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Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:45 pm**

Beetle wrote: Do you ride around, and hope there are no stray pieces? Or stop, dismount, pick up bike, walk it around, then when you're three or four kilometers up the road put the bike down and get back on? Or isn't four ks far enough for the magnetism that Taterskins have for glass and debris?

Well, it's not magnetism. I think however that the use of kitchen waste to construct a tyre has accidently reproduced an ancient Wiccan compound previously used to summon flinty cave spirits against Roman armies.

The trick will be to get Continential to stop stirring the eggshells/potatoes/human hair "widdershins" - that is against the direction of movement of the sun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins

If they stirred their unholy brew the other way, it makes a tasty soup instead.

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:39 pm**

I make sure my wheels NEVER turn in the wrong direction Drubie, have you considered riding forwards?

Another commute done, some of it thru an area full of drongos getting pi55ed before the George Michael concert (understandably IMO) and still full of atmospheric goodness

Shaun

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:13 am**

Forwards you say Mulger Bill. By golly, you might be onto something, but I'd be careful about what I sniffed around a George Michael concert - the UCI would not be pleased.

You'll all be relieved to know I've revived my floor pump by stealing an o-ring from the barrel base plug and used it on the plunger (the original o-ring having been destroyed by a steady diet of Continental cuppa-flats). The bottom, stationary o-ring was replaced with something I found in my garage from the previous owners of the house.

I won't go into any details on this family friendly forum, suffice to say when I found this o-ring shaped, glow in the dark object originally I had to look up on the internet what it was for, and as wise old internet denizens say: what has been seen cannot be unseen. It was a tight fit, and the empty packet is going too be hard to explain, but we now have a pump.

I should also point out that I've been riding around for 3 days through acres of broken glass in the rain, and the maxxis fuse tyres on my steel bike have shrugged off all of it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:19 am**

I won't go into any details on this family friendly forum, suffice to say when I found this o-ring shaped, glow in the dark object originally I had to look up on the internet what it was for, and as wise old internet denizens say: what has been seen cannot be unseen. It was a tight fit, and the empty packet is going too be hard to explain, but we now have a pump

How the hell did you fit a frizbee into the bottom off a barrell pump

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:46 pm**

Redbull wrote:
I won't go into any details on this family friendly forum, suffice to say when I found this o-ring shaped, glow in the dark object originally I had to look up on the internet what it was for, and as wise old internet denizens say: what has been seen cannot be unseen. It was a tight fit, and the empty packet is going too be hard to explain, but we now have a pump
How the hell did you fit a frizbee into the bottom off a barrell pump

Rule 34!

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:32 pm**

Not surprised by you getting good work from the Maxxis Drubie, if I coulda found some Re-Fuse in 700x28c I wouldn't be able to dangle a line in front of yer mate

Bicycle pump rule 34??? Is nothing sacred?

Shaun

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:48 pm**

drubie wrote:
Jean wrote:the roads are resurfaced in coarse chip (which is getting coarser and more poorly laid if the recent works in Belconnen are any guide) and there is so much glass (especially within cooee of any of Canberra's classy 'taverns') that the mind boggles.
Welcome to Australia, Jean!

I meant to comment on this the other day - I was talking to a guy at a race recently, and he told me about a mate of his who works for NSW Roads and the guy couldn't believe how bad some of our road surfaces are. I rode on a dirt road today that was smoother than the major six-lane divided arterial road I was on the other day. A mate of mine did 'around the bay' last year - he couldn't stop talking about how smooth the roads are...

So - Jean isn't just imagining it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:35 pm**

Made it to work again Drubie, just thought you should know...

Shaun

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:52 am**

Mulger bill wrote:Made it to work again Drubie, just thought you should know...

Shaun

Well Shaun, so did I.

But, it's FREAK BIKE FRIDAY, so the tyres were a tip shop Panaracer and some unpronouncable chinese thing on which the brand name might be "Nylon" that are currently fitted to the home made tandem.

Yes, you heard it here first, the lowest, low end supermarket MTB tyre, half worn, as found at the tip (cost: $3) is a more reliable unit that the Taterskin.

