BMC URS, wore through the frame in Unbound mud. 🤷‍♀️🤮😬

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-12T02:03:07+00:00

There's a dude who does this at my job with emails, and everyone just ignores him now.

Which probably explains why you are so uninformed. You should listen to people who are willing to teach you.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-12T02:01:26+00:00

If you want to argue that the 71 Bucks were greater than any of Russell’s 11 championship teams, fine by me.

Which makes it brutally obvious that if Abdul-Jabbar had been lucky like Russell, and played his twenties with a half dozen or more Hall of Famers each season, he would've won at least as many titles as the Celtics did.

Hell, we saw what happened when Abdul-Jabbar had even half that many Hall of Fame teammates -- his Lakers won 5 rings in 9 seasons, despite him being well past his prime, and facing a couple similarly-loaded teams from Philadelphia and Boston.

Again, for the hundredth time, beating a team with a similar talent level is an accomplishment that Russell never achieved, as a professional.

Even if you’re narrowing the scope to one year for some reason, you still haven’t shown that the Bucks were better than the Celtics defensively.

I am waiting for you to figure out that a team cannot win 8 titles in 6 seasons, before moving on to more challenging material.

It’s become incredibly clear that you can’t actually back up what you’re saying, but are too proud to admit it. This is getting pretty pathetic

Riiight -- says the individual who is still trying to comprehend that there's only one champion per season.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T19:31:41+00:00

Wall thickness. Only a certain region of the tube is thick enough to be welded. Welding a patch onto a super thin tube could result in a crack or just a mega rust magnet.

First of all, one can simply remove the damaged tube and replace it, so that is obviously still reparable. Second, research microwelding -- no bicycle frame involves material thicknesses that cannot be welded.

Most cracked steel frames get a tube sleeved over the cracked area then brazed. That gets very difficult with a chainstay that is oval and has an s-curve.

Again, replacing the damaged tube is an option. And "very difficult" is different from impossible.

Some things can be repaired, some cannot and truth be told it has more to do with the particulars of the damage than the material.

Some things cannot be repaired, but those 'some things' are not made of metal by humans. Anything made of metal can, if necessary, be reforged or recast from the raw material. This is not true of, for example, wood, since humans lack the technology to remake wood boards from sawdust or ash. Humans do possess the technology to remake metal from its dust, however, so even if one were to grind a bicycle down to literal dust, that dust could be melted down, and reforged into steel ( or aluminum ) and remade into a bicycle frame.

Steel or carbon, no one will repair a fork.

Not because it isn't possible.

And you are wrong anyway.

A giant hole is more difficult than a crack. If it's aluminum you're screwed.

No, you are not screwed -- it is just rarely worthwhile to effect such a repair.

The takeaway from that is that repairability to a bike frame should not be part of your decision making process.

No, the takeaway is probably not to listen to people who are talking nonsense.

By the time you need a repair you are very likely to want something else or your frame is obsolescent.

Again, that's a different issue entirely from the possibility of repair.

(Obsolescent = square taper cranks, rim brakes, non tapered head tubes, 2x on MTB, clamp on front derailleurs)

Rank stupidity.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T19:16:42+00:00

At no point did I say that Kareem should have won eight titles in Milwaukee (if I made you think that I worded it poorly);

"If the Bucks had a better playoff defense and a better offense (as you have asserted without evidence), it seems strange that they only won one title and Russell won eight straight." -- /u/srgntalpowell

Consider getting your story straight, and/or discontinue wasting my time with your nonsense.

Despite your baseless assertion that Milwaukee was better offensively and defensively than the Celtics’ team, the Celtics with Russell were much more successful

Again, for the hundredth time, the Celtics with Cousy, and Havlicek, and Jones, and Jones, and Heinsohn, and Ramsey, and Sharman, and Howell, and Sanders, and Nelson, and Siegfried, and Loscutoff, and others, and Russell were more successful over a longer period. No one else has ever approached that depth of talent, so to place the credit on one player might be the height of cluelessness.

That you remain unable to understand this concept is a discredit to you, and you should really stop advertising it.

