I use a Protec Ahead converter in order to use an ahead stem on my threaded forks. It's absolutely fine except I think the shaft bolt is interefering with my compass. These bolts tend to be big lumps of steel and get magnetised too! ...My what? Yes, I've mounted a mini compass* to my top tube (best place for it but still not right).
Does anyone know of a converter that comes with an alloy (aluminium) bolt, or of an alloy bolt that might fit? Preferebaly for less than 20 quid total expendature. Any inexpensive quill stems with alloy shaft bolts (that I could nick the bolt from)? Or perhaps you have a spare bolt? I don't mind risking it if no guarantee of fit (would sell on).
Note: SJSC no longer stock Cinelli alloy bolts (I tried to order one).
* Gelert Watch Strap compass from eBay (sold regularly there): cheap, small, light and neat. I have another one on another bike that points to the correct direction -- perhaps because it has a threadless headset and Ti frame.
It's absolutely fine except I think the shaft bolt is interefering with my compass. These bolts tend to be big lumps of steel and get magnetised too! ...My what? Yes, I've mounted a mini compass* to my top tube (best place for it but still not right).
That's the problem with new fangled technology. Just use the time and the angle of the sun to estimate your direction. Works fine here in Sunny Dundee (1)
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[2] Driest city in UK and second sunniest last year.. or so I was told.
To translate for the southerners, dreich is an onomatopoeic word meaning a depressingly drizzly sort of day that isn't really raining enough to call it rain but is damp enough to not be dry and is grey and miserable. It's not so much a word as an emotion.
Ye hae it aa wrang, my mannie. Gin there's a wee bit watter on the wind, there's a wee bit watter on the wind; nae mair's thon. 'Dreich' disnae hae tae be wet. Dreich is dreich. They southrons micht caa it 'depressing'.
And I thought you were a sassenach! Dundonian can be a bit inpenetrable for many Scots - "Ah'll hae a pae n in ingin in in aa" means little to most people :-)
Ye hae it aa wrang, my mannie. Gin there's a wee bit watter on the wind, there's a wee bit watter on the wind; nae mair's thon. 'Dreich' disnae hae tae be wet. Dreich is dreich. They southrons micht caa it 'depressing'.
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And I thought you were a sassenach! Dundonian can be a bit inpenetrable for many Scots - "Ah'll hae a pae n in ingin in in aa" means little to most people :-)
I'm gradually being taught the language by my kids school friends. But anything to do with food is not a problem ;-)
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I use a Protec Ahead converter in order to use an ahead stem on my threaded forks. It's absolutely fine except I think the shaft bolt is interefering with my compass.
You need to swing your bike and compass to measure the deviation between real and measured heading. You then need to calculate the positioning of the balls and the length if Flinders Bar to minimise the error. Following installation of the balls and bar, a further swing of the compass is needed to produce a correction card which should be sited near the compass display.
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A Scottish friend's kids were referred by their school in the USA to a speech correctionist to sort out their speech impediment aka a Scottish accent.
Reminds me of one of the articles read out on The News Quiz a year or so ago. It told of a man in America who was released from psychiatric care when it was discovered that he was not depressed, only Scottish.
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On 24/6/04 1:59 pm, in article [email hidden], "Roos Eisma"
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Currently going for 'dreichest' instead....
To translate for the southerners, dreich is an onomatopoeic word
No it isn't it has a long perdigree and is cognate with Swedish drjugr and no doubt similar cognates in other related languages.
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meaning a depressingly drizzly sort of day that isn't really raining enough to call it rain but is damp enough to not be dry and is grey and miserable. It's not so much a word as an emotion.
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On 24/6/04 1:59 pm, in article [email hidden], "Roos Eisma"
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Currently going for 'dreichest' instead....
To translate for the southerners, dreich is an onomatopoeic word
No it isn't it has a long perdigree and is cognate with Swedish drjugr and no doubt similar cognates in other related languages.
'drear' in English, which means much the same?
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I use a Protec Ahead converter in order to use an ahead stem on my threaded forks. It's absolutely fine except I think the shaft bolt is interefering with my compass.
