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The Fly6 is on Amazon fro £59.99 right now, but of course is out of stock.Slowbike wrote:
I had a few - the £££ of the fly6 was too much - but the £40 from Aldi for a back light & camera was worth the spend. It just sits on my commute bike - charge it up at work - the only downside is that the 8Gb card does only record about 1/2 hour - fine for my commute, but no good for longer rides. Oh - and the camera just turns itself off mid ride sometimes - it does beep to tell you though, so kind of it.... (if I need a back light because it's dark then there's another light on the back too)Dinyull wrote:Really, really don't want to, but thinking a camera is the only way. That's 2 run in's now with a coach/lorry that have scared the sh*t out of me - both times the police would have taken action I'm sure.
I've reported 2 snips to Operation Crackdown - Sussex Police's online reporting tool - and had 2 letters sent out to the registered drivers - both passes were just too close - neither were aggressive... thankfully.
Been thinking about getting a forward facing one to capture the otherside - but wouldn't want to spend a lot on it.0 -
elbowloh wrote:
The Fly6 is on Amazon fro £59.99 right now, but of course is out of stock.Slowbike wrote:
I had a few - the £££ of the fly6 was too much - but the £40 from Aldi for a back light & camera was worth the spend. It just sits on my commute bike - charge it up at work - the only downside is that the 8Gb card does only record about 1/2 hour - fine for my commute, but no good for longer rides. Oh - and the camera just turns itself off mid ride sometimes - it does beep to tell you though, so kind of it.... (if I need a back light because it's dark then there's another light on the back too)Dinyull wrote:Really, really don't want to, but thinking a camera is the only way. That's 2 run in's now with a coach/lorry that have scared the sh*t out of me - both times the police would have taken action I'm sure.
I've reported 2 snips to Operation Crackdown - Sussex Police's online reporting tool - and had 2 letters sent out to the registered drivers - both passes were just too close - neither were aggressive... thankfully.
Been thinking about getting a forward facing one to capture the otherside - but wouldn't want to spend a lot on it.
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Wolfsbane2k wrote:
Have you done the SW upgrade yet? The Turning off mid ride was, in my experience, due to it being "too dark" and thinking it there was no movement, so triggering the 5 min auto-cutoff thing.
And the aldi camera really is very simple, great battery life, and a 64gb card to stores a weeks worth of commuting for me, so it's a battery charge and camera charge every Friday night.
Nope - I suppose I should look at doing it ... I tend not to bother with firmware updates unless there's something specific to fix. I suppose turning off mid-ride is something specific to fix, although I doubt if it's because it's too dark - 8 to 830 commute at this time of year isn't dark. I assumed it was a dodgy connection somewhere.
I'll have to get one of those 64Gb cards though
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Slowbike wrote:Wolfsbane2k wrote:
Have you done the SW upgrade yet? The Turning off mid ride was, in my experience, due to it being "too dark" and thinking it there was no movement, so triggering the 5 min auto-cutoff thing.
And the aldi camera really is very simple, great battery life, and a 64gb card to stores a weeks worth of commuting for me, so it's a battery charge and camera charge every Friday night.
Nope - I suppose I should look at doing it ... I tend not to bother with firmware updates unless there's something specific to fix. I suppose turning off mid-ride is something specific to fix, although I doubt if it's because it's too dark - 8 to 830 commute at this time of year isn't dark. I assumed it was a dodgy connection somewhere.
I'll have to get one of those 64Gb cards though
Ah, that makes more sense. I didn't want to do the "upgrade" as it also removes the "locking" ability after a detected crash, but during the winter it consistently turned off 6 minutes into ride.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
Apparently, halfrauds have now stopped selling KMC 10 speed chains in store.
Balls, I was going to grab one on the way home
Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
You don't keep a couple in stock? With your spare brake pads, brake/gear cables etc? :shock:Wolfsbane2k wrote:Apparently, halfrauds have now stopped selling KMC 10 speed chains in store.
