Mac RumorsGoogle Groups: View Thread “Ritchey “Break-Away” bike — opinions?”. Been looking at a bunch of custom bicycles with S&S couplings. Great in the $1300-1600 for the frame plus $400 for the couplings. The Break-Away is an $1,100 frame, but what about the quality. Here are some notes from rec.bicycles.tech. Great the way google caches and indexes this.
“Bilenky”:http://www.bilenky.com/. Here are some interesting S&S coupled bicyles mentioned in the the previous post.
While researching the latest move by the RIAA to “sue”:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10195 individuals, I ran across some interesting papers:
* CSC 8990 Seminars. The first paper is on how PTP actually works and a good description of how to use conventional digital signature techniques to hide who is talking to whom and about what. Also learned a good deal about how these directories actually work.
* “Daniel Peng Suit”:http://barillari.org/papers/peng/peng.html. Interesting facts about the suit against someone doing a directory service called Wake.
* “LA Times”:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/1971122. Largely sympathetic to the music industry not surprisingly since they all live in LA.
* “The Register”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31463.html. The alternative view which is that piracy is a side effect of too expensive albums where you pay an effective price of $16 for one good cut. Also some good notes on encrypted alternatives like “Freenet”:http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ and “Waste”:http://www.nik.com.au/waste/.
I guess the lesson for me is that the miracle of the Internet is that in 24 hours, you can hear about something and find two good technical responses to it. Amazing.
CAMPAGNOLO 2003 RANGE – INNOVATION. _It’s been confusing which of the three different derailleurs you should get. Here’s a simple explanation_
The Campagnolo Record, Chorus and Centaur groupsets offers three models of rear derailleurs with short, medium and long cage. The rear derailleur with the short cage is for equipping the 2×10 drivetrain, while the medium cage version is required for the 2×10 drivetrain with the 13-29 sprocket cassette and for all the 3×10 drivetrain combinations with the exception of 13-29 which requires the model with the long cage.
The new crankset is distinguished by smart refined styling and the excellent functionality of its construction. It is available in two combinations, 30-40-50 and 32-42-53.
Well, as most folks know, I just love carbon fiber. It’s in just about every component that I have on my bike. Today though, I learned that it is a miracle material for sure, but it does have its downsides. Caveat Emptor.
h4. Campagnolo Record Seatpost: Don’t overtighten even once!
My good buddy Dave has one of these. Someone tightened it too much with the seat post collar facing to the rear. This tore through the carbon fiber. The bike shops and his bike fitter though it looked OK, it was just one little tear. By the time we were 50 miles into our ride, he had to tighten it up three times and when we pulled it out, it was an oval and the crack ran down six inches. A reminder that carbon fiber is only strong in one direction (in this case vertically, so the horizontal force of tightening cracked it like a peanut shell). We dug around and found Bike Master in Spanaway. What a great guy! Does BMX, but replaced this $100 part with a $12 aluminum seat post and it was fixed.
h4. Easton EC-90 Handle Bars: One crash is all it takes
On the ride back, I was tired, ended up on a busy street, hit the brakes too hard in the front. This caused the front wheel to wobble. Like an idiot (or someone who had been riding for 11 hours), I tried to stand up at 15 mph. Predictably, crashed. The bar came down hard on the curb. Snapped in right in half. I only had a scrape. Same problem as the seatpost. The fibers are lined up left and right, so an impact that was vertical, just snapped it. I was lucky, the break was three inches to the right of the stem, so I could ride home by using the close to the stem hand position. A nerve racking hour I can tell you. I think I’m going to get aluminum bars from now on. This is my second cracked handlebar. The first was from tightening a 25.4 stem on a 26.0 EC-90. Cracked right away. Then, one impact and this 31.0 EC-90 is dead. Plus, aluminum is cheaper too. You’ve been warned. The Deda 215 looks good. Make me nervous about my Time Monolink carbon fiber stem, but I think it is unlikely to take the brunt of a crash. Unlike bars, which are almost always going to.
Singletrack – Home. A ezine from Britain. Got a good review from “Adventure Cycling”:http://adventurecycling.org as a place to look for mountain touring and other things.
_This is Peta-Jane, Alex’s teacher, favorite poem. Amazing that he could do a Haiku, but not surprising given how mathematical it is, you know, 5 syllable, then 7 then 5_
Fishy in a tank
Swimming in the water blue
Swaying in the weeds
My fish in a tank
On a hill top green and gray
On a windows edge
Google Search: shuttle sb61g2 problem. It took forever to figure out this problem becuase the answers are in a newsgroup and not yet indexed on the web.
In short, when I assembled my Dad’s PC, I kept getting hangs when running at full 200MHz for the CPU. Turns out there is a problem with the Intel i865G chipset and DDR400 modules. They can’t handle a short RAS to CAS delay (this is memory timing thing). You have to change the BIOS setting from 2 to 3 cycles. A voila it works. Aamzing what you have to know to get this to work.
Ars Technica: Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading (10/2002). I finally got a new Intel “Prescott” chipset for my dad. Supports something called Hyperthreading. Make it look like one processor is two to Windows and Linux. Here’s a good explanation of what is going on.
With the drop in the dollar. All my favorite overseas places are not longer price competitive. The pound when from $1.44 to $1.69 overnight. So, in buying things, you can either get them for list price from “Excel”:http://excelsports.com or you can get some discount from “Licktons”:http://www.lickbike.com. I am not haunting the ebay auctions more too.
Here are some parts I’ve been looking at:
* Campagnolo Record 2000 6 Steel/4 Titanium 10sp Cassette. Need some more cassettes given the different wheelsets I have. Right now I’ve worn my 12-25. So only have a single 11-23. Need another 12-25 and probably a backup 11-23. Price is $149 at Lickton’s. List it $159.
* “Wheels Manufacturing 10-Speed”:http://www.branfordbike.com/cassette/cog9.html#item1. I have one Shimano-hub Mavic Ksyrium, but don’t like the shifting performance of the Mavic M10 Campy-compatible 12-23 that I have. These are Wheel Manufacturing remanufactured Shimano cassettes. $184, so it is more than same a Campy cassette for Duraace.]
* “Campagnolo Chorus Medium Cage”:http://www.lickbike.com/i0407050.htm. This is $120 and is a medium cage, so can take up to 29T back cogs.
* “Wippermann Connex 10-speed Chain”:http://www.lickbike.com/i0325050.htm. Heard from several folks this was a better chain than the stock Campagnolo. It is stainless steel nickel and should last longer. Weights about an ounce more. 292 grams vs. 279 grams.
Doodlebaby. Hat tip to Zagula for this. Alway slooking for great places to buy gifts.
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