It's one of these so it's meant to be quick and easy to take off but I'm obviously missing something! I'll go play around with the seat post and see if i can figure out how the 'clever powerstop closure' works when it's off the bike!
Still no idea how to get it off once i removed the seat, but I've taken off the reflector so i can move the LED light (this one)up a bit and flatten out the mudguard so that they're both more effective and so the mudguard is less high profile (as it stood the angle of the mudguard blocked the view of the LED from behind). I'm going to try and fix the red reflector either to the mudguard or to the seat itself purely for legal reasons but if i can't get it securely mounted i won't lose any sleep as imho they are of minimal use compared to a decent back LED anyway.
Cool, I'll ignore it then and stick with the lights Not planning on doing any night time riding for a while anyway, the evenings are long enough i won't have to till autumn. Cheers mate!
Whew, I'm glad i got those bar ends! Just went for a 6 mile ride as a warm up to my 9 mile commute starting next week and damn it was harder than i imagined! I'm a pretty fit guy nowadays, i run 6-10 miles at least once every week and hit the weights every other day so i figured riding 6 miles at a brisk pace would be a walk in the park, but the workout on my hands and forearms for those 20 minutes was pretty brutal! Found myself switching to the bar ends pretty regularly and even so I can barely type now! Legs are tired but fine, but I'm just shocked at how much harder than i remembered that was, i guess it's just a completely different exercise to what I'm used to but that bodes well for keeping me fit and healthy at least! Just hope it doesn't take too long for me to be able to get the ride in and then still be able to do some weights later in the day!I'll say it again though - it really is a lovely bike the gears seemed perfectly placed to step up or down to what i wanted next and the speed was easy to get and maintain Feels very rigid going over bumps and potholes in the road mind, but I'm guessing that as i get more used to riding I'll fly over those without noticing. Seat is perfectly positioned now I've nudged it down a jot as well and aside from the bruising left over from the other day the saddle felt fine Really looking forward to getting this commute in daily, although i can see myself getting dangerously addicted to going fast! Those downhill stretches were far too much fun and far too short
Just went through sheldon browns site and he said the saddle should be positioned so that you're just sitting on it when the pedels are at the bottom of their motion, so i was riding it with the saddle still too high i think as i when i'm sat on the saddle i can only get the peddle to about 160 degrees (im glad evans notice that sort of thing) so i think perhaps too much of my weight was on the saddle at all time and i wasnt very well positioned. The only issue is where i've got the reflector, rear light and rear mudguard all strapped to the seat post i can't actually lower the saddle enough so that it's in the correct position Either going to have to take the rear mudguard off and do without, or take the reflector off which I'm not sure is legal.
Nope, it feels good once I'm riding it and i can keep an upright position while comfortably gripping the handlebars. I think it was just where i had the seat fractionally higher while riding it home it was just that little too much - i couldn't support myself properly on the peddles on the down stroke so had too much weight on the saddle, and had to shift to either side as i was pedaling which wouldn't have helped either!
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