Re: Recovery through motorbiking

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:24:31 GMT, Jasper Janssen wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:55:32 +0100, Michel Buijsman
Ofcourse the fun part was that when the cable flew off, it
often flung away the little connecting piece between lever
and cable, and those were about as standardised as you'd
expect.

Now that I have the internets to do research, I've found it's not actually
that bad -- there's 'pears' and 'barrels' (peertjes en tonnetjes),

I didn't mean those, I meant the bit (often plastic) that goes
between the lever and the end of the cable liner, that stops
the outer cable from sitting directly against the lever.

On the fancier models this is a screw to adjust cable play, but
especially on those nasty 3 speeds it was often just a plastic
frummet of some kind.

After a while I got a bike with an oldfashioned pedal brake.
What's it called, de terugtraprem... Fewer parts to break, and
more importantly, no cables.

Coaster brake, in english.

That's the one.

I never wanted to give up the 3 speeds,

Got stuck with just 3rd one too many times, and for just an inner
city bike one gear is more than enough. (Mind you I did not live
in Amsterdam with all its steep little bumps and bridges when I
came to that conclusion.)

Then ofcourse I got a motorcycle, and those have cables again,
for the clutch. Not _nearly_ as traumatic when it breaks, but
still a bit of a pain. Throttle cables rarely if ever break,
and the (front) brake's hydraulic.

At least they've got better brakes connected to them.

I've got an airhead BMW. Yes, but not by *that* big a margin...

I'm working on it though, watching the nice big four pot brembo
calipers crawl past on ebay.

--
Michel Buijsman
"Waking up this morning was a pointless act of masochism" -- Girl
.