Comments on: My Bicycles http://themorningflight.com/bicycle/my-bicycles/ "Though I take the wings of the morning..." Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: rokey http://themorningflight.com/bicycle/my-bicycles/#comment-334 rokey Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:57:04 +0000 http://themorningflight.com/index.php/2008/11/27/my-bicycles/#comment-334 My bike has been resting in the garage ever since I moved to London. I'm brainwashed by people around me, who kept telling me cycle in London is pretty much suicide... I admire those city workers who cycles to work every morning far before the traffic gets busy. My bike has been resting in the garage ever since I moved to London. I’m brainwashed by people around me, who kept telling me cycle in London is pretty much suicide…

I admire those city workers who cycles to work every morning far before the traffic gets busy.

]]> By: graham http://themorningflight.com/bicycle/my-bicycles/#comment-332 graham Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:42:25 +0000 http://themorningflight.com/index.php/2008/11/27/my-bicycles/#comment-332 The thing about hub gears is that they require almost no maintenance, you can change gears while standing still (such as at lights). Because the chain is not crossing over and moving from side to side as in dérailleur gears the chain almost never comes off. All my current bikes have hub gears. So a chain guard is no problem at all. The thing about hub gears is that they require almost no maintenance, you can change gears while standing still (such as at lights). Because the chain is not crossing over and moving from side to side as in dérailleur gears the chain almost never comes off. All my current bikes have hub gears.

So a chain guard is no problem at all.

]]> By: Timothy Barton http://themorningflight.com/bicycle/my-bicycles/#comment-331 Timothy Barton Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:34:55 +0000 http://themorningflight.com/index.php/2008/11/27/my-bicycles/#comment-331 The chain guard sounds a good idea (avoiding touching the chain with my trouser leg is very difficult when trying to get my bike into my lift), but doesn't that make things more complicated when the chain comes off? People here can't get their head round the idea that a bike is a vehicle. At the first church I visited since moving I was asked, because I was on my bike, "So, you're doing some sport are you?". I suppose I should reply "I didn't know you were into motorsport". The chain guard sounds a good idea (avoiding touching the chain with my trouser leg is very difficult when trying to get my bike into my lift), but doesn’t that make things more complicated when the chain comes off?

People here can’t get their head round the idea that a bike is a vehicle. At the first church I visited since moving I was asked, because I was on my bike, “So, you’re doing some sport are you?”. I suppose I should reply “I didn’t know you were into motorsport”.

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