You need to swing your bike and compass to measure the deviation between real and measured heading. You then need to calculate the positioning of the balls and the length if Flinders Bar to minimise the error. Following installation of the balls and bar, a further swing of the compass is needed to produce a correction card which should be sited near the compass display.
Simple really.
Kind regards, Al.
It would be nice to think that like steel framed ships, a steel framed bike's magnetic field would be determined by the direction it was facing when it was being built. Except it isn't, as brazing unlike hammering, doesn't really count.
It would be nice to think that like steel framed ships, a steel framed bike's magnetic field would be determined by the direction it was facing when it was being built. Except it isn't, as brazing unlike hammering, doesn't really count.
Speaking of ships, Lord Kelvin invented a binnacle that incorporated corrector magnets and iron spheres to counteract the effects of the ship's iron. Pete could try mounting his compass in one of those.
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:36:47 GMT, Dave Kahn <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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It would be nice to think that like steel framed ships, a steel framed bike's magnetic field would be determined by the direction it was facing when it was being built. Except it isn't, as brazing unlike hammering, doesn't really count.
Speaking of ships, Lord Kelvin invented a binnacle that incorporated corrector magnets and iron spheres to counteract the effects of the ship's iron. Pete could try mounting his compass in one of those.
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:36:47 GMT, Dave Kahn <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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It would be nice to think that like steel framed ships, a steel framed bike's magnetic field would be determined by the direction it was facing when it was being built. Except it isn't, as brazing unlike hammering, doesn't really count.
Speaking of ships, Lord Kelvin invented a binnacle that incorporated corrector magnets and iron spheres to counteract the effects of the ship's iron. Pete could try mounting his compass in one of those.
'invented /the/ binnacle, which...' </pedant>
No, _a_ binnacle. There had been binnacles for hundreds of years before then, which served the important purpose of shielding the pilot light (which illuminated the compass, enabling you to pilot the ship, hence its name) from the wind. What made Kelvin's binnacle different from previous binnacles was that it _also_ incorporated magnetic correction.
I do hate pedants who are just _wrong_.
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:35:02 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:36:47 GMT, Dave Kahn <[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:48:52 +0100, "Dr Curious" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>It would be nice to think that like steel framed ships, >a steel framed bike's magnetic field would be determined >by the direction it was facing when it was being built. >Except it isn't, as brazing unlike hammering, doesn't >really count.
Speaking of ships, Lord Kelvin invented a binnacle that incorporated corrector magnets and iron spheres to counteract the effects of the ship's iron. Pete could try mounting his compass in one of those.
'invented /the/ binnacle, which...' </pedant>
No, _a_ binnacle. There had been binnacles for hundreds of years before then, which served the important purpose of shielding the pilot light (which illuminated the compass, enabling you to pilot the ship, hence its name) from the wind. What made Kelvin's binnacle different from previous binnacles was that it _also_ incorporated magnetic correction.
I do hate pedants who are just _wrong_.
Kelven invented '/the/ binnacle which' compensated for the effect of the ships metal hull.
No other binnacle has done that sort of compensation before.
Kelven invented '/the/ binnacle which' compensated for the effect of the ships metal hull.
No other binnacle has done that sort of compensation before.
His was not one of many competing designs.
I go with "a binnacle". Its "Kelvin invented a (type of) binnacle which...." or "Kelvin invented the magnetically compensated binnacle" You can only use the definite article with the specific binnacle he invented whereas you should use the indefinite article in the former because the binnacle is not a specific binnacle and has to be qualified by the clause which defines what type of binnacle it is he invented.
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Kelven invented '/the/ binnacle which' compensated for the effect of the ships metal hull.
No other binnacle has done that sort of compensation before.
His was not one of many competing designs.
I go with "a binnacle". Its "Kelvin invented a (type of) binnacle which...." or "Kelvin invented the magnetically compensated binnacle" You can only use the definite article with the specific binnacle he invented whereas you should use the indefinite article in the former because the binnacle is not a specific binnacle
Using 'the' and 'which' together automatically makes it specific.
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and has to be qualified by the clause which defines what type of binnacle it is he invented.
