Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

Icyseanfitz

Personally prefer to just swap out cables that having to bleed myself. Also I've found (at least with the mountain biking side of things) that you go through brake pads a fair bit quicker with disk brakes than standard road calipers.

Alek

You don't need to bleed brakes more often than once a few years.

you go through brake pads a fair bit quicker with disk brakes than standard road calipers

Depending on the pad compound and other circumstances (lot of lights or mountainous route) it should be comparable on the road.

Who uses rim brakes in MTBs these days to compare?

Mr. Grieves

This is cool, information ahead of traffic lights which tells cyclists to speed up or slow down in order to catch the next green light.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/this-magic-dutch-traffic-light-helps-bicyclists-avoid-stopping/523986/

CrowdedHouse

I see Clare County Council are marking Strava segments

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/new-strava-signs-popping-up-on-irish-roads-marking-segments/

Alek

Both previous links are brilliant, in their own different way

bp_me

Mr. Grieves wrote: »

This is cool, information ahead of traffic lights which tells cyclists to speed up or slow down in order to catch the next green light.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/this-magic-dutch-traffic-light-helps-bicyclists-avoid-stopping/523986/

As solutions go.. the Copenhagen one is awesome

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2014/08/the-green-waves-of-copenhagen.html

Icyseanfitz

Alek wrote: »

You don't need to bleed brakes more often than once a few years.



Depending on the pad compound and other circumstances (lot of lights or mountainous route) it should be comparable on the road.

Who uses rim brakes in MTBs these days to compare?

Ive just worked on a lot of mtb's that get rough treatment, as you said probably not really comparable, But I'd be bleeding the same set maybe twice a year and each brand has their own magic way of doing it or at least they used to a few years back.

I've seen lads do downhill with no brakes but never v brakes

AstraMonti

I am putting here because it's not pretty enough to go in the beauties and not ugly enough for the other thread.

Alek

I'd be bleeding the same set maybe twice a year

Why is this so? How does the fluid leak out of the closed system?

EH

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

I see Clare County Council are marking Strava segments

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/new-strava-signs-popping-up-on-irish-roads-marking-segments/

I manage this project in Clare. We included signs at the bottom of 5 hills showing the length of the hill, gradient, max gradient etc. We also included a NFC chip in the sign so people with compatible smartphones could tap the sign and it opened up the relevant strava segment page. Handy if you have gloves on so you don't have to type in a URL.

Icyseanfitz

Alek wrote: »

Why is this so? How does the fluid leak out of the closed system?

not sure how to be honest but it must be to do with cold temperatures in winter storage, or heat from the caliper, or just air getting in somehow. I know avid elixers used to wreck my head. Id have them perfectly bled one day the next they'd be spongy or super tight. And ive a particular set of avids where the pistons in one of the calipers always seems to squeeze in too tight so you end up with disk rub .

I will say i used to love shimanos brakes though, very straight forward

Alek

I have experience with old Shimano XT full hydro caliper, that did not require a single bleeding in 7000km+ / 4 years, stopping a cargo bike with kids, also on mountainous descends in Spain. There was a Deore on the rear, but I've boiled it on 7km / 10deg descend slowing down the above setup and it became spongy alright

Also my hybrid HY/RDs on road bikes never required bleeding, but then the reservoir is integrated with the pistons, so its even more more closed than full hydraulic (no hydro line, as they're operated by cable).

Pigeon Reaper

Dot 3/4 Brake fluid is hygroscopic so it absorbs moisture which creates spongy feeling in the brakes. Oil based systems can lose feeling due to changes in oil viscosity over time. Sealed systems aren't completely sealed as the pistons move outwards with pad wear. This would induce a vacuum at the fluid reservoir in a hermetically sealed system.

Alek

Right, all my brakes take mineral oil.

This would induce a vacuum at the fluid reservoir in a hermetically sealed system.

But then I thought that the flexible seal's role (in the reservoir) is to accommodate for changes in fluid pressure?

Pigeon Reaper

They're supposed to but over time every flexible seal I've come across has become a seal in theory only.

manafana

EH wrote: »

I manage this project in Clare. We included signs at the bottom of 5 hills showing the length of the hill, gradient, max gradient etc. We also included a NFC chip in the sign so people with compatible smartphones could tap the sign and it opened up the relevant strava segment page. Handy if you have gloves on so you don't have to type in a URL.

credit to you, would be wonderful to see them bother to do same in dublin/wicklow

Unknown Soldier

EH wrote: »

I manage this project in Clare. We included signs at the bottom of 5 hills showing the length of the hill, gradient, max gradient etc. We also included a NFC chip in the sign so people with compatible smartphones could tap the sign and it opened up the relevant strava segment page. Handy if you have gloves on so you don't have to type in a URL.

Nice job! Did you get in touch with Strava about it, as in do they know about it?

As for the attachment, would you not have used one of those QR codes on the sign as well? What with everyone being lazy sods these days?

