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On 2 Dec, 04:05, (Tom Keats) wrote: In article , * * * * thirty-six writes: My rubber strips are a little wider than the cross-sections of my shoes; I think that also does much to keep my shoen dry in the rain while allowing good ventilation and yet keeping the chill of the wind off my feet. I guess the first main thing is for each of us to experiment and determine what works for us, and the second main thing is to share whatever we learn....

In article , thirty-six writes: Made for the job, with an additional supporting bracket. But can it be bettered, before I go on the hunt for the cheap wellies? Further to my previous post, I'd shy away from metal parts in gumboots (wellies) in wintery weather. Since I must wear steel toed footwear at my job (oftimes in an unheated crossdock warehouse,) please understand I know whereof I speak. The cheap wellies may be the answer. I hear...

Stephen Harding wrote: Bill Baka wrote: Ron Wallenfang wrote: On Nov 23, 1:39 pm, "His Highness Comandante Banana, King of the Apes I & Chief of Quixotic Enterprises" wrote: In my long years of campaigning for a realistic and humanistic change, the excuse I heard the most often is: ONLY GOD CAN CHANGE THINGS! So I've come to the conclusion that Christians will never be part of the solution. They are waiting for...

SMS wrote: zxcvbob wrote: snip I think I'm stuck with a trunk/bumper carrier, or a 1-1/4" trailer hitch plus carrier. The car will not pull a trailer (small engine and manual transmission) but there are hitches (class II?) that will fit it. Hitch-mounted carriers are bulky and take up a lot of room (I have one already.) Hmm, I have two of them and don't find them bulky. The arms fold down. Even my larger 4 bike XPORT rack,...

wrote: I once went on a Scout camp, and allowed my bike to be transported on a very large, homemade hitch rack. It had room for ten bikes (no kidding!), and performed fine until we turned off the paved road onto the bumpy dirt one, which is when it broke and dumped all ten bikes on the ground. Fortunately, we were riding home on the bikes the next day. This is not to say that your hitch rack will do this to you. This one, as I said, was...

On Dec 1, 12:44*pm, wrote: * *Gad, I'm almost hesitant to do this this year. *I didn't get to ride as much this year as usually in the past, so my own finds were kinda mundane. *The usual small tools (mostly sockets), stray cutlery (the legendary forks in the road), and such. * * *In the scary department, I'd gone over to a friend's house, and there was a broken crack pipe in the street out in front. *My friend is a cop,...

On Nov 26, 2:53*pm, Jobst Brandt wrote: a shy person offered: * http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13869047 what this writer's position on the subject is unclear, but in many regions in the USA and abroad, stop signs, and traffic lights are interpreted as YIELD signs for careful bicyclists who usually slow enough to make it a "rolling stop" similar to what cars often do for intersections where speed and visibility of...

I'd been in the company of non-local foreigners for a bit too long by this point and I had an absolutely lovely time with my hosts in Wenchang. They complain about the same things I do and accept the same things I do. The problems that the racers and team staff tend to gripe and whine about aren't always things that I think are problems and sometimes are problems that I think they brought on themselves. There was one team whose...

thirty-six wrote: Wool socks over shoes and finished with sandwich bags and rubber bands. Awesome.