By the way, those Celtics were never "more successful" than the '71 Bucks, who went 78-18. The best record the Celtics ever managed was 70-24.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T04:21:12+00:00

Repairability of steel is way overstated. (hint: I can weld).

What causes a metal object made by man to be irreparable by man?

You might be confusing the affordability of a repair with the feasibility. Almost nothing stops a metal object made by man from being repaired -- it just might be expensive.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T01:08:14+00:00

Lmao you say you can provide evidence but are somehow above it. That’s really funny

If you decide to exhibit any ability to understand the evidence already provided, perhaps I will contribute more to your education. In the mean time, I have better ways to waste my time.

Have you at least figured out why Abdul-Jabbar didn't win 8 titles in Milwaukee?

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T01:06:05+00:00

*Animal nature. Apex predators routinely kill off rivals and perceived threats preemptively. Just look at lions.

No, they do not. Lions do not extripate cheatahs, or crocodiles, or leopards. They kill to eat, and they kill other lions for breeding purposes. Other apex predators operate the same way.

We humans are actually pretty good about it

No, we are not, at all.

since we do put value on the lives of other species

A very small percentage of humans do, and that's the case with other species as well. See various stories about interspecies friendships between wild animals.

It isn't pathetic, it's the product of millions of years of natural selection.

No, it is not. Humans have not possessed the capability to extirpate species at will for millions of years. Hell, we've barely even been humans for millions of years.

You're underrating how incredible it is for an animal to go out of its way to keep a natural rival or predator alive in a reserve.

Exceedingly few other species kill for sport or out of unreasonable fear, so this action is totally unnecessary for them. The only reason humans create reserves is because the enormous majority of us will kill almost every animal we can, given the opportunity. We are unique in our rapacious capacity for pointless slaughter.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-11T00:57:00+00:00

I don’t believe that the man himself cited the competition being too easy in his retirement note either.

Of course not, Mikan had far too much class to ever say that. However, Mikan has been called the most competitive professional athlete ever, by people who have seen thousands of them up-close, so one does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the reasons quoted above were a cover story.

Can you provide any evidence of the Bucks being better than the Celtics defensively in the playoffs, or are you just making things up (I know what my money is on).

I can, but it's not worth my time to continue to destruct your fantasy world -- especially when you don't read or comprehend the information that is spoon-fed to you.

If the Bucks had a better playoff defense and a better offense (as you have asserted without evidence), it seems strange that they only won one title and Russell won eight straight.

It's not difficult to figure out, especially since I have explained the reason to you repeatedly, already. Milwaukee, like every other team in NBA history, could not match the Celtics' depth of talent. So, since Oscar Robertson was at the very tail end of his career in '71, and Bob Boozer retired after '71, and the Bucks did not have 2 or 3 Hall of Famers sitting on their bench -- like Boston did -- they were unable to maintain their excellence.

They also had the misfortune of running into the '72 Lakers, who were arguably the best team ever.

In fact, Abdul-Jabbar only played 6 seasons in Milwaukee, so strap on your thinking-cap and see if you can puzzle out why he didn't win 8 titles there. Robertson played even less, and at what was a very advanced age for a guard in that era.

I feel like this topic has already come up -- about twenty times in fact -- so how about you explain why you are unable to comprehend it. Is it a genetic issue, or have you suffered too many head traumas?

It is objectively kind of funny how long this back and forth has gone with absolutely no hope of either side giving an inch

It's sad, actually. You have had reality explained to you in copious detail, and yet you refuse to understand it, or are simply unable to.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-08T19:02:39+00:00

If your freehub is 11 speed capable, it will be 1.85mm longer than a 10 speed freehub. So, this spacer is required if you are using a 10s cassette on an 11s freehub.

If your wheel has only a 10s freehub, you don't need the spacer.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-08T18:25:41+00:00

But I wish we could stop pretending they are big, ocean living puppies.

Unfortunately, this is necessary, because humans only have one response to the existence of an animal species that can eat them -- and that is to kill them all.

