Is there anything you clever lot don't know?

kelsen
kelsen Posts: 2,003
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
To name but a few...

Particle physics
Network latency testing
Carpets
Sheds
Moulded plugs
Seamless knickers
Sore punanis

I think not!
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    It's the saddle. 8)
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    It's the saddle. 8)

    you forgot to remove the Hamster.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    It's the saddle. 8)

    Or the artificial hip? (seriously, there is a guy in the States suing the manufacturer because the squeaking in his artificial hip is putting him, ahem, off his stroke :D )
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    This happened to me once.... but then I realised I was a transporting a live mouse in my backpack - caught that morning in my living room, and taking him/her to be released somewhere away from my house. Mouse released - squeaking stopped. Simples!
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    This happened to me once.... but then I realised I was a transporting a live mouse in my backpack - caught that morning in my living room, and taking him/her to be released somewhere away from my house. Mouse released - squeaking stopped. Simples!

    You're Glaswegian right? In other words, there's a moose loose aboot yer hoose!
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    kelsen wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    I can't figure which bit of my bike is squeaking :oops:

    This happened to me once.... but then I realised I was a transporting a live mouse in my backpack - caught that morning in my living room, and taking him/her to be released somewhere away from my house. Mouse released - squeaking stopped. Simples!

    You're Glaswegian right? In other words, there's a moose loose aboot yer hoose!

    Yes, there was.... it is now mooching about between Maryhill Road and the Forth and Clyde Canal
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I can't work out what the ticking sound coming from my front wheel is.
    It comes and goes, but when it is there, it ticks once per rotation and sounds like something is flicking off of one of the spokes.

    The tyre and tube have been removed, checked and replaced and I've tried the wheel on different bikes but the noise is still there.

    Can the hive mind solve this one? The wheel is a Mavic Aksium, the tyre is a Gatorskin, the tube is a Continental. The tube is inflated with air.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    edited April 2011
    Does any male understand women? :shock:

    End of debate :wink:
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I can't work out what the ticking sound coming from my front wheel is.
    It comes and goes, but when it is there, it ticks once per rotation and sounds like something is flicking off of one of the spokes.

    The tyre and tube have been removed, checked and replaced and I've tried the wheel on different bikes but the noise is still there.

    Can the hive mind solve this one? The wheel is a Mavic Aksium, the tyre is a Gatorskin, the tube is a Continental. The tube is inflated with air.

    Speedo magnet touching the sensor.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    I'm in the process of trying to work out what is clunking when I pedal :lol:
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I can't work out what the ticking sound coming from my front wheel is.
    It comes and goes, but when it is there, it ticks once per rotation and sounds like something is flicking off of one of the spokes.

    The tyre and tube have been removed, checked and replaced and I've tried the wheel on different bikes but the noise is still there.

    Can the hive mind solve this one? The wheel is a Mavic Aksium, the tyre is a Gatorskin, the tube is a Continental. The tube is inflated with air.

    Change the air to liquid concrete. I guarntee you will not notice the ticking sound after that5.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I can't work out what the ticking sound coming from my front wheel is.
    It comes and goes, but when it is there, it ticks once per rotation and sounds like something is flicking off of one of the spokes.

    The tyre and tube have been removed, checked and replaced and I've tried the wheel on different bikes but the noise is still there.

    Can the hive mind solve this one? The wheel is a Mavic Aksium, the tyre is a Gatorskin, the tube is a Continental. The tube is inflated with air.

    Probably a tiny little bit of metal left over from machining the rim inside the walls, try taking the tube off and shaking it like crazy with the valve hole at the bottom. Worked on my PX Model B's.
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I can't work out what the ticking sound coming from my front wheel is.
    It comes and goes, but when it is there, it ticks once per rotation and sounds like something is flicking off of one of the spokes.

    The tyre and tube have been removed, checked and replaced and I've tried the wheel on different bikes but the noise is still there.

    Can the hive mind solve this one? The wheel is a Mavic Aksium, the tyre is a Gatorskin, the tube is a Continental. The tube is inflated with air.

    New tyre, flash rubber?
    New tyre, plastic strip that covers the tyre logo coming off slightly (I had that happen on a Marathon)?
    Magnet?
  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    edited April 2011
    kelsen wrote:
    To name but a few...

    Particle physics
    Network latency testing
    Carpets
    Sheds
    Moulded plugs
    Seamless knickers
    Sore punanis

    Particle physics
    Electrons, Quarks, Photons, Neutrinos and stuff like that
    Network latency testing
    Testing lag between your java router and a server, Ping tests ect.
    Carpets
    Fluffy, goes on the floor, Persian ones are expensive.
    Sheds
    Seriously :lol: Wood, nails and elbow grease
    Moulded plugs
    Hot plastic in mould, let it set, you got a moulded plug.
    Seamless knickers
    You got me on that one :?
    Sore punanis
    MTFU :twisted:

    But I can't get a headset to work :lol:
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    essex-commuter wrote:

    New tyre, flash rubber?

    Sorry, by that I mean the little bits of rubber that are left on the tyre when it comes out of the mould. I haev had these brush in brake blocks before and make a noise.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    UE, no speedo so no sensor. This was my first thought when the noise came so I took it off and its still there.
    EC, the tyres are old, so any flashings have long gone.
    thel33ter (no idea how to abbreviate that), that sounds possible. Not sure if I can be bothered to attempt it until I have to take the tyre and tube off though.

    Thanks hive mind.
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  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    thel33ter (no idea how to abbreviate that

    :lol: I don't even know how to say it, let alone abbreviate it.
    And now you know, and knowing is half the battle
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    thel33ter wrote:
    Seamless knickers
    You got me on that one :?
    Sore punanis
    MTFU :twisted:

    But I can't get a headset to work :lol:

    I got the seamless knickers department covered.... Nifer wanted some knickers to wear under her cycle shorts. I found her a reasonably priced one. Said she would send me a photo. I'm still waiting. :x

    Sore Punanis? Job done, I'd say! :P
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Eke, could it be coming from witin the hub?
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I don't know how to change my career from the dull sh1te that I am doing at the moment......
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sore Punanis? Job done, I'd say! :P

    My sentiments exactly!
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    EKE, could it be coming from witin the hub?

    Possibly. Intermittent faults are the hardest to diagnose. Its not a major enough issue to go crazy trying to remedy though.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I used to have a click that took me 2 years to work out > when I was on the inner ring, the front deraillieur wire would brush my crank.

    Click........Click........Click.........

    I have a new squeek in the winter when out of the saddle - eventually worked out it was my overshoe rubbing against the crank due to my crazy foot angle when I'm out of the saddle.


    Squelch.......Squelch.....Squelch....
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    @EKE,

    Had a strange ticking noise that I couldn't fathom. After weeks of head scratching, taking things off, putting them back on etc. I discovered it was the lace of my shoe hitting the frame. Felt a bit of a fool when it dawned on me though :oops:
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I don't know why 'The Only Way is Essex' is any good, but it is....

    Annoyingly so. :x
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I don't know why 'The Only Way is Essex' is any good, but it is....

    Annoyingly so. :x

    WTF????????? The only reason this exists on the TV is so the missus can watch it whilst the alpha male is out clocking up the miles.
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I don't know why 'The Only Way is Essex' is any good, but it is....

    sweet jesus man, an i thought you were cool!
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I don't know why 'The Only Way is Essex' is any good, but it is....

    Annoyingly so. :x

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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I don't know why 'The Only Way is Essex' is any good, but it is....

    Annoyingly so. :x

    Seems to me that you are on a 'D' losing mission.

    C'mon Son. Fix up, look sharp!
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