Balls, I was going to grab one on the way homePannier, 120rpm.0 -
TGOTB wrote:
You don't keep a couple in stock? With your spare brake pads, brake/gear cables etc? :shock:Wolfsbane2k wrote:Apparently, halfrauds have now stopped selling KMC 10 speed chains in store.
Balls, I was going to grab one on the way home
Read up post. I thought I had 4 suitable Shimano 10s chains in stock, bought when Halfords has a 20% flash sale on.
Turns out they are MTB ones, and not suitable for 105 series stuff.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
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Clipless moment tonight, not the usual topple over to the side though. Pulled away from the lights but couldn't get clipped in so rode on the pedal briefly till my foot slipped off and the pedal drew blood on the back of my calf, not that I knew it at the time.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Swapping chain, all runs smoothly. Don't mix HG chains and 5700 series and above.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
So what chain did you use in the end? Must admit I'm genuinely surprised by that. I've got 10 speed 105 on one bike and 10 speed XT on the MTB and just buy KMC chains for both.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Swapping chain, all runs smoothly. Don't mix HG chains and 5700 series and above.0 -
Cyclists who don't shoulder-check.
Too dense by half.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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Veronese68 wrote:
So what chain did you use in the end? Must admit I'm genuinely surprised by that. I've got 10 speed 105 on one bike and 10 speed XT on the MTB and just buy KMC chains for both.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Swapping chain, all runs smoothly. Don't mix HG chains and 5700 series and above.
KMC 10.73 - my normal. Found one in a different shop.
The ones I had in are Shimano HG-95 s. Only got them cos they were dirt cheap at the time - about £3 cheaper than the 10.73s.
I couldn't quite believe it either- I might have had a "borderline" setup , as the crankset is a Prowheel one, and the rear cassette is not concentric when looking closely ( Shimano HB-RS400 hub with a 4700 cassette).Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
Slightly more trivial than yesterdays rant, but...
Ordered a new bike through works cyclescheme last week. Heard absolutely feck all since the order confirmation. Wife has just text to say bike has been delivered to next door.
Get on with the neighbours well so shouldn't be a problem, but I'd be a bit pi$$ed off if asked to take a bike sized delivery for someone in the street.
How on earth can you dispatch/ deliver something the size of a bike and not tell the person when to expect it?!
Still, woohoo new bike!!!0 -
Thank feck for that!Dinyull wrote:Slightly more trivial than yesterdays rant, but...0 -
Veronese68 wrote:
Thank feck for that!Dinyull wrote:Slightly more trivial than yesterdays rant, but...
Yeah.
Actually heard back from the coach company this morning, wasn't them. Their vehicles are tracked and nothing in the area. Nice of them to call back though, instead of just pieing me off.
Second time now I've had a "run in" with a large branded vehicle who'd details I haven't caught. You'd think it would be a piece of pi$$ finding them on google with colourways, taglines etc - but nope, nothing.0 -
W**k panzers with paedo tints on the rear windows. Irritating if you’re beside them approaching a junction and you can’t see what’s coming from the roads running perpendicular to them because the view through their toss mobile is obscured.0
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You really don't want to be alongside a moving motor vehicle anyway, unless it's overtaking you. Way too much squishing potential...Milemuncher1 wrote:W**k panzers with paedo tints on the rear windows. Irritating if you’re beside them approaching a junction and you can’t see what’s coming from the roads running perpendicular to them because the view through their toss mobile is obscured.Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
Back on bike after a month off due to bolting some Ti gubbins to my clavicle. Cycling in Mallorca this weekend, so I needed to roll out the S5 (filthy spoils of insurance money--unrelated to clavicle) for a pre-flight check. Admittedly none of this sounds like a rant, but in Fulham late last night got a rear puncture. No patches to be found in my kit bag and my spare inner tube only had short valve stems*: easily engulfed by my deep sectioned rims. I already look like a right git riding this thing on the commute in a state of profound unfittness whilst carrying an extra 7 kg (on reflection, I seem to have eaten an entire second S5 to store in my belly while I was laid up), hopefully no one saw me bundle myself into a cab of shame.