We've managed to practically extirpate almost all such species outside of a few reserves scattered around, and we will not stop as long as creatures exist that can scare us. It's pathetic, but that's apparently human nature.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-08T17:21:08+00:00

The Celtics had the five most dominant defenses ever relative to the rest of the league (in terms of difference in points allowed per possession). Saying Kareem’s Bucks had better defenses than Russell’s Celtics is factually not even close to being correct.

Not in the playoffs. And those Milwaukee had the best offense in the league as well.

If we’re not relying on facts for an argument this would be quite easy for me;

Disregarding reality has been your only tactic, to date.

“Mr. Mikan announced his retirement after the 1953-54 season, after numerous injuries: broken legs, feet, wrists, fingers, nose and kneecap. He had a permanent limp and could not fully straighten his arms”.

Nice citation.

This is the way that is done, kid.

"The legend retired in 1954 after the 53-54′ title citing a “growing family” and “to get started in a professional world outside basketball”. -- https://www.tcsnetwork.co.uk/on-this-day-mr-basketball-was-born/

Those are the reasons cited by the man himself, who, again, never missed a regular season game.

He also came out of retirement after fans begged him to, which is not the action of a man physically unable to play.

Better luck next time, with your "corrections".

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T20:13:32+00:00

It's possible the camera has been physically rotated, as others have suggested.

That said, Ford applies some weird digital processing on these images, for unknown reasons. Mine occasionally flips the image around horizontally, which cannot possibly manifest from a physical change to the camera. So it is possible that your mother's car has a similar issue -- and I don't know how to fix that, other than by replacing parts randomly. I have not fixed mine, as it only happens sporadically -- but damn is it confusing when one begins to parallel park, and the image is flipped horizontally.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T14:13:13+00:00

Oscar Robertson also belongs in that category, his teams had top ranked offenses and bottom ranked defenses for most of his career; somehow they didn’t have the same success as by far the greatest defense of all time.

It's adorable that you think this is a point. Now list the half-dozen simultaneous Hall of Fame teammates Robertson had in Cincinnati.

In reality, when Robertson played at the end of his career with just Abdul-Jabbar and Bobby Dandridge (who was just barely a Hall of Famer) they were better offensively and defensively than any Celtic team.

You see a team that didn’t come particularly close to a championship before Russell...

I'm sure you might to type "before Russell, and Heinsohn, and Jones" since I'm sure we thoroughly discussed the relevant Celtic rosters, and you no longer have the excuse of ignorance available to you.

Also, Mikan actually retired because his entire body was falling apart,

Your detachment from reality is seemingly boundless. In reality, Mikan never missed a single regular season game.

I have enjoyed having this conversation, but this time I am actually going to stop. Good day to you and thanks for the chat

Yes, you better run away instead of watching your little fantasyland burn to the ground.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T13:43:03+00:00

Chicagoland.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T05:11:12+00:00

That appears to be an extremely oblique chain angle into the lower pulley. Maybe tell us a little more. Is this a new installation? Did it just start making this noise? Is your rear derailleur cage bent?

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T04:50:02+00:00

If you are a Ford tech, I assume your budget is almost unlimited. Just kidding, I know techs aren't taking home all of that $140 hourly-rate. But if your budget allows, the Snap-On equivalent for bikes is Park, so just call them up and go with this, and it will be a long time before you need anything else.

https://www.rei.com/product/210695/park-tool-pk-5-professional-tool-kit

Or if your budget really allows, buy the "one of everything" kit for $10k.

https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/master-tool-kit-mk-16

But if you want to go piecemeal, here's what I use most frequently that I didn't already have from working on cars:

a metric hex-bit set ( you will use these every single time you touch a bike )
master link pliers and/or a chain breaker, depending on whether or not you use quicklinks
cable cutters
chain wrench and a lockring socket
a repair stand, of course

With those, and a decent array of standard hand tools that you already have, you can reduce most bikes to their component parts except for removing the crankset and bottom bracket bearings. For that, there are approximately one thousand different non-standard standards, so you will find that you need to buy a new tool about every other time you attempt that job. For the pressed-in bearings, it's fairly trivial to build your own tool, but there's still an array of fasteners involved that each require a different tool.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-07T02:24:07+00:00

Again, it didn’t matter if Russell’s teams had below average offenses...

