In my newest Exterior column I lay naked the conspiracy that’s reworking bicycles into non-serviceable plastic blobs:
Should you don’t like that it’s a “member unique,” relaxation assured it’ll emerge from behind the paywall finally…similar to the final one did!
Hey, eventually all that stale content material winds up on the curb for the taking.
In the meantime, I don’t simply espouse the retrogrouch way of life in “print,” I really reside it by driving lugged metal bicycles:
[Image: Terry Barentsen]
And utilizing interior tubes that have pinch flats:
After which patching these interior tubes as a result of the patch on my already-patched spare was unhealthy:
I even service old-timey non-cartridge backside brackets!
Truly, it was just a bit free and wanted some adjustment, however I figured I would as effectively pull it aside and see what was happening in there whereas I used to be at it:
Cartridge backside brackets are definitely handy, however they do isolate you even farther from the spindle, which one of many extra satisfying bicycle parts in that it’s each sturdy but elegant:
If I ever have individuals in my make use of I’ll gown them down whereas tapping a backside bracket spindle end-over-end on the floor of my desk.
Additionally, in yet one more instance of the over-the-topitude of the Campagnolo C-File group I’ve come to understand, the underside bracket makes use of fourteen ball bearings on both aspect:
By the use of comparability, a Dura Ace backside bracket would have solely had eleven, which, I imply, how may you even return to that after experiencing the exhilarating smoothness of fourteen?!?!
Pathetic.
