Re: [CR]No longer a tubbie virgin! But questions!

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To: "Dr. Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]No longer a tubbie virgin! But questions!
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:33:22 +0000


Paul,

Re the noise, you could also just have a loose spoke.

Ken Freeman
Ann Arbor, MI USA


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From: "Dr. Paul Williams"

> Okay, thought that might grab some attention!

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\r?\n> This morning for the first time in my 47 year life I rode a set of

\r?\n> tubular tyres on my 81 Ilkeston Raleigh. What a joy they were to ride

\r?\n> and it was great to have this bike back on the road after being out of

\r?\n> action for about three years. The wheelset is one I got from John Barron

\r?\n> a few years ago - Mavic GL330s laced to a LF Campag rear and a SF Campag

\r?\n> front - maybe not the authentic set-up for the particular bike but

\r?\n> looked good anyway. I even managed to cope with the straight-seven

\r?\n> Sachs-Maillard freewheel block 12-19 with a 42-52 SR crankset. Mind you

\r?\n> I mostly stayed in the lower to lower-middle gears. Had some problems

\r?\n> with the gears slipping under load though - but that is another story

\r?\n> and one I will have to address before my next ride.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Anyway, I was happy that the tubbies did not roll off the rim and seemed

\r?\n> to have stayed put (and no apparent bumps). Not only was this my first

\r?\n> ride with them it was also my first experience gluing them up and I did

\r?\n> the three layer job! No-one told me what a messy job this is. I had one

\r?\n> question though for the gang as a tubbie newbie - I noticed that there

\r?\n> was a ticking sound (mainly from the front wheel) which seemed to come

\r?\n> from the tyres themselves - sort of like when one pulls apart something

\r?\n> sticky or tacky - is this to be expected? Was this from the tyres

\r?\n> seating themselves? Or maybe some glue on the tread surface (although I

\r?\n> was careful to try not to get it everywhere)? Or was it the fact that

\r?\n> these were new tyres?

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\r?\n> Cheers,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Paul Williams,

\r?\n> Ottawa (but temporarily in Kingston) Ontario, Canada