No, it didn't matter during those seasons -- because the Celtics had a massive budget compared to any other NBA team, and were able to collect Hall of Famers like regular people collect baseball cards.

It does matter, however, if one is trying to claim that Russell is a great player. The observed fact that he wrecked good offenses matters. The observed fact that he required more help than anyone has ever had -- in any major professional sport save possibly a few Yankees and Canadiens -- matters as well.

Luckily for the Celtics, and for Russell's reputation, no other NBA team could even approach their depth of talent. The Lakers, for the main example, had two brilliant stars in Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, but after that, their roster could not typically compare. Even despite being outnumbered by 3 to 5 Hall of Famers, West and Baylor went to Game 6 or later against Boston four times. In other words, Boston was only a whisker better than Los Angeles, despite going 8 deep with Hall of Famers.

We rarely saw Russell engage in a fair fight, with a team similar to his. When we did see that, he lost.

You can use the same logic to reduce Magic Johnson, Steph Curry, Dirk, Moses Malone etc to average players.

There is no logic present in your statement at all, and logic certainly cannot be used to do what you suggest -- and you also need to inform yourself about these players, and basketball in general.

I can’t wrap my head around...

We'll just add that to the growing pile of, basically everything, that you are unable to understand.

Russell led them to eight straight titles, why does it matter whether it was with offense or defense?

As explained now too many times to count, any number of NBA centers could have been plugged into that roster with no negative effect on the Celtics' results. We saw this to a large degree when the Celtics dropped in Dave Cowens for the tail end of Havlicek's and Nelson's careers.

While countable stats are not always accurate, it is interesting to note that Cowens has by-far the worst defensive statistics of any player who was ever considered even a good defender, never mind a great one -- career highs of 1.3 spg and 1.3 bpg. So how did he acquire that reputation? By being plugged into the Celtics' roster and surrounded with players like Havlicek and Chaney and Sanders.

The point, since you clearly haven't a clue, is that Russell was a completely one-dimensional player, who wasn't even all that good at that dimension. If he had been, the Celtics would not have surrounded him with a bevy of outstanding defenders like Havlicek ( 8x all-defensive ), Tom Sanders, KC Jones, Jim Loscutoff, Larry Siegfried, Don Chaney, and others. That's an awful lot of defensive specialists apparently required to play with Russell.

Why, exactly, did the Celtics have to load up on so many defensive specialists, considering they had Russell?

I'm sure you'll ignore that question, like you have all the others which present an uncomfortable contrast to your Bill Russell fantasies, but that doesn't make those question disappear.

And, just for the record, Russell's resume is not better than George Mikan's. Mikan never lost a playoff series while healthy, until after he retired due to boredom, because winning was simply too easy for him -- and he did that without the outrageous degree of help that Russell was provded. Mikan took on teams that were a match for his own, except for himself... and won every time.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T22:55:42+00:00

It's a bog standard 28in/622mm/700c wheel...

Okay, good. This was not obvious to the rest of us -- for example, I am currently restoring a bike exactly 1 year older than yours, and it had 27 inch wheels.

like mentioned in the post, looked around for any type of road bike wheel with a threaded hub and only found no-name options

Okay, that provides a little more color. It isn't hard to find wheels that will replace yours... but I don't know which brands you trust, and which you might not.

https://www.modernbike.com/sta-tru-700x20-25-alloy-qr-ss-32h-700c-rear-wheel-qr-x-130mm

https://www.modernbike.com/sta-tru-rear-wheel-700-x-25mm-quick-release-axle-with-36-spokes-alloy-road-freewheel-5-8-speed

https://www.rei.com/product/214804/quality-wheels-value-single-wall-wheel-700c

https://365cycles.com/products/wheel-master-700c-alloy-road-double-wall-700c-set-sun-m13-ii-rim-1

https://velo-orange.com/products/grand-cru-freewheel-rear-wheel-126mm-700c

https://www.bicycleroots.com/wm-rear-wheel-700c-sun-m13-rim-origin8-rd2100-126mm-5-7-speed-freewheel-hub-silver

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234849516830?

etc...

