Palm Beach Bike Tours

My Australian virtual friend Andrew, AKA Aushiker, just wrote about giving his LHT its 500 km winter service.
Everything checked out OK, except that he noted some rust on two stem face plate bolts.
I wrote back to tell him that mine were showing the same thing and that I’d replace them with stainless steel bolts at [...]

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Today is going to be a potpourri of stuff that didn’t fit in anyplace else.
My Surly LHT had a sinking feeling
I mentioned that fitter John Palmquist told me that my bike was dialed in and that I shouldn’t be tweaking it. I was a good boy. I didn’t tweak.
On the other hand, I was riding [...]

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I mentioned in the middle of the month that I can’t live without a kickstand or some other way to support my Surly Long Haul Trucker. After describing the benefits and limitations of my ESGE/Pletscher Double-legged kickstand, I said that a Click-Stand was on its way for review.
What IS a Click-Stand?
Think of a small sectional [...]

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With only about 42 miles on my new Surly Long Haul Trucker, I looked down and saw that the Cateye Strada computer was showing 0 (that’s zero, nada, zilch) for cadence. That was odd, because it seemed like I was cranking about 80 or 90 RPM.
I pulled over and noticed that the magnet in a [...]

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I finally got to bring my Surly Long Haul trucker home. Understanding and Long-Suffering Bike Widow Lila shot this just as I wheeled it in from a visit to Wayne at Bicycle. It arrived the previous Friday, but I didn’t have a final fitting until Monday.
Then I discovered that I had ordered a new 36-spoke [...]

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