Re: the Canberra road situation. Admittedly it's been a few years since I was down there (23 years was enough!) but I'd like to know where this anonymous NSW road engineer came from. My guess: Homebush.

FREAK BIKE FRIDAY!!!!!! My goodness, how satisfying it is to drop some big gear gumby on the way to work on a home made tandem. Sick, but satisfying.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:28 am**

drubie wrote:Re: the Canberra road situation. Admittedly it's been a few years since I was down there (23 years was enough!) but I'd like to know where this anonymous NSW road engineer came from. My guess: Homebush.

Queanbeyan.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:02 am**

Road engineers from Struggletown? I call shenanigans.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:31 pm**

drubie wrote:Road engineers from Struggletown? I call shenanigans.

I said 'works for NSW Roads', not 'designs bicycle traps'. He could be one of those guys who holds mental state signs for all I know... (you know the ones - brain is slow or has stopped?).

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:02 pm**

i'm way late posting on this thread...but i find that the top race tyres offer the best puncture protection...kinda makes sense since all the latest r & d goes into that area.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:46 pm**

twizzle wrote:
drubie wrote:Road engineers from Struggletown? I call shenanigans.
I said 'works for NSW Roads', not 'designs bicycle traps'. He could be one of those guys who holds mental state signs for all I know... (you know the ones - brain is slow or has stopped?).

Someone from Struggletown with a paying job? I call shenanigans again.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:43 pm**

Fleshpiston wrote:i'm way late posting on this thread...but i find that the top race tyres offer the best puncture protection...kinda makes sense since all the latest r & d goes into that area.

Nope (IMHO) - top training tyres offer the best puncture protection.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:44 pm**

drubie wrote:
twizzle wrote:
drubie wrote:Road engineers from Struggletown? I call shenanigans.
I said 'works for NSW Roads', not 'designs bicycle traps'. He could be one of those guys who holds mental state signs for all I know... (you know the ones - brain is slow or has stopped?).
Someone from Struggletown with a paying job? I call shenanigans again.

Take a look at the prices of houses there now... pretty bloody expensive for a 'country town'.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:15 pm**

Property prices are crazy everywhere. You can't tell me that a 66% rise in 6 years is reasonable in ANY country town, but that's what the creepy real estate agents keep bugging us about here. They are nuts.

Did they complete filling in the corridor between the old tip and struggletown, so it's full of houses? I imagine people are living right on top of the old cemetary!

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:30 pm**

have to say i thought the roads for "Around the Bay" were excellent compared to Canberra.
Self government definitely saw a decline in our glass smooth roads.
they are "spiked glass" roads now

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:51 pm**

drubie wrote:Property prices are crazy everywhere. You can't tell me that a 66% rise in 6 years is reasonable in ANY country town, but that's what the creepy real estate agents keep bugging us about here. They are nuts.

Did they complete filling in the corridor between the old tip and struggletown, so it's full of houses? I imagine people are living right on top of the old cemetary!

Over 100% in ten years at my place. My 'unimproved land value' went from ~$50K to >$220K in that time. Lets see... rates determined by land value and collected by the local government, local government sets the unimproved land values. Conflict of interest perhaps? If the Govts. weren't so corrupt and in bed with the developers, they would develop and release the land at the cost of developing the land instead of selling the land to developers and requiring 'cheap blocks'. More than $200K for a 400sqm block? - criminal.

Could we get more off topics?

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:54 pm**

twizzle wrote: Could we get more off topics?

Uh, I think I derailed the thread beyond redemption with the pump story

...so, anyone want to recommend some tyres? Train/race, mebbe tilted towards race?

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:06 pm**

Michelin Krylion Carbon.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:53 pm**

Guess what?

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:09 pm**

Lars, The Puncture Fairy wrote:
Pushy wrote:So far over 2000km no flats (now I've done it!) and wearing well.
I know where you ride. I will leave several small presents for you to collect next time you go out.

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:20 pm**

Mulger bill wrote:Guess what?

Oh. Let me rephrase it. I need a tyre that I can train on that'll finish a race

Posted: **Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:36 pm**

Ummm, that'd be the GP4000s then. Prolly my next buy for the 'Dale.

x28 Taters are a great commuter tyre.

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