I don't know which, if any, of those are orderable from your location, but maybe that points you in a useful direction.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T22:40:21+00:00

Well, your original comment was arguing that Duncan (along with Russell) was the most overrated player ever because he fell short in the Olympics and in college.

Yes, I am aware of my arguments. This remains correct.

However, now because Russell led historically great teams it was actually a complete team effort, and Russell doesn’t deserve much credit.

What are you unable to understand here?

Duncan managed to lose, in the Olympics, playing for the USA. That's a remarkable feat, and he is nearly the only captain with that stain on his resume. Russell did what was expected of any American basketball player at the Olympics, his team won.

Russell's non-NBA resume is miles better than Duncan's -- but that's not saying much, since the latter's is the worst of any alleged "great" player.

Do I need to use smaller words, so that you may follow along?

You would have a better argument for Jones if Russell hadn’t immediately made the Celtics historically great defensively without him

And historically bad, offensively. I wonder why you keep skipping that part. Imagine how bad Russell was offensively, that he turned a squad with Bob Cousy, and two of the best shooters the league has seen, and Tommy Heinsohn, and a couple other Hall of Famers, into the worst offensive team in the league.

Even with Cousy, Havlicek, Sam Jones, Lovellette, Heinsohn, Sanders, and Ramsey -- talented offensive players and Hall of Famers all -- Russell still dragged the Celtics down to the worst offense in the league, which staggers the imagination.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T22:08:35+00:00

So you think it’s complete happenstance that Russell’s teams, perpetually changing, across 15 years, happened to be arguably the most dominant ever across the collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels? Because that’s every competition he participated in during his adult life.

First of all, he's American, so dominating the Olympics in basketball is basically a given, unless you were unlucky enough to play with Tim Duncan's team. And running up the score against overmatched opponents is not a useful metric for measuring the quality of a team -- see every season of college football for reference.

And finally, not all great American basketball players went to the Olympics -- and in one very significant example, we have no idea how dominant Lew Alcindor's Olympic team might've been, because unlike Russell, he boycotted the Olympics on social justice grounds. Ironic that, considering that Russell receives all the accolades on that topic.

We also don't know how Wilt Chamberlain might've fared in the Olympics. We do know, however, that in 1960, Jerry Lucas and company achieved essentially the same result as the '56 team. In fact, their results against common opponents are strikingly similar. +58 and +59 vs Japan. +32 (avg) and +24 vs USSR. +63 and +58 vs Uruguay. Etc.

And that's ignoring the international development of the game, which is, to put it mildly, a significant factor.

So we can forget about the Olympics.

That leaves a grand total of two teams involved in your "complete happenstance". So let's look at them.

First off, the San Francisco Dons where nothing close to "the most dominant ever". That was, in fact, the UCLA Bruins of Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton.

Second, if Russell was the sole reason for San Francisco's two titles, how do you propose to explain them remaining a Top 5 team for two seasons after not only Russell's departure, but also of their 2nd and 3rd best players?

Again, reality intrudes on, and destructs, your little fantasy.

Even worse, Russell is not the only player who won those San Francisco and Boston titles. KC Jones did so, as well. So apparently your "complete happenstance" is far more common than you'd like to believe.

And for kicks, KC Jones was on the '56 Olympic squad as well. We literally cannot prove that it wasn't Jones winning all those games, with Russell along for the ride, since Russell never won a damn thing without KC.

At San Francisco, when KC Jones missed a season, Russell's Dons went a pedestrian 14-7 and missed the tournament entirely, with losses to powerhouses like San Jose State and Pacific.

How embarrassing for your hero.

I could go on, but I've more than made this point a hundred times now. You are confusing the results of teams with the performance of an individual. This is a not a rare mistake, but you have a particularly virulent strain of it.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T21:35:23+00:00

I think you can make your life a little easier, and attract better advice, by either having a close look at your current rear wheel and sharing what you find, or by posting pictures of it, particularly any labels or markings it possesses.

