The Velodrome - 2016-06-02

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12:03 AM

bat: yeah here too - but not 20 years ago.

moz: we're going to do fancy dress at a MTB event in October

onsies / morph suits will be ideal cos no flappy bits.

Having to ride in them makes it different. We did a ~4 hour tramp once dresses as the white worm from some schlock horror movie, specifically because the costume was light and cheap. Specifically because the previous years we'd tried to run for 24 hours wearing slightly silly Sherlock Holmes costumes and that sucked.

These days cheap clothes and costumes off ebay makes a lot of that stuff much easier. I remember one bike even there were three or four people with handmade lycra top'n'tails suits. That was impressive.

morphsuits.co.nz/morphsuits/power-rangers <-- imagine a set of them

morphsuits.co.nz/morphsuits/halloween <-- or some of them

bit pricey though.

@Criggie yup, that's the sort of thing I was talking about. $60 here, unbelievable. Still, for a single use event they'd probably last.

To me a couple of hours labour plus materials for $60 is cheap.

I bought a bottom-end waterblaster last year, cost me $63 new. Hiring a small one would have cost $50 for the afternoon, so two uses and its paid for itself.

I think I've used it five times now.

yeah, that's where the Bunnings "much cheaper and nearly as good" approach can be really handy.

12:19 AM

yup. Reminds me of a former coworker who spent ludicrous money on a double speed scsi CD writer

it was working perfectly for 10 years, but at 5 years he could have bought a 24 speed IDE one for 20% what he paid

and at 10 years he could buy a 50x sata one for about $40

With computer anything you have to assume that will happen, unless whatever you choose fails in the market and you end up the proud owner of a portable DAT player or equivalent.

Or german WW2 tanks vs russian WW2 tanks.

Man - I'd love a DAT or minidisk player to install in the Landy.

Or an 8 track :)

Digital cameras were a rude shock to a lot of photographers, they weren't used to the "two years then bin it" approach to computer stuff, so there was an expensive period of adjustment.

@Criggie so when the engine is off you can hear the music?

Oi!

erm

actually you're right

If the girly was up to it I would have cheerfully kept my photobrick (Canon 1DIII) but she really, really did not like the extra weight.

12:25 AM

you need a tripod.

@Criggie not practical for a lot of what we take photos of, you can't get people to pose for a snap at social events and use a tripod. It's just not a good thing to do to the flow of the event. But the smaller camera and a fast, wide lens works really well. Unfortunately putting the lens hood on makes the lens look a bit scary to some people so often that has to stay in the bag.

okay its not small

We also traded the carbon still tripod that I loved for a same-price aluminium one with a 3kg video head on it. I still don't like it, and she barely uses it.

:-\ regrets

I regret throwing away my old road bike

Yeah, video heads are really shit for still photography, but they're also big, heavy and expensive.

12:32 AM

Green Raleigh Arena.... I saw one a couple weeks ago, it was gorgeous.

:)

early 80s at best. Made me sad.

why do people spend time writing detailed questions rather than typing one sentence into a search box and reading what pops up? Especially on SE.

Geez, most of my questions end with "and I tried these 27 searches", or in one recent case "searching for four common words together is never going to work"... but what else can you do when a makefile causes gnu make to sigsevf?

so onto the mailing list "the library build, checked and installed fine. Building the examples SIGSEVF"...

what's up, all?

Been 2 years since the bikes.se blog was updated. Too bad. About to do this ride again, which was the last post:

Stack Exchange Bicycles Blog: McKenzie Pass Scenic Bikeway, Car Free!

nhinkle on June 30, 2014

Most states have "Scenic Byways," highway routes that might take a bit longer, but go through nice scenery and natural areas. Oregon has something a step better: Scenic Bikeways! There are 12 Scenic Bikeways across the state, ranging from 24 to 180 miles.

Arguably the most spectacular of these routes is McKenzie Pass. Crossing the Oregon Cascades, McKenzie Pass starts in Central Oregon's high desert with sagebrush and ponderosa pines, then ascends 2000 feet into a lava flow. The route continues down into the lush temperate forests of western Oregon, although we turned back at the top. The best …

12:53 AM

@nhinkle at work, grinding through the web developers collection of stored procedures adding or fixing the error handling to stop the logs filling with "error in proc {wrongname}: something went wrong" or worse NULL because he didn't check for that and just fed random cruft into the CONCAT statement. Then pasted the same handler into all 12 new SPs he made that day. I am SO glad I made him use SPs rather than raw SQL in his code. Debugging that would be even worse.

moz: heh

yesterday's fun - someone had a phone called "localhost" and our pfsense dhcp server copies from dhcpd.leases to local DNS.

that was interesting, when localhost becomes 10.3.3.83

:) that is magic

So I tested it by naming a spare device "wpad"

it worked as expected.

