I understand the imbalance Y. I totally thought that today’s interview would have a saying like… “under-qualified” or “you need your TESOL certificate/degree”. I didn’t get either. I don’t know for sure yet, but it may be 再见美国…..你好中国！at the end of this summer.
I’m in the Applied Linguistics program at PDX.edu, I’m trying to get my BA and a TESOL cert. That way, I can teach English anywhere in the world. China/Taiwan is where I’d like to go. I just wasn’t thinking that it could possibly be this quick (no degree, no certification)
Ugh I remember tacoing a front wheel on a mtb. The mechanic pulled it across his knee to “straighten” it. I got 3 more years out of it with minimal brake chatter until the same thing happened to the back one.
My friend from the charity shop brought me a ‘bent’ wheel that he couldn’t true…
1. I loosened all the spokes and slowly, carefully, trued it as much as possible without the spokes.
2. Using Jobst Brandt’s book, I re-spoked and slowly brought the spokes up to tension.
As a result, the wheel has been working okay for at least a year so far
The rule is that we need to get as much stress out of the rim before assembly as possible and keep it that way through the build. This will maintain the balance and give years of riding pleasure.
My personal mantra is that everything can be fixed so long as it is not irreversibly broken.
Even then, it might be possible to weld it etc!
The golden rule of fixing things: ‘take your time’ as speedy work can apply stresses that won’t reveal themselves until something ‘gives’ – sometimes with catastrophic results!
with JB’s 150 page hard copy, you can whack at the rim first…..
lets see -is it righty tighty & lefty loosey, or other way around????
I’m so confused!!!
some kids tacoed my son’s bmx bike rear wheel, which had a steel rim in a wheelbender rack. I thought it was beyond repair, being bent steel. But I was able to bend it back straight and re-true it and he’s been riding it for the past two years since then. It sure helps that there are no brake pads to have to clear, just the tire needs to not rub on the frame anywhere. Needless to say, we lock his bike PARALLEL to the bars of the wheelbender racks now. virtually all the other kids also do the same. Several rows of the racks are placed too close together to even allow bikes to really fit in the other way. In addition there is the issue of being unable to lock both wheels and the frame to a parking rack like this unless you are side-by-side to the rack.
Maybe that’s why I have an ingrained liking for steel – Ally has a tendency to crack/break if you bend it too much!
However . . . I appreciate why Ally rims have their place as the 1st choice. Stiffer and don’t rust.
Steel doesn’t wear as quickly, especially the Chrome-plated SS the dutch love so much.
Not much good in the wet without a hub brake but magic with! (See right?)
The so-called “wheelbenders” I used to use were designed to be used from only one side, and usually were placed close to the wall of a building. The bikes were very close together, with the handlebars and pedals of each bike overlapping with those of its neighbors to either side. Those of us who locked our bikes found it easiest to ride the bike into the rack, lean down and thread a cable lock through the front wheel, around the rack and frame, and finally through the back wheel, then climb off over the back of the bike.
I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
I like that. “Tacoed” is so extreme. like the wheel is bent in half. “Pringled” is just about right. The problem is, Kellog’s may wish to protect their trademark with extreme predjudice. Watch your back.
Well, that WAS true, but now Kellogg’s owns Proctor & Gamble. Kellogg’s is now the world’s second largest snack food company after Pepsico. I assume both are subsidiaries of Ramjack (a Kurt Vonnegut reference
What’s Sister Sprocket smoking these days? We usually get an indication of the brand of shag she’s sucking on.
Added! Thanks for the reminder. It’s been so long since she’s appeared -
Where’s the Cat?
Well the Dick Tracy label says she’s smoking Mavic’s Mellow Mix today…
It says what she’s smoking now… but at 15 minutes after midnight it didn’t
I understand the imbalance Y. I totally thought that today’s interview would have a saying like… “under-qualified” or “you need your TESOL certificate/degree”. I didn’t get either. I don’t know for sure yet, but it may be 再见美国…..你好中国！at the end of this summer.
Showoff!
“Goodbye USA — Hello China”??? What’s up with that??
