Re: Sunday Ride

On 1/10/2025 11:39 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:21:14 +0000, cyclintom wrote:
 

On Sun Jan 5 17:24:27 2025 AMuzi  wrote:

On 1/5/2025 3:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:

I got enough sleep last night but zi really felt tired this morning
so I decided to take a flat easy ride. I decided to ride the Basso
Lotto because the Colnago is in dreadful need of a cleaning and
rewaxing the chain.. The Basso has Bontrager X lite wheels on it. It
also had Bontrager quick releases which are difficult to get properly
tight.
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So three blocks from the house4 at a stop light, the rear wheel
pulled forward, locked against the seat tubee and dumped me into the
middle of the street. The traffic was polite and allowed me to get up
and get the bike out if the way. I retightened the quick release and
it happened again. So I tightened the quick release very tight and
the wheel didn't move anymore. Another 5 blocks down the road my shoe
came off. I stopped and reset that on much tighter.
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I got all of the way into Alameda and misjudged a car turning right
in front of me and nearly got hit. I turned lerft and proceeded down
to a stop sign where I didn't even see cross traffic and was almost
hit. I got on a bike path and misjudged a 100 degree turn and ran off
of the path. Now none of this is something I would normally do. When
I pulled into the coffee shop I could hardly stand. I was exhausted.
I ordered coffee and something with a lot of sugar in it. I intended
to take a shorter route on the way back. I felt pretty bsd on the
return trip. But without incident other than misjudging when a light
would change. that was harmless since there was no traffic on that
street and the light did change halfway into the intersection.
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I have recently added half a Leveteracitam pill on doctor's advice
and I think that is giving me a toxic blood level. I will back off of
that and see what effect that has. Hopefully that will return me to
normal.
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Also the fit of the Basso which was fair needs to tuning. Shorter
stem, narrower handlebars and higher levers. Let's hpe that this all
helps.

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Basso Loto has classic horizontal road ends.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/basmia2.jpg
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Use steel (internal cam) skewers; aluminum (open cam) skewers will
inherently slip.

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You are absolutely right. Campagnolo quick releases never had the
problems that these aluminum quick releases do. I returned tol my two
pills of leveteracitam last night rather than 2 1/2 and woke up this
morning almost normal again.I will contact my neurologist today and let
him kno3w what happened to me yesterday.

 By the way, I was talking to Robinson about that problem on Wednesday and
he had the same fix I did - Use Campy or Shimano old style quick releases
that would actually cam-lock down on the Campy horizontal dropouts. This
business about saving every gram possible by making aluminum quick
releases is bunkers.

That well known foible of open-cam skewers has been discussed repeatedly here on RBT for twenty years or more.
The open cam design is adequate for vertical ends. They are a lot cheaper to produce and lighter overall, just not compatible with horizontal ends.
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Andrew Muzi
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