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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by John Saxby on November 24, 2025, 05:00:49 PM »Great news, Matt! And many thanks for the update, Dan.
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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by Andyb1 on November 24, 2025, 07:50:21 AM »👍
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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by RonS on November 23, 2025, 09:50:36 PM »Thanks for the update, Dan.
Great news! Best wishes, Matt!
Great news! Best wishes, Matt!
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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by brummie on November 23, 2025, 08:39:42 PM »Best wishes with your recovery Matt.
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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by Andre Jute on November 23, 2025, 06:50:08 PM »Great news! Wish you a speedy recovery, Matt.
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Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) / Re: Groin pain
« Last post by Danneaux on November 23, 2025, 04:18:14 PM »Earlier in this thread, Matt wrote...
https://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15158.msg116001#msg116001
Matt indeed had his surgery on 17 November and today wrote with wonderful news, asking me to update the Forum...
All best wishes for the speediest recovery, Matt!
ATB, Dan.
https://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15158.msg116001#msg116001
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Not sure if I shared with this forum but I have been receiving Chemo for stomach cancer since June/July....Now awaiting a consultation with the surgeon next week for a future plan of action. Probably surgery.
Matt indeed had his surgery on 17 November and today wrote with wonderful news, asking me to update the Forum...
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The operation went well and surgeon said he was pleased with my progressYay!
Perhaps home in another 8 days
Best regards Mart
Pass on my good news to the group Matt
All best wishes for the speediest recovery, Matt!ATB, Dan.
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Lighting and Electronics / Re: likely water damage in Son 28 on tour any advice
« Last post by Andyb1 on November 22, 2025, 10:55:39 AM »If condensation had got the stator / rotor damp then they may have rusted. Rust on stators / rotors will reduce their efficiency so the output may have become too low to be useful. It is a known problem on old motorbikes.
Or a corroded internal connection?
Or a corroded internal connection?
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Lighting and Electronics / Re: likely water damage in Son 28 on tour any advice
« Last post by pandanroll on November 22, 2025, 08:39:46 AM »Update: in January I returned the hub to the bike shop in London, they sent it back to Germany and it was fixed under warranty. No explanation given for the failure.
I'm attaching a PDF of the repair document SON sent me, when they suspected the contacts in the hub were damaged. This was not the cause of the failure, but they provided the doc as part of troubling shooting 'on the road'. It may be helpful for someone Googling SON failures, this is a possible cause.
I'm attaching a PDF of the repair document SON sent me, when they suspected the contacts in the hub were damaged. This was not the cause of the failure, but they provided the doc as part of troubling shooting 'on the road'. It may be helpful for someone Googling SON failures, this is a possible cause.
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Non-Thorn Related / Re: Tyre pressure gauge
« Last post by mickeg on November 21, 2025, 05:13:02 PM »I should have worded that better. I top up the tyres just as often, what i don't often bother with is then checking the pressures with the digital gauge....I think I used to be far more concerned with the ideal pressure when I was running narrower tyres, now I have nothing under 40mm I'm checking less often, maybe I've just become lazy!
For me, if it is a long ride, I am more likely to top up the tires.
I am sure that at some point in time for some special reason, I checked a tire pressure after disconnecting the pump. But that would have been years ago. And if I did that, it would have been to try to compare a handheld gauge against a pump gauge.
If my bike tire pressure is under inflated by 10 percent, to me that is good enough. Thus, I do not get too concerned about gauge precision on bike tires.
My car, if I am going to do a long trip, I check and want to get the right pressure at the start. But then I am driving high speed, thus it becomes a safety issue.
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Non-Thorn Related / Re: Tyre pressure gauge
« Last post by Andre Jute on November 21, 2025, 12:19:28 PM »Once upon a time, and perhaps still, Schwalbe sent out its tubes with a grey sticklike implement in the box. This was a manual pressure gauge. You put the rubber-lined right-angled end on the valve and a bar shot out of the other end. You then read the pressure on the scale engraved or embossed on the bar. This gauge was a freebie, so I just threw it in the bike tool drawer in the glove chest near the front door until one day I remembered that the toolkit in the days of the 356 series Porsche came with a gauge of the same general description, albeit metal rather than plastic, and wondered whether the Schwalbe version, given half a century of manufacturing development, wasn't worth more than its price. It turned out that the Schwalbe item's scale was too small to make it a precision instrument, but it gave a consistent quick reading of the 'close enough" or "in the right neighborhood" kind, and it was a featherweight, a couple of grammes.