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Observation and Perspective
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Distance:
9.30 miles
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Time: 00:47:00
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Max Speed:
25.90 mph
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Avg Speed:
11.87 mph
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Temp:
Avg: 83
Max: 83
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Category: general: leisure -
solo
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Route:
east to Spencerport
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Weight:
231
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Altitude Gain:
0 ft
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Avg Power: 0 W
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Calories Burned: 0
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Avg HR: 0 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Flat
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Bike: Cruzbike 43lb-Sofrider a FWD, MBB, SWB Bent
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Club: USA Towpath and Trail Riders association |
| Weather Conditions: Warm, light RAIN all the way; |
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Bypassed the towpath and skirted the Canal Days Festival, using the "back door route", via Lyell Road/West Avenue.
...was busy in Spencerport; Much traffic! Bunches of pedestrians walking in the streets, heading for their parked cars, leaving the festival site.
Thinking, now I want to change (eventually) the Cruzbike's Rear Dérailleur, Cassette, and chain; There is no longer a need for a "Mega Range" cassette with the Triple crank set-up.
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  Ahhh! You're beginning to discover why I like my close-ratio cassettes. Triples make them possible for older guys like us.
Actually, you shouldn't need to change your RD to switch to either a typical or close-ratio cassette. While your RD is designed to take up the additional slack caused by a mega-range cassette, it will do so just as well with any cassette that fits within its range.
The Cruz is 9-speed is it not? I could lend you a 9-speed 12-27 for a week or two, just to try. Or, if it's 8-speed, I have a 12-28 cassette available for testing, or I can give you a 12-23.
If you don't have a chainwhip and lockring tool, just bring your wheel and we'll install the cassettes here.
BTW, I recommend the Nashbar lockring tool over the Park Tool one. It has a half-inch drive socket. I use a step-up and my 3/8ths drive ratchet with it.
The Park Tool one requires a wrench of some sort. Most people use a crescent wrench with it. I find this more clumsy than the socket method, since it requires managing one wheel, one cassette and three tools with only two hands. I'm clumsy to begin with, so I tend to avoid things that exacerbate the problem.
posted by brucew on
7/25/2010
at 8:06:53 AM
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 Bruce, I've got the tooling but I sure appreciate the offer!
I've got an 11x29 8speed cassette -brand new. Hoping I won't need a new chain to make it work smoothly. I have experienced new chains on old cassettes and that is not a workable combination. Not sure there are issues the other way around.
The RD issue would be an upgrade thought, the Alivio I've got on there is well used! But I'm waiting on that score.
posted by bikerjohn on
7/26/2010
at 1:01:48 PM
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