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From: Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Sunday Ride
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:39:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:21:14 +0000, cyclintom wrote:

> On Sun Jan 5 17:24:27 2025 AMuzi  wrote:
>> On 1/5/2025 3:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> > I got enough sleep last night but zi really felt tired this morning
>> > so I decided to take a flat easy ride. I decided to ride the Basso
>> > Lotto because the Colnago is in dreadful need of a cleaning and
>> > rewaxing the chain.. The Basso has Bontrager X lite wheels on it. It
>> > also had Bontrager quick releases which are difficult to get properly
>> > tight.
>> > 
>> > So three blocks from the house4 at a stop light, the rear wheel
>> > pulled forward, locked against the seat tubee and dumped me into the
>> > middle of the street. The traffic was polite and allowed me to get up
>> > and get the bike out if the way. I retightened the quick release and
>> > it happened again. So I tightened the quick release very tight and
>> > the wheel didn't move anymore. Another 5 blocks down the road my shoe
>> > came off. I stopped and reset that on much tighter.
>> > 
>> > I got all of the way into Alameda and misjudged a car turning right
>> > in front of me and nearly got hit. I turned lerft and proceeded down
>> > to a stop sign where I didn't even see cross traffic and was almost
>> > hit. I got on a bike path and misjudged a 100 degree turn and ran off
>> > of the path. Now none of this is something I would normally do. When
>> > I pulled into the coffee shop I could hardly stand. I was exhausted.
>> > I ordered coffee and something with a lot of sugar in it. I intended
>> > to take a shorter route on the way back. I felt pretty bsd on the
>> > return trip. But without incident other than misjudging when a light
>> > would change. that was harmless since there was no traffic on that
>> > street and the light did change halfway into the intersection.
>> > 
>> > I have recently added half a Leveteracitam pill on doctor's advice
>> > and I think that is giving me a toxic blood level. I will back off of
>> > that and see what effect that has. Hopefully that will return me to
>> > normal.
>> > 
>> > Also the fit of the Basso which was fair needs to tuning. Shorter
>> > stem, narrower handlebars and higher levers. Let's hpe that this all
>> > helps.
>> 
>> Basso Loto has classic horizontal road ends.
>> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/basmia2.jpg
>> 
>> Use steel (internal cam) skewers; aluminum (open cam) skewers will
>> inherently slip.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You are absolutely right. Campagnolo quick releases never had the
> problems that these aluminum quick releases do. I returned tol my two
> pills of leveteracitam last night rather than 2 1/2 and woke up this
> morning almost normal again.I will contact my neurologist today and let
> him kno3w what happened to me yesterday.

By the way, I was talking to Robinson about that problem on Wednesday and 
he had the same fix I did - Use Campy or Shimano old style quick releases 
that would actually cam-lock down on the Campy horizontal dropouts. This 
business about saving every gram possible by making aluminum quick 
releases is bunkers.