On 31.01.2012 14:17, Patrick van Gompel wrote:
I wonder how many pythons ride in winter conditions? It would be interesting to know of other experiences! End of November I switched assembled the pythoon rear, as it was getting to dangerous to ride the stokid python. In fact, the week before switching, I managed to fall hard just by braking at a crossing, and slipping on a leaf - luckily my son was not on the bike. In the last two months I continued riding the pythoon and managed to fall two or three times (who's counting ;-) ), each time because of front wheel sliding sideways away over ice. I must say that one of the roads I ride/fall on floods at places, certainly with the heavy rain this winter, creating ponds right on there on the road. Combine it with morning frost and you can have lots of fun. Falling with the pythoon is unspectacular for my kid, as the bike in fact falls on the bottom tubes of the rear box. Except for once a soaking wet shoe ---and on freezing foot 5 minutes later--- I did not suffered any damage up to now. Now with the russian wind, winter finally started in Danmark. Which means even more salt and streets that are only partially cleared. Problems that I experience when riding the pythoon are: * Everything begins to be really messy. Because the wheel runs between my legs, my pants get soaked with salty black water, dirt from chain etc.. * What is very annoying are the wheels blocking inside the mudguards. The mudguard distance is 1-1.5cms and sometimes I can hear the rear wheel slipping as as it all is clogged up with snow :-( * One of the brake cables freeze up. I only have one brake now :-( * Because of the salt the bike is rusting. I'll have to paint the frame again :-( * I hate disc brakes - even my avid bb7. Disc brakes are just to sensitive for real use - after several years I still do not understand why mountain bikes are so happy about disc brakes. The distance of the brake pad to rotor is so little it must get clogged in the forest mud!?? Give me my V-brakes with koolstop pads back! :-( I still ride with my big apple tires. It has a praofile that is so shallow it is practically painted on. Does anybody know a good winter tire for 20"? Dirk ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/python Listmaster: Jurgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================ |