April 2009
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Tyres - what not to buy
It turns out that the Michelin tyres I bought for my bike in the previous post are not that good after all. In fact, they’re awful.
Being a novice I assumed that deep and funky-looking treads were a good thing, giving better grip and tracking. It turns out that I was wrong.
The Michelin Transworld tyres have a deep tread that just loves to scoop up rocks, twigs and pieces of broken beer...
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Reviving a long-ignored bike
There’s no getting away from it. The protuberance above the hips and below the chest is, sadly, not getting smaller. It was - in the second half of last year it shrank considerably. The last three months it’s not changed at all. It has to go.
To that end I put on a dust mask and delved into the far end of my father’s garage yesterday afternoon, trusting to a vague memory I had...
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