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Nov. 8th, 2004 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbMeant to go to pub meet (to say hi to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_magician among others), but failed, mostly because I'd forgotten a bike lock. (Normally I keep one at work, but used it on Friday when I went to the fireworks and then home by car with the rest of the family and the bike on the roofrack.)
And I need a new bike light, or at least some new rechargable batteries and to fix a dodgy switch - it took a few minutes to turn it on, so I didn't turn it off through the streetlit bits, so it ran out before I got home (I did have the EL-300 as backup). First stage is to try fixing the dynamo system it came with.
I've used the folding bike in the Ka a few times last week, having made an even longer seatpost for it (involving the Twenty seatpost, seat tube, and clamp, and an extra clamp, and an angle grinder). I wouldn't like to do a long distance on it, but around town it's faster than walking and easier than running. I gave up on the dynahub, even after much WD-40 and oiling it was noisy and seemed to have extra drag. If it really was the mechanical bit not the dynamo bit then in theory I could probably dismantle it and combine with the original hub, but I don't think its worth trying.
the_magician among others), but failed, mostly because I'd forgotten a bike lock. (Normally I keep one at work, but used it on Friday when I went to the fireworks and then home by car with the rest of the family and the bike on the roofrack.)And I need a new bike light, or at least some new rechargable batteries and to fix a dodgy switch - it took a few minutes to turn it on, so I didn't turn it off through the streetlit bits, so it ran out before I got home (I did have the EL-300 as backup). First stage is to try fixing the dynamo system it came with.
I've used the folding bike in the Ka a few times last week, having made an even longer seatpost for it (involving the Twenty seatpost, seat tube, and clamp, and an extra clamp, and an angle grinder). I wouldn't like to do a long distance on it, but around town it's faster than walking and easier than running. I gave up on the dynahub, even after much WD-40 and oiling it was noisy and seemed to have extra drag. If it really was the mechanical bit not the dynamo bit then in theory I could probably dismantle it and combine with the original hub, but I don't think its worth trying.
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shame ...
Date: 2004-11-08 02:50 pm (UTC)And I'm starting to make plans to visit local fans, having settled in a bit at the new job (though a lot of it is still new to me)
The Cambridge Blue is a nice pub, the food is good and the company excellent (of course!), if only it didn't have that annoying Londoner who was telling the bad jokes ... oh wait ... !