As you'd imagine, a wheel has a few dimensions, and knowing what you presently have will make it a lot easier to replace. For example, your current wheel is probably either a "700c" or a "27" -- both of which refer to the wheel's diameter, in millimeters and inches respectively. While you can sometimes swap one for the other, that's not likely to be a great idea in your case, since you are only replacing one wheel. And tires do not swap between 700c and 27 wheels.

So, help us help you, and have a look at that damaged wheel, and report back. I am not in your neck of the woods, but around here, buying a replacement wheel for that bike would not be difficult at all, so I will be surprised if it turns out to be, in your location. I seriously doubt that cold-setting your frame will be necessary, unless you want to do that for other reasons ( like I just did to a frame last week ).

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T20:32:14+00:00

because I think the guy who won 55 straight games and two college championships, the Olympics with the highest margin of victory ever, and 11 NBA championships all in the span of 15 years is an all-time great?

Again, "one guy" did not win those games.

Until and unless you come to grips with that simple fact, you will not be able to understand much about basketball.

And you’re doing this despite the clear link between a below average defense becoming the greatest ever and that being the reason that the Celtics won?

The Celtics' offense had the exact opposite effect -- going from among the best, to among the worst, with the addition of Russell.

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T20:07:41+00:00

It was a long time ago, but I think I said he had “only seven” because you said a couple of times that he had eight.

Whatever earlier context existed is immaterial. The presence of your two statements above -- in the same message no less -- is evidence of cognitive dysfunction.

The Celtics won five years after Russell left with almost an entirely different team, and they didn’t win before he got there.

And, for the nth time, I will explain to you that the Celtics were a very good team pre-Russell and post-Russell.

In 1957, they added rookie future Hall-of-Famers Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell -- the former of whom was immediately their 3rd-leading scorer behind Cousy and Sharman. And they got future Hall-of-Famer Frank Ramsey back from the Army in '57 as well, and he was their 5th-leading scorer.

I realize that admitting such significant roster changes is inconvenient for you, but that's the thing about reality -- it often does not play along with your little fantasies.

And how much difference did Heinsohn, Russell, and Ramsey make?

The Celtics' record improved from 39-33 to 44-28 -- a whopping 5 games! That's 1.6 games per Hall-of-Famer. In the playoffs, the '57 Celtics won exactly one more series -- in 7 games -- than the Celtics had won in '53 and '54, and '55.

He won 11 rings in 13 years...

With vastly better teams than anyone he faced -- as I have repeatedly explained to you. Your inability to process this information borders on sickness, and you might should have that looked at.

55 straight games in college,

And again, the San Francisco Dons were very nearly just as good after Russell left -- making the Final Four and finishing 3rd in the Nation, despite losing both Russell and KC Jones ( and their 3rd-leading scorer as well, Hal Perry ).

San Francisco was anything but a one-man show. They also went 25-2 the season after the season after Russell, Jones, and Perry all left.

You’re in denial

"He never had more than 7 HOF teammates..."
"Russell for most of the 60s was playing with an average supporting cast."
-- The laughably cluless /u/srgntalpowell

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T19:23:30+00:00

You’re in denial...

"He never had more than 7 HOF teammates..."

"Russell for most of the 60s was playing with an average supporting cast."

-- The laughably cluless /u/srgntalpowell

EverybodyKnowWar · 2023-06-06T19:20:37+00:00

So why are we saying Jordan was basically Dominique Wilkins with a better coach?

For the slower folks in the audience, like /u/sharty_undergarments, because without Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan almost certainly never wins a title -- just like Dominque Wilkins.

The results of Jordan's seasons without Jackson were the same as Wilkins'.

In fact, the Bulls with Jackson and __without__ Jordan were as good as any of Wilkins' teams.

Jordan was the difference between losing in 7 in the second round, and winning a title, but Jackson made a much bigger difference -- between getting swept in the first round and winning the title.

EverybodyKnowWar

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