14 Nov 06:30
Mr. Borst's Lightning F84 has been stolen. Please help. (2nd send)
From: William D. Volk <william.volk <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Mr. Borst's Lightning F84 has been stolen. Please help. (2nd send)
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.general
Date: 2008-11-14 05:34:31 GMT
Subject: Mr. Borst's Lightning F84 has been stolen. Please help. (2nd send)
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.general
Date: 2008-11-14 05:34:31 GMT
All, Resending due to list issues. Tom Borst, who is recovering from a recent stroke, spotted me on my Bachetta today at the Carlsbad Post Office today. He informed me that a few weeks ago his Lightning F84 (Carbon Fiber bike) with aero bags and windscreen, has been stolen. It should have his name on a small brass plate. If you spot one one these and it looks like the rider doesn't belong on it, please contact Mr. Borst at 949 836 0051. Here is a pic of one of these bikes: http://www.lightningbikes.com/r84.htm Thank you, William Volk
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...and
bizarrely this is on a rim which looks a reasonable width for these
but distinctly narrow for the previous Marathon Racer yet the latter
exhibited no such effect!). At least in the wet they seemed no worse
than in the dry, something that I couldn't say about the Marathon
Racers, and maybe I'd get used to them, but....
Well, I now have 2*Marathon Supreme 40-406 en route, taking advantage
of some friends in the US who are flying over here next week...a lucky
strike, perhaps, but I'll see how they are.
it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd thought. Always the
way. So there I was, riding along quite happily, on decent tarmac, tho
aware there was a crosswind blowing; and suddenly, with almost no
warning (I'd been watching for gaps in the hedge, and there was no
such - and the wind was blowing from the far side of the road) the
wind completely blows the recumbent out from under me, and next thing
I know I'm sliding along the ground at 20mph...
Thankfully I seem to have escaped with (fairly) minor bruises/injuries
only, there were no cars anywhere nearby. But I'm a bit bothered about
how this happened - as I've had quite a few incidents of wheelspin,
mostly on the back wheel (but I think sometimes the front too), which
I've usually managed to ride out of (i.e. handbrake turn style); and I
think this was exactly what happened here - I didn't feel any *lift*
from the wind, just the bike being blown sideways, and the tyres not
having enough grip).
At the moment, I'm running Schwalbe Marathon Racer's in 20*1.6
(40-406), so I'm wondering what other tyres I can try that might offer
more grip - specifically in the wet, but even on dry surfaces these
don't seem particularly grippy. This is in the UK, so the Marathon
Supreme, which is supposed to be good in the wet, isn't available
(unless I order from the US - I may do if I find no alternative, but
it comes out as rather more money than I really want to spend); the
most obvious choices I can see are:
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