I might see if I can do that here, but I doubt our setup is smart enough to enable DNS for wifi devices.

I could have served wpad.chc.local/proxy.pac filled with dodgy javascript

and windows clients could have hit it.

but.... localohst?

someone's got enough knowledge to be dangerous.

1:20 AM

I'm hunting for a raleigh 20 or a healing cruiser to take to this MTB event too

Big knobbly tyres and cheap plastic mudguards

maybe even a playing card in the spokes

SPOKEY DOKEYS!

for the low-speed victory lap :)

UV reactive spokey dokeys, with some UV lights on the frame.

1:34 AM

@Criggie hope it's a short lap :)

I thought of putting 16" wheels on the front of my quad to go with the fatties on the back. Beno said it would look silly (and cost $300) so I didn't... then he took a quad with all four fatties to a race.

It's different when you're the manufacturer and can re-sell the silly things afterwards. Speaking of which, his Pedlapotty now has a tray back option which is much more sensible. trisled.com.au/bent-maxi

It almost looks as though the "phat trike" with 5" wide tyres is an official product.

And Ben is clearly doing the website content himslef, the deslickseeia chimes thru.

(I take the piss, you know I take the piss)

last year a lap was ~12 km

so 20 minutes or so. All fairly flat singletrack or shingle roads.

times blew out in the dark - I was 32 minutes on a dark lap

moz: thanks - something to read while work completes.

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that looks like I'd bend it in no time flat.

massively unsupported seat tube

That's why I want a level top tube.

1:59 AM

You might be pleasantly surprised. Ben tends to build things that don't break. His PhatMaxi courier bikes have as yet failed to die horribly, while the Filibus equivalent ... are not like that. They are lighter, though, if you can live with a "load bike" rated to 35kg.

Those bikes are mostly aimed at commercial markets where they don't care so much about an extra kilo or two, but they care a lot about bikes being out of action. So you're likely to find that that's a 34mm steapost and the frame tube is 1.6mm wall rather than 0.9 or 1.2. Just guessing. But also, if you broke it without greviously mistreating it, he honours the warranty.

When I slightly broke the steering on my race trike (by dropping 1m-ish off a flight of stairs when it turned out the pram ramp I wanted to use was occupied) he said "oh, yeah, we discovered we underbuilt that, here's a new pair of steering arms".

@Criggie so 30-ish minutes on a Raleigh 20.

ahhhh

I'm a fat-arse

well I was.... so I have bent 4 seat posts and cracked one seat tube clamp.

Mostly by having the saddle too high.

That said, modern bikes are thicker poles..... but my bikes aren;'t modern.

The MTB has a 25.4mm seat post, and both the road bike and tandem have 26.8mm

2:29 AM

which is apparently an unusual size.... I had problems finding 400mm seat posts in that size, and no suspension ones were available

2:50 AM

Call that a seatpost? THIS is a seatpost

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NOICE!

Was some random chunk of stainless pipe that I think I actually found on the side of the road. I slit and mangled the top to take a standard old-school seat clamp.

hehehe my MTB (25.4mm post) has a handle from a fancy gas oven shoved up the middle.

It was a good fit, given sufficient grease and hammerage. Not coming out anytime soon, and it also hasn't bent.

I love saying to people "well, how do you carry 6m lengths of steel on your bike, then?" when they ask why I have the tall bike.

Or had, sold it before I moved to Melbourne. Going on 10 years ago.

That photo has 4m lengths tho, coz if you're buying multiple lengths it's cheaper per metre to get 8m lengths and cut them in half for the bike ride home. 8m is too long for the bike, turning becomes way too tricky and even balancing gets hard coz the lengths wobble when you steer. Uh, so I imagine, because such a load wouldn't be lawful, so I've never done that.

Also, for that photo I was track standing while my mate played with the camera . It's normally easier to track stand a tall bike, except that the extra weight made with little back-and-forward shifts very hard so I struggled. For a technology professional she was a bit slow with the gadgets.

3:46 AM

ok, I voted to close this question, then edited it, then answered it. I'm inconsistent.

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Q: Will a "700 x 25-32cc" inner tube fit my "700Cx28/38c" / "ETRTO 622x20" rim?

I have a road bike that has a flat tire, the rim is marked with the text 700Cx28/38c ETRTO 622x20 I am specifically looking at this Continental tube on Amazon. Under the sizing options there is an option 700 x 25-32cc Which I think is the one that I want. The picture of the box (not...

I read it, thought "geez, do some research" but then decided that the OP is actually over-thinking things and has wound themselves into a knot by doing research.

