Woofie

Good to see you still alive as well Fand!

John is this you? Dude this post is two years old already....... Probably around the same time I started focusing on work again as well....

Except from the minimum two punctures per week I was getting from commuting with normal tyres. Two years ago when I was a tad fitter I tried to ride league. Punctured in three of my races. Was good tyres and tubes etc. Just bad luck. If I was running tubeless would have finished them all. Now with tubeless, No pinch flats, sealant sorts out most punctures. It has sealed punctures at 9 bars! If it is a big cut (glass normally) and only seals at 4-5 bars (where I have been a few times) I have still got home fine. At my weight + laptop on back is seriously impressive. A normal tyre would have snakebitten so quickly at that pressure. And the weight is nothing to cry about. 270 Grams for the tyre + a few ml of sealent and you are set. The tyre is really strong and hardcore. You realise why it is so expensive when you look inside at the build quality. I have found that it rolls really nicely. It feels more grippy to me, but that might just be the rubber compound as well. Some people never get flats, I went through 3 years with only getting one or two. So I never saw the need to change my setup. But when your bad puncture spell hits you just cant seem to shake it. So now I am happy to have to deal with a slit in the tyre but I am still able to ride the thing like that anyway. On another point. What do you guys think about other sealents? What else is on the market? Is there anything thicker which may work well at high pressure and also not attack the glue of the patches?

Thats a good idea. Need to try and find a place that has these. Any idea where? Been struggling with my tubeless road setup. Have a few small nicks that leak under high pressure. Stops leaking at around 5 bar. Still ride it at that, but it makes me nervous that I may damage the rim on something. Patching the holes dont seem to work long term. I think that the amonia in the sealent causes the patch to eventually lift off slightly making it leak again. (Is there any glue that is amonia resistant? Maybe an epoxy would work but then your flexibilty would also go) Tried plugging as well, but running it at 8-9 bars starts to push the plug out. Also a road tyre so the thing sticking out is not really ideal.

Well in that case maybe we should "Upgrade" her bike with them so she can see how wonderfull they are hehe. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_aa-l.html#airless

Ive got one. (Actually looking at the link - I dont, I just have the one that mounts onto your bike) Its made my Giant. Used it a couple of times with my son (3 years old now) Took him to Meerendal the other day and he loved it. He started moaning a bit when I was going faster though as he was getting a bit of a beating on the back of my hardtail. Quite a thing to get used to though. Having all that extra weight does throw off your centre of gravity. Starting and clipping in also becomes slightly interesting. But otherwise it is pretty cool.

I hope you dont mean permatubes?

Also struggled with it my whole life. Growing up, even when I was really fit, a few minutes into my excercise I would always get a slight attack would have to use my ventolin and then I would be able to carry on for the duration of the exercise without problems. Even when I started cycling it was still the same thing. Been fit definitley made a huge difference but I would still get the normal attack after around 7 minutes and then I could carry on normally. Used to use my pump a few times each day, when your recommended usage shouldnt be more than twice a week kind of thing! My friend recommended something to me that has changed my life. It is called Seritide. There is now a generic called Foxair (actually comes out the same factory so it is the same thing) It takes a month or two to fully kick in, one dose in the morning and evening. When you are fully adapted to it and nice and fit you can drop it to one dose in the morning even. I now havent had a ashma attack for a few years. My life was literally changed around. I can now jump on my bike and go straight up to max HR without warming up at all and I wont get an attack. I also noticed when I got off my ventolin that my resting heart rate dropped by around 10 beats a minute. I could feel the difference like it was poisoining me. Dont even know where my old school medicine is anymore. Allergies is another thing to watch out for as it affects your whole body including your chest and it will help to close it. It can also be worthwhile going off dairy for a while, for the past month or so I have moved to soya milk powder and my allergies are far better. If ashma is a serious condition for you then medical aids will pay for Foxair under cronic cover normally even if you are just on hospital plan. The medication if you have to buy it yourself is around R200 but even if you need to pay for it, it is by far the best thing you could ever do.

Cool, shot guys. I will PM you guys for your email addresses so that you guys can make contact (he is not on the hub)

Friend of mine is keen to start commuting to town, so I was thinking that it would be nice for him to hook up with some guys. Always nicer in a group and you guys can show him the ropes I know that Hairy used to go in, maybe still does? What time do you guys leave and where do you meet?

Cool, shot! I will go look for the partner linkage thing.

Dont really know what you trying to say. Dont know how that could be a april fools joke..... But hey, at least I got one reply!

And the conclusion. https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/93185-need-help-with-polar-cs200-speedo-upload-to-pc/ All good, uses sonic link. Thanks guys dont know what I would have done without you.

Ok, it seems like it would work. https://www.discovery.co.za/discovery_za/web/pdfs/vitality/our_partners/polar_heart_rate_monitors.pdf Now does anyone know if the slightly older range was infra or sonic?

You can count me in for that too

Does anybody know if the polar CS200 does weblink to get your fitness vitality points? If it does work, do I need to get a infra-red adapter or does it do it via soniclink. Cant find this older model on polars website (it is now the cs200CAD) so I am not really sure if the CAD has simply had some cosmetic surgery or has the features changed too? Shot!

Ive hit a brick before with my road american classics, went under front and back wheel. Not a light boy and they took it fine. I was expecting them to break, but hey, I have been pleasantly surprised with how much mileage I have been able to do on them. Bearings do go quicker though because they are smaller, but otherwise I am happy with them.

Why take the drop bars off? That is the one thing that I wouldnt mind fitting to my MTB for commuting. If the wind is pumping it is so nice to be able to drop down and tuck in to save a bit of energy. Learning to ride properly the whole time in the drops must be the nicest thing I have learnt in this last year. Lower your shifters so that you can brake and shift at the bottom and once your are comfortable at the bottom you will never want to go up again.

I wonder what will make it dry up quicker. An environment full of C02 or in normal air where it is 80% nitrogen.

Bought some Joes this weekend. It says on the bottle "Do not use C02 to inflate" It is pretty similar to Stans what it is, so I would rather give it a skip then.

Clearly. You dont know how frustrated I have been in the last few months! Havent really been on my bike since december.

Ah! What a good idea. Ive got stacks of that stuff. On a side note, acetone works really well to clean your chain. Fill a 500ml (glass) coke bottle with the stuff. Take your chain off and tie a piece of string through one of the end holes. Slowly lower the chain in shake the bottle a bit and the whole thing will fit in there. Leave the piece of string hanging over the edge and put the cap back on. Let it stand. Come back later and shake the bottle. And watch how all the dirt starts coming off the chain. Let it stand again. When you come back you will notice how all the dirt is now on the bottom of the bottle. Lift the chain out, give it a good wipe, re-oil and it is pretty much ready to go. All the dirt goes down to the bottom of the bottle, so you can pretty much just dip your chain back in next time.

Thanks guys. Not quite sure if I like the reflector idea either! But that does give me some other ideas though. Shot for the help.

I did it that way the first time. Worked ok, but I found that I wasted some sealant when trying to seat the tyre as it is so tight. Also once the tyre was on, it was so tight that I didnt really want to try to get it off again. Found the syringe worked so so well and it was so so easy. Squeezing the joes bottle ended up putting zero sealant into valve, stupid thing. But the syringe was like a hot knife in butter, so so easy.

very sharky