sunday doing the time warp again
sungod
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back to darker mornings again, sigh, cold and gloomygrey forecast
ride cafes lazing and bubbly, it's important to set an example
back to darker mornings again, sigh, cold and gloomygrey forecast
ride cafes lazing and bubbly, it's important to set an example
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
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Contemplating what to do, weather's turned out nice again which wasn't as forecast.
Where has the sun gone? Just as well did do the barbie 'n' drinks sesh yesterday, plus it also marked daughter #1 submitting her final dissertation of her MBA, tick, open the bubbles.
Best wrap up and do a refresher ride before watching the pros cruise through some of my regular Flemish haunts. They do go a bit faster than me.
At least the light evenings are here at last.
It's stuck in the ute, too heavy and awkward for us to lift out and the neighbours were out.
Bright.
Got up at 6.30 new time.
Washed and cleaned the car.
Now off to Mini owner mate's house to fix 3 bikes: 1 dodgy old school bb, one broken spoke and 1 mangled rear mech.
All shyte.
His partner is expecting.
She's very big.
Baby is underweight @ 26 weeks.
The two things are linked. Overweight women: fat but under-nourished. Makes me slightly angry actually.
These people have the power to make changes to their lifestyle without any external intervention but don't.
Don't understand.
If you say 'you are going to die if you carry on drinking'. Stop drinking.
Or you will have a heart attack if you keeping eating this censored .
You will end up with piles and possibly bowel cancer because your diet is poor and you are constantly constipated.
Your baby is underweight because you eat badly - it may have a lifetime of problems because of a bad start in life.
Rant over, must go.
I presume that there is no compatibility issues fitting a long cage Deore XT or similar to a 9 speed Shimano cassette?
[Mini mate mangled the rear mech hanger and rear mech]
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No point asking those likely lads Stevo and Seano.
Anyone?
I think Oxo posted something about it.
Or was it Thistle... or 'Loon?
What was Laporte doing?
Non ci sono problemi usando una mechanismo XT lungo con l'ingranagio di 9 jesushchrist typing in Italian on a phone set to English is hard work.
I think it'll be fine Piña, is it a 9 speed mech? Pull ratios can differ, but I forget at which point, so as long as the mech and the shifter match there are no issues. Being long cage is not a problem.
Lovely day here, walked from Bardolino to Garda and back then had a late lunch. Now lounging before going out for dinner.
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
Wiznae me posting about cages and cassettes. Find it hard enough to keep my own std sets shifting properly.
Nice if chilly ride earlier, back up to winter layering. V quiet out and about. Doggers and runnists are wimps.
Good watch of last 90km of Gent Wevelgem, like the winner. I'll be back in Westvlaanderen in a month's time (🤞), staying Poperinge, will be in Ploegsteert (good Vanuxeem beer store there for the sadly now limited # of cases allowed, thanks v much Brexshitters), and either Ieper or Kortrijk for an amble round the bars.
That looks fab V. Enjoy.
Drove Mrs H³ and mini over to see MiL for lunch in Wanstead. I had a v large sausage roll from the ginger pig while waiting for them. Drove back. 32 miles in around 2 hours 45. Motoring is such a joy. The battery lasted 27 of those miles.
Make sure it's not a deore mech designed for 11 or 12 speed, apparently they're different and you can't use a 9/10 speed mech on an 11/12 speed cassette due to the spacing. That's what the guys at the bike shop at Cannock Chase told me when my colleague's "I have a Garmin and a GPX file" ride wrecked my mech.
I guess the shifter still pulls the same amount of cable per shift but the mech needs to move less due to the closer spacing.
I had issues with the new style 105 mech, the new mech design didn't really work with the internal cable route on my frame.
It was just that there was an issue on 9 speed Shimano rear mechs where certain 9 rear mechs were not compatible with 9 speed cassettes.
Now I know it was actually 10 but that was to do with the levers where not all of them are cross compatible.
Odd, 'cos all Campag 10 speed levers fit 10 speed cassettes and so on.
All 9 speed MTB mechs/shifters/cassettes are compatible. Same for 10 speed..
The mismatch is that you can’t use a Shimano *road bike* shifter with an MTB series mech, even if the speeds are the same. Shimano did make some quite nice flat bar shifters that matched their road groupsets (SL-R770 for example) for 10 speed. You could use those with a 9 speed MTB mech like an XT-M770, and it worked fine, but it didn’t work with 10 speed XT-M780.
The road mismatch that Shimano introduced was when they changed from 7800 series (and previous) Dura Ace over to the uglier 7900 series Dura Ace. The shifting was fine, but the brake cable pull ratio changed, so you were not really able to use “new” levers with older series brakes.