* Overlong valve stems being an abomination unto the Lord.0 -
It seems as though my chest infection is slowly dissipating (anti-rant) after a month but I cannot believe how much fitness I've lost....a slow(ish) 10miles this morning and it felt like 50.0
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I'm sure something similar has already been done...
People on eBikes+child seat+child drafting you. Then when you stop for a read light they go past, weave in and out of 4 lanes of traffic, jump on the footway then ride back out into the traffic.
Suppose it's cheaper than taking the kid to Alton towers.0 -
The beautiful Raleigh Competition I wanted to get and turn into a track bike sold.
I really shouldn't have worried about upsetting the wife and got the damn thing. Unimpressed.0 -
Bought one of those delicates bags for in the washing machine a few weeks back and washed my gloves before I put them away for the summer and somehow lost a glove despite checking twice and making sure the zip was closed fully, now tha same thing has happened when I washed the pads from my helmet along with two pairs of gloves, only three of the four pads emerged from the wash despite the zip still being fully closed.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Did you buy the delicates bag in Bermuda?0
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F&-##_£&&&#&;"_*:ing Halfords/cycle republic
Trying to get my 520 HRM/cadence bundle ordered two weeks back, rang up, they confirmed the one from Scotland that had been shipped down had arrived, after the one they had in store was a exdisplay unit with HRM missing.
Drove down for the second time, in rush hour, as only time I have the car for a week or two, turned out they had received an mtb performance bundle, so no sensors.
They then tried to blag that they had ordered another one, which was due, only for to hear that the store they thought they had ordered it from hadn't heard of such an order...
Fuming. 2+ hours traveling now to pick up sfa, only to have to do the same again next time I get told is in stock....Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
Broke yet another pedal on the way in. Gentle Creaking for a few minutes, massive crack, and now massive creaking & loads of play.
Still, means yet another pair of brand new pedals under decathlon's guarantee; going to be a perpetual guarantee at this rate, this is the 4th pair!Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
Top morning, childcare issues saw me commute at 10am into a near nodder free zone on the good bike, reasonable headwind though... My messing about with a torque wrench has cured my creak but still a clicking, time to sort out the pedals I think.
Also saw the below, some north London commuters may have seen?
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APPEAL FOR WITNESSES - I was hit (but mostly unharmed) on my #cycle home from work on the intersection between #Farringdon and #Clerkenwell Rd today at 5:20pm. Driver drove away. Did you see anything? Follow & PM me @citycyclists #accident #bike #cyclist PLEASE RTIf I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
Appreciate that most of you Southern heathens won't have heard of it, but the grimmest part of any commute into Manchester from the West is undoubtedly the A6 between Pendlebury and Pendleton. It's a horrendous two/three lane DC that includes two underpasses, with horrible entrances and exits to both. The speed limit is nominally 40mph - but in reality traffic regularly hits 60 as it clears the bottleneck of the East Lancs (which feeds into it). It's an absolute pig of a road - fast, dangerous and should never be ridden by someone not in full control of their senses and bicycle. So some farking idiot on a MTB really, really shouldn't be riding along texting on his poxy phone...Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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TGOTB wrote:
You really don't want to be alongside a moving motor vehicle anyway, unless it's overtaking you. Way too much squishing potential...Milemuncher1 wrote:W**k panzers with paedo tints on the rear windows. Irritating if you’re beside them approaching a junction and you can’t see what’s coming from the roads running perpendicular to them because the view through their toss mobile is obscured.
That’s why I don’t, I was referring to said tw@ mobile being stationary and indicating left, but me being alongside on the right hand side, unable to see what’s coming from my left, and stuff approaching from the left, unable to see me, until they (inevitably) cut the corner, and see me gesticulating at them.0
