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Katana
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I have tried it but not on a bike😜😂
Living through different times
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I have tried it but not on a bike😜😂
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Katana
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It has good lubrication properties in other areas too
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"Living through different times"
or, in other terms, getting old innit?
Stuff changes, that much is obvious and (equally obviously) to be expected. A change still can be a surprise to me of course but even that surprise is to be expected. What does flummox me though is how people see these things, i.e. the current landscape, as normality - but then of course if you didn't experience a time before 11 different types of bike grease (or whatever) then it IS your normality.
I cannot (and I mean cannot) see the world as a younger person sees it. I'm locked out of that. Tech (and social media etc) is an obvious example but the landscape is littered (literally a sad truth and another example) with signs of different times. And I was thinking that of disc brakes (on bicycles) and di2 shifters. I guess it's cool, I dunno.
or, in other terms, getting old innit?
Stuff changes, that much is obvious and (equally obviously) to be expected. A change still can be a surprise to me of course but even that surprise is to be expected. What does flummox me though is how people see these things, i.e. the current landscape, as normality - but then of course if you didn't experience a time before 11 different types of bike grease (or whatever) then it IS your normality.
I cannot (and I mean cannot) see the world as a younger person sees it. I'm locked out of that. Tech (and social media etc) is an obvious example but the landscape is littered (literally a sad truth and another example) with signs of different times. And I was thinking that of disc brakes (on bicycles) and di2 shifters. I guess it's cool, I dunno.
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Katana
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Words of wisdom 😊
Ruminating further...
I'm cusp on shifters. My first 'proper' bike (after my generic single speed free wheel and Raleigh 20) had down tube shifters, so I remember them, but my "normality" on shifters is thumb and brifters.
I'm cusp on shifters. My first 'proper' bike (after my generic single speed free wheel and Raleigh 20) had down tube shifters, so I remember them, but my "normality" on shifters is thumb and brifters.
robjh
Squire
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The closest thing to 'a book that changed my life'. Haven't used it for years, but it still sits in a prized place on my bookshelf, oily fingerprint smudges on the pages and all.
Punkawallah
Veteran
A bicycle is robust technology. It takes a lot to render it completely useless, and can be resurrected to be of some use with basic tools and a modicum of imagination and application.
How many ‘flavours’ of grease are considered necessary largely depends on how far up the ‘cycling food chain’ you’d like to be.
How many ‘flavours’ of grease are considered necessary largely depends on how far up the ‘cycling food chain’ you’d like to be.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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Punkawallah
Veteran
I seem to remember the nice boys at GCN talking about them?
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Katana
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I think if I remember correctly yes it was on GCN.
Rather like when I was in a Poundland type shop a while back.
In the 'domestic' section, there were spray cleaners for bath, chrome, stainless steel, toilets, kitchens, floors, walls, hard surfaces, glass, showers, etc., etc..
And at the end was an all purpose cleaner - !
In the 'domestic' section, there were spray cleaners for bath, chrome, stainless steel, toilets, kitchens, floors, walls, hard surfaces, glass, showers, etc., etc..
And at the end was an all purpose cleaner - !
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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- Northamptonshire
That's what I use
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
When Shimano start talking about it, I'll believe it.
I doubt they ever will, trying to persuade anyone to buy a bike with brakes that can fail in an instant because of an electrical gremlin would be a big ask. As someone who has always embraced new technology that's one I wouldn't go near.