4:02 AM

yep - I added a comment about tubes fit tyres and tyres fit rims.

he's got it that tubes have to fit rims.

4:35 AM

ooh, now I feel special. I got a badge for that, and I'm the only bicyclist to have that one! bicycles.stackexchange.com/help/badges/97/refiner

3 hours later…

7:29 AM

@Criggie the website's performance is awful. The items I linked to are still available, well at least the website says so ... just waiting on shipping confirmation

@PeteH they'll suffice for commuting about 50 mins per day. I've bought some really cheap DHB gear for the same purpose and they've also served me well

I'm trying to keep my good gear for longer spins so I get more time from them

8:01 AM

@Mσᶎ You're keen

I notice the gold version of that has no holders either

Give me time!

geez, 500... give me lots and lots of time

500 in a 12 hour preiod too

:|

Finally got the weeride mounted: twitter.com/ynneKkraM/status/737761435099500544

seemed to enjoy it for the most part

8:38 AM

@ynnekkram that's good news. And it's coming up to the week-long summer that you lot get, too :)

9:10 AM

"summer" haha

it's like low teen celcius... shorts and tshirts are out :D

has been a welcome change considering we'd freak snow about 5 weeks ago

9:32 AM

I always use my good stuff, the idea being if I wear it out inside the warranty, then I get new stuff for freeezies!

Also, weerides are awesome. Wish I brought mine here

@Criggie - something and nothing

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A: Top up hydraulic brake fluid?

Your brake is a closed system, and your brake cable is filled with a mixture of brake fluid and air. Air is compressible, while brake fluid isn't. So, the larger the proportion of air in the system, the more compressible it will be, the more effort is required to actually stop the bike, and this ...

Judging by their actual question, one assumes that the Op is aware that there shouldn't be air in the system, that isn't what they're asking

As you can see I decided it was best to say nothing in the end in response to that guy's comment - nothing he said actually contradicted what I said, it was just a bit tangential

The trouble is, having some air in the system, however small a volume, is inevitable unless you're able to work in, like, a vacuum

On another subject, I seem to have network issues today - a real pita.

When I got up, the laptop could not connect, which I fixed by fgiving it a static ip address

So the bit of my router that acts as a dhcp server seems to have gonr awol. Funny, it was all working yesterday...

9:58 AM

ask criggie about the wisdom of setting your hostname to localhost. There's some comments above...

So I can stay fixed all day, since I'm home alone, but I could really do with sorting it by the time Mrs Pete comes home

have you tried turning it off and on again. All of it. Everything. Turn them all off.
Disturbingly, my coworker's monitor needs that every now and then. It shows weird jiggling artifacts (LCD monitor), but using the off button on the front fixes it... for a while.

10:13 AM

reboot the router, works 80% of the time, all the time

1 hour later…

11:37 AM

yeah, it survived a reboot first thing, but there are plenty of options, I even have a spare router now

12:16 PM

That was weird. In the end I sorted things by rebooting everything, and everything came back. So no swapping of hardware required.

So it didn't survive a reboot, I just rebooted thebwrong thing at first. The trouble here is that there are plenty on things to choose from!

5 hours later…

5:04 PM

wow. 21 people have upvoted that drop bar question.

also, coincidentally, my 600th answer.

5:32 PM

well done @Batman. It says as much about your tenacity in stayimg with the site all this time, as it does about any knowledge you have

I was looking at the site before and am obviously convalescing to the point where I am able to answer stuff. But there is still a large element of cba getting inti it

i got a new kettle today.

bonavitaworld.com/products/10l-electric-gooseneck-kettle

yay! I have one of those fancy kettles with built-in water filter, but the lid mechanism never worked

I stand at the sink for hours trying to open the bloody thing

yeah. i wish this had a button to open it, instead of a lid which you have to pull like a regular kettle

presumably you've christened it?

christened? i've made tea with it

i'm on cup 10 or so today already, so...

5:45 PM

yeah, that's what I meant. I'm out of milk until Mrs PeteH gets home so tea is rationed today. But she'll be back in 15 minutes, unless she got a better offer!

Fortunately it is knocking-off time here, I have just finished work for the day.

Well......."work"

4 hours later…

10:04 PM

The great thing is that I laugh at my own jokes, so they amuse at least one person.

I couldn't find a picture of three trikes on a roof rack, so here's one with four trikes on a small car :)

Seriously though, this guy is quite ingenious bicyclepatents.com/bruces-trike-carrier/1545

If I owned a car, and ... weell, ok, that seems really unlikely, but anyway, I suspect I'd end up building stuff like that.

1 hour later…

11:18 PM

@ynnekkram Nice . Can you put the kid's helmet on better ?

Or is it too big?

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