Lusk_Doyle

EH wrote: »

I manage this project in Clare. We included signs at the bottom of 5 hills showing the length of the hill, gradient, max gradient etc. We also included a NFC chip in the sign so people with compatible smartphones could tap the sign and it opened up the relevant strava segment page. Handy if you have gloves on so you don't have to type in a URL.

Beautiful example of clued in thinking and a little imagination. Congrats and nice work.

LollipopJimmy

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Nice job! Did you get in touch with Strava about it, as in do they know about it?

As for the attachment, would you not have used one of those QR codes on the sign as well? What with everyone being lazy sods these days?

NFC is even easier, you don't need to press any buttons!

Icyseanfitz

First time out on the road bike yesterday in around a year, felt great.......except for my crippling fitness also people don't wave and say hi as much anymore, what happened to all the love!

EH

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

NFC is even easier, you don't need to press any buttons!

Thanks for the comments. NFC seems to be the way forward with more and more phone manufacturers adopting it, if only Apple would open up their phones, they do have NFC but its locked to apple pay. From the research I've done it looks like this will happen, its just a matter of time. I included a tinyurl on each sign for non-NFC phones to use.
We've also installed 7 bike maintenance stands around the county, some with built in pumps some just free standing bike holders with tools.
The overall plan is to invest in improving the cycling infrastructure in the county rather than just developing an on-road cycling route that few people use.

Tenzor07

Don't try and be Danny MacAskill!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39720632

ThisRegard

EH wrote: »

The overall plan is to invest in improving the cycling infrastructure in the county rather than just developing an on-road cycling route that few people use.

This is great. Can you come to Dublin and sort out our hostility to cycling by many in our councils?

Chuchote

ThisRegard wrote: »

This is great. Can you come to Dublin and sort out our hostility to cycling by many in our councils?

Maybe this article has the solution

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/02/dont-say-cyclists-say-people-on-bikes/385387/

A recent post by PeopleForBikes blogger Michael Andersen notes that starting in 2011, a new group called Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has made a conscious effort to change the way they talked about biking, walking, and pretty much everything else to do with the way their city’s streets are used by human beings…

… they hoped to radically alter what had become an acrimonious and unproductive civic debate, one where the phrase “war on cars” had come to characterize the way many Seattleites felt about policy changes that altered streets in an effort to make them safer and more accessible for a variety of users.

“Though the group made no secret of their biking advocacy, they didn't brand themselves as biking advocates,” writes Andersen. “They branded themselves as neighborhood advocates.”

SNG also developed a list of new ways to talk about their concerns and promoted it in handy chart form. Instead of “cyclists,” they suggest, use “people on bikes.” Instead of “drivers,” “people driving.” Instead of technical traffic-engineering terms such as “pedestrian/hybrid beacon,” say “safer ways to cross busy streets.” Replace “pedestrians” with “people walking.”

Apparently this is working well, and has changed the debate from the kind of craziness that Ireland's been copying from Britain, and into a more normal idea about how we use our neighbourhoods and relate to our neighbours.

ThisRegard

I usually try to use "people on bikes/cars" when banging my head against the wall in many of the threads that pop up around boards.

CramCycle

At the bottom of the road, there is an old racer frame, barely covered in paint that is peeling, rust spots, wheels have been removed etc. I imagine it was a dumping job from a robbed shed, as the bike is clearly and was clearly not in a usable condition before.

If I report it to the Gardai, do they just pick it up or send the council round for dumping. Thinking I might ring them and tell them I found it abandoned, and would hold onto it if no one has reported it gone.

Chuchote

Came across a flyer for this in Rathmines today on a bike rack

http://dublinbikeman.com/MensBikes.htm

CramCycle wrote: »

At the bottom of the road, there is an old racer frame, barely covered in paint that is peeling, rust spots, wheels have been removed etc. I imagine it was a dumping job from a robbed shed, as the bike is clearly and was clearly not in a usable condition before.

If I report it to the Gardai, do they just pick it up or send the council round for dumping. Thinking I might ring them and tell them I found it abandoned, and would hold onto it if no one has reported it gone.

You can report it here:

http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-roads-and-traffic-road-maintenance-and-street-repair/repair-road-or-footpath

Harrybelafonte

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Don't try and be Danny MacAskill!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39720632

"The spokesman said the rescued woman appeared to be dressed for attempted stunts.

He said: "She had the helmet and the knee pads.""

So... she was dressed like a mountain biker? Pointless article.

Kiith

I've been waiting 5 months for my new bike, after numerous delays with Cube and then Giant, and it finally arrived today. Picking it up at 6pm and can't bloody wait to get out.

Chuchote

Kiith wrote: »

I've been waiting 5 months for my new bike, after numerous delays with Cube and then Giant, and it finally arrived today. Picking it up at 6pm and can't bloody wait to get out.

Well wear!