[GovernorSilver]

@jrenaut 141228 wrote:

Note that unless you commute at strange hours, this is NOT an option. No bikes on Metro at rush hour.

Welcome to the forum!

I believe folding bikes are allowed.

One of my N+1 targets is a Brompton, and another is the Bike Friday Pocket Rocket.

[GovernorSilver]

@scoot 141229 wrote:

While I share your sentiment, I’d be happy with criminally negligent vehicular manslaughter in the general case (along with more appropriate penalties for those convicted).

I’d be happy with that too actually.

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I hope this becomes a national trend – motorists who kill cyclists hit with real murder charges instead of $40 fines or other wrist slaps.

I wonder if the online behavior of this particular murderer influenced the harshness of his sentence:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bicyclist-killer-was-full-of-rage-online/ar-AAgOuOv?li=BBnb7Kz

“I may look calm, but in my head I’ve punched you in the face 5 times”

Article also gives more background on the victims.

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I’ll keep the bike as-is, and just keep doing periodic shifter adjustments on the IGH until those don’t work anymore, then try the mechanic that Steve O and one other person recommended in Arlington for repair, if necessary.

It would have been nice to upgrade to the red-band version of the Nexus 8 but that doesn’t seem to be in production any more.

Thanks, everyone!

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-bicyclists-killed-michigan-charges-20160609-snap-story.html

The 50-year-old driver of a pickup that struck a group of bicyclists, killing five of them, was charged Thursday with five counts of second-degree murder

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Thanks, everyone!

I already have a Jamis Renegade for my sporty-feeling (though not necessarily fast) commute rides. 😎

I still like riding the Uptown 8 for shopping and after-work rides to destinations when I have to lock up my bike outside a bar or club for at least an hour..

It’s just that I have one year left on the warranty on this Nexus 8. It’s starting to misbehave again (clunky noises, random “snap in, snap out”) on certain gears. I’m familiar with the shifter adjustment process of partially removing the chain case and adjusting the shifter cable knob until the yellow lines match up. This gets rid of the random clunks for a few weeks or so. If it gets bad enough that I have to perform this adjustment once a week, it’ll be time to let the IGH go.

What worries me is the Nexus 8 no longer appears on the Shimano website, so I was mulling the idea of a conventional cassette + derailleur as a possible replacement. The Sheldon Brown website describes a conversion the other way (derailleur to IGH), so I thought “Why not the reverse?”. But Emm’s point about the frame possibly not having a hanger for the derailleur make sense.

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@Harry Meatmotor 140980 wrote:

That sounds like the axle pawl sticking – does it make a clunk a minute (or, a short time) after shifting into one of those gears? I believe unity is 5th gear, so if it’s happening in 6,7,8, those ratios all run on the outer ring gear set/ring gear 2.

The last time I looked, the full ring gear unit was available from shimano, but that was several years ago. Also, IIRC, the red band versions steps up to nicer roller clutches very similar to those used in the Alfine units, which make more of a difference than just upgraded seals.

A remnant of the 3-speed SturmyArcher days: pop the fill cover, squirt some 3-in-1 or sewing machine oil, shift through the gears, and if that doesn’t fix it, don’t spend anymore time on it; just replace it. Just not worth the time, unfortunately.

The clunk will sometimes happen after the shift into one of those gears. It was intermittent before, but seems to be happening with greater frequency of late.

You have given me yet another reason to consider the upgrade to the red band version.

I’m supposed to bring my Renegade back to Proteus for the complementary tuneup within a few weeks, so I’ll be riding the Uptown 8 and its Nexus 8 while the Renegade is at the shop. I’ll try calling Papillon and see if they can take care of this before that time. As dasgeh says, it wouldn’t hurt to ask Papillon if they would replace the hub with the red band, and for how much. Well, maybe I should describe the issue to them first, and see first what they’ll do about it. The last time I had an extended phone conversation with someone at Papillon, he brought up rebuilding the hub or something extreme like that.

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@dasgeh 140976 wrote:

Wouldn’t you want to get it replaced under warranty regardless, so you have something not-worthless to sell?

Yeah, that’s the quandary. Warranty doesn’t expire for another year.

I doubt Papillon will replace the bargain Nexus 8 with the premium one for free (under warranty).

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@Harry Meatmotor 140954 wrote:

Which gear is it popping in/out of? I’ve seen these hubs get worn out coming in and out of parity/unity/1:1 drive. Unfortunately, it’s not so much about the skill of a mechanic (tho, personally I’d pass on futzing with a Nexus), it’s about the ability to get any parts for the planetaries/sun/ring gears that may need replacement.

It used to be the 6th speed, which started happening around the 2nd month of commuting on this bike.

Now it’s the 6th and 7th speeds that are both misbehaving.

The behavior seems to follow whatever speed I settle on as my cruising speed.

That’s why I’m pondering replacing the hub with the red-band (premium) version – it reportedly has better seals, bearings, etc. than the version that came on my Uptown 8.

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Good company today – including my Freezing Saddles captain! Thanks for the coffee and donuts KWL!

Let’s see if the photo needs rotation….

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@Steve O 140923 wrote:

Phuoc at the Bike Club can fix almost anything. I presume it is out of warranty. If you go, mention me and/or Boomer for better service.

Thanks, Steve!

The Nexus 8 hub has one more year of warranty. Just thought it was a good time to get a recommendation for an alternative repair shop in case Papillon is suddenly not an option. When I took the bike there for the tuneup, they made me show them my sales receipt before knocking the price down from $120 something to free for the tuneup – nothing like the warm treatment I’ve gotten from Proteus, where seemingly everyone who works there remembers who I am and when I bought my Renegade.

Debating whether to stick with this hub or get the “red band” version after the warranty runs out.

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There’s an official 8 AM shift?

If so I’ll try to make that one. It’s still at the park, right?

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If this is a hijack, feel free to kick my tail but…

Any recommendations for a shop that can repair internal gear hubs? The Nexus 8 has a known issue in which it will randomly shift in/out of the selected gear. I’ve done the adjustment process a couple of times myself, where you open it up a bit and line up the yellow lines, but the adjustment seems to last only a few days before the random behavior starts happening again. The behavior seems to be getting worse.

I bought my IGH bike from Papillon but I think I might need to take it to a place with greater expertise in IGH maintenance/repair – and they just did the complementary 12-month tuneup on the bike too.

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Checked out the Spokes Etc tent sale. One of the guys there asked if he could help me. I said, “Thanks, just browsing”. He then suggested I test ride this bike – I was dressed in jeans, t-shirt and Crocs sandals – didn’t think I looked like someone shopping for a crit racing bike :confused: :

https://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/road/allez-dsw-sprint-x1-comp/106609

Anyway, it was going for $1500 at the sale – $2000 on the Spokes website. Fun sprinter’s bike.

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Wiped out while changing lanes on the street. I think I carelessly rode onto a slick spot.

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