| Title | Description | Author |
| Carbon / Aluminum galvanic reaction | A lot has already been written about carbon seat post seizing in an aluminum frame due to galvanic reaction between the two materials. The other day I was upgrading my fork when I realized that my 5mm carbon spacer had bonded to my aluminum steer tube. Don't forget to use grease, anti-seize compound or carbon paste wherever carbon will be touching aluminum. | Wallace Wormley |
| Cutting housing | Before cutting cable housing, insert a piece of old cable. Assuming you're using good cutters, the cable doesn't add any extra effort but it does prevent the housing end from deforming. When you insert the new cable, the piece you used when making the cut will pop out of the housing. | Unkown |
| Charging Lights (Part 2) | I use a flashing Vista light making me visible to car approaching me from behind. I use rechargeable AAA batteries. I have 2 sets of batteries one in the light and the other in the charger. I change out my batteries every two weeks to keep the light as bright as possible. I normally go through a pair of batteries a month from October-March. Over the season thats 12 batteries over a season of commuting. They have more than paid for themselves in just one season and reduced some landfill waste too. | Wallace Wormley |
| Charging Lights | I have Cygo-Lite light for commuting during the winter months. It only is supposed to be charged for 8 hrs and can damage the battery if left plugged in longer. My solution to this problems is I bought a 8 hr outdoor Christmas light timer. The kind that comes on at dusk (with a solar eye) and you can adjust to stay on for 2-4-6-8 hours. I set the timer for 8 hrs and place a small piece of tape over the sensor. Therefor when I plug in the unit it is on for 8 hrs. | Wallace Wormley |
| Indoor Trainer Tires (Part #3) | Fatter tires are better for the trainer. This past year I had some of 700x25 and 700x28 left over tires (see last months TOM) from my Cross/Commuter bike. Their is a noticable difference from normal 700x23 tires. The larger contact area provides a better grip when doing intervals and sprints | Wallace Wormley |
| Indoor Trainer Tires (Part #2) | Back in 2002 I wrote a tip about buying cheap wire tires for winter training on the fuild or wind trainer. When replacing worn tires from wear (not a large cut) I replace both front and rear at the same time. I throw away the rear tire and the front I keep and store away for the winter fuild trainer. | Wallace Wormley |
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