I’m in the Applied Linguistics program at PDX.edu, I’m trying to get my BA and a TESOL cert. That way, I can teach English anywhere in the world. China/Taiwan is where I’d like to go. I just wasn’t thinking that it could possibly be this quick (no degree, no certification)
I’m with Yehuda on this one: I can’t stand wheels that are even a little out of true
right, just 1/10 of a millimeter seems to much. I like my rim brakes with a short way of response….
Ugh I remember tacoing a front wheel on a mtb. The mechanic pulled it across his knee to “straighten” it. I got 3 more years out of it with minimal brake chatter until the same thing happened to the back one.
I saw mechanics in Kenya who had two tools, which they’d use in order of severity of the problem. The first was a big hammer, the second was a welder…
My friend from the charity shop brought me a ‘bent’ wheel that he couldn’t true…
1. I loosened all the spokes and slowly, carefully, trued it as much as possible without the spokes.
2. Using Jobst Brandt’s book, I re-spoked and slowly brought the spokes up to tension.
As a result, the wheel has been working okay for at least a year so far
The rule is that we need to get as much stress out of the rim before assembly as possible and keep it that way through the build. This will maintain the balance and give years of riding pleasure.
My personal mantra is that everything can be fixed so long as it is not irreversibly broken.
Even then, it might be possible to weld it etc!
The golden rule of fixing things: ‘take your time’ as speedy work can apply stresses that won’t reveal themselves until something ‘gives’ – sometimes with catastrophic results!
with JB’s 150 page hard copy, you can whack at the rim first…..
lets see -is it righty tighty & lefty loosey, or other way around????
I’m so confused!!!
some kids tacoed my son’s bmx bike rear wheel, which had a steel rim in a wheelbender rack. I thought it was beyond repair, being bent steel. But I was able to bend it back straight and re-true it and he’s been riding it for the past two years since then. It sure helps that there are no brake pads to have to clear, just the tire needs to not rub on the frame anywhere. Needless to say, we lock his bike PARALLEL to the bars of the wheelbender racks now. virtually all the other kids also do the same. Several rows of the racks are placed too close together to even allow bikes to really fit in the other way. In addition there is the issue of being unable to lock both wheels and the frame to a parking rack like this unless you are side-by-side to the rack.
Maybe that’s why I have an ingrained liking for steel – Ally has a tendency to crack/break if you bend it too much!
However . . . I appreciate why Ally rims have their place as the 1st choice. Stiffer and don’t rust.
Steel doesn’t wear as quickly, especially the Chrome-plated SS the dutch love so much.
Not much good in the wet without a hub brake but magic with! (See right?)
The so-called “wheelbenders” I used to use were designed to be used from only one side, and usually were placed close to the wall of a building. The bikes were very close together, with the handlebars and pedals of each bike overlapping with those of its neighbors to either side. Those of us who locked our bikes found it easiest to ride the bike into the rack, lean down and thread a cable lock through the front wheel, around the rack and frame, and finally through the back wheel, then climb off over the back of the bike.
Happy World Towel Day! http://towelday.org/
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I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
As I say above – that is the only way with a stubborn wheel?
I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
I’ve repeated had people come up to me on group rides to point out how out of true my front wheel is. Since it has a drum brake instead of rim brakes (a big step up from the rod brakes it originally had) it doesn’t matter that much, and it’s so hard to find 28″ westwood rims that are flat to begin with..
I’ve had professionals try to true it without much luck. I just try not to look down on it, but if it bothered me as much as it does Yehuda, I’d take the wheel apart and start from scratch…
In Britain we say “Pringled” rather than “tacoed”.
I like that. “Tacoed” is so extreme. like the wheel is bent in half. “Pringled” is just about right. The problem is, Kellog’s may wish to protect their trademark with extreme predjudice. Watch your back.
Pringles come from Procter and Gamble, not Kellogg’s.
Well, that WAS true, but now Kellogg’s owns Proctor & Gamble. Kellogg’s is now the world’s second largest snack food company after Pepsico. I assume both are subsidiaries of Ramjack (a Kurt Vonnegut reference
Here in Germany I heard it being called “chipped”.