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How to retain air in the tires of bicycle for long?
Tires deflating within a couple of days have a leak. If you don't ride your bike for a couple of weeks you may see some deflation but quicker than that you need to look for a leak in your tires.
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
When I mend a puncture or do maintenance work on the chain, I just put my bike upside down. I do have a rather broad saddle; a racing bike might be a bit too unstable to stand still on its own. Still, ...
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Someone locked their bike to mine - now what?
Can you use a "spare" lock to attach your bike to theirs with a telephone # or other contact information?
With your lock securing both bikes to the bike rack, you have a much better chance to meet ...
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How to keep your hands warm while biking outside without using bulky gloves
You could try using "pogies". These are sleeves that are attached to your handlebars, allowing you to slip your hands in and out easily. Pogies allow you to go barehanded when you would normally need ...
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How to comfortably carry a pen drive in any attire without risk of physical damage?
Many flash sticks / pen drives nowadays have keyring loops.
I simply carry a flash stick on my keyring - like this...
As my keys are always in my pocket if I'm outside the house, the flash stick is ...
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Bike anti-theft measures
When I studied at the university some years ago (read: a lot of years ago), there were occasionally raids of bikes being stolen. It soon turned out to be two different kind of thieves:
Professionals ...
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Someone locked their bike to mine - now what?
Call the police....explain the situation and maybe you could break the other lock together (without looking like a bike thief). I'm sure that locking another one's bike is illegal.
Then you may want ...
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Someone locked their bike to mine - now what?
There's a small chance this is malicious - is the other bike nice or a cheap junker? Don't take your lock off and leave it with only their lock attached, else the bike could be stolen by other-bike-...
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
Can't make a STAND? … Make a HANG. (Forgive me. I can't help myself)
IF (big if) you have conveniently located doors, shelf units, or even a couple of hi-back chairs, you might be able to use these ...
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How to comfortably carry a pen drive in any attire without risk of physical damage?
A retractable badge holder would probably do the trick. You could wear it on your belt, and instead of attaching a badge, you could attach your USB drive.
Note that the cord attached to it can ...
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Where to store bike in the city?
What if you speak to a neighbour and politely ask them if you could store your bike in their garage or their yard. Maybe you could offer them something in exchange.
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
Turning it upside-down is by far the easiest and hackiest solution.
For reasons I can't recall now, I once needed to have the bike the right way up when working on it and I made a temporary stand out ...
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How to comfortably carry a pen drive in any attire without risk of physical damage?
Since you mentioned riding a bicycle or motorcycle, might I suggest this solution:
Search: Running belt
This is a lean running waistpack — essentially it's a long, zippered neoprene pouch ...
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Someone locked their bike to mine - now what?
It's probably an unfortunate mistake. You can either wait until the other owner arrives or your bike will be spending the night there. It probably isn't worth the time an effort to try to break the ...
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Someone locked their bike to mine - now what?
If the other bike is only chained to your bike and nor the bike rack, unchain your bike and take the whole lot home. Possibly leave a note for the other bike owner, but I'd be inclined to let them ...
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How to remove bicycle oil/grease from waxed jacket
You could try leaving salt or some other absorbent grainy material in contact with it. This would ideally absorb the oil. As the jacket is waxed, the oil shouldn't be penetrating the material at all ...
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How to keep your hands warm while biking outside without using bulky gloves
Two variations over the same idea, and that is to make cover for the bike handles.
Build an air deflector on the bike handles
If you are a little handy, you could build air deflectors around the ...
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Bike anti-theft measures
It sounds like you didn't actually lock the bike to anything. This is not very secure at all a thief could just walk the bike away, lifting it up a little so that they were carrying it but it would ...
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How to retain air in the tires of bicycle for long?
When a tire deflates, it is because the air is escaping. Since air pressure in the tire is much higher than atmospheric (2 - 8 bar vs 1 bar for atmospheric) it is unlikely that changes in the weather /...
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How to retain air in the tires of bicycle for long?
If you don’t use bicycle for a "couple of days", then you will have to refill it. Try hanging your bicycle and try nitrogen filling instead of air. Nitrogen is supposed to last longer than air (should ...
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How to retain air in the tires of bicycle for long?
The loss of air pressure is due to the ambient pressure being lower than the pressure in the tires, and a path for with air can pass from inside the tube to outside the tube (commonly called a leak). ...
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How to make my bicycle run faster?
Pump up your tires! In my experience, even when in a hurry, the extra time spent on getting the tires up to maximum pressure usually pays off.
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Bike anti-theft measures
Well, I live in NYC. Here are some tips that I use and/or have seen around town:
Don't leave it in a busy area, no matter how good your locks are
I use Pinhead locks for the wheels and seat
I use a ...
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
I have a bike rack for carrying the bike on the car. Mine holds 3 or 4 bikes.
If I put the bike on this in the farthest out position it works to hold the bike off the ground and leaves room for the ...
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
Assuming your bike is a road one like pictured:
Use the quick release to remove the front wheel
Unhook the rear brakes so that pressing the brake levers has no effect
Pick the bike up and rotate it ...
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
Forgive the poor picture, however depending on your furniture layout and type, you may be able to use 2x "dinning room" chairs and a broom stick or similar to lift the rear of bike frame from the ...
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How to lift a bike's wheels off the floor without a workstand
If turning the bike upside down is not helpful, consider one / some of the following:
ask somebody to raise the rear wheel (tilting the bike) until you do the adjustments;
if you work inside (as ...
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How to comfortably carry a pen drive in any attire without risk of physical damage?
If you have a coin pocket in your pants that you're not keeping coins in, that's a good solution because the flash drive usually fits snugly and is unlikely to fall out. This depends on the type of ...
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How to comfortably carry a pen drive in any attire without risk of physical damage?
You can get a prosthetic fashioned to house the USB drive, such as this individual whose missing digit has been replaced with a literal "thumb drive."
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Bike anti-theft measures
It sounds like your bike was locked into something solidly fixed into the ground to me. Unfortunately, the only answer is to buy a much less desirable bike, but you'd still need to lock it securely so ...
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