Get outta here !! V-brakes are a model of simplicity and adjustability.
Shameful admissions
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coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Not, I assure you, if you are me...
MisterStan
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- Out there somewhere
There's probably a market for that.....Oh, this is a good one:
I used to sew, so made myself a cycling top to practice sewing with lycra. Decided to make it in unusual colours - what's the point in all that work if you make something you could just buy? So I used black fabric, with contrasting gold fabric. I was really pleased with it until my brother told me it looked like a Star Trek uniform.
It really did
glenn forger
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I'm just glad I didn't misunderstand the thread title and write Kerry Katona, Kate McCann and Kay Burley.
glenn forger
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Goddammit.
Falco Frank
Veteran
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- Oup Norf'
These days I REALLY detest mundane things like housework and worse 'gardening' - getting in the way of my bike maintenance and riding 
PhilDawson8270
Veteran
My most shameful is that I do own a team jersey 
In my defense, it is a Castelli and was on offer for £20, the northern penny pinching of £20 for a Castelli jersey outweighs having to wear team colours
In my defense, it is a Castelli and was on offer for £20, the northern penny pinching of £20 for a Castelli jersey outweighs having to wear team colours
Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
- Location
- Eckington, Worcestershire
I can't ride my bike as fast as I want to.
Ern1e
Über Member
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- ROSSENDALE LANCS.
Finally this must be the "definitive" version which can be understood by all ! thanks for the insight @Dogtrousers .
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Deleted member 1258
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Dispite being on fixed for years I can't trackstand, I can't bunny hop, pull wheelies or ride no handed, I've never got round to learning how. I also don't like clipless pedals, the only reason I have a set on my geared bike is that when I brought the bike in 2010 I also brought a set of clipless pedals to try and I haven't got round to replacing them with toeclips yet.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Tojo
Über Member
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- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
I know I've been building and working on bikes for years and its top of my list of worst jobs, just put new brake blocks on my old Orange, Had me wanting to pull my hair out....Its a good job that I'm baldy as a Coot......
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
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- Far East Sussex
Will take yours and his ↑ word for it that cantilever brakes are no fun; I've never had a bike with them, or if I have in the distant past, someone else did the honours. This doesn't change the fact that V-brakes are the devil's own creation.
You have to adjust a tiny little screw, like you're fixing a watch or something. If the screw reaches its limit you have to go to the other side. Back & forth, forth & back until it's just right. It's what I imagine tensioning spokes to be like, only worse, because although there are what seem to be infinitely more spokes to deal with, spokes don't actually do anything useful like stop you, they're just there to make a bike look like a bike.
If @DCLane wants to join me on this thread, we don't have to let it go…
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subaqua
What’s the point
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- Leytonstone
If it's a scrap inner then that's the way to do it as it stops the outer deforming . I do the opposite for inners as it helps stop em fray.
Years of setting up / replacing/ refurbishing mechanical interlocks on switchgear taught me this.