brands offer different frame sizes. (According to...

@Cycologist washed with plain water. Unless he applied chain lube with a squirt gun near the cassette on the right, I don't see how he could have lubed the brake, 4 to 6 inches away on the left. I'd ridden daily for 3 years the first time I lost brakes. I was trying to get rid of that bike...

I've been using ropes with 650-pound eye bolts. There's more friction than using pulleys, but that's okay. I lift and secure one end at a time, so I can lift with one hand and pull the rope with the other. Rope friction becomes an asset, making it easy to keep the bike from falling. Until a...

The first time I dared undo the clamp on the inner cable, it was to replace the cable. I should have taken photos first. Reinstalling the wire was confusing. If I'd routed it wrong, I imagine pulling the brake lever could have put misaligned forces on the caliper lever. Hoisting a bike a couple...

That's a shame. I've bought front and rear pads twice at Amazon, and they were $10. A Tektro Aries caliper is $22. A set of brake cables and housings was $9. Lacking cutters for hard steel, I used a cutoff wheel on an angle grinder to cut housings and cables to fit, and a reamer in the cut...

Most folks? Not @Sparky731 ! I suppose I rode 10,000 miles on block pedals in all kinds of shoes and all kinds of weather. If I'd slipped off even once, I think I'd remember it. For decades, my brother raced and commuted on tubular tires that he glued to his rims. His dedicated cycling shoes...

It looks as if pickleball shoes would hold without pins. As I pedal, I've been spot-checking my feet for cumulative slippage. So far I haven't seen any. If I do, I can reinstall the pins on the inboard sides of the pedals. It's probably the outboard